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September 29, 2011Tonight I was in the middle of coding a project I’ve been working on for the past couple of months and I realized what a pain in the ass it can become to deal with country drop-down select inputs. One of the main issues I came up with was how I should display the country code drop-down box in the Edit Page. In order for it to properly display, you have to tell the form to select the correct country from the drop down depending on what your MySQL database has stored. So for example, if your MySQL Database field stored “US” as the country code you’d obviously want it to display “United States” in your HTML select input. However, What happens when you get country codes like “AG, BN, EE, …etc.” Most people don’t even know what most of the country code abbreviations are so I wanted to put together a post to help others who come into similar issues.
Here’s a list of all the country codes I’m using:
Two Letter Country Abbreviations
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HTML Country Select Input with United States Selected:
<select name="country">
<option value="AF">Afghanistan</option>
<option value="AX">ÅLand Islands</option>
<option value="AL">Albania</option>
<option value="DZ">Algeria</option>
<option value="AS">American Samoa</option>
<option value="AD">Andorra</option>
<option value="AO">Angola</option>
<option value="AI">Anguilla</option>
<option value="AQ">Antarctica</option>
<option value="AG">Antigua And Barbuda</option>
<option value="AR">Argentina</option>
<option value="AM">Armenia</option>
<option value="AW">Aruba</option>
<option value="AU">Australia</option>
<option value="AT">Austria</option>
<option value="AZ">Azerbaijan</option>
<option value="BS">Bahamas</option>
<option value="BH">Bahrain</option>
<option value="BD">Bangladesh</option>
<option value="BB">Barbados</option>
<option value="BY">Belarus</option>
<option value="BE">Belgium</option>
<option value="BZ">Belize</option>
<option value="BJ">Benin</option>
<option value="BM">Bermuda</option>
<option value="BT">Bhutan</option>
<option value="BO">Bolivia</option>
<option value="BA">Bosnia And Herzegovina</option>
<option value="BW">Botswana</option>
<option value="BV">Bouvet Island</option>
<option value="BR">Brazil</option>
<option value="IO">British Indian Ocean Territory</option>
<option value="BN">Brunei Darussalam</option>
<option value="BG">Bulgaria</option>
<option value="BF">Burkina Faso</option>
<option value="BI">Burundi</option>
<option value="KH">Cambodia</option>
<option value="CM">Cameroon</option>
<option value="CA">Canada</option>
<option value="CV">Cape Verde</option>
<option value="KY">Cayman Islands</option>
<option value="CF">Central African Republic</option>
<option value="TD">Chad</option>
<option value="CL">Chile</option>
<option value="CN">China</option>
<option value="CX">Christmas Island</option>
<option value="CC">Cocos (Keeling) Islands</option>
<option value="CO">Colombia</option>
<option value="KM">Comoros</option>
<option value="CG">Congo</option>
<option value="CD">Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The</option>
<option value="CK">Cook Islands</option>
<option value="CR">Costa Rica</option>
<option value="CI">Cote D'Ivoire</option>
<option value="HR">Croatia</option>
<option value="CU">Cuba</option>
<option value="CY">Cyprus</option>
<option value="CZ">Czech Republic</option>
<option value="DK">Denmark</option>
<option value="DJ">Djibouti</option>
<option value="DM">Dominica</option>
<option value="DO">Dominican Republic</option>
<option value="EC">Ecuador</option>
<option value="EG">Egypt</option>
<option value="SV">El Salvador</option>
<option value="GQ">Equatorial Guinea</option>
<option value="ER">Eritrea</option>
<option value="EE">Estonia</option>
<option value="ET">Ethiopia</option>
<option value="FK">Falkland Islands (Malvinas)</option>
<option value="FO">Faroe Islands</option>
<option value="FJ">Fiji</option>
<option value="FI">Finland</option>
<option value="FR">France</option>
<option value="GF">French Guiana</option>
<option value="PF">French Polynesia</option>
<option value="TF">French Southern Territories</option>
<option value="GA">Gabon</option>
<option value="GM">Gambia</option>
<option value="GE">Georgia</option>
<option value="DE">Germany</option>
<option value="GH">Ghana</option>
<option value="GI">Gibraltar</option>
<option value="GR">Greece</option>
<option value="GL">Greenland</option>
<option value="GD">Grenada</option>
<option value="GP">Guadeloupe</option>
<option value="GU">Guam</option>
<option value="GT">Guatemala</option>
<option value="GG">Guernsey</option>
<option value="GN">Guinea</option>
<option value="GW">Guinea-Bissau</option>
<option value="GY">Guyana</option>
<option value="HT">Haiti</option>
<option value="HM">Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands</option>
<option value="VA">Holy See (Vatican City State)</option>
<option value="HN">Honduras</option>
<option value="HK">Hong Kong</option>
<option value="HU">Hungary</option>
<option value="IS">Iceland</option>
<option value="IN">India</option>
<option value="ID">Indonesia</option>
<option value="IR">Iran, Islamic Republic Of</option>
<option value="IQ">Iraq</option>
<option value="IE">Ireland</option>
<option value="IM">Isle Of Man</option>
<option value="IL">Israel</option>
<option value="IT">Italy</option>
<option value="JM">Jamaica</option>
<option value="JP">Japan</option>
<option value="JE">Jersey</option>
<option value="JO">Jordan</option>
<option value="KZ">Kazakhstan</option>
<option value="KE">Kenya</option>
<option value="KI">Kiribati</option>
<option value="KP">Korea, Democratic People'S Republic Of</option>
<option value="KR">Korea, Republic Of</option>
<option value="KW">Kuwait</option>
