How to use this tool
Select a country to check capital city, region, income group, and coordinates for travel, relocation, study, and quick fact checks.
Look up World Bank country information from the country/region selector to check ISO codes, capital, region, and income group.
💡 3 Quick Steps to Get Started
Choose a country such as Japan (JP). The selector uses ISO codes rather than free-text name search.
Click Look up country and wait for the GoGo backend to fetch public data.
Check the name, two-letter ISO code, capital, region, income group, coordinates, and source retrieval time.
When it helps
Turn World Bank public country data into an easy country fact card.
How it works
The tool queries the World Bank Countries API and summarizes ISO code, capital, region, income group, and coordinates. For formal use, verify with the destination authority.
Worked example
Example: select Japan (JP) to find Japan, Tokyo, and East Asia & Pacific public data.
Limits and data handling
The browser waits up to 20 seconds, and the backend allows up to 30 lookups from the same source in 60 seconds. Invalid input, no data, rate limits, timeout, or provider failure shows an error and never invents country data. World Bank results also do not determine diplomatic recognition, borders, or current entry rules.
The country code and locale are transmitted through the GoGo Tools backend to the World Bank Countries API. GoGo Tools does not build personal search history, and analytics records the tool identifier rather than the country code or returned content.
ISO 3166 Country Codes, Geographic Data & Standards Handbook
1. The ISO 3166-1 Country Code Standard Matrix
Standardized country representation is governed by ISO 3166-1 across three distinct formats: Two-letter Alpha-2 codes (used in ccTLDs like .jp and IBAN identifiers), Three-letter Alpha-3 codes (used in machine-readable passports under ICAO 9303), and Three-digit Numeric codes (immune to script barriers in database indexing).
2. International Dialing Prefixes (ITU-T E.164)
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) E.164 standard establishes sovereign country calling codes (+1 North America, +44 UK, +81 Japan, +886 Taiwan). International roaming format dictates prefixing with '+' followed by country and national significant numbers.
3. World Bank Profile Fields and Freshness
The GoGo backend queries the World Bank Countries API for the name, two-letter ISO code, capital, region, income group, latitude and longitude. Public lookup results are cached for 86400 seconds and are not real-time. Check the source and fetch timestamp, and verify official destination data for formal use.
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FAQ
Country profile lookup: How do I select a country?
Select a country from the menu, such as Japan (JP) or the United States (US). The tool uses its two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for the lookup; you do not need to type the code.
Country profile lookup: What country results come from the World Bank Countries API?
The GoGo Tools backend asks the World Bank Countries API for country name, ISO code, capital, region, income group, and coordinates. Results show source and fetched time, and a successful response for the same query may be cached for 86,400 seconds.
Country profile lookup: When is a country result missing or unsuitable for use?
The browser waits up to 20 seconds, and the backend allows up to 30 lookups from the same source in 60 seconds. Invalid input, no data, rate limits, timeout, or provider failure shows an error and never invents country data. World Bank results also do not determine diplomatic recognition, borders, or current entry rules.
Country profile lookup: Where is the country code transmitted?
The country code and locale are transmitted through the GoGo Tools backend to the World Bank Countries API. GoGo Tools does not build personal search history, and analytics records the tool identifier rather than the country code or returned content.
