I need a list of countries in T-SQL

Question

I have a Country table that has a CountryName column in it. I need a ready-made list in DDL to populate in the CountryName column.

The table is in SQL Server 2008.

Answer 1

Here you go.

Just change the script according to your schema.

Answer 2

You can try this script:

CREATE TABLE tbl_Countries ( CountryID INT ,CountryName VARCHAR(50) ,TwoCharCountryCode CHAR(2) ,ThreeCharCountryCode CHAR(3) ); INSERT INTO tbl_Countries VALUES (1,'Afghanistan','AF','AFG') ,(2,'Aland Islands','AX','ALA') ,(3,'Albania','AL','ALB') ,(4,'Algeria','DZ','DZA') ,(5,'American Samoa','AS','ASM') ,(6,'Andorra','AD','AND') ,(7,'Angola','AO','AGO') ,(8,'Anguilla','AI','AIA') ,(9,'Antarctica','AQ','ATA') ,(10,'Antigua and Barbuda','AG','ATG') ,(11,'Argentina','AR','ARG') ,(12,'Armenia','AM','ARM') ,(13,'Aruba','AW','ABW') ,(14,'Australia','AU','AUS') ,(15,'Austria','AT','AUT') ,(16,'Azerbaijan','AZ','AZE') ,(17,'Bahamas','BS','BHS') ,(18,'Bahrain','BH','BHR') ,(19,'Bangladesh','BD','BGD') ,(20,'Barbados','BB','BRB') ,(21,'Belarus','BY','BLR') ,(22,'Belgium','BE','BEL') ,(23,'Belize','BZ','BLZ') ,(24,'Benin','BJ','BEN') ,(25,'Bermuda','BM','BMU') ,(26,'Bhutan','BT','BTN') ,(27,'Bolivia','BO','BOL') ,(28,'Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba','BQ','BES') ,(29,'Bosnia and Herzegovina','BA','BIH') ,(30,'Botswana','BW','BWA') ,(31,'Bouvet Island','BV','BVT') ,(32,'Brazil','BR','BRA') ,(33,'British Indian Ocean Territory','IO','IOT') ,(34,'Brunei','BN','BRN') ,(35,'Bulgaria','BG','BGR') ,(36,'Burkina Faso','BF','BFA') ,(37,'Burundi','BI','BDI') ,(38,'Cambodia','KH','KHM') ,(39,'Cameroon','CM','CMR') ,(40,'Canada','CA','CAN') ,(41,'Cape Verde','CV','CPV') ,(42,'Cayman Islands','KY','CYM') ,(43,'Central African Republic','CF','CAF') ,(44,'Chad','TD','TCD') ,(45,'Chile','CL','CHL') ,(46,'China','CN','CHN') ,(47,'Christmas Island','CX','CXR') ,(48,'Cocos (Keeling) Islands','CC','CCK') ,(49,'Colombia','CO','COL') ,(50,'Comoros','KM','COM') ,(51,'Congo','CG','COG') ,(52,'Cook Islands','CK','COK') ,(53,'Costa Rica','CR','CRI') ,(54,'Ivory Coast','CI','CIV') ,(55,'Croatia','HR','HRV') ,(56,'Cuba','CU','CUB') ,(57,'Curacao','CW','CUW') ,(58,'Cyprus','CY','CYP') ,(59,'Czech Republic','CZ','CZE') ,(60,'Democratic Republic of the Congo','CD','COD') ,(61,'Denmark','DK','DNK') ,(62,'Djibouti','DJ','DJI') ,(63,'Dominica','DM','DMA') ,(64,'Dominican Republic','DO','DOM') ,(65,'Ecuador','EC','ECU') ,(66,'Egypt','EG','EGY') ,(67,'El Salvador','SV','SLV') ,(68,'Equatorial Guinea','GQ','GNQ') ,(69,'Eritrea','ER','ERI') ,(70,'Estonia','EE','EST') ,(71,'Ethiopia','ET','ETH') ,(72,'Falkland Islands (Malvinas)','FK','FLK') ,(73,'Faroe