<option value="KG">Kyrgyzstan</option>
<option value="LA">Lao People'S Democratic Republic</option>
<option value="LV">Latvia</option>
<option value="LB">Lebanon</option>
<option value="LS">Lesotho</option>
<option value="LR">Liberia</option>
<option value="LY">Libyan Arab Jamahiriya</option>
<option value="LI">Liechtenstein</option>
<option value="LT">Lithuania</option>
<option value="LU">Luxembourg</option>
<option value="MO">Macao</option>
<option value="MK">Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of</option>
<option value="MG">Madagascar</option>
<option value="MW">Malawi</option>
<option value="MY">Malaysia</option>
<option value="MV">Maldives</option>
<option value="ML">Mali</option>
<option value="MT">Malta</option>
<option value="MH">Marshall Islands</option>
<option value="MQ">Martinique</option>
<option value="MR">Mauritania</option>
<option value="MU">Mauritius</option>
<option value="YT">Mayotte</option>
<option value="MX">Mexico</option>
<option value="FM">Micronesia, Federated States Of</option>
<option value="MD">Moldova, Republic Of</option>
<option value="MC">Monaco</option>
<option value="MN">Mongolia</option>
<option value="MS">Montserrat</option>
<option value="MA">Morocco</option>
<option value="MZ">Mozambique</option>
<option value="MM">Myanmar</option>
<option value="NA">Namibia</option>
<option value="NR">Nauru</option>
<option value="NP">Nepal</option>
<option value="NL">Netherlands</option>
<option value="AN">Netherlands Antilles</option>
<option value="NC">New Caledonia</option>
<option value="NZ">New Zealand</option>
<option value="NI">Nicaragua</option>
<option value="NE">Niger</option>
<option value="NG">Nigeria</option>
<option value="NU">Niue</option>
<option value="NF">Norfolk Island</option>
<option value="MP">Northern Mariana Islands</option>
<option value="NO">Norway</option>
<option value="OM">Oman</option>
<option value="PK">Pakistan</option>
<option value="PW">Palau</option>
<option value="PS">Palestinian Territory, Occupied</option>
<option value="PA">Panama</option>
<option value="PG">Papua New Guinea</option>
<option value="PY">Paraguay</option>
<option value="PE">Peru</option>
<option value="PH">Philippines</option>
<option value="PN">Pitcairn</option>
<option value="PL">Poland</option>
<option value="PT">Portugal</option>
<option value="PR">Puerto Rico</option>
<option value="QA">Qatar</option>
<option value="RE">Reunion</option>
<option value="RO">Romania</option>
<option value="RU">Russian Federation</option>
<option value="RW">Rwanda</option>
<option value="SH">Saint Helena</option>
<option value="KN">Saint Kitts And Nevis</option>
<option value="LC">Saint Lucia</option>
<option value="PM">Saint Pierre And Miquelon</option>
<option value="VC">Saint Vincent And The Grenadines</option>
<option value="WS">Samoa</option>
<option value="SM">San Marino</option>
<option value="ST">Sao Tome And Principe</option>
<option value="SA">Saudi Arabia</option>
<option value="SN">Senegal</option>
<option value="CS">Serbia And Montenegro</option>
<option value="SC">Seychelles</option>
<option value="SL">Sierra Leone</option>
<option value="SG">Singapore</option>
<option value="SK">Slovakia</option>
<option value="SI">Slovenia</option>
<option value="SB">Solomon Islands</option>
<option value="SO">Somalia</option>
<option value="ZA">South Africa</option>
<option value="GS">South Georgia And The South Sandwich Islands</option>
<option value="ES">Spain</option>
<option value="LK">Sri Lanka</option>
<option value="SD">Sudan</option>
<option value="SR">Suriname</option>
<option value="SJ">Svalbard And Jan Mayen</option>
<option value="SZ">Swaziland</option>
<option value="SE">Sweden</option>
<option value="CH">Switzerland</option>
<option value="SY">Syrian Arab Republic</option>
<option value="TW">Taiwan, Province Of China</option>
<option value="TJ">Tajikistan</option>
<option value="TZ">Tanzania, United Republic Of</option>
<option value="TH">Thailand</option>
<option value="TL">Timor-Leste</option>
<option value="TG">Togo</option>
<option value="TK">Tokelau</option>
<option value="TO">Tonga</option>
<option value="TT">Trinidad And Tobago</option>
<option value="TN">Tunisia</option>
<option value="TR">Turkey</option>
<option value="TM">Turkmenistan</option>
<option value="TC">Turks And Caicos Islands</option>
<option value="TV">Tuvalu</option>
<option value="UG">Uganda</option>
<option value="UA">Ukraine</option>
<option value="AE">United Arab Emirates</option>
<option value="GB">United Kingdom</option>
<option selected="selected" value="US">United States</option>
<option value="UM">United States Minor Outlying Islands</option>
<option value="UY">Uruguay</option>
<option value="UZ">Uzbekistan</option>
<option value="VU">Vanuatu</option>
<option value="VE">Venezuela</option>
<option value="VN">Viet Nam</option>
<option value="VG">Virgin Islands, British</option>
<option value="VI">Virgin Islands, U.S.</option>
<option value="WF">Wallis And Futuna</option>
<option value="EH">Western Sahara</option>
<option value="YE">Yemen</option>
<option value="ZM">Zambia</option>
<option value="ZW">Zimbabwe</option>
</select>
Lastly, the most time consuming part for me was writing the PHP IF statements for each country so that if a user has a specific country chosen and saved in the database country field, it selects that country so it defaults in the drop-down. There are many ways to do this, but regardless of which way you use, it needs to be done otherwise each time your site user goes to edit their profile, they’ll have to select their country from the drop down. This can get tedious and annoying for your members. Even though you can copy and paste all the IF statements, you’d still have to manually type in each country abbreviation to check them against the databases $country variable. So here’s the code I decided to use…
