Magento- Country and States in Magento

Topic:

How can we get Country and States in Magento?

Solution:

Magento has inbuilt model for Country and State as seen in Checkout page. In checkout page if you select Country like ‘France’ , a drop down will be seen in place of textbox for States. I am writing here the code to directly get country name from ID and also to get States info from country.

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$countryName = Mage::getModel('directory/country')->load('FR')->getName(); //get country name      echo 'Country Name ->'.$countryName.'<br>';     $states = Mage::getModel('directory/country')->load('FR')->getRegions();        //state names   foreach ($states as $state)   {            echo 'ID->'.$state->getId().'<br>';     echo 'Name->'.$state->getName().'<br>';   }