Islands','FO','FRO') ,(74,'Fiji','FJ','FJI') ,(75,'Finland','FI','FIN') ,(76,'France','FR','FRA') ,(77,'French Guiana','GF','GUF') ,(78,'French Polynesia','PF','PYF') ,(79,'French Southern Territories','TF','ATF') ,(80,'Gabon','GA','GAB') ,(81,'Gambia','GM','GMB') ,(82,'Georgia','GE','GEO') ,(83,'Germany','DE','DEU') ,(84,'Ghana','GH','GHA') ,(85,'Gibraltar','GI','GIB') ,(86,'Greece','GR','GRC') ,(87,'Greenland','GL','GRL') ,(88,'Grenada','GD','GRD') ,(89,'Guadaloupe','GP','GLP') ,(90,'Guam','GU','GUM') ,(91,'Guatemala','GT','GTM') ,(92,'Guernsey','GG','GGY') ,(93,'Guinea','GN','GIN') ,(94,'Guinea-Bissau','GW','GNB') ,(95,'Guyana','GY','GUY') ,(96,'Haiti','HT','HTI') ,(97,'Heard Island and McDonald Islands','HM','HMD') ,(98,'Honduras','HN','HND') ,(99,'Hong Kong','HK','HKG') ,(100,'Hungary','HU','HUN') ,(101,'Iceland','IS','ISL') ,(102,'India','IN','IND') ,(103,'Indonesia','ID','IDN') ,(104,'Iran','IR','IRN') ,(105,'Iraq','IQ','IRQ') ,(106,'Ireland','IE','IRL') ,(107,'Isle of Man','IM','IMN') ,(108,'Israel','IL','ISR') ,(109,'Italy','IT','ITA') ,(110,'Jamaica','JM','JAM') ,(111,'Japan','JP','JPN') ,(112,'Jersey','JE','JEY') ,(113,'Jordan','JO','JOR') ,(114,'Kazakhstan','KZ','KAZ') ,(115,'Kenya','KE','KEN') ,(116,'Kiribati','KI','KIR') ,(117,'Kosovo','XK','---') ,(118,'Kuwait','KW','KWT') ,(119,'Kyrgyzstan','KG','KGZ') ,(120,'Laos','LA','LAO') ,(121,'Latvia','LV','LVA') ,(122,'Lebanon','LB','LBN') ,(123,'Lesotho','LS','LSO') ,(124,'Liberia','LR','LBR') ,(125,'Libya','LY','LBY') ,(126,'Liechtenstein','LI','LIE') ,(127,'Lithuania','LT','LTU') ,(128,'Luxembourg','LU','LUX') ,(129,'Macao','MO','MAC') ,(130,'Macedonia','MK','MKD') ,(131,'Madagascar','MG','MDG') ,(132,'Malawi','MW','MWI') ,(133,'Malaysia','MY','MYS') ,(134,'Maldives','MV','MDV') ,(135,'Mali','ML','MLI') ,(136,'Malta','MT','MLT') ,(137,'Marshall Islands','MH','MHL') ,(138,'Martinique','MQ','MTQ') ,(139,'Mauritania','MR','MRT') ,(140,'Mauritius','MU','MUS') ,(141,'Mayotte','YT','MYT') ,(142,'Mexico','MX','MEX') ,(143,'Micronesia','FM','FSM') ,(144,'Moldava','MD','MDA') ,(145,'Monaco','MC','MCO') ,(146,'Mongolia','MN','MNG') ,(147,'Montenegro','ME','MNE') ,(148,'Montserrat','MS','MSR') ,(149,'Morocco','MA','MAR') ,(150,'Mozambique','MZ','MOZ') ,(151,'Myanmar (Burma)','MM','MMR') ,(152,'Namibia','NA','NAM') ,(153,'Nauru','NR','NRU') ,(154,'Nepal','NP','NPL') ,(155,'Netherlands','NL','NLD') ,(156,'New Caledonia','NC','NCL') ,(157,'New Zealand','NZ','NZL') ,(158,'Nicaragua','NI','NIC') ,(159,'Niger','NE','NER') ,(160,'Nigeria','NG','NGA') ,(161,'Niue','NU','NIU') ,(162,'Norfolk Island','NF','NFK') ,(163,'North Korea','KP','PRK') ,(164,'Northern Mariana