Managing metadata in your app by using locale shortcodes

Optimize your app’s user experience by adding localized metadata with App Store Connect API.

Overview

The App Store is available in 175 regions and 39 languages to make it easy for users around the world to discover and download your app. Localizing your app helps make it relevant to a variety of cultures and languages, and provides an opportunity to grow your business. Use these locale short codes to manage localized metadata with App Store Connect API.

This table describes the localized languages and locale shortcode you use in App Store Connect API when you configure metadata.

Localized language name

Locale shortcode

Arabic

ar-SA

Catalan

ca

Chinese (Simplified)

zh-Hans

Chinese (Traditional)

zh-Hant

Croatian

hr

Czech

cs

Danish

da

Dutch

nl-NL

English (Australia)

en-AU

English (Canada)

en-CA

English (U.K.)

en-GB

English (U.S.)

en-US

Finnish

fi

French

fr-FR

French (Canada)

fr-CA

German

de-DE

Greek

el

Hebrew

he

Hindi

hi

Hungarian

hu

Indonesian

id

Italian

it

Japanese

ja

Korean

ko

Malay

ms

Norwegian

no

Polish

pl

Portuguese (Brazil)

pt-BR

Portuguese (Portugal)

pt-PT

Romanian

ro

Russian

ru

Slovak

sk

Spanish (Mexico)

es-MX

Spanish (Spain)

es-ES

Swedish

sv

Thai

th

Turkish

tr

Ukrainian

uk

Vietnamese

vi