pycountry provides the ISO databases for the standards: -- 639: Languages -- 3166: Countries -- 3166-2: Subdivisions of countries -- 4217: Currencies -- 15924: Scripts The package includes a copy from Debian's pkg-isocodes and makes the data accessible through a Python API. Translation files for the various strings are included as well. WWW: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycountry