Access area metadata

Each member of the UN M49 enums carries associated metadata that you retrieve through extension methods on the enum members.

UN M49 defines names for each element in its geographical hierarchy in six languages: English, Chinese, Russian, French, Spanish, and Arabic. Each name accessor takes an ISO 639 language code (either the Part 1 alpha-2 or the Part 2 alpha-3 form, e.g. "en" or "eng").

Country or area

The name of the country or area for an area code can be retrieved.

// Germany name in Arabic
var countryName = UnM49AreaByAlpha2CountryCode.DE.GetCountryOrAreaName("ar");

To do the same thing using alpha-3 codes:

// Germany name in Arabic
var countryName = UnM49AreaByAlpha3CountryCode.DEU.GetCountryOrAreaName("ara");

Global area

The identifier of the global area can be retrieved for any area code.

var globalCode = UnM49AreaByAlpha2CountryCode.PT.GetGlobalCode();

And likewise the global name.

var globalName = UnM49AreaByAlpha2CountryCode.PT.GetGlobalName("en");

In practice the global code is the same no matter which area code it is retrieved for, because all areas defined by the standard are on planet Earth.

Intermediate region

Intermediate regions are identified by a code retrieved like so:

// Italy region code
var intermediateRegionCode = UnM49AreaByAlpha2CountryCode.IT.GetIntermediateRegionCode();

The name of an intermediate region can also be retrieved from an area code.

// Italy region name
var intermediateRegionName = UnM49AreaByAlpha2CountryCode.IT.GetIntermediateRegionName("en");

Region

The identifier of an area’s region can be retrieved:

var regionCode = UnM49AreaByAlpha2CountryCode.CH.GetRegionCode();

And the region name:

var regionName = UnM49AreaByAlpha2CountryCode.CH.GetRegionName("en");

Sub-region

A sub-region’s code can be retrieved from an area code.

var subRegionCode = UnM49AreaByAlpha2CountryCode.RO.GetSubRegionCode();

And the sub-region name.

var subRegionName = UnM49AreaByAlpha2CountryCode.RO.GetSubRegionName("en");