# Country Facts – Driving Side

> Country Facts – Driving Side is a paid API for AI agents from country-facts.x402tookit.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).

Returns which side of the road a country drives on and identifies neighbouring countries that drive on the opposite side (switch borders).

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://country-facts.x402tookit.com/driving-side?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/country-facts-driving-side-56cade60
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_0nlLeXZbl8bd5AfR5ikRm

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability country-facts-driving-side-56cade60
```

Example prompt: Which side of the road does Thailand drive on, and does it share any borders with countries that drive on the opposite side?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you specifically need driving-side information for a country and want neighbour-level context about switch borders in a single call. It is more focused than the full country fact-sheet endpoint and cheaper if you only need road-side data. Prefer it for travel planning agents, road-trip route tools, or any workflow that needs to warn users about traffic-side switches at land borders.

## Known failure modes

- Unrecognised country code or name returns an error or empty result
- Ambiguous country name may resolve to unexpected country
- Neighbours with unknown driving-side data appear in unknownSideNeighbours array rather than classified lists
- Degraded flag set to true if data quality is uncertain
- Missing or malformed 'country' query parameter returns a validation error

## How this service works

Which side of the road a country drives on, and which neighbours drive on the other side (switch borders).

## Output

Returns the driving side ('left' or 'right') for the queried country, a boolean flag indicating whether it has any 'switch borders' (neighbours driving on the opposite side), arrays of neighbouring countries categorised as same-side, opposite-side, or unknown, plus country identifiers (name, alpha2, alpha3), a summary, source attribution, and an as-of timestamp.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "country"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "country": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "ISO code or English name, e.g. Thailand"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "asOf": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "source": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "country": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "object"
       ],
       "properties": {
        "name": {
         "type": [
          "null",
          "string"
         ]
        },
        "alpha2": {
         "type": [
          "null",
          "string"
         ]
        },
        "alpha3": {
         "type": [
          "null",
          "string"
         ]
        }
       }
      },
      "reasons": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "summary": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "verdict": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "degraded": {
       "type": [
        "boolean",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "disclaimer": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "notChecked": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ],
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      },
      "drivingSide": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "hasSwitchBorder": {
       "type": [
        "boolean",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "sameSideNeighbours": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ],
       "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
         "name": {
          "type": [
           "null",
           "string"
          ]
         },
         "alpha2": {
          "type": [
     
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```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/country-facts-driving-side-56cade60/health.json
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