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Humanitarian projects frequently require handling countries, locations and regions in particular dealing with inconsistent country naming between different data sources and different coding standards like ISO3 and M49. The HDX Python Country library was created to fulfill these requirements. It provides utilities to map between country and region codes and names and to match administrative level names from different sources. It also provides utilities for foreign exchange enabling obtaining current and historic FX rates for different currencies. It has library API-level documentation available online.
Humanitarian projects frequently require handling countries, locations and regions in particular dealing with inconsistent country naming between different data sources and different coding standards like ISO3 and M49. The HDX Python Country library was created to fulfill these requirements. It provides utilities to map between country and region codes and names and to match administrative level names from different sources. It also provides utilities for foreign exchange enabling obtaining current and historic FX rates for different currencies. It has library API-level documentation available online.