Demo of https://gist.github.com/starx/eed701c8c84e0a475ce5

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code to country name conversion with a implementation for Select2 plugin

HTML

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/select2/4.0.0/js/select2.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/select2/4.0.0/css/select2.min.css">
<select name="country"></select>

JavaScript

(function($) {
        $(function() {
            var isoCountries = [
                { id: 'AF', text: 'Afghanistan'},
                { id: 'AX', text: 'Aland Islands'},
                { id: 'AL', text: 'Albania'},
                { id: 'DZ', text: 'Algeria'},
                { id: 'AS', text: 'American Samoa'},
                { id: 'AD', text: 'Andorra'},
                { id: 'AO', text: 'Angola'},
                { id: 'AI', text: 'Anguilla'},
                { id: 'AQ', text: 'Antarctica'},
                { id: 'AG', text: 'Antigua And Barbuda'},
                { id: 'AR', text: 'Argentina'},
                { id: 'AM', text: 'Armenia'},
                { id: 'AW', text: 'Aruba'},
                { id: 'AU', text: 'Australia'},
                { id: 'AT', text: 'Austria'},
                { id: 'AZ', text: 'Azerbaijan'},
                { id: 'BS', text: 'Bahamas'},
                { id: 'BH', text: 'Bahrain'},
                { id: 'BD', text: 'Bangladesh'},
                { id: 'BB', text: 'Barbados'},
                { id: 'BY', text: 'Belarus'},
                { id: 'BE', text: 'Belgium'},
                { id: 'BZ', text: 'Belize'},
                { id: 'BJ', text: 'Benin'},
                { id: 'BM', text: 'Bermuda'},
                { id: 'BT', text: 'Bhutan'},
                { id: 'BO', text: 'Bolivia'},
                { id: 'BA', text: 'Bosnia And Herzegovina'},
                { id: 'BW', text: 'Botswana'},
                { id: 'BV', text: 'Bouvet Island'},
                { id: 'BR', text: 'Brazil'},
                { id: 'IO', text: 'British Indian Ocean Territory'},
                { id: 'BN', text: 'Brunei Darussalam'},
                { id: 'BG', text: 'Bulgaria'},
                { id: 'BF', text: 'Burkina Faso'},
                { id: 'BI', text: 'Burundi'},
                { id: 'KH', text: 'Cambodia'},
                { id: 'CM', text: 'Cameroon'},
                { id: 'CA', text: 'Canada'},
                { id: 'CV', text:...