diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 2da5aab..f8cf83e 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -2455,14 +2455,14 @@ files = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pycountry"
-version = "24.6.1"
+version = "26.2.16"
 description = "ISO country, subdivision, language, currency and script definitions and their translations"
 optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.8"
+python-versions = ">=3.10"
 groups = ["main"]
 files = [
-    {file = "pycountry-24.6.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:f1a4fb391cd7214f8eefd39556d740adcc233c778a27f8942c8dca351d6ce06f"},
-    {file = "pycountry-24.6.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:b61b3faccea67f87d10c1f2b0fc0be714409e8fcdcc1315613174f6466c10221"},
+    {file = "pycountry-26.2.16-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:115c4baf7cceaa30f59a4694d79483c9167dbce7a9de4d3d571c5f3ea77c305a"},
+    {file = "pycountry-26.2.16.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:5b6027d453fcd6060112b951dd010f01f168b51b4bf8a1f1fc8c95c8d94a0801"},
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -3651,4 +3651,4 @@ propcache = ">=0.2.1"
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.1"
 python-versions = "^3.10"
-content-hash = "9aebf9e26d7bc39efeb4ff199a90199112954ca3face15b1813041cf9a88490e"
+content-hash = "03f87067408388e4b3711103d76d43964a168458c8eef4cd07ce8bc2e845b282"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3e800ce..6fe59b3 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ lxml = ">=5.3,<7.0"
 MarkupSafe = "^3.0.2"
 mock = "^5.1.0"
 multidict = "^6.6.3"
-pycountry = "^24.6.1"
+pycountry = ">=24.6.1,<27.0.0"
 PyPDF2 = "^3.0.1"
 PySocks = "^1.7.1"
 python-bidi = "^0.6.3"