
This connects to the REST Countries API v3.1 and gives you five tools for querying world country data. You can search by name, pull details by ISO code, or filter countries by region, language, or currency. Each query returns structured data like capitals, populations, areas, languages, currencies, and flag emojis. It's hosted on Pipeworx's gateway as a streamable HTTP server, so no local setup needed. Useful when you're building features that need country lookups, regional filtering, or currency-to-country mapping without managing your own geopolitical dataset.
Countries MCP — world country data.
Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1476+ live data sources.
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
search_countries | Search for countries by name. Returns official name, capital, region, population, area, languages, currencies, flag emoji, and the country's land borders by name — so "which countries border Bolivia" is answerable directly. |
get_country_by_code | Get country details by ISO code (e.g., "US" for United States or "FRA" for France). Returns capital, population, languages, currencies, area, and region. |
countries_by_region | List all countries in a region (e.g., "Africa", "Europe", "Asia"). Returns name, capital, population, area, and flag emoji. |
countries_by_language | Find countries where a language is spoken (e.g., "Spanish", "Mandarin"). Returns name, capital, region, population, and official language status. |
countries_by_currency | Find countries using a currency (e.g., "EUR" for Euro, "USD" for US Dollar). Returns name, capital, region, and currency details. |
Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):
{
"mcpServers": {
"countries": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/countries/mcp"
}
}
}
tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/countries/mcp returns the tools in the table
above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx,
discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the
gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a
single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the
pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and
is the authoritative answer for a given day.
This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a
scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via
ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a
second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without
them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth,
connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.
Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pipeworx": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
}
}
}
Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1476+ data sources. The
only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx
reaches all of them from either one.
Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:
ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Countries data" })
The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.
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