In [60]:
df['Country'].str.normalize('NFKD').str.encode('ascii', errors='ignore').str.decode('utf-8')
Out[60]:
0 Aland Islands
1 Aland Islands
2 Albania
3 Albania
4 Albania
Name: Country, dtype: object
df['Country'] = df['Country'].str.replace(u"Å", "A")
df['City'] = df['City'].str.replace(u"ë", "e")