State and country codes like ISO 3166-1 and ISO 3166-2?

Question

I know there are two specs that essentially catalog the entire planet into the political region/subregions, with internationalization

• ISO-3166-1 which has 2-letter, 3-letter, numeric, and country names.
• ISO-3166-2 which has subdivision names and their abbreviations

So,

• Is there any open distribution of these? I know you can buy the spec, but I know you can also implement it into a product. Are there any products that leak the spec out? Are there any draft distributions of ISO-3166-[12] like there are with the SQL spec?
• Is there anything that rivals these specs that is also internationalized that I can use in an open source product?

Answer 1

Here's a number of options:

• ISO 3166-2 subdivisions JSON
• ISO 3166-1 country lists merged w/ UN Geoscheme regional codes in JSON, XML, CSV
• ISO 3166-2 NPM Package
• CSV of ISO 3166-2
• List of all countries with their 2 digit codes (ISO 3166-1)
• Linked ISO 3166-2 Data
• Wikipedia