Get RegionInfo by country name?

Question

I want to be able to get RegionInfo by doing the following:

new RegionInfo(\"United Kingdom\");

but this throws an exception a

Answer 1

That same page you linked also says:

The RegionInfo name is one of the two-letter codes defined in ISO 3166 for country/region. Case is not significant; however, the Name, the TwoLetterISORegionName, and the ThreeLetterISORegionName properties return the appropriate code in uppercase.

The codes are on the page, and GB appears to be the 2 letter code for the UK (it's in code order to be difficult searching!). So try this:

new RegionInfo("GB");

Or if you're using .NET 2.0+, it's recommended you use the full culture name:

new RegionInfo("en-GB");