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Standardised Language Region Codes

25 January 2025

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