Islands','MP','MNP') ,(165,'Norway','NO','NOR') ,(166,'Oman','OM','OMN') ,(167,'Pakistan','PK','PAK') ,(168,'Palau','PW','PLW') ,(169,'Palestine','PS','PSE') ,(170,'Panama','PA','PAN') ,(171,'Papua New Guinea','PG','PNG') ,(172,'Paraguay','PY','PRY') ,(173,'Peru','PE','PER') ,(174,'Phillipines','PH','PHL') ,(175,'Pitcairn','PN','PCN') ,(176,'Poland','PL','POL') ,(177,'Portugal','PT','PRT') ,(178,'Puerto Rico','PR','PRI') ,(179,'Qatar','QA','QAT') ,(180,'Reunion','RE','REU') ,(181,'Romania','RO','ROU') ,(182,'Russia','RU','RUS') ,(183,'Rwanda','RW','RWA') ,(184,'Saint Barthelemy','BL','BLM') ,(185,'Saint Helena','SH','SHN') ,(186,'Saint Kitts and Nevis','KN','KNA') ,(187,'Saint Lucia','LC','LCA') ,(188,'Saint Martin','MF','MAF') ,(189,'Saint Pierre and Miquelon','PM','SPM') ,(190,'Saint Vincent and the Grenadines','VC','VCT') ,(191,'Samoa','WS','WSM') ,(192,'San Marino','SM','SMR') ,(193,'Sao Tome and Principe','ST','STP') ,(194,'Saudi Arabia','SA','SAU') ,(195,'Senegal','SN','SEN') ,(196,'Serbia','RS','SRB') ,(197,'Seychelles','SC','SYC') ,(198,'Sierra Leone','SL','SLE') ,(199,'Singapore','SG','SGP') ,(200,'Sint Maarten','SX','SXM') ,(201,'Slovakia','SK','SVK') ,(202,'Slovenia','SI','SVN') ,(203,'Solomon Islands','SB','SLB') ,(204,'Somalia','SO','SOM') ,(205,'South Africa','ZA','ZAF') ,(206,'South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands','GS','SGS') ,(207,'South Korea','KR','KOR') ,(208,'South Sudan','SS','SSD') ,(209,'Spain','ES','ESP') ,(210,'Sri Lanka','LK','LKA') ,(211,'Sudan','SD','SDN') ,(212,'Suriname','SR','SUR') ,(213,'Svalbard and Jan Mayen','SJ','SJM') ,(214,'Swaziland','SZ','SWZ') ,(215,'Sweden','SE','SWE') ,(216,'Switzerland','CH','CHE') ,(217,'Syria','SY','SYR') ,(218,'Taiwan','TW','TWN') ,(219,'Tajikistan','TJ','TJK') ,(220,'Tanzania','TZ','TZA') ,(221,'Thailand','TH','THA') ,(222,'Timor-Leste (East Timor)','TL','TLS') ,(223,'Togo','TG','TGO') ,(224,'Tokelau','TK','TKL') ,(225,'Tonga','TO','TON') ,(226,'Trinidad and Tobago','TT','TTO') ,(227,'Tunisia','TN','TUN') ,(228,'Turkey','TR','TUR') ,(229,'Turkmenistan','TM','TKM') ,(230,'Turks and Caicos Islands','TC','TCA') ,(231,'Tuvalu','TV','TUV') ,(232,'Uganda','UG','UGA') ,(233,'Ukraine','UA','UKR') ,(234,'United Arab Emirates','AE','ARE') ,(235,'United Kingdom','GB','GBR') ,(236,'United States','US','USA') ,(237,'United States Minor Outlying Islands','UM','UMI') ,(238,'Uruguay','UY','URY') ,(239,'Uzbekistan','UZ','UZB') ,(240,'Vanuatu','VU','VUT') ,(241,'Vatican City','VA','VAT') ,(242,'Venezuela','VE','VEN') ,(243,'Vietnam','VN','VNM') ,(244,'Virgin Islands, British','VG','VGB') ,(245,'Virgin Islands, US','VI','VIR') ,(246,'Wallis and Futuna','WF','WLF') ,(247,'Western Sahara','EH','ESH') ,(248,'Yemen','YE','YEM') ,(249,'Zambia','ZM','ZMB') ,(250,'Zimbabwe','ZW','ZWE'); 