PHP Edit Page Country Code Select Input:
<select name="country">
<option value="AF" <?php if($country == 'AF') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Afghanistan</option>
<option value="AX" <?php if($country == 'AX') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>ÅLand Islands</option>
<option value="AL" <?php if($country == 'AL') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Albania</option>
<option value="DZ" <?php if($country == 'DZ') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Algeria</option>
<option value="AS" <?php if($country == 'AS') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>American Samoa</option>
<option value="AD" <?php if($country == 'AD') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Andorra</option>
<option value="AO" <?php if($country == 'AO') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Angola</option>
<option value="AI" <?php if($country == 'AI') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Anguilla</option>
<option value="AQ" <?php if($country == 'AQ') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Antarctica</option>
<option value="AG" <?php if($country == 'AG') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Antigua And Barbuda</option>
<option value="AR" <?php if($country == 'AR') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Argentina</option>
<option value="AM" <?php if($country == 'AN') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Armenia</option>
<option value="AW" <?php if($country == 'AW') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Aruba</option>
<option value="AU" <?php if($country == 'AU') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Australia</option>
<option value="AT" <?php if($country == 'AT') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Austria</option>
<option value="AZ" <?php if($country == 'AZ') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Azerbaijan</option>
<option value="BS" <?php if($country == 'BS') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Bahamas</option>
<option value="BH" <?php if($country == 'BH') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Bahrain</option>
<option value="BD" <?php if($country == 'BD') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Bangladesh</option>
<option value="BB" <?php if($country == 'BB') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Barbados</option>
<option value="BY" <?php if($country == 'BY') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Belarus</option>
<option value="BE" <?php if($country == 'BE') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Belgium</option>
<option value="BZ" <?php if($country == 'BZ') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Belize</option>
<option value="BJ" <?php if($country == 'BJ') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Benin</option>
<option value="BM" <?php if($country == 'BM') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Bermuda</option>
<option value="BT" <?php if($country == 'BT') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Bhutan</option>
<option value="BO" <?php if($country == 'BO') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Bolivia</option>
<option value="BA" <?php if($country == 'BA') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Bosnia And Herzegovina</option>
<option value="BW" <?php if($country == 'BW') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Botswana</option>
<option value="BV" <?php if($country == 'BV') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Bouvet Island</option>
<option value="BR" <?php if($country == 'BR') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Brazil</option>
<option value="IO" <?php if($country == 'IO') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>British Indian Ocean Territory</option>
<option value="BN" <?php if($country == 'BN') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Brunei Darussalam</option>
<option value="BG" <?php if($country == 'BG') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Bulgaria</option>
<option value="BF" <?php if($country == 'BF') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Burkina Faso</option>
<option value="BI" <?php if($country == 'BI') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Burundi</option>
<option value="KH" <?php if($country == 'KH') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Cambodia</option>
<option value="CM" <?php if($country == 'CM') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Cameroon</option>
<option value="CA" <?php if($country == 'CA') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Canada</option>
<option value="CV" <?php if($country == 'CV') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Cape Verde</option>
<option value="KY" <?php if($country == 'KY') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Cayman Islands</option>
<option value="CF" <?php if($country == 'CF') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Central African Republic</option>
<option value="TD" <?php if($country == 'TD') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Chad</option>
<option value="CL" <?php if($country == 'CL') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Chile</option>
<option value="CN" <?php if($country == 'CN') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>China</option>
<option value="CX" <?php if($country == 'CX') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Christmas Island</option>
<option value="CC" <?php if($country == 'CC') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Cocos (Keeling) Islands</option>
<option value="CO" <?php if($country == 'CO') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Colombia</option>
<option value="KM" <?php if($country == 'KM') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Comoros</option>
