I was working on a PayPal powered commerce website and for the checkout form, I needed to create a dropdown list of the countries that PayPal supports. I couldn’t find a list in the exact format that I needed, so I created a JavaScript array of JSON objects. Pretty straightfoward, but I thought it would be a good starting point for some of you if you need the same thing.

This list uses the countries listed on PayPal’s website. PayPal requires that you send the 2-character IS0-3166-1 code to their API. Below I have the name and code combinations.
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