For more information, visit: http://www.dbrnd.com/2015/05/insert-script-for-all-countries/

Answer 3

You can get a t-sql script that creates a table of "countries", and fills the table with a standard list of countries, including the country’s numerical code, country name in lowercase and uppercase letters, ISO code ALPHA-3 and ISO code 3166-1-alpha-2: http://blog.xsql.com/2012/10/t-sql-list-of-countries.html

Answer 4

For all the lazy comrades like me, here is the solution. Hope this helps anyone stuck in the same issue.

List of countries with ISO codes.

- first country table

 CREATE TABLE dbo.Countries ( CountryID INT IDENTITY NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, ISO_Code NCHAR(2) NOT NULL, CountryName NVARCHAR(256) NOT NULL ) GO 

-second, add a button on the page and for the onclick event, paste the following, but replace the connection string with yours. Also check quotes, for example. ("USA") after insertion. (I learned it with difficulty!) To make sure that you are using Quick Replace in VS-2010, which you will find in the "Edit" menu

 string sqlConnString = "ADD YOUR CONNECTION STRING HERE"; protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { string query = "INSERT INTO dbo.Countries (ISO_Code, CountryName) " + "VALUES ('AF', 'Afghanistan')," + "('AX', 'Aland Islands')," + "('AT', 'Austria')," + "('AZ', 'Azerbaijan')," + "('BS', 'Bahamas')," + "('BH', 'Bahrain')," + "('BD', 'Bangladesh')," + "('BB', 'Barbados')," + "('BY', 'Belarus')," + "('BE', 'Belgium')," + "('BZ', 'Belize')," + "('BJ', 'Benin')," + "('BM', 'Bermuda')," + "('BT', 'Bhutan')," + "('BO', 'Bolivia')," + "('BA', 'Bosnia and Herzegovina')," + "('BW', 'Botswana')," + "('BV', 'Bouvet Island')," + "('BR', 'Brazil')," + "('IO', 'British Indian Ocean Territory')," + "('BN', 'Brunei Darussalam')," + "('BG', 'Bulgaria')," + "('BF', 'Burkina Faso')," + "('BI', 'Burundi')," + "('KH', 'Cambodia')," + "('CM', 'Cameroon')," + "('CA', 'Canada')," + "('CV', 'Cape Verde')," + "('KY', 'Cayman Islands')," + "('CF', 'Central African Republic')," + "('TD', 'Chad')," + "('CL', 'Chile')," + "('CN', 'China')," + "('CX', 'Christmas Island')," + "('CC', 'Cocos Keeling Islands')," + "('CO', 'Colombia')," + "('KM', 'Comoros')," + "('CG', 'Congo')," + "('CD', 'Congo, The Democratic Republic of The')," + "('CK', 'Cook Islands')," + "('CR', 'Costa Rica')," + "('CI', 'Cote Divoire')," + "('HR', 'Croatia')," + "('CU', 'Cuba')," + "('CY', 'Cyprus')," + "('CZ', 'Czech Republic')," + "('DK', 'Denmark')," + "('DJ', 'Djibouti')," + "('DM', 'Dominica')," + "('DO', 'Dominican Republic')," + "('EC', 'Ecuador')," + "('EG', 'Egypt')," + "('SV', 'El Salvador')," + "('GQ', 'Equatorial Guinea')," + "('ER', 'Eritrea')," + "('EE', 'Estonia')," + "('ET', 'Ethiopia')," + "('FK', 'Falkland Islands Malvinas')," + "('FO', 'Faroe Islands')," + "('FJ', 'Fiji')," + "('FI', 'Finland')," + "('FR', 'France')," + "('GF', 'French Guiana')," + "('PF', 'French Polynesia')," + "('TF', 'French Southern Territories')," + "('GA', 'Gabon')," + "('GM', 'Gambia')," + "('GE', 'Georgia')," + "('DE', 'Germany')," + "('GH', 'Ghana')," + "('GI', 'Gibraltar')," + "('GR', 'Greece')," + "('GL', 'Greenland')," + "('GD', 'Grenada')," + "('GP', 'Guadeloupe')," + "('GU', 'Guam')," + "('GT', 'Guatemala')," + "('GG', 'Guernsey')," + "('GN', 'Guinea')," + "('GW', 'Guinea-bissau')," + "('GY', 'Guyana')," + "('HT', 'Haiti')," + "('HM', 'Heard Island and Mcdonald Islands')," + "('VA', 'Holy See Vatican City State')," + "('HN', 'Honduras')," + "('HK', 'Hong Kong')," + "('HU', 'Hungary')," + "('IS', 'Iceland')," + "('IN', 'India')," + "('ID', 'Indonesia')," + "('IR', 'Iran, Islamic Republic of')," + "('IQ', 'Iraq')," + "('IE', 'Ireland')," + "('IM', 'Isle of Man')," + "('IL', 'Israel')," + "('IT', 'Italy')," + "('JM', 'Jamaica')," + "('JP', 'Japan')," + "('JE', 'Jersey')," + "('JO', 'Jordan')," + "('KZ', 'Kazakhstan')," + "('KE', 'Kenya')," + "('KI', 