<option value="CG" <?php if($country == 'CG') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Congo</option>
<option value="CD" <?php if($country == 'CD') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The</option>
<option value="CK" <?php if($country == 'CK') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Cook Islands</option>
<option value="CR" <?php if($country == 'CR') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Costa Rica</option>
<option value="CI" <?php if($country == 'CI') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Cote D'Ivoire</option>
<option value="HR" <?php if($country == 'HR') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Croatia</option>
<option value="CU" <?php if($country == 'CU') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Cuba</option>
<option value="CY" <?php if($country == 'CY') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Cyprus</option>
<option value="CZ" <?php if($country == 'CZ') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Czech Republic</option>
<option value="DK" <?php if($country == 'DK') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Denmark</option>
<option value="DJ" <?php if($country == 'DJ') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Djibouti</option>
<option value="DM" <?php if($country == 'DM') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Dominica</option>
<option value="DO" <?php if($country == 'DO') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Dominican Republic</option>
<option value="EC" <?php if($country == 'EC') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Ecuador</option>
<option value="EG" <?php if($country == 'EG') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Egypt</option>
<option value="SV" <?php if($country == 'SV') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>El Salvador</option>
<option value="GQ" <?php if($country == 'GQ') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Equatorial Guinea</option>
<option value="ER" <?php if($country == 'ER') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Eritrea</option>
<option value="EE" <?php if($country == 'EE') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Estonia</option>
<option value="ET" <?php if($country == 'ET') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Ethiopia</option>
<option value="FK" <?php if($country == 'FK') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Falkland Islands (Malvinas)</option>
<option value="FO" <?php if($country == 'FO') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Faroe Islands</option>
<option value="FJ" <?php if($country == 'FJ') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Fiji</option>
<option value="FI" <?php if($country == 'FI') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Finland</option>
<option value="FR" <?php if($country == 'FR') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>France</option>
<option value="GF" <?php if($country == 'GF') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>French Guiana</option>
<option value="PF" <?php if($country == 'PF') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>French Polynesia</option>
<option value="TF" <?php if($country == 'TF') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>French Southern Territories</option>
<option value="GA" <?php if($country == 'GA') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Gabon</option>
<option value="GM" <?php if($country == 'GM') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Gambia</option>
<option value="GE" <?php if($country == 'GE') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Georgia</option>
<option value="DE" <?php if($country == 'DE') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Germany</option>
<option value="GH" <?php if($country == 'GH') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Ghana</option>
<option value="GI" <?php if($country == 'GI') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Gibraltar</option>
<option value="GR" <?php if($country == 'GR') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Greece</option>
<option value="GL" <?php if($country == 'GL') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Greenland</option>
<option value="GD" <?php if($country == 'GD') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Grenada</option>
<option value="GP" <?php if($country == 'GP') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Guadeloupe</option>
<option value="GU" <?php if($country == 'GU') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Guam</option>
<option value="GT" <?php if($country == 'GT') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Guatemala</option>
<option value="GG" <?php if($country == 'GG') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Guernsey</option>
<option value="GN" <?php if($country == 'GN') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Guinea</option>
<option value="GW" <?php if($country == 'GW') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Guinea-Bissau</option>
<option value="GY" <?php if($country == 'GY') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Guyana</option>
<option value="HT" <?php if($country == 'HT') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Haiti</option>
<option value="HM" <?php if($country == 'HM') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands</option>
<option value="VA" <?php if($country == 'VA') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Holy See (Vatican City State)</option>
<option value="HN" <?php if($country == 'HN') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Honduras</option>
<option value="HK" <?php if($country == 'HK') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Hong Kong</option>
