ilyabo / un-countries

UN countries

Finds best matches in the UN countries list for country names helping to overcome problems caused by non-canonical spellings.

Prerequisites

Install Leiningen:

brew install leiningen

Usage

lein git-deps
echo "Congo" | lein run

The above will output the following results sorted by similarity score in descending order:

[{"query":"Congo",
  "results":
  [{"country":{"code":"COG", "name":"Congo", "numcode":"178"},
    "score":100000.0},
   {"country":
    {"code":"COD",
     "name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo",
     "numcode":"180"},
    "score":99977.0},
   {"country":{"code":"COM", "name":"Comoros", "numcode":"174"},
    "score":92.0},
   {"country":{"code":"COL", "name":"Colombia", "numcode":"170"},
    "score":91.0},
   {"country":{"code":"CRI", "name":"Costa Rica", "numcode":"188"},
    "score":90.0},
   {"country":{"code":"COK", "name":"Cook Islands", "numcode":"184"},
    "score":88.0}]}]