Bump pycountry from 24.6.1 to 26.2.16

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Bumps pycountry from 24.6.1 to 26.2.16.

Changelog

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26.2.16 (2026-02-16)

• Dropped support for end-of-life Pythons 3.8 and 3.9.

• Added explicit support for Python 3.13 and 3.14.

• Updated to iso-codes 4.20.1.

• Added support for matching initials in countries.search_fuzzy. For example, results for countries.search_fuzzy("UK") will now include GB (United Kingdom).

• Fixed subdivisions.add_entry and subdivisions.remove_entry, which would previously render the country_code index of subdivisions unusable causing subdivisions.get(country_code=...) to return a malformed result. Fixes issue #281.

Commits

• 4ba3951 Merge pull request #297 from zware/bump_for_release
• 88b0238 v26.2.16
• f2ded46 Merge pull request #296 from zware/updates
• 3aafdea Update pre-commit and poetry.lock
• bb80ba7 Merge pull request #295 from zware/publishing
• 7b25dcd Add workflow for PyPI publishing
• d2eed3d Merge pull request #292 from pycountry/pre-commit-ci-update-config
• ef67683 [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate
• f5750fd Merge pull request #286 from zware/add_entry_index_fix
• c713c76 Fix subdivisions.{add,remove}_entry
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