How to get the country code from CultureInfo?

Question

I have the following:

System.Globalization.CultureInfo c = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo(\"en-GB\");

var a = c.DisplayName;
var b = c.EnglishName;
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Answer 1

You can try the RegionInfo Class. One of the properties is the RegionInfo.TwoLetterISORegionName Property. Example from MSDN:

RegionInfo myRI1 = new RegionInfo("US");
Console.WriteLine( "   Name:                         {0}", myRI1.Name );
Console.WriteLine( "   ThreeLetterISORegionName:     {0}", myRI1.ThreeLetterISORegionName );
Console.WriteLine( "   TwoLetterISORegionName:       {0}", myRI1.TwoLetterISORegionName );

Name: US

ThreeLetterISORegionName: USA

TwoLetterISORegionName: US

Answer 2

var c = new CultureInfo("en-GB");
var r = new RegionInfo(c.LCID);
string name = r.Name;

Most probably you need to use r.TwoLetterISORegionName property.

string regionName = r.TwoLetterISORegionName;

Answer 3

System.Globalization.CultureInfo c = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-GB");
var ri = new RegionInfo(c.Name);
string countryName = ri.DisplayName;

That will give you:

"United Kingdom"

For Two Letter Use:

string countryAbbrivation = ri.TwoLetterISORegionName;

That will give you "GB"

Answer 4

If you just want to use the RegionInfo of the current thread, you can get the country code with this one-liner:

RegionInfo.CurrentRegion.TwoLetterISORegionName

Answer 5

Following will also accept CultureInfo("en");

var c = new CultureInfo("en-GB");
string countryAbbrivation;
if (!c.IsNeutralCulture) 
{
                    var region = new RegionInfo(ContentLanguage.PreferredCulture.LCID);
                    countryAbbrivation = region.TwoLetterISORegionName.ToLower();
}else{
                    countryAbbrivation = c.Name;
}