Question

I can get the list of country names using below code, (copied from somewhere i can’t remember)

My question is, can i get the list of countries in other languages such as Thai ?

    /// <summary>
    /// method for generating a country list, say for populating
    /// a ComboBox, with country options. We return the
    /// values in a Generic List<T>
    /// </summary>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static List<string> GetCountryList()
    {
        //create a new Generic list to hold the country names returned
        List<string> cultureList = new List<string>();

        //create an array of CultureInfo to hold all the cultures found, these include the users local cluture, and all the
        //cultures installed with the .Net Framework
        CultureInfo[] cultures = CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.AllCultures & ~CultureTypes.NeutralCultures);

        //loop through all the cultures found
        foreach (CultureInfo culture in cultures)
        {
            //pass the current culture's Locale ID (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0h88fahh.aspx)
            //to the RegionInfo contructor to gain access to the information for that culture
            RegionInfo region = new RegionInfo(culture.LCID);

            //make sure out generic list doesnt already
            //contain this country
            if (!(cultureList.Contains(region.EnglishName)))
                //not there so add the EnglishName (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.regioninfo.englishname.aspx)
                //value to our generic list
                cultureList.Add(region.EnglishName);
        }
        return cultureList;
    }

Answer 1

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.regioninfo.displayname.aspx

The DisplayName property displays the country/region name in the language of the localized version of .NET Framework. For example, the DisplayName property displays the country/region in English on the English version of the .NET Framework, and in Spanish on the Spanish version of the .NET Framework.

So it looks like there’s no list of country names in each language in the .NET Framework, only in the language that the installed .NET Framework is.