List of .Net Supported Culture and Country Codes

Last Updated January 8, 2019 by Tim Trott. First Published in 2010.

A comprehensive list of ISO .net supported culture and country codes used for localising .Net applications with the CultureInfo class.

A comprehensive list of ISO .net culture codes and country codes used for localising .Net applications in conjunction with the CultureInfo class. Culture codes are also used throughout the Windows operating system for defining regional settings.

The CultureInfo class specifies a unique name for each culture, based on RFC 4646 (Windows Vista and later). The name is a combination of an ISO 639 two-letter lowercase culture code associated with a language and an ISO 3166 two-letter uppercase subculture code associated with a country or region.

Country	Two Letter Country Code	Three Letter Country Code	Language	Two Letter Lang Code	Three Letter Lang Code	CultureInfo Code
Afghanistan	AF	AFG	Pashto	ps	pus	ps-AF
Afghanistan	AF	AFG	Dari	prs	prs	prs-AF
Albania	AL	ALB	Albanian	sq	sqi	sq-AL
Algeria	DZ	DZA	Arabic	ar	ara	ar-DZ
Argentina	AR	ARG	Spanish	es	spa	es-AR
Armenia	AM	ARM	Armenian	hy	hye	hy-AM
Australia	AU	AUS	English	en	eng	en-AU
Austria	AT	AUT	German	de	deu	de-AT
Bahrain	BH	BHR	Arabic	ar	ara	ar-BH
Bangladesh	BD	BGD	Bengali	bn	bng	bn-BD
Basque	ES	ESP	Basque	eu	eus	eu-ES
Belarus	BY	BLR	Belarusian	be	bel	be-BY
Belgium	BE	BEL	French	fr	fra	fr-BE
Belgium	BE	BEL	Dutch	nl	nld	nl-BE
Belize	BZ	BLZ	English	en	eng	en-BZ
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela	VE	VEN	Spanish	es	spa	es-VE
Bolivia	BO	BOL	Quechua	quz	qub	quz-BO
Bolivia	BO	BOL	Spanish	es	spa	es-BO
Brazil	BR	BRA	Portuguese	pt	por	pt-BR
Brunei Darussalam	BN	BRN	Malay	ms	msa	ms-BN
Bulgaria	BG	BGR	Bulgarian	bg	bul	bg-BG
Cambodia	KH	KHM	Khmer	km	khm	km-KH
Canada	CA	CAN	French	fr	fra	fr-CA
Canada	CA	CAN	English	en	eng	en-CA
Caribbean	29	29	English	en	eng	en-029
Catalan	ES	ESP	Catalan	ca	cat	ca-ES
Chile	CL	CHL	Mapudungun	arn	arn	arn-CL
Chile	CL	CHL	Spanish	es	spa	es-CL
Colombia	CO	COL	Spanish	es	spa	es-CO
Costa Rica	CR	CRI	Spanish	es	spa	es-CR
Croatia	HR	HRV	Croatian	hr	hrv	hr-HR
Cyrillic, Azerbaijan	AZ	AZE	Azeri	az	aze	az-Cyrl-AZ
Cyrillic, Bosnia and Herzegovina	BA	BIH	Serbian	sr	srn	sr-Cyrl-BA
Cyrillic, Bosnia and Herzegovina	BA	BIH	Bosnian	bs	bsc	bs-Cyrl-BA
Cyrillic, Mongolia	MN	MNG	Mongolian	mn	mon	mn-MN
Cyrillic, Montenegro	ME	MNE	Serbian	sr	srp	sr-Cyrl-ME
Cyrillic, Serbia	RS	SRB	Serbian	sr	srp	sr-Cyrl-RS
