Countries list is a REST service that gives access to an ISO-3166 formatted list of world countries. It is useful when presenting a country options list from any application.
Get the list of countries
To send a GET request to the REST API Countries list, you have to provide the Content Type header application/vnd.ez.api.CountriesList+xml.
Countries list request
See the General REST usage documentation page for further information.
Usage example
Countries list request
The HTTP response will it be with a 200 OK Header.
Countries list response headers
And the body of the Response is XML formatted country list with names and codes according to the ISO-3166 standard.
ISO-3166
The country codes can be represented either as a two-letter code (alpha-2) which is recommended as the general purpose code, a three-letter code (alpha-3) which is more closely related to the country name and a three digit numeric code (numeric-3) which can be useful if you need to avoid using Latin script.
See the ISO-3166 glossary for more information.
Body XML Response