Grab countries in any language from https://github.com/umpirsky/country-list/blob/master/country/cldr

grab_countries.py

>>> # Grab countries from https://github.com/umpirsky/country-list/blob/master/country/cldr
>>> LANG = 'uk'
>>> FIELD_SUFFIX = '_uk'
>>> DOWNLOAD_URL = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/umpirsky/country-list/master/country/cldr/{lang}/country.txt'
>>> from urllib2 import urlopen
>>> lines = urlopen(DOWNLOAD_URL.format(lang=LANG)).read().split('\n')
>>> from apps.gis.models import Country
>>> for l in lines:
>>> 	if not len(l): break
>>> 	l = l.decode('utf-8')
>>> 	name = l[:-5]
>>> 	id = l[-3:-1]
>>> 	defaults = {'name' + FIELD_SUFFIX: name}
>>> 	(obj, created) = Country.objects.get_or_create(id=id, defaults=defaults)
>>> 	for k,v in defaults.items():
>>> 		setattr(obj, k, v)
>>> 	obj.save()
>>> 	print id, obj