Cyrillic, Serbia and Montenegro (Former	CS	SCG	Serbian )	sr	srp	sr-Cyrl-CS
Cyrillic, Tajikistan	TJ	TAJ	Tajik	tg	tgk	tg-Cyrl-TJ
Cyrillic, Uzbekistan	UZ	UZB	Uzbek	uz	uzb	uz-Cyrl-UZ
Czech Republic	CZ	CZE	Czech	cs	ces	cs-CZ
Denmark	DK	DNK	Danish	da	dan	da-DK
Dominican Republic	DO	DOM	Spanish	es	spa	es-DO
Ecuador	EC	ECU	Quechua	quz	que	quz-EC
Ecuador	EC	ECU	Spanish	es	spa	es-EC
Egypt	EG	EGY	Arabic	ar	ara	ar-EG
El Salvador	SV	SLV	Spanish	es	spa	es-SV
Estonia	EE	EST	Estonian	et	est	et-EE
Ethiopia	ET	ETH	Amharic	am	amh	am-ET
Faroe Islands	FO	FRO	Faroese	fo	fao	fo-FO
Finland	FI	FIN	Finnish	fi	fin	fi-FI
Finland	FI	FIN	Swedish	sv	swe	sv-FI
Finland	FI	FIN	Sami, Northern	se	smg	se-FI
Finland	FI	FIN	Sami, Skolt	sms	sms	sms-FI
Finland	FI	FIN	Sami, Inari	smn	smn	smn-FI
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	MK	MKD	Macedonian	mk	mkd	mk-MK
France	FR	FRA	French	fr	fra	fr-FR
France	FR	FRA	Breton	br	bre	br-FR
France	FR	FRA	Occitan	oc	oci	oc-FR
France	FR	FRA	Corsican	co	cos	co-FR
France	FR	FRA	Alsatian	gsw	gsw	gsw-FR
Galician	ES	ESP	Galician	gl	glg	gl-ES
Georgia	GE	GEO	Georgian	ka	kat	ka-GE
Germany	DE	DEU	German	de	deu	de-DE
Germany	DE	DEU	Upper Sorbian	hsb	hsb	hsb-DE
Germany	DE	DEU	Lower Sorbian	dsb	dsb	dsb-DE
Greece	GR	GRC	Greek	el	ell	el-GR
Greenland	GL	GRL	Greenlandic	kl	kal	kl-GL
Guatemala	GT	GTM	K'iche	qut	qut	qut-GT
Guatemala	GT	GTM	Spanish	es	spa	es-GT
Honduras	HN	HND	Spanish	es	spa	es-HN
Hungary	HU	HUN	Hungarian	hu	hun	hu-HU
Iceland	IS	ISL	Icelandic	is	isl	is-IS
India	IN	IND	Hindi	hi	hin	hi-IN
India	IN	IND	Bengali	bn	bng	bn-IN
India	IN	IND	Punjabi	pa	pan	pa-IN
India	IN	IND	Gujarati	gu	guj	gu-IN
India	IN	IND	Oriya	or	ori	or-IN
India	IN	IND	Tamil	ta	tam	ta-IN
India	IN	IND	Telugu	te	tel	te-IN
India	IN	IND	Kannada	kn	kan	kn-IN
India	IN	IND	Malayalam	ml	mym	ml-IN
India	IN	IND	Assamese	as	asm	as-IN
India	IN	IND	Marathi	mr	mar	mr-IN
India	IN	IND	Sanskrit	sa	san	sa-IN
India	IN	IND	Konkani	kok	kok	kok-IN
India	IN	IND	English	en	eng	en-IN
Indonesia	ID	IDN	Indonesian	id	ind	id-ID
Iran	IR	IRN	Persian	fa	fas	fa-IR
Iraq	IQ	IRQ	Arabic	ar	ara	ar-IQ
Ireland	IE	IRL	Irish	ga	gle	ga-IE
Ireland	IE	IRL	English	en	eng	en-IE
Islamic Republic of Pakistan	PK	PAK	Urdu	ur	urd	ur-PK
Israel	IL	ISR	Hebrew	he	heb	he-IL
Italy	IT	ITA	Italian	it	ita	it-IT
Jamaica	JM	JAM	English	en	eng	en-JM
Japan	JP	JPN	Japanese	ja	jpn	ja-JP
Jordan	JO	JOR	Arabic	ar	ara	ar-JO
Kazakhstan	KZ	KAZ	Kazakh	kk	kaz	kk-KZ
Kenya	KE	KEN	Kiswahili	sw	swa	sw-KE
Korea	KR	KOR	Korean	ko	kor	ko-KR
Kuwait	KW	KWT	Arabic	ar	ara	ar-KW
