How to loop through a HashMap in JSP?

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Just the same way as you would do in normal Java code.

for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : countries.entrySet()) {
    String key = entry.getKey();
    String value = entry.getValue();
    // ...
}

However, scriptlets (raw Java code in JSP files, those <% %> things) are considered a poor practice. I recommend to install JSTL (just drop the JAR file in /WEB-INF/lib and declare the needed taglibs in top of JSP). It has a <c:forEach> tag which can iterate over among others Maps. Every iteration will give you a Map.Entry back which in turn has getKey() and getValue() methods.

Here’s a basic example:

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>

<c:forEach items="${map}" var="entry">
    Key = ${entry.key}, value = ${entry.value}<br>
</c:forEach>

Thus your particular issue can be solved as follows:

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>

<select name="country">
    <c:forEach items="${countries}" var="country">
        <option value="${country.key}">${country.value}</option>
    </c:forEach>
</select>

You need a Servlet or a ServletContextListener to place the ${countries} in the desired scope. If this list is supposed to be request-based, then use the Servlet‘s doGet():

protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
    Map<String, String> countries = MainUtils.getCountries();
    request.setAttribute("countries", countries);
    request.getRequestDispatcher("/WEB-INF/page.jsp").forward(request, response);
}

Or if this list is supposed to be an application-wide constant, then use ServletContextListener‘s contextInitialized() so that it will be loaded only once and kept in memory:

public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent event) {
    Map<String, String> countries = MainUtils.getCountries();
    event.getServletContext().setAttribute("countries", countries);
}

In both cases the countries will be available in EL by ${countries}.

Hope this helps.

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