<option value="HU" <?php if($country == 'HU') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Hungary</option>
<option value="IS" <?php if($country == 'IS') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Iceland</option>
<option value="IN" <?php if($country == 'IN') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>India</option>
<option value="ID" <?php if($country == 'ID') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Indonesia</option>
<option value="IR" <?php if($country == 'IR') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Iran, Islamic Republic Of</option>
<option value="IQ" <?php if($country == 'IQ') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Iraq</option>
<option value="IE" <?php if($country == 'IE') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Ireland</option>
<option value="IM" <?php if($country == 'IM') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Isle Of Man</option>
<option value="IL" <?php if($country == 'IL') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Israel</option>
<option value="IT" <?php if($country == 'IT') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Italy</option>
<option value="JM" <?php if($country == 'JM') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Jamaica</option>
<option value="JP" <?php if($country == 'JP') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Japan</option>
<option value="JE" <?php if($country == 'JE') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Jersey</option>
<option value="JO" <?php if($country == 'JO') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Jordan</option>
<option value="KZ" <?php if($country == 'KZ') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Kazakhstan</option>
<option value="KE" <?php if($country == 'KE') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Kenya</option>
<option value="KI" <?php if($country == 'KI') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Kiribati</option>
<option value="KP" <?php if($country == 'KP') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Korea, Democratic People'S Republic Of</option>
<option value="KR" <?php if($country == 'KR') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Korea, Republic Of</option>
<option value="KW" <?php if($country == 'KW') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Kuwait</option>
<option value="KG" <?php if($country == 'KG') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Kyrgyzstan</option>
<option value="LA" <?php if($country == 'LA') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Lao People'S Democratic Republic</option>
<option value="LV" <?php if($country == 'LV') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Latvia</option>
<option value="LB" <?php if($country == 'LB') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Lebanon</option>
<option value="LS" <?php if($country == 'LS') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Lesotho</option>
<option value="LR" <?php if($country == 'LR') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Liberia</option>
<option value="LY" <?php if($country == 'LY') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Libyan Arab Jamahiriya</option>
<option value="LI" <?php if($country == 'LI') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Liechtenstein</option>
<option value="LT" <?php if($country == 'LT') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Lithuania</option>
<option value="LU" <?php if($country == 'LU') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Luxembourg</option>
<option value="MO" <?php if($country == 'MO') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Macao</option>
<option value="MK" <?php if($country == 'MK') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of</option>
<option value="MG" <?php if($country == 'MG') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Madagascar</option>
<option value="MW" <?php if($country == 'MW') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Malawi</option>
<option value="MY" <?php if($country == 'MY') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Malaysia</option>
<option value="MV" <?php if($country == 'MV') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Maldives</option>
<option value="ML" <?php if($country == 'ML') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Mali</option>
<option value="MT" <?php if($country == 'MT') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Malta</option>
<option value="MH" <?php if($country == 'MH') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Marshall Islands</option>
<option value="MQ" <?php if($country == 'MQ') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Martinique</option>
<option value="MR" <?php if($country == 'MR') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Mauritania</option>
<option value="MU" <?php if($country == 'MU') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Mauritius</option>
<option value="YT" <?php if($country == 'YT') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Mayotte</option>
<option value="MX" <?php if($country == 'MX') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Mexico</option>
<option value="FM" <?php if($country == 'FM') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Micronesia, Federated States Of</option>
<option value="MD" <?php if($country == 'MD') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Moldova, Republic Of</option>
<option value="MC" <?php if($country == 'MC') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Monaco</option>
<option value="MN" <?php if($country == 'MN') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Mongolia</option>
<option value="MS" <?php if($country == 'MS') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Montserrat</option>
<option value="MA" <?php if($country == 'MA') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Morocco</option>