Kyrgyzstan	KG	KGZ	Kyrgyz	ky	kir	ky-KG
Lao P.D.R.	LA	LAO	Lao	lo	lao	lo-LA
Latin, Algeria	DZ	DZA	Tamazight	tzm	tzm	tzm-Latn-DZ
Latin, Azerbaijan	AZ	AZE	Azeri	az	aze	az-Latn-AZ
Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina	BA	BIH	Croatian	hr	hrb	hr-BA
Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina	BA	BIH	Bosnian	bs	bsb	bs-Latn-BA
Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina	BA	BIH	Serbian	sr	srs	sr-Latn-BA
Latin, Canada	CA	CAN	Inuktitut	iu	iku	iu-Latn-CA
Latin, Montenegro	ME	MNE	Serbian	sr	srp	sr-Latn-ME
Latin, Nigeria	NG	NGA	Hausa	ha	hau	ha-Latn-NG
Latin, Serbia	RS	SRB	Serbian	sr	srp	sr-Latn-RS
Latin, Serbia and Montenegro (Former	CS	SCG	Serbian )	sr	srp	sr-Latn-CS
Latin, Uzbekistan	UZ	UZB	Uzbek	uz	uzb	uz-Latn-UZ
Latvia	LV	LVA	Latvian	lv	lav	lv-LV
Lebanon	LB	LBN	Arabic	ar	ara	ar-LB
Libya	LY	LBY	Arabic	ar	ara	ar-LY
Liechtenstein	LI	LIE	German	de	deu	de-LI
Lithuania	LT	LTU	Lithuanian	lt	lit	lt-LT
Luxembourg	LU	LUX	Luxembourgish	lb	ltz	lb-LU
Luxembourg	LU	LUX	German	de	deu	de-LU
Luxembourg	LU	LUX	French	fr	fra	fr-LU

Country	Two Letter Country Code	Three Letter Country Code	Language	Two Letter Lang Code	Three Letter Lang Code	CultureInfo Code
Malaysia	MY	MYS	Malay	ms	msa	ms-MY
Malaysia	MY	MYS	English	en	eng	en-MY
Maldives	MV	MDV	Divehi	dv	div	dv-MV
Malta	MT	MLT	Maltese	mt	mlt	mt-MT
Mexico	MX	MEX	Spanish	es	spa	es-MX
Mohawk	CA	CAN	Mohawk	moh	moh	moh-CA
Monaco	MC	MCO	French	fr	fra	fr-MC
Morocco	MA	MAR	Arabic	ar	ara	ar-MA
Nepal	NP	NPL	Nepali	ne	nep	ne-NP
Netherlands	NL	NLD	Dutch	nl	nld	nl-NL
Netherlands	NL	NLD	Frisian	fy	fry	fy-NL
New Zealand	NZ	NZL	Maori	mi	mri	mi-NZ
New Zealand	NZ	NZL	English	en	eng	en-NZ
Nicaragua	NI	NIC	Spanish	es	spa	es-NI
Nigeria	NG	NGA	Yoruba	yo	yor	yo-NG
Nigeria	NG	NGA	Igbo	ig	ibo	ig-NG
Norway	NO	NOR	Norwegian, BokmÃ¥l	nb	nob	nb-NO
Norway	NO	NOR	Sami, Northern	se	sme	se-NO
Norway	NO	NOR	Norwegian, Nynorsk	nn	nno	nn-NO
Norway	NO	NOR	Sami, Lule	smj	smj	smj-NO
Norway	NO	NOR	Sami, Southern	sma	sma	sma-NO
Oman	OM	OMN	Arabic	ar	ara	ar-OM
Panama	PA	PAN	Spanish	es	spa	es-PA
Paraguay	PY	PRY	Spanish	es	spa	es-PY
Peru	PE	PER	Quechua	quz	qup	quz-PE
Peru	PE	PER	Spanish	es	spa	es-PE
Philippines	PH	PHL	Filipino	fil	fil	fil-PH
Poland	PL	POL	Polish	pl	pol	pl-PL
Portugal	PT	PRT	Portuguese	pt	por	pt-PT
PRC	CN	CHN	Tibetan	bo	bod	bo-CN
PRC	CN	CHN	Yi	ii	iii	ii-CN
PRC	CN	CHN	Uyghur	ug	uig	ug-CN
Puerto Rico	PR	PRI	Spanish	es	spa	es-PR
Qatar	QA	QAT	Arabic	ar	ara	ar-QA
