{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://api.restcountries.com/schemas/country.json",
  "title": "Country",
  "description": "Comprehensive country data record from the REST Countries API",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "names": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Country name data in various forms and languages",
      "properties": {
        "common": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Common English name of the country",
          "examples": ["United States", "Germany"]
        },
        "official": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Official name of the country",
          "examples": ["United States of America", "Federal Republic of Germany"]
        },
        "alternates": {
          "type": "array",
          "description": "Alternate names or spellings",
          "items": { "type": "string" }
        },
        "native": {
          "type": "object",
          "description": "Native names keyed by ISO 639-3 language code",
          "additionalProperties": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "common": { "type": "string" },
              "official": { "type": "string" }
            }
          }
        },
        "translations": {
          "type": "object",
          "description": "Translated names keyed by language code",
          "additionalProperties": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "common": { "type": "string" },
              "official": { "type": "string" }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "codes": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Standardized country identifier codes",
      "properties": {
        "alpha_2": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 two-letter country code",
          "pattern": "^[A-Z]{2}$",
          "examples": ["US", "DE"]
        },
        "alpha_3": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 three-letter country code",
          "pattern": "^[A-Z]{3}$",
          "examples": ["USA", "DEU"]
        },
        "ccn3": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "ISO 3166-1 numeric three-digit country code",
          "examples": ["840", "276"]
        },
        "fips": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "FIPS country code"
        },
        "gec": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "GEC Entities country code"
        },
        "cioc": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "International Olympic Committee country code"
        },
        "fifa": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "FIFA country code"
        }
      }
    },
    "region": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Continent or major region",
      "enum": ["Africa", "Americas", "Asia", "Europe", "Oceania", "Antarctic"],
      "examples": ["Americas"]
    },
    "subregion": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Geographic sub-region",
      "examples": ["Northern America"]
    },
    "continents": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Continent(s) the country belongs to",
      "items": { "type": "string" },
      "examples": [["North America"]]
    },
    "landlocked": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "True if the country has no coastline"
    },
    "borders": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "ISO alpha-3 codes of bordering countries",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "pattern": "^[A-Z]{3}$"
      },
      "examples": [["CAN", "MEX"]]
    },
    "area": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Land area of the country",
      "properties": {
        "kilometers": {
          "type": "number",
          "description": "Land area in square kilometers",
          "minimum": 0
        },
        "miles": {
          "type": "number",
          "description": "Land area in square miles",
          "minimum": 0
        }
      }
    },
    "coordinates": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Geographic center coordinates",
      "properties": {
        "lat": {
          "type": "number",
          "description": "Latitude of geographic center",
          "minimum": -90,
          "maximum": 90
        },
        "lng": {
          "type": "number",
          "description": "Longitude of geographic center",
          "minimum": -180,
          "maximum": 180
        }
      }
    },
    "timezones": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "UTC timezone offsets",
      "items": { "type": "string" },
      "examples": [["UTC-05:00", "UTC-08:00"]]
    },
    "population": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Current population estimate",
      "minimum": 0,
      "examples": [331000000]
    },
    "languages": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Languages spoken in the country",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "name": { "type": "string", "description": "English name of the language" },
          "native": { "type": "string", "description": "Native name of the language" },
          "iso_code": { "type": "string", "description": "ISO 639 language code" }
        }
      }
    },
    "currencies": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Currencies used, keyed by ISO 4217 currency code",
      "additionalProperties": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "name": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Full currency name"
          },
          "symbol": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Currency symbol"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "calling_codes": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "International telephone dialing codes",
      "items": { "type": "string" },
      "examples": [["+1"]]
    },
    "tlds": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Country-code top-level domain(s)",
      "items": { "type": "string" },
      "examples": [[".us"]]
    },
    "capitals": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Capital city or cities",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "name": { "type": "string", "description": "Name of the capital city" },
          "coordinates": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "lat": { "type": "number" },
              "lng": { "type": "number" }
            }
          },
          "primary": { "type": "boolean" },
          "constitutional": { "type": "boolean" },
          "administrative": { "type": "boolean" },
          "executive": { "type": "boolean" },
