Array of country list in PHP with Zend Framework

　　public static function countryList($local)

　　{

　　$locale = new Zend_Locale('en_US');

　　$countries = ($locale->getTranslationList('Territory', $local, 2));

　　asort($countries, SORT_LOCALE_STRING);

　　$countries = array_combine($countries, $countries);

　　return $countries;

　　}