<option value="MZ" <?php if($country == 'MZ') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Mozambique</option>
<option value="MM" <?php if($country == 'MM') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Myanmar</option>
<option value="NA" <?php if($country == 'NA') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Namibia</option>
<option value="NR" <?php if($country == 'NR') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Nauru</option>
<option value="NP" <?php if($country == 'NP') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Nepal</option>
<option value="NL" <?php if($country == 'NL') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Netherlands</option>
<option value="AN" <?php if($country == 'AN') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Netherlands Antilles</option>
<option value="NC" <?php if($country == 'NC') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>New Caledonia</option>
<option value="NZ" <?php if($country == 'NZ') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>New Zealand</option>
<option value="NI" <?php if($country == 'NI') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Nicaragua</option>
<option value="NE" <?php if($country == 'NE') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Niger</option>
<option value="NG" <?php if($country == 'NG') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Nigeria</option>
<option value="NU" <?php if($country == 'NU') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Niue</option>
<option value="NF" <?php if($country == 'NF') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Norfolk Island</option>
<option value="MP" <?php if($country == 'MP') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Northern Mariana Islands</option>
<option value="NO" <?php if($country == 'NO') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Norway</option>
<option value="OM" <?php if($country == 'OM') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Oman</option>
<option value="PK" <?php if($country == 'PK') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Pakistan</option>
<option value="PW" <?php if($country == 'PW') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Palau</option>
<option value="PS" <?php if($country == 'PS') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Palestinian Territory, Occupied</option>
<option value="PA" <?php if($country == 'PA') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Panama</option>
<option value="PG" <?php if($country == 'PG') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Papua New Guinea</option>
<option value="PY" <?php if($country == 'PY') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Paraguay</option>
<option value="PE" <?php if($country == 'PE') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Peru</option>
<option value="PH" <?php if($country == 'PH') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Philippines</option>
<option value="PN" <?php if($country == 'PN') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Pitcairn</option>
<option value="PL" <?php if($country == 'PL') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Poland</option>
<option value="PT" <?php if($country == 'PT') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Portugal</option>
<option value="PR" <?php if($country == 'PR') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Puerto Rico</option>
<option value="QA" <?php if($country == 'QA') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Qatar</option>
<option value="RE" <?php if($country == 'RE') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Reunion</option>
<option value="RO" <?php if($country == 'RO') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Romania</option>
<option value="RU" <?php if($country == 'RU') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Russian Federation</option>
<option value="RW" <?php if($country == 'RW') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Rwanda</option>
<option value="SH" <?php if($country == 'SH') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Saint Helena</option>
<option value="KN" <?php if($country == 'KN') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Saint Kitts And Nevis</option>
<option value="LC" <?php if($country == 'LC') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Saint Lucia</option>
<option value="PM" <?php if($country == 'PM') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Saint Pierre And Miquelon</option>
<option value="VC" <?php if($country == 'VC') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Saint Vincent And The Grenadines</option>
<option value="WS" <?php if($country == 'WS') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Samoa</option>
<option value="SM" <?php if($country == 'SM') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>San Marino</option>
<option value="ST" <?php if($country == 'ST') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Sao Tome And Principe</option>
<option value="SA" <?php if($country == 'SA') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Saudi Arabia</option>
<option value="SN" <?php if($country == 'SN') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Senegal</option>
<option value="CS" <?php if($country == 'CS') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Serbia And Montenegro</option>
<option value="SC" <?php if($country == 'SC') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Seychelles</option>
<option value="SL" <?php if($country == 'SL') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Sierra Leone</option>
<option value="SG" <?php if($country == 'SG') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Singapore</option>
<option value="SK" <?php if($country == 'SK') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Slovakia</option>