'Kiribati')," + "('KP', 'Korea, Democratic Peoples Republic of')," + "('KR', 'Korea, Republic of')," + "('KW', 'Kuwait')," + "('KG', 'Kyrgyzstan')," + "('LA', 'Lao Peoples Democratic Republic')," + "('LV', 'Latvia')," + "('LB', 'Lebanon')," + "('LS', 'Lesotho')," + "('LR', 'Liberia')," + "('LY', 'Libyan Arab Jamahiriya')," + "('LI', 'Liechtenstein')," + "('LT', 'Lithuania')," + "('LU', 'Luxembourg')," + "('MO', 'Macao')," + "('MK', 'Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of')," + "('MG', 'Madagascar')," + "('MW', 'Malawi')," + "('MY', 'Malaysia')," + "('MV', 'Maldives')," + "('ML', 'Mali')," + "('MT', 'Malta')," + "('MH', 'Marshall Islands')," + "('MQ', 'Martinique')," + "('MR', 'Mauritania')," + "('MU', 'Mauritius')," + "('YT', 'Mayotte')," + "('MX', 'Mexico')," + "('FM', 'Micronesia, Federated States of')," + "('MD', 'Moldova, Republic of')," + "('MC', 'Monaco')," + "('MN', 'Mongolia')," + "('ME', 'Montenegro')," + "('MS', 'Montserrat')," + "('MA', 'Morocco')," + "('MZ', 'Mozambique')," + "('MM', 'Myanmar')," + "('NA', 'Namibia')," + "('NR', 'Nauru')," + "('NP', 'Nepal')," + "('NL', 'Netherlands')," + "('AN', 'Netherlands Antilles')," + "('NC', 'New Caledonia')," + "('NZ', 'New Zealand')," + "('NI', 'Nicaragua')," + "('NE', 'Niger')," + "('NG', 'Nigeria')," + "('NU', 'Niue')," + "('NF', 'Norfolk Island')," + "('MP', 'Northern Mariana Islands')," + "('NO', 'Norway')," + "('OM', 'Oman')," + "('PK', 'Pakistan')," + "('PW', 'Palau')," + "('PS', 'Palestinian Territory, Occupied')," + "('PA', 'Panama')," + "('PG', 'Papua New Guinea')," + "('PY', 'Paraguay')," + "('PE', 'Peru')," + "('PH', 'Philippines')," + "('PN', 'Pitcairn')," + "('PL', 'Poland')," + "('PT', 'Portugal')," + "('PR', 'Puerto Rico')," + "('QA', 'Qatar')," + "('RE', 'Reunion')," + "('RO', 'Romania')," + "('RU', 'Russian Federation')," + "('RW', 'Rwanda')," + "('SH', 'Saint Helena')," + "('KN', 'Saint Kitts and Nevis')," + "('LC', 'Saint Lucia')," + "('PM', 'Saint Pierre and Miquelon')," + "('VC', 'Saint Vincent and The Grenadines')," + "('WS', 'Samoa')," + "('SM', 'San Marino')," + "('ST', 'Sao Tome and Principe')," + "('SA', 'Saudi Arabia')," + "('SN', 'Senegal')," + "('RS', 'Serbia')," + "('SC', 'Seychelles')," + "('SL', 'Sierra Leone')," + "('SG', 'Singapore')," + "('SK', 'Slovakia')," + "('SI', 'Slovenia')," + "('SB', 'Solomon Islands')," + "('SO', 'Somalia')," + "('ZA', 'South Africa')," + "('GS', 'South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands')," + "('ES', 'Spain')," + "('LK', 'Sri Lanka')," + "('SD', 'Sudan')," + "('SR', 'Suriname')," + "('SJ', 'Svalbard and Jan Mayen')," + "('SZ', 'Swaziland')," + "('SE', 'Sweden')," + "('CH', 'Switzerland')," + "('SY', 'Syrian Arab Republic')," + "('TW', 'Taiwan, Province of China')," + "('TJ', 'Tajikistan')," + "('TZ', 'Tanzania, United Republic of')," + "('TH', 'Thailand')," + "('TL', 'Timor-leste')," + "('TG', 'Togo')," + "('TK', 'Tokelau')," + "('TO', 'Tonga')," + "('TT', 'Trinidad and Tobago')," + "('TN', 'Tunisia')," + "('TR', 'Turkey')," + "('TM', 'Turkmenistan')," + "('TC', 'Turks and Caicos Islands')," + "('TV', 'Tuvalu')," + "('UG', 'Uganda')," + "('UA', 'Ukraine')," + "('AE', 'United Arab Emirates')," + "('GB', 'United Kingdom')," + "('US', 'United States')," + "('UM', 'United States Minor Outlying Islands')," + "('UY', 'Uruguay')," + "('UZ', 'Uzbekistan')," + "('VU', 'Vanuatu')," + "('VE', 'Venezuela')," + "('VN', 'Viet Nam')," + "('VG', 'Virgin Islands, British')," + "('VI', 'Virgin Islands, US')," + "('WF', 'Wallis and Futuna')," + "('EH', 'Western Sahara')," + "('YE', 'Yemen')," + "('ZM', 'Zambia')," + "('ZW', 'Zimbabwe')"; using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(sqlConnString)) { conn.Open(); SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(query, conn); cmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); } } 

And so that it fills in your drop-down lists from this data.