.NET culture names

Wed, Jul 4, 2007 3-minute read

I have searched the web a lot of times in need of a culture name for a specific language and culture, but I have never been able to find a complete list on the net.
I have compiled a list, and here it is for my own, and hopefully other people's use.

Language/countryCulture name
Afrikaans (South Africa) af-ZA
Albanian (Albania) sq-AL
Arabic (Algeria) ar-DZ
Arabic (Bahrain) ar-BH
Arabic (Egypt) ar-EG
Arabic (Iraq) ar-IQ
Arabic (Jordan) ar-JO
Arabic (Kuwait) ar-KW
Arabic (Lebanon) ar-LB
Arabic (Libya) ar-LY
Arabic (Morocco) ar-MA
Arabic (Oman) ar-OM
Arabic (Qatar) ar-QA
Arabic (Saudi Arabia) ar-SA
Arabic (Syria) ar-SY
Arabic (Tunisia) ar-TN
Arabic (U.A.E.) ar-AE
Arabic (Yemen) ar-YE
Armenian (Armenia) hy-AM
Azeri (Cyrillic, Azerbaijan) az-AZ-Cyrl
Azeri (Latin, Azerbaijan) az-AZ-Latn
Basque (Basque) eu-ES
Belarusian (Belarus) be-BY
Bosnian (Cyrillic, Bosnia and Herzegovina) bs-BA-Cyrl
Bosnian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina) bs-BA-Latn
Bulgarian (Bulgaria) bg-BG
Catalan (Catalan) ca-ES
Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.) zh-HK
Chinese (Macao S.A.R.) zh-MO
Chinese (People's Republic of China) zh-CN
Chinese (Singapore) zh-SG
Chinese (Taiwan) zh-TW
Croatian (Bosnia and Herzegovina) hr-BA
Croatian (Croatia) hr-HR
Czech (Czech Republic) cs-CZ
Danish (Denmark) da-DK
Divehi (Maldives) div-MV
Dutch (Belgium) nl-BE
Dutch (Netherlands) nl-NL
English (Australia) en-AU
English (Belize) en-BZ
English (Canada) en-CA
English (Caribbean) en-CB
English (Ireland) en-IE
English (Jamaica) en-JM
English (New Zealand) en-NZ
English (Republic of the Philippines) en-PH
English (South Africa) en-ZA
English (Trinidad and Tobago) en-TT
English (United Kingdom) en-GB
English (United States) en-US
English (Zimbabwe) en-ZW
Estonian (Estonia) et-EE
Faroese (Faroe Islands) fo-FO
Filipino (Philippines) fil-PH
Finnish (Finland) fi-FI
French (Belgium) fr-BE
French (Canada) fr-CA
French (France) fr-FR
French (Luxembourg) fr-LU
French (Principality of Monaco) fr-MC
French (Switzerland) fr-CH
Frisian (Netherlands) fy-NL
Galician (Galician) gl-ES
Georgian (Georgia) ka-GE
German (Austria) de-AT
German (Germany) de-DE
German (Liechtenstein) de-LI
German (Luxembourg) de-LU
German (Switzerland) de-CH
Greek (Greece) el-GR
Gujarati (India) gu-IN
Hebrew (Israel) he-IL
Hindi (India) hi-IN
Hungarian (Hungary) hu-HU
Icelandic (Iceland) is-IS
Indonesian (Indonesia) id-ID
Inuktitut (Latin, Canada) iu-CA-Latn
Irish (Ireland) ga-IE
Italian (Italy) it-IT
Italian (Switzerland) it-CH
Japanese (Japan) ja-JP
Kannada (India) kn-IN
Kazakh (Kazakhstan) kk-KZ
Kiswahili (Kenya) sw-KE
Konkani (India) kok-IN
Korean (Korea) ko-KR
Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan) ky-KG
Latvian (Latvia) lv-LV
Lithuanian (Lithuania) lt-LT
Luxembourgish (Luxembourg) lb-LU
Macedonian (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) mk-M K
Malay (Brunei Darussalam) ms-BN
Malay (Malaysia) ms-MY
Maltese mt-MT
Maori mi-NZ
Mapudungun (Chile) arn-CL
Marathi (India) mr-IN
Mohawk (Mohawk) moh-CA
Mongolian (Cyrillic, Mongolia) mn-MN
Norwegian, Bokmål (Norway) nb-NO
Norwegian, Nynorsk (Norway) nn-NO
Persian (Iran) fa-IR
Polish (Poland) pl-PL
Portuguese (Brazil) pt-BR
Portuguese (Portugal) pt-PT
Punjabi (India) pa-IN
Quechua (Bolivia) quz-BO
Quechua (Ecuador) quz-EC
Quechua (Peru) quz-PE
Romanian (Romania) ro-RO
Romansh (Switzerland) rm-CH
Russian (Russia) ru-RU
Sami, Inari (Finland) smn-FI
Sami, Lule (Norway) smj-NO
Sami, Lule (Sweden) smj-SE
Sami, Northern (Finland) se-FI
Sami, Northern (Norway) se-NO
Sami, Northern (Sweden) se-SE
Sami, Skolt (Finland) sms-FI
Sami, Southern (Norway) sma-NO
Sami, Southern (Sweden) sma-SE
Sanskrit (India) sa-IN
Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia and Herzegovina) sr-BA-Cyrl
Serbian (Cyrillic, Serbia and Montenegro) sr-SP-Cyrl
Serbian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina) sr-BA-Latn
Serbian (Latin, Serbia and Montenegro) sr-SP-Latn
Sesotho sa Leboa (South Africa) ns-ZA
Setswana (South Africa) tn-ZA
Slovak (Slovakia) sk-SK
Slovenian (Slovenia) sl-SI
Spanish (Argentina) es-AR
Spanish (Bolivia) es-BO
Spanish (Chile) es-CL
Spanish (Colombia) es-CO
Spanish (Costa Rica) es-CR
Spanish (Dominican Republic) es-DO
Spanish (Ecuador) es-EC
Spanish (El Salvador) es-SV
Spanish (Guatemala) es-GT
Spanish (Honduras) es-HN
Spanish (Mexico) es-MX
Spanish (Nicaragua) es-NI
Spanish (Panama) es-PA
Spanish (Paraguay) es-PY
Spanish (Peru) es-PE
Spanish (Puerto Rico) es-PR
Spanish (Spain) es-ES
Spanish (Uruguay) es-UY
Spanish (Venezuela) es-VE
Swedish (Finland) sv-FI
Swedish (Sweden) sv-SE
Syriac (Syria) syr-SY
Tamil (India) ta-IN
Tatar (Russia) tt-RU
Telugu (India) te-IN
Thai (Thailand) th-TH
Turkish (Turkey) tr-TR
Ukrainian (Ukraine) uk-UA
Urdu (Islamic Republic of Pakistan) ur-PK
Uzbek (Cyrillic, Uzbekistan) uz-UZ-Cyrl
Uzbek (Latin, Uzbekistan) uz-UZ-Latn
Vietnamese (Vietnam) vi-VN
Welsh cy-GB
Xhosa xh-ZA
Zulu zu-ZA