Republic of the Philippines	PH	PHL	English	en	eng	en-PH
Romania	RO	ROU	Romanian	ro	ron	ro-RO
Russia	RU	RUS	Russian	ru	rus	ru-RU
Russia	RU	RUS	Tatar	tt	tat	tt-RU
Russia	RU	RUS	Bashkir	ba	bak	ba-RU
Russia	RU	RUS	Yakut	sah	sah	sah-RU
Rwanda	RW	RWA	Kinyarwanda	rw	kin	rw-RW
Saudi Arabia	SA	SAU	Arabic	ar	ara	ar-SA
Senegal	SN	SEN	Wolof	wo	wol	wo-SN
Simplified, PRC	CN	CHN	Chinese	zh	zho	zh-CN
Simplified, Singapore	SG	SGP	Chinese	zh	zho	zh-SG
Singapore	SG	SGP	English	en	eng	en-SG
Slovakia	SK	SVK	Slovak	sk	slk	sk-SK
Slovenia	SI	SVN	Slovenian	sl	slv	sl-SI
South Africa	ZA	ZAF	Setswana	tn	tsn	tn-ZA
South Africa	ZA	ZAF	isiXhosa	xh	xho	xh-ZA
South Africa	ZA	ZAF	isiZulu	zu	zul	zu-ZA
South Africa	ZA	ZAF	Afrikaans	af	afr	af-ZA
South Africa	ZA	ZAF	Sesotho sa Leboa	nso	nso	nso-ZA
South Africa	ZA	ZAF	English	en	eng	en-ZA
Spain, International Sort	ES	ESP	Spanish	es	spa	es-ES
Sri Lanka	LK	LKA	Sinhala	si	sin	si-LK
Sweden	SE	SWE	Swedish	sv	swe	sv-SE
Sweden	SE	SWE	Sami, Northern	se	smf	se-SE
Sweden	SE	SWE	Sami, Lule	smj	smk	smj-SE
Sweden	SE	SWE	Sami, Southern	sma	smb	sma-SE
Switzerland	CH	CHE	Romansh	rm	roh	rm-CH
Switzerland	CH	CHE	German	de	deu	de-CH
Switzerland	CH	CHE	Italian	it	ita	it-CH
Switzerland	CH	CHE	French	fr	fra	fr-CH
Syllabics, Canada	CA	CAN	Inuktitut	iu	iku	iu-Cans-CA
Syria	SY	SYR	Syriac	syr	syr	syr-SY
Syria	SY	SYR	Arabic	ar	ara	ar-SY
Thailand	TH	THA	Thai	th	tha	th-TH
Traditional Mongolian, PRC	CN	CHN	Mongolian	mn	mon	mn-Mong-CN
Traditional, Hong Kong S.A.R.	HK	HKG	Chinese	zh	zho	zh-HK
Traditional, Macao S.A.R.	MO	MAC	Chinese	zh	zho	zh-MO
Traditional, Taiwan	TW	TWN	Chinese	zh	zho	zh-TW
Trinidad and Tobago	TT	TTO	English	en	eng	en-TT
Tunisia	TN	TUN	Arabic	ar	ara	ar-TN
Turkey	TR	TUR	Turkish	tr	tur	tr-TR
Turkmenistan	TM	TKM	Turkmen	tk	tuk	tk-TM
U.A.E.	AE	ARE	Arabic	ar	ara	ar-AE
Ukraine	UA	UKR	Ukrainian	uk	ukr	uk-UA
United Kingdom	GB	GBR	Welsh	cy	cym	cy-GB
United Kingdom	GB	GBR	Scottish Gaelic	gd	gla	gd-GB
United Kingdom	GB	GBR	English	en	eng	en-GB
United States	US	USA	English	en	eng	en-US
United States	US	USA	Spanish	es	spa	es-US
Uruguay	UY	URY	Spanish	es	spa	es-UY
Vietnam	VN	VNM	Vietnamese	vi	vie	vi-VN
Yemen	YE	YEM	Arabic	ar	ara	ar-YE
Zimbabwe	ZW	ZWE	English	en	eng	en-ZW

Comments

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JA
On Thursday 18th of February 2021, Jaime said
Nice and helpfull. Thank you :)
MU
On Saturday 7th of December 2019, Mus said
Why there is no option for kudish language, where 40 milion speak in that language and is an official language in Iraq?
