How to merge two tables with different countries, country names and country codes in Power BI?

[Anonymous]

I have a little problem in Power BI. Having the following two simplified tables, I would like to merge them in order to have population and land area of the countries listed in the first table which are also listed in the second table.

However, the problem is, that the country names and country codes differ in both tables, e.g., The United States/ United States of America and USA/ US. Therefore, in Power BI, when clicking on merging, I cannot choose a column which both tables have in common and inserting an index column does also not help.

That is, given are the following two tables:

Country	Code	Population 2021
Andorra	AND	77354
United States of America	USA	331893745
France	FRA	547557

Country	Code	Land area 2021
Andorra	AD	470
United States	US	9147420
Spain	ES	499603479

And the table I would like to produce is:

Country	Population 2021	Land area 2021
Andorra	77354	470
United States of America	331893745	9147420

I am new in Power BI and do not see a solution right now.

[ddpl]

@Anonymous 

There is one way in power query,

You can merge the table by either Country or Code or both as marked in above image,

Tick-marked the Fuzzy Matching option...

After that add range between 0.0 to 1.0 in Similarity threshold, which is basically how many percentage you want to match the selected columns.

In that box you have to try different figures to get maximum matching rows.

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Or you can fetch the data from public page like Wikipedia in which country names are same and you can proceed merging.

Hope this will work for you.

[Calebisgrade2-1]

Idk how to do it