$ man country-info
/country-info(1)
PRICE / CALL
$0.002
USDC · base mainnet · scheme: exact
METHOD
POST
CLUSTER
localeCATEGORY
uncategorized
STATUS
● live
NAME
country-info — country info / iso 3166 / country code lookup / capital city lookup / currencies by country / population / region resolver
SYNOPSIS
POST https://x402.org/v1/country-info
Content-Type: application/json
X-PAYMENT: <signed-transferWithAuthorization>
{ ... }↳ first call →
402 Payment Required. Sign USDCtransferWithAuthorization, retry with theX-PAYMENT header.DESCRIPTION
Country info / ISO 3166 / country code lookup / capital city lookup / currencies by country / population / region resolver. Resolves country metadata by common name, ISO 3166 alpha-2/alpha-3 code, or capital city, returning name, codes, capital, region, subregion, population, area (km²), currencies, languages, timezones, flag emoji, neighboring-country codes, and international calling code. Wraps the public REST Countries v3.1 API — no auth, commercial-OK.
INPUT — request schema
| property | type | description | req? |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | Search string — country name (e.g. 'Germany'), ISO code (e.g. 'DE'), or capital city (e.g. 'Berlin'), depending on query_type. | required |
| query_type | string | How to interpret 'query'. Default 'name'. enum: name · code · capital | optional |
OUTPUT — response shape
| field | type | description |
|---|---|---|
| matches | string | Array of matched country records with name, codes, capital, region, population, currencies, languages, and flag emoji. |
| source | string | Upstream data source identifier, typically 'restcountries.com v3.1'. |
EXAMPLES — two ways to call
EXAMPLE 1 · curl
curl -X POST https://x402.org/v1/country-info \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{ }'first response =
402 Payment Required with payment requirements; sign + retry with X-PAYMENT.EXAMPLE 2 · mcp
# install once claude mcp add x402 --command "npx x402-deployer-mcp" # then ask Claude Code: # "use the country-info tool to ..."
MCP server handles payment automatically — your coding agent just calls the tool by name.
METADATA
- tags
- localecountry-infoiso-3166country-codecapital-lookupcurrenciesgeo-metadatarest-countries
- methods
- POST
- cluster
- locale
- price
- $0.002 USDC per call
ADJACENT — other endpoints in locale
| endpoint | description | price |
|---|---|---|
| astro-times | sunrise-sunset / golden-hour / civil twilight / nautical dusk / day-length / solar-noon / dawn-dusk / astronomy times. | $0.002 |
| earthquakes-recent | Earthquake feed / seismic activity / USGS / recent quakes / quake monitor / tremor data / fault line activity / tsunami alerts. | $0.002 |
| holiday-lookup | Public holidays / bank holidays / national holidays / federal holidays / holiday calendar / per-country dates. | $0.002 |
| sunrise-sunset | Sunrise sunset times. | $0.002 |
| timezone-convert | Timezone convert / IANA tz conversion / DST-aware time arithmetic / wall-clock to UTC / convert across cities. | $0.001 |
| timezone-lookup | Timezone lookup / IANA tz / UTC offset / DST status / local time at lat-lng / which timezone. | $0.001 |
| iata-airport-info | IATA / ICAO airport code lookup. | $0.005 |
| satellite-tile | Satellite imagery tile / lat-lon to satellite PNG / Sentinel-2 tile API / cloud-free satellite snapshot / agent-callable satellite imagery. | $0.005 |
SEE ALSO