1. MI
  On Wednesday 18th of November 2020, Mithrandir replied
  Because "Kudish" is not a language genius. ;) #victimolympics
JW
On Thursday 8th of August 2019, Jeremy Wiersma said
Hi Tim, Love this post, nice clear list of the info needed, thank you. How often is this information updated, if at all? Cheers, Jeremy
WM
On Tuesday 15th of May 2018, Wesley Miriye said
Can you all the culture for Papua New Guinea? I am developer in Papua new Guinea and do not want to re-invent the wheel. If there is a culture for this country, can you add to the list? Thanks.
MI
On Wednesday 11th of May 2016, michael said
The iso country codes are all lower case. I think its important that that is reflected in the table.
SE
On Tuesday 29th of March 2016, Seb said
Something that'd be nice too is the dialing code for each country :)
MW
On Thursday 18th of February 2016, Mike Wieland said
There is no CANADA in my win 7 country list. How can i acces that?
CH
On Friday 12th of February 2016, chekdar said
Whey dont have for KÜRD? or Kurdish any culture info
1. On Sunday 14th of February 2016, Lonewolf Online Post Author replied
  Kirdish does not seem to be supported in .Net framework from what I can see.CultureInfo and country codes are OS dependant, so to find if it is supported on your version of OS you can try the code snippet in one of the previous comments where I provide the method for listing Culture Codes and Country Codes.
SP
On Thursday 7th of May 2015, Stan Pitcher said
What about Myanmar?
HA
On Saturday 28th of March 2015, Hasan said
Hello Tim, I think .net does not support for Burmese Culture (Myanmar) yet. How can i make it supported ?
DA
On Wednesday 7th of January 2015, Daniel said
What is a good strategy if you deal with a country that is NOT on this list? Ex - Liberia, Sierra Leone, etc ?
PE
On Tuesday 31st of December 2013, Pedram said
Hi, this is a good list but where is IRAN code? Do you have prejudice about nationalities ???
1. On Monday 6th of January 2014, Lonewolf Online Post Author replied
  No not at all, it was just a typo which put Iran at the bottom of the list when sorted. It is now corrected.
SA
On Tuesday 23rd of July 2013, salamon said
how can I do it through coding to get the list of culture info available.
1. On Tuesday 30th of July 2013, Lonewolf Online Post Author replied
  This is what I used:[code lang="csharp"]CultureInfo[] cinfo = CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.AllCultures & ~CultureTypes.NeutralCultures);foreach (CultureInfo cul in cinfo) { RegionInfo ri = null;try { ri = new RegionInfo(cul.Name);string TwoLetterISORegionName = ri.TwoLetterISORegionName; string ThreeLetterISORegionName = ri.ThreeLetterISORegionName; string TwoLetterISOLanguageName = cul.TwoLetterISOLanguageName; string ThreeLetterISOLanguageName = cul.ThreeLetterISOLanguageName; string RegionName = cul.Name; } catch { continue; } }[/code]Hope that helps Tim
JB
On Tuesday 2nd of July 2013, JB said
Hi,very nice List, do you have this as a SQL File?Thank youJB
1. On Tuesday 2nd of July 2013, Lonewolf Online Post Author replied
  I don't have this in a SQL file, but you can easily copy the table to Excel and import it through SQL Server Management Studio.Hope that helps Tim