import { type PhoneCountry } from './phoneCountries';
/** A country and the name this locale gives it — what a row draws. */
export interface NamedCountry {
    country: PhoneCountry;
    name: string;
}
/** One initial's worth of the list, under the heading that names it. */
export interface CountrySection {
    /** The heading, and the label the index rail scrubs to. */
    key: string;
    data: NamedCountry[];
}
/** Heads everything no letter does — digits, punctuation — and reads last. */
export declare const OTHER_SECTION_KEY = "#";
/**
 * The countries as the design groups them (2184:14277): named in the reading
 * locale, ordered by that locale's collation, and cut into sections at the
 * initial.
 *
 * Grouped on the *localised* name rather than the table's English, so a
 * Japanese reader's 日本 is not filed under J, and sorted by a collator rather
 * than by code unit, so Åland lands beside Albania instead of past Zimbabwe.
 */
export declare function countrySections(countries: readonly PhoneCountry[], locale: string): CountrySection[];
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