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

From MSDN;

A string that contains a two-letter code defined in ISO 3166 for country/region.

UNITED KINGDOM looks ok on Country names and code elements on the ISO website.

GB UNITED KINGDOM

Try with;

new RegionInfo("GB");