# States

<mark style="color:blue;">`GET`</mark> `‎https://<domain>/<api prefix>/<version>/get/states/<country_short_code>/`

This API endpoint returns all states list based on the country short code specified in the url. Replace  in the url to country short code and it must be a valide (country code)  string value.

#### Headers

| Name                                            | Type   | Description         |
| ----------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------------------- |
| apikey<mark style="color:red;">\*</mark>        | string | apikey              |
| Authorization<mark style="color:red;">\*</mark> | string | Bearer access token |

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="200 " %}

```markup
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

Body:
{
    "status_code": 200,
    "errors": {},
    "data": {
        "countries": [
            {
                "id": <state_id>,
                "code": <state_short_name_code>,
                "name": <state_name>
            }
        ]
    }
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

#### Sample code

**Node**

```javascript
var request = require('request');
var options = {
  'method': 'GET',
  'url': 'https://<domain>/<api prefix>/<version>/get/states/<country_short_code>/',
  'headers': {
    'apikey': '<apikey>',
    'Authorization': 'Bearer <access token>',
  }
};
request(options, function (error, response) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);
  console.log(response.body);
});
```

**PHP**

```php
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'https://<domain>/<api prefix>/<version>/get/states/<country_short_code>/',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'GET',
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    'apikey: <apikey>',
    'Authorization: Bearer <access token>',
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $response;
```


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```

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