diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2db1a978..bcad016c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "text-unidecode == 1.3",
     "click ~=8.1.8",
     "normality == 2.6.1",
-    "countrynames == 1.16.5",
+    "countrynames == 1.16.6",
     "fingerprints == 1.2.3",
     "pantomime == 0.6.1",
     "cryptography == 44.0.0",