openweathermap - How to get country name from country code in javascript

Question

I am building a weather website, and I want to display the country name for the given location but my API request to openweathermap only returns country code. So is there a way to convert the country code to country name from javascript itself or I need to make one more API call to other url which will convert me the code to name.

Answer 1

You can use Intl.DisplayNames for this purpose, standard JS api, but not with full browser support yet (needs polyfills for Firefox & Safari as of January 2021).

Usage:

let regionNames = new Intl.DisplayNames(['en'], {type: 'region'});
regionNames.of('US');  // "United States"

Details: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Intl/DisplayNames