java.util.Locale has an empty first item

Question

I am trying to get all the locales from the JVM to populate a Country drop down. The first item is an empty not null object. It isn\'t null because I am using a TreeMap Coll

Answer 1

try

    for (Locale locale : Locale.getAvailableLocales()) {
        System.out.println(locale.getLanguage() + " " + locale.getCountry());
    }

you will see that some Locales have only language and no country

ms MY
ar QA
is IS
fi FI
pl 
en MT
...