How do you custom arragement of a dictionary by key in C#?

I have a dictionary 

Dictionary<string, string> myDict = new Dictionary<string, string>()
{
 { "country", "1" },
 { "state", "2" },
 { "name", "3" },
 { "type", "4" }
};

I want to arrage the dictionary elements in a specific order shown below

Dictionary<string, string> myDict = new Dictionary<string, string>()
{
  { "name", "3" },
  { "type", "4" },
  { "country", "1" },
  { "state", "2" }
};

Is it possible for dictionary type? I would appreciate it if you give a solution for that

Jon Skeet
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No, you can't rely on the order in a Dictionary. It's implementation-specific, and can change in unexpected ways.

In this case, it sounds like really you should have a custom type instead, with Country, State, Name and Type properties.

An alternative would be to have a separate list of well-known keys in the order you want - you can always iterate over that and fetch the appropriate key:

foreach (var key in keysInOrder)
{
    Console.WriteLine("{0}: {1}", key, dictionary[key]);
}

If you really really want an IDictionary<,> in a particular order, you could always implement it yourself, maintaining a key order as a list and a Dictionary<,> internally. But this feels like a design smell, to be honest.

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