Country

Description

A country.

Disputed Territories

• Kosovo (XK): Not officially assigned an ISO code but commonly uses 'XK' for practical purposes.
• Taiwan (TW): Recognized with ISO code 'TW'.
• Palestine (PS): Has the ISO code 'PS'.

Updates: Country statuses and ISO codes can change. Always verify the current list.

Label

:Country

Properties

Property	Description	Type
id		string
name	The full name of the country	string
isoCode	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code for the country	string
bboxMin	The southwest (minimum latitude and longitude) corner of the bounding box	Point
bboxMax	The northeastcorner of the bounding box	Point
centroid	The centroid of the country	Point
createdBy	the person or process that created the node	string
createdDate		dateTime
modifiedBy	the person or process who last modified the node	string
modifiedDate		dateTime

Bounding Box

Instead of storing latitude and longitude as separate numeric properties, we store them as a single Point property.

Example for a Country Node:

United States Country node

MERGE     (country:Country {name: 'United States', isoCode: 'US'})
SET       country.bboxMin = point({latitude: 18.7763, longitude: -179.1473, crs: 'WGS-84'}),
          country.bboxMax = point({latitude: 71.5388, longitude: 179.1489, crs: 'WGS-84'}),
          country.centroid = point({latitude: 39.8283, longitude: -98.5795, crs: 'WGS-84'}),

Key

name

Relationships

The IS_IN relationship connects countries to continents.

Examples

Get a list of countries

MATCH (country:Country)
RETURN country.name AS CountryName

Find all countries in Europe

MATCH (c:Country)-[:IS_IN]->(continent:Continent {name: 'Europe'})
RETURN c.name AS Country;

Find the continent for a specific country

MATCH (c:Country {name: 'Brazil'})-[:IS_IN]->(continent)
RETURN continent.name AS Continent;