<option value="SI" <?php if($country == 'SI') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Slovenia</option>
<option value="SB" <?php if($country == 'SB') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Solomon Islands</option>
<option value="SO" <?php if($country == 'SO') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Somalia</option>
<option value="ZA" <?php if($country == 'ZA') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>South Africa</option>
<option value="GS" <?php if($country == 'GS') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>South Georgia And The South Sandwich Islands</option>
<option value="ES" <?php if($country == 'ES') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Spain</option>
<option value="LK" <?php if($country == 'LK') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Sri Lanka</option>
<option value="SD" <?php if($country == 'SD') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Sudan</option>
<option value="SR" <?php if($country == 'SR') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Suriname</option>
<option value="SJ" <?php if($country == 'SJ') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Svalbard And Jan Mayen</option>
<option value="SZ" <?php if($country == 'SZ') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Swaziland</option>
<option value="SE" <?php if($country == 'SE') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Sweden</option>
<option value="CH" <?php if($country == 'CH') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Switzerland</option>
<option value="SY" <?php if($country == 'SY') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Syrian Arab Republic</option>
<option value="TW" <?php if($country == 'TW') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Taiwan, Province Of China</option>
<option value="TJ" <?php if($country == 'TJ') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Tajikistan</option>
<option value="TZ" <?php if($country == 'TZ') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Tanzania, United Republic Of</option>
<option value="TH" <?php if($country == 'TH') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Thailand</option>
<option value="TL" <?php if($country == 'TL') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Timor-Leste</option>
<option value="TG" <?php if($country == 'TG') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Togo</option>
<option value="TK" <?php if($country == 'TK') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Tokelau</option>
<option value="TO" <?php if($country == 'TO') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Tonga</option>
<option value="TT" <?php if($country == 'TT') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Trinidad And Tobago</option>
<option value="TN" <?php if($country == 'TN') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Tunisia</option>
<option value="TR" <?php if($country == 'TR') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Turkey</option>
<option value="TM" <?php if($country == 'TM') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Turkmenistan</option>
<option value="TC" <?php if($country == 'TC') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Turks And Caicos Islands</option>
<option value="TV" <?php if($country == 'TV') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Tuvalu</option>
<option value="UG" <?php if($country == 'UG') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Uganda</option>
<option value="UA" <?php if($country == 'UA') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Ukraine</option>
<option value="AE" <?php if($country == 'AE') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>United Arab Emirates</option>
<option value="GB" <?php if($country == 'GB') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>United Kingdom</option>
<option value="US" <?php if($country == 'US') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>United States</option>
<option value="UM" <?php if($country == 'UM') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>United States Minor Outlying Islands</option>
<option value="UY" <?php if($country == 'UY') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Uruguay</option>
<option value="UZ" <?php if($country == 'UZ') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Uzbekistan</option>
<option value="VU" <?php if($country == 'VU') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Vanuatu</option>
<option value="VE" <?php if($country == 'VE') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Venezuela</option>
<option value="VN" <?php if($country == 'VN') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Viet Nam</option>
<option value="VG" <?php if($country == 'VG') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Virgin Islands, British</option>
<option value="VI" <?php if($country == 'VI') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Virgin Islands, U.S.</option>
<option value="WF" <?php if($country == 'WF') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Wallis And Futuna</option>
<option value="EH" <?php if($country == 'EH') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Western Sahara</option>
<option value="YE" <?php if($country == 'YE') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Yemen</option>
<option value="ZM" <?php if($country == 'ZM') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Zambia</option>
<option value="ZW" <?php if($country == 'ZW') { echo 'selected="selected"'; } ?>>Zimbabwe</option>
</select>
Hopefully I’ve saved some time for other programmers out there who have come across the same issues I have. Be sure to leave a comment and let me know if I was able to help you.
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