Standardised Language Region Codes

The hreflang attribute in HTML is used to specify the language and optional region for a webpage, enabling search engines to serve the most appropriate version of a webpage to users based on their language and location.

Below is a comprehensive list of standardised region codes commonly used with the hreflang attribute. These region codes adhere to the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard for country codes, which are appended to language codes (e.g., en-US for English in the United States).

These codes can be combined with language codes (ISO 639-1) to create hreflang values such as en-GB (English for the UK), fr-FR (French for France), or es-MX (Spanish for Mexico).

Standardised Region Codes (ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2)

Africa

• DZ: Algeria
• AO: Angola
• BJ: Benin
• BW: Botswana
• BF: Burkina Faso
• BI: Burundi
• CM: Cameroon
• CV: Cape Verde
• CF: Central African Republic
• TD: Chad
• KM: Comoros
• CG: Congo (Brazzaville)
• CD: Congo (Kinshasa)
• CI: Côte d’Ivoire
• DJ: Djibouti
• EG: Egypt
• GQ: Equatorial Guinea
• ER: Eritrea
• SZ: Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)
• ET: Ethiopia
• GA: Gabon
• GM: Gambia
• GH: Ghana
• GN: Guinea
• GW: Guinea-Bissau
• KE: Kenya
• LS: Lesotho
• LR: Liberia
• LY: Libya
• MG: Madagascar
• MW: Malawi
• ML: Mali
• MR: Mauritania
• MU: Mauritius
• MA: Morocco
• MZ: Mozambique
• NA: Namibia
• NE: Niger
• NG: Nigeria
• RW: Rwanda
• ST: São Tomé and Príncipe
• SN: Senegal
• SC: Seychelles
• SL: Sierra Leone
• SO: Somalia
• ZA: South Africa
• SS: South Sudan
• SD: Sudan
• TZ: Tanzania
• TG: Togo
• TN: Tunisia
• UG: Uganda
• ZM: Zambia
• ZW: Zimbabwe

Americas

• AI: Anguilla
• AG: Antigua and Barbuda
• AR: Argentina
• AW: Aruba
• BS: Bahamas
• BB: Barbados
• BZ: Belize
• BM: Bermuda
• BO: Bolivia
• BR: Brazil
• VG: British Virgin Islands
• CA: Canada
• KY: Cayman Islands
• CL: Chile
• CO: Colombia
• CR: Costa Rica
• CU: Cuba
• DM: Dominica
• DO: Dominican Republic
• EC: Ecuador
• SV: El Salvador
• GD: Grenada
• GT: Guatemala
• GY: Guyana
• HT: Haiti
• HN: Honduras
• JM: Jamaica
• MX: Mexico
• NI: Nicaragua
• PA: Panama
• PY: Paraguay
• PE: Peru
• PR: Puerto Rico
• KN: Saint Kitts and Nevis
• LC: Saint Lucia
• VC: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• SR: Suriname
• TT: Trinidad and Tobago
• TC: Turks and Caicos Islands
• US: United States
• UY: Uruguay
• VE: Venezuela

Asia

• AF: Afghanistan
• AM: Armenia
• AZ: Azerbaijan
• BH: Bahrain
• BD: Bangladesh
• BT: Bhutan
• BN: Brunei
• KH: Cambodia
• CN: China
• CY: Cyprus
• GE: Georgia
• IN: India
• ID: Indonesia
• IR: Iran
• IQ: Iraq
• IL: Israel
• JP: Japan
• JO: Jordan
• KZ: Kazakhstan
• KW: Kuwait
• KG: Kyrgyzstan
• LA: Laos
• LB: Lebanon
• MY: Malaysia
• MV: Maldives
• MN: Mongolia
• MM: Myanmar (Burma)
• NP: Nepal
• OM: Oman
• PK: Pakistan
• PH: Philippines
• QA: Qatar
• SA: Saudi Arabia
• SG: Singapore
• KR: South Korea
• LK: Sri Lanka
• SY: Syria
• TW: Taiwan
• TJ: Tajikistan
• TH: Thailand
• TL: Timor-Leste
• TR: Turkey
• TM: Turkmenistan
• AE: United Arab Emirates
• UZ: Uzbekistan
• VN: Vietnam
• YE: Yemen

Europe

• AL: Albania
• AD: Andorra
• AT: Austria
• BY: Belarus
• BE: Belgium
• BA: Bosnia and Herzegovina
• BG: Bulgaria
• HR: Croatia
• CY: Cyprus
• CZ: Czech Republic
• DK: Denmark
• EE: Estonia
• FI: Finland
• FR: France
• DE: Germany
• GR: Greece
• HU: Hungary
• IS: Iceland
• IE: Ireland
• IT: Italy
• LV: Latvia
• LI: Liechtenstein
• LT: Lithuania
• LU: Luxembourg
• MT: Malta
• MD: Moldova
• MC: Monaco
• ME: Montenegro
• NL: Netherlands
• MK: North Macedonia
• NO: Norway
• PL: Poland
• PT: Portugal
• RO: Romania
• RU: Russia
• SM: San Marino
• RS: Serbia
• SK: Slovakia
• SI: Slovenia
• ES: Spain
• SE: Sweden
• CH: Switzerland
• UA: Ukraine
• GB: United Kingdom (UK)
• VA: Vatican City

Oceania

• AS: American Samoa
• AU: Australia
• CK: Cook Islands
• FJ: Fiji
• PF: French Polynesia
• GU: Guam
• KI: Kiribati
• MH: Marshall Islands
• FM: Micronesia
• NR: Nauru
• NC: New Caledonia
• NZ: New Zealand
• PW: Palau
• PG: Papua New Guinea
• WS: Samoa
• SB: Solomon Islands
• TO: Tonga
• TV: Tuvalu
• VU: Vanuatu

Antarctica

• AQ: Antarctica
• BV: Bouvet Island
• GS: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
• HM: Heard Island and McDonald Islands