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Country reference

GET/v1/reference/countries

Every country and territory with its two- and three-letter and number codes, region, currency, income group, time zones and whether tourism figures are held for it.

On every plan, Free includedKey requiredJSON or CSVCached until the next release

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
limitoptional	integer query	Rows per page, 1 to 1000 e.g. 100
cursoroptional	string query	The next value from the previous page

Request

# Every country's codes, currency and time zones
curl "https://api.tourismapi.com/v1/reference/countries" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $TOURISM_API_KEY"

const res = await fetch("https://api.tourismapi.com/v1/reference/countries", {
  headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.TOURISM_API_KEY }
});
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Tourism API ${res.status}`);
const { meta, data } = await res.json();
console.log(meta.data_as_of, data);

import os, requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://api.tourismapi.com/v1/reference/countries",
    headers={"X-API-Key": os.environ["TOURISM_API_KEY"]},
    timeout=10,
)
r.raise_for_status()
body = r.json()
print(body["meta"]["data_as_of"], body["data"])

$ch = curl_init("https://api.tourismapi.com/v1/reference/countries");
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER     => ["X-API-Key: " . getenv("TOURISM_API_KEY")],
]);
$body = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
print_r($body["data"]);

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Example response

{
    "meta": {
        "request_id": "req_3a10bd73a0",
        "data_as_of": "2026-10-21T17:42:32Z",
        "count": 250
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "iso": "AD",
            "iso3": "AND",
            "numeric": "020",
            "name": "Andorra",
            "region": "Europe",
            "currency": "EUR",
            "currency_name": "Euro",
            "income_group": "High income",
            "time_zones": [
                "Europe/Andorra"
            ],
            "tourism_figures": "quarterly or yearly"
        },
        {
            "iso": "AE",
            "iso3": "ARE",
            "numeric": "784",
            "name": "United Arab Emirates",
            "region": "Middle East and Africa",
            "currency": "AED",
            "currency_name": "U.A.E. dirham",
            "income_group": "High income",
            "time_zones": [
                "Asia/Dubai"
            ],
            "tourism_figures": "monthly"
        },
        {
            "iso": "AF",
            "iso3": "AFG",
            "numeric": "004",
            "name": "Afghanistan",
            "region": "Middle East and Africa",
            "currency": "AFN",
            "currency_name": "Afghan afghani",
            "income_group": "Low income",
            "time_zones": [
                "Asia/Kabul"
            ],
            "tourism_figures": "quarterly or yearly"
        }
    ]
}

Response fields

Field	Type	Example
iso	string	AD
iso3	string	AND
numeric	string	020
name	string	Andorra
region	string	Europe
currency	string	EUR
currency_name	string	Euro
income_group	string	High income
time_zones	array	1 items
tourism_figures	string	quarterly or yearly