BeautifulSoup4 test run

a.py

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

url = "https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html"
s = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(url).text)
for o in s.find(id='countryCode').find_all('option'):
    code = o.get('value')
    name = o.get_text()
    print code, name

output.txt

xx  World 
af  Afghanistan 
ax  Akrotiri 
al  Albania 
ag  Algeria 
aq  American Samoa 
an  Andorra 
ao  Angola 
av  Anguilla 
ay  Antarctica 
ac  Antigua and Barbuda 
xq  Arctic Ocean 
ar  Argentina 
am  Armenia 
aa  Aruba 
at  Ashmore and Cartier Islands 
zh  Atlantic Ocean 
as  Australia 
au  Austria 
aj  Azerbaijan 
bf  Bahamas, The 
ba  Bahrain 
um  Baker Island 
bg  Bangladesh 
bb  Barbados 
bo  Belarus 
be  Belgium 
bh  Belize 
bn  Benin 
bd  Bermuda 
bt  Bhutan 
bl  Bolivia 
bk  Bosnia and Herzegovina 
bc  Botswana 
bv  Bouvet Island 
br  Brazil 
io  British Indian Ocean Territory 
vi  British Virgin Islands 
bx  Brunei 
bu  Bulgaria 
uv  Burkina Faso 
bm  Burma 
by  Burundi 
cb  Cambodia 
cm  Cameroon 
ca  Canada 
cv  Cape Verde 
cj  Cayman Islands 
ct  Central African Republic 
cd  Chad 
ci  Chile 
ch  China 
kt  Christmas Island 
ip  Clipperton Island 
ck  Cocos (Keeling) Islands 
co  Colombia 
cn  Comoros 
cg  Congo, Democratic Republic of the 
cf  Congo, Republic of the 
cw  Cook Islands 
cr  Coral Sea Islands 
cs  Costa Rica 
iv  Cote d'Ivoire 
hr  Croatia 
cu  Cuba 
cc  Curacao 
cy  Cyprus 
ez  Czech Republic 
da  Denmark 
dx  Dhekelia 
dj  Djibouti 
do  Dominica 
dr  Dominican Republic 
ec  Ecuador 
eg  Egypt 
es  El Salvador 
ek  Equatorial Guinea 
er  Eritrea 
en  Estonia 
et  Ethiopia 
fk  Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 
fo  Faroe Islands 
fj  Fiji 
fi  Finland 
fr  France