One country by ISO alpha-2, alpha-3 or numeric code

One country by ISO alpha-2, alpha-3 or numeric code: example requests in every language

curl --request GET \
  --url https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN \
  --header 'Accept: application/json' \
  --header 'X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY'

http GET https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN \
  Accept:application/json \
  X-API-Key:YOUR_API_KEY

wget --quiet \
  --method GET \
  --header 'Accept: application/json' \
  --header 'X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --output-document \
  - https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN

const http = require('https');

const options = {
  method: 'GET',
  hostname: 'countries-info.p.apihiver.com',
  port: null,
  path: '/v1/countries/IN',
  headers: {
    Accept: 'application/json',
    'X-API-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'
  }
};

const req = http.request(options, function (res) {
  const chunks = [];

  res.on('data', function (chunk) {
    chunks.push(chunk);
  });

  res.on('end', function () {
    const body = Buffer.concat(chunks);
    console.log(body.toString());
  });
});

req.end();

const request = require('request');

const options = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN',
  headers: {Accept: 'application/json', 'X-API-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'}
};

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);

  console.log(body);
});

const unirest = require('unirest');

const req = unirest('GET', 'https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN');

req.headers({
  Accept: 'application/json',
  'X-API-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'
});

req.end(function (res) {
  if (res.error) throw new Error(res.error);

  console.log(res.body);
});

const axios = require('axios').default;

const options = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN',
  headers: {Accept: 'application/json', 'X-API-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'}
};

try {
  const { data } = await axios.request(options);
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}

const fetch = require('node-fetch');

const url = 'https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN';
const options = {
  method: 'GET',
  headers: {Accept: 'application/json', 'X-API-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'}
};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}

const data = null;

const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.withCredentials = true;

xhr.addEventListener('readystatechange', function () {
  if (this.readyState === this.DONE) {
    console.log(this.responseText);
  }
});

xhr.open('GET', 'https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN');
xhr.setRequestHeader('Accept', 'application/json');
xhr.setRequestHeader('X-API-Key', 'YOUR_API_KEY');

xhr.send(data);

import axios from 'axios';

const options = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN',
  headers: {Accept: 'application/json', 'X-API-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'}
};

try {
  const { data } = await axios.request(options);
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}

const url = 'https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN';
const options = {
  method: 'GET',
  headers: {Accept: 'application/json', 'X-API-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'}
};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}

const settings = {
  async: true,
  crossDomain: true,
  url: 'https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN',
  method: 'GET',
  headers: {
    Accept: 'application/json',
    'X-API-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'
  }
};

$.ajax(settings).done(function (response) {
  console.log(response);
});

import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("countries-info.p.apihiver.com")

headers = {
    'Accept': "application/json",
    'X-API-Key': "YOUR_API_KEY"
}

conn.request("GET", "/v1/countries/IN", headers=headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))

import requests

url = "https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN"

headers = {
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.json())

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Accept: application/json",
    "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

<?php

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('GET', 'https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN', [
  'headers' => [
    'Accept' => 'application/json',
    'X-API-Key' => 'YOUR_API_KEY',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();

<?php

$request = new HttpRequest();
$request->setUrl('https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN');
$request->setMethod(HTTP_METH_GET);

$request->setHeaders([
  'Accept' => 'application/json',
  'X-API-Key' => 'YOUR_API_KEY'
]);

try {
  $response = $request->send();

  echo $response->getBody();
} catch (HttpException $ex) {
  echo $ex;
}

<?php

$client = new http\Client;
$request = new http\Client\Request;

$request->setRequestUrl('https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN');
$request->setRequestMethod('GET');
$request->setHeaders([
  'Accept' => 'application/json',
  'X-API-Key' => 'YOUR_API_KEY'
]);

$client->enqueue($request)->send();
$response = $client->getResponse();

echo $response->getBody();

AsyncHttpClient client = new DefaultAsyncHttpClient();
client.prepare("GET", "https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN")
  .setHeader("Accept", "application/json")
  .setHeader("X-API-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
  .execute()
  .toCompletableFuture()
  .thenAccept(System.out::println)
  .join();

client.close();

HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
    .uri(URI.create("https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN"))
    .header("Accept", "application/json")
    .header("X-API-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
    .method("GET", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody())
    .build();
HttpResponse<String> response = HttpClient.newHttpClient().send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
System.out.println(response.body());

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

Request request = new Request.Builder()
  .url("https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN")
  .get()
  .addHeader("Accept", "application/json")
  .addHeader("X-API-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
  .build();

Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN")
  .header("Accept", "application/json")
  .header("X-API-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
  .asString();

using System.Net.Http.Headers;
var client = new HttpClient();
var request = new HttpRequestMessage
{
    Method = HttpMethod.Get,
    RequestUri = new Uri("https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN"),
    Headers =
    {
        { "Accept", "application/json" },
        { "X-API-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY" },
    },
};
using (var response = await client.SendAsync(request))
{
    response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
    var body = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
    Console.WriteLine(body);
}

var client = new RestClient("https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN");
var request = new RestRequest("", Method.Get);
request.AddHeader("Accept", "application/json");
request.AddHeader("X-API-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY");
var response = client.Execute(request);

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Accept", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("X-API-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Accept"] = 'application/json'
request["X-API-Key"] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

import Foundation

let headers = [
  "Accept": "application/json",
  "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
]

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "GET"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

NSDictionary *headers = @{ @"Accept": @"application/json",
                           @"X-API-Key": @"YOUR_API_KEY" };

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN"]
                                                       cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy
                                                   timeoutInterval:10.0];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
[request setAllHTTPHeaderFields:headers];

NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sharedSession];
NSURLSessionDataTask *dataTask = [session dataTaskWithRequest:request
                                            completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) {
                                                if (error) {
                                                    NSLog(@"%@", error);
                                                } else {
                                                    NSHTTPURLResponse *httpResponse = (NSHTTPURLResponse *) response;
                                                    NSLog(@"%@", httpResponse);
                                                }
                                            }];
[dataTask resume];

val client = OkHttpClient()

val request = Request.Builder()
  .url("https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN")
  .get()
  .addHeader("Accept", "application/json")
  .addHeader("X-API-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
  .build()

val response = client.newCall(request).execute()

CURL *hnd = curl_easy_init();

curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_URL, "https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN");

struct curl_slist *headers = NULL;
headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "Accept: application/json");
headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY");
curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);

CURLcode ret = curl_easy_perform(hnd);

(require '[clj-http.client :as client])

(client/get "https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN" {:headers {:X-API-Key "YOUR_API_KEY"}
                                                                     :accept :json})

open Cohttp_lwt_unix
open Cohttp
open Lwt

let uri = Uri.of_string "https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN" in
let headers = Header.add_list (Header.init ()) [
  ("Accept", "application/json");
  ("X-API-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY");
] in

Client.call ~headers `GET uri
>>= fun (res, body_stream) ->
  (* Do stuff with the result *)

library(httr)

url <- "https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN"

response <- VERB("GET", url, add_headers('X-API-Key' = 'YOUR_API_KEY'), content_type(""), accept("application/json"))

content(response, "text")

$headers=@{}
$headers.Add("Accept", "application/json")
$headers.Add("X-API-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
$response = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN' -Method GET -Headers $headers

$headers=@{}
$headers.Add("Accept", "application/json")
$headers.Add("X-API-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
$response = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri 'https://countries-info.p.apihiver.com/v1/countries/IN' -Method GET -Headers $headers

GET /v1/countries/IN HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY
Host: countries-info.p.apihiver.com

Example response (200, application/json)

Success.

1{
2  "tld": ".in",
3  "code": "IN",
4  "name": "India",
5  "code3": "IND",
6  "capital": "New Delhi",
7  "area_km2": 3287590,
8  "continent": "Asia",
9  "languages": [
10    "en-IN",
11    "hi",
12    "bn"
13  ],
14  "neighbours": [
15    "CN",
16    "NP",
17    "MM"
18  ],
19  "population": 1352617328,
20  "calling_code": "+91",
21  "numeric_code": "356",
22  "currency_code": "INR",
23  "currency_name": "Rupee",
24  "continent_code": "AS",
25  "postal_code_format": "######"
26}

Errors

• 400 — A required parameter is missing or a value has the wrong format.
  JSON

  Copy

  1{
  2  "error": {
  3    "code": "INVALID_INPUT",
  4    "message": "A parameter has the wrong format — the message names it."
  5  }
  6}

• 404 — Nothing matches the value you sent.
  JSON

  Copy

  1{
  2  "error": {
  3    "code": "NOT_FOUND",
  4    "message": "No country with code ZZ."
  5  }
  6}

Gateway errors (missing key, no subscription, rate limits) are listed in Error codes.

Other Countries Info API endpoints

• GETAll countries (filter by continent)
• GETFind countries by name or capital
• GETCountries that use a currency
• GETCountries sharing a land border

Countries Info API pricing →·Countries Info API overview →