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

Note this comment from the metadata for the parameter name which explains the change from .NET Framework 2.0 on:

    //     A string containing one of the two-letter codes defined in ISO 3166 for country/region.-or-Beginning
    //     in .NET Framework version 2.0, a string containing the culture name for a
    //     specific culture, custom culture, or Windows-only culture. If the culture
    //     name is not in RFC 4646 format, your application should specify the entire
    //     culture name, not just the country/region.