Country/Region Strings

 

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Country and region strings can be combined with a language string to create a locale specification for the setlocale, _wsetlocale, _create_locale, and _wcreate_locale functions. For lists of country/region names that are supported by various Windows operating system versions, see the National Language Support (NLS) API Reference.In the lists, the country/region string can be any of the country values in the Locale – Language Country/Region column, or any of the abbreviations in the Country or Region name abbreviation column.

The C run-time library implementation also supports the following additional country/region strings and abbreviations:

Country/region string Abbreviation Equivalent locale name
america USA en-US
britain GBR en-GB
china CHN zh-CN
czech CZE cs-CZ
england GBR en-GB
great britain GBR en-GB
holland NLD nl-NL
hong-kong HKG zh-HK
new-zealand NZL en-NZ
nz NZL en-NZ
pr china CHN zh-CN
pr-china CHN zh-CN
puerto-rico PRI es-PR
slovak SVK sk-SK
south africa ZAF af-ZA
south korea KOR ko-KR
south-africa ZAF af-ZA
south-korea KOR ko-KR
trinidad & tobago TTO en-TT
uk GBR en-GB
united-kingdom GBR en-GB
united-states USA en-US
us USA en-US

See Also

Locale Names, Languages, and Country/Region Strings
Language Strings
setlocale, _wsetlocale
_create_locale, _wcreate_locale