List of .Net Culture and Country Codes

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.

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1. JA

   On Thursday 18th of February 2021, Jaime said

   Nice and helpfull. Thank you :)

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. SE

   On Tuesday 29th of March 2016, Seb said

   Something that'd be nice too is the dialing code for each country :)

7. 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?

8. 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.

9. SP

   On Thursday 7th of May 2015, Stan Pitcher said

   What about Myanmar?

10. 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 ?

11. 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 ?

12. 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.

13. 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:

       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;
         }
       
       }

       Hope that helps
       Tim

14. JB

    On Tuesday 2nd of July 2013, JB said

    Hi,

    very nice List, do you have this as a SQL File?

    Thank you

    JB

    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