Region Identifier

Utility module that provides an easy way to identify the region of the country depending on the postal code, brings a set of determined regions for some of the countries and if it doesn't find a match uses google geolocation API to get the region.

Relevant links:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2 — codes used for all the regions can be found here
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Postal_codes_by_country - explanations of postal code structure per country
• https://download.geonames.org/export/zip/ - all the Geoname files for download (see below)

Predefined Regions

• AUT
• BEL
• CAN
• CHE
• DEU
• ESP
• FIN
• FRA
• GBR
• ITA
• MEX
• NLD
• RUS
• SWE
• USA

Test

$ npm test

License

This module was built using adapted information from http://download.geonames.org/ that's registered under the CC BY 3.0 as well as this module. Link to more information about CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.

Usage

Basic:

const { RegionIdentifier } = requrie('regionIdentifier');
const identifier = new RegionIdentifier('<GOOGLE API KEY>');

Get region:

//Using country name
identifier.get('Deutschland', '6578')
    .then(([region, googleUsed])) => {
        console.log(region); // null DE-TH
    }
    .catch((err) => {
        console.error(err);
    });

//using ISO3 code
identifier.get('DEU', '6578')
    .then(([region, googleUsed])) => {
        console.log(region); // null DE-TH
    }
    .catch((err) => {
        console.error(err);
    });

//using ISO2 code
identifier.get('DE', '6578')
    .then(([region, googleUsed])) => {
        console.log(region); // null DE-TH
    }
    .catch((err) => {
        console.error(err);
    });