swift - Getting country name from country code

Question

I have found the answer for this for objective-c but Im having a hard time doing this in swift.

I have used this to get the country code for the current location:

     let countryCode = NSLocale.currentLocale().objectForKey(NSLocaleCountryCode) as! String
    print(countryCode)
// printing for example US

But how do I convert this country code to a country name, like in this example converting "US" to "United States"?

Answer 1

A super clean Swift 3 version would be:

func countryName(countryCode: String) -> String? {
    let current = Locale(identifier: "en_US")
    return current.localizedString(forRegionCode: countryCode)
}

You can change the locale identifier to eg. Locale.current.identifier if you want localized names. The example above is for English only.