Woocommerce - Remove country field in cart shipping

Question

How would I have Australia selected by default and have the input field not displaying heres an example of what im talking about I am using woocommerce:

Answer 1

Paste following code into your function.php file to Remove country field in checkout page:

function custom_override_checkout_fields( $fields )    
{
unset($fields['billing']['billing_country']);
return $fields;
}
add_filter('woocommerce_checkout_fields','custom_override_checkout_fields');

Answer 2

You can set your store to only sell to Australia in the WooCommerce Settings> General Settings in the "Specific Countries" field

This should remove the Country option from the checkout. With "Australia" set in the above settings here is the result in Twenty Fourteen:

Answer 3

A bit late but still for those who looking for correct answer

// Remove Country field from shipping calculator
add_filter('woocommerce_shipping_calculator_enable_country','__return_false');