Your choice of payment processors ultimately determines the number of people who can potentially purchase your product or service. Looking at the differences between PayPal and Google Checkout, I couldn't find a comparison of the countries each processor supported so I quickly whipped up my own using the data presented in the country list drop-downs that each processor presents on its sign up page.

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If you're implementing PayPal Website Payments Pro Direct Payment in Flex, you're most likely going to need a ComboBox of country names and their ISO codes as expected by the PayPal API.

There's some freely available code for HTML but I couldn't find anything for Flex. It only took three find and replaces, however, to transform the HTML code into a lovely little Flex component. Here it is in hopes that it will save someone else the trouble in the future.

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