Hide the Country option in cart page

Question

in cart page, you can see there is an option to find shipping charges by entering the zip code.

we removed "State" field, so its displaying like this now :

you can see country * "India".

I want to hide this. i done this by commented the related code in

 app/design/frontend/base/default/template/checkout/cart/shipping.phtml
<!--
    <label for="country"><em>*</em><?php echo $this->__('Country') ?></label>
    <div class="input-box">
    <?php echo Mage::getBlockSingleton('directory/data')->getCountryHtmlSelect($this->getEstimateCountryId()) ?>
    </div>
-->

now , its not calculating shipping charges when i entered zip code.

what is the correct procedure to hide & why shipping charges are not calculating when i hide the "country".

also its not displaying the message "Shipping is available or not"

ex: you can check here in cart page by adding this item to cart link

Answer 1

don't comment hide by adding the div. this will work for you..

<div style="display:none"><label for="country"><em>*</em><?php echo $this->__('Country') ?></label>
    <div class="input-box">
    <?php echo Mage::getBlockSingleton('directory/data')->getCountryHtmlSelect($this->getEstimateCountryId()) ?>
    </div></div>