Country/Region Strings
The new home for Visual Studio documentation is Visual Studio 2017 Documentation on docs.microsoft.com.
The latest version of this topic can be found at Country-Region Strings.
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