          "legislative": { "type": "boolean" },
          "judicial": { "type": "boolean" }
        }
      }
    },
    "demonyms": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Demonym forms by language code",
      "additionalProperties": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "m": { "type": "string", "description": "Masculine demonym form" },
          "f": { "type": "string", "description": "Feminine demonym form" }
        }
      }
    },
    "flag": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Flag representation in various formats",
      "properties": {
        "emoji": { "type": "string", "description": "Flag emoji character" },
        "unicode": { "type": "string", "description": "Unicode code points for flag emoji" },
        "html_entity": { "type": "string", "description": "HTML numeric entity" },
        "url_png": { "type": "string", "format": "uri", "description": "URL to PNG flag image" },
        "url_svg": { "type": "string", "format": "uri", "description": "URL to SVG flag image" },
        "description": { "type": "string", "description": "Accessibility text description of the flag" }
      }
    },
    "memberships": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "International organization memberships",
      "properties": {
        "un": { "type": "boolean" },
        "eu": { "type": "boolean" },
        "eurozone": { "type": "boolean" },
        "schengen": { "type": "boolean" },
        "nato": { "type": "boolean" },
        "commonwealth": { "type": "boolean" },
        "oecd": { "type": "boolean" },
        "g7": { "type": "boolean" },
        "g20": { "type": "boolean" },
        "brics": { "type": "boolean" },
        "opec": { "type": "boolean" },
        "african_union": { "type": "boolean" },
        "asean": { "type": "boolean" },
        "arab_league": { "type": "boolean" }
      }
    },
    "classification": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Political and international classification",
      "properties": {
        "sovereign": { "type": "boolean", "description": "Self-governing state" },
        "un_member": { "type": "boolean", "description": "United Nations member state" },
        "un_observer": { "type": "boolean", "description": "UN permanent observer" },
        "disputed": { "type": "boolean", "description": "Contested recognition" },
        "dependency": { "type": "boolean", "description": "Dependent territory" },
        "dependency_type": { "type": "string", "description": "Type of dependency" },
        "iso_status": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "ISO 3166 status",
          "enum": ["official", "user_assigned"]
        }
      }
    },
    "government_type": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Form of government",
      "examples": ["Federal presidential constitutional republic"]
    },
    "leaders": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Current political leaders (premium field)",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "name": { "type": "string" },
          "title": { "type": "string" },
          "links": { "type": "object" }
        }
      }
    },
    "date": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Country-specific date and calendar conventions",
      "properties": {
        "start_of_week": { "type": "string", "examples": ["sunday", "monday"] },
        "academic_year_start": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "month": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 12 },
            "day": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 31 }
          }
        },
        "fiscal_year_start": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "government": {
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "month": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 12 },
                "day": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 31 }
              }
            },
            "corporate": {
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "month": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 12 },
                "day": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 31 },
                "basis": { "type": "string", "enum": ["mandated", "default", "convention"] }
              }
            },
            "personal": {
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "month": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 12 },
                "day": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 31 }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "number_format": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Number formatting conventions",
      "properties": {
        "decimal_separator": { "type": "string", "examples": [".", ","] },
        "thousands_separator": { "type": "string", "examples": [",", "."] }
      }
    },
    "cars": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Automobile-related country information",
      "properties": {
        "driving_side": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": ["left", "right"]
        },
        "signs": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": { "type": "string" },
          "description": "International vehicle registration codes"
        }
      }
    },
    "postal_code": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Postal code format information",
      "properties": {
        "format": { "type": "string", "description": "Postal code format mask" },
        "regex": { "type": "string", "description": "Regex validation pattern" }
      }
    },
    "links": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "External reference links for the country",
      "properties": {
        "official": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
        "wikipedia": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
        "open_street_maps": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
        "google_maps": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" }
      }
    },
    "economy": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Economic data",
      "properties": {
        "gini_coefficient": {
          "type": "object",
          "description": "Gini coefficients by year",
          "additionalProperties": { "type": "number" }
        }
      }
    },
    "parent": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Sovereign parent country for dependencies",
      "properties": {
        "alpha_2": { "type": "string" },
        "alpha_3": { "type": "string" }
      }
    }
  }
}