System language and locale IDs
The locale ID (LCID) designates a language within a language group.
Language groups and code page are also represented by a number, for example, code page=1252. The language group is preceded by a minus sign (-), for example, -1252.
Examples are listed in the table below.
System language | LCID |
Afrikaans - South Africa | 1078 |
Albanian - Albania | 1052 |
Arabic - Algeria | 5121 |
Arabic - Bahrain | 15361 |
Arabic - Egypt | 3073 |
Arabic - Iraq | 2049 |
Arabic - Jordan | 11265 |
Arabic - Kuwait | 13313 |
Arabic - Lebanon | 12289 |
Arabic - Libya | 4097 |
Arabic - Morocco | 6145 |
Arabic - Oman | 8193 |
Arabic - Qatar | 16385 |
Arabic - Saudi Arabia | 1025 |
Arabic - Syria | 10241 |
Arabic - Tunisia | 7169 |
Arabic - U.A.E. | 14337 |
Arabic - Yemen | 9217 |
Basque - Spain | 1069 |
Belarusian - Belarus | 1059 |
Bulgarian - Bulgaria | 1026 |
Catalan - Spain | 1027 |
Chinese - Hong Kong | 3076 |
Chinese - PRC | 2052 |
Chinese - Singapore | 4100 |
Chinese - Taiwan | 1028 |
Croatian - Croatia | 1050 |
Czech - Czech Republic | 1029 |
Danish - Denmark | 1030 |
Dutch - Belgium | 2067 |
Dutch - Netherlands | 1043 |
English - Australia | 3081 |
English - Belize | 10249 |
English - Canada | 4105 |
English - Caribbean | 9225 |
English - Ireland | 6153 |
English - Jamaica | 8201 |
English - New Zealand | 5129 |
English - South Africa | 7177 |
English - Trinidad | 11273 |
English - United Kingdom | 2057 |
English - United States | 1033 |
Estonian - Estonia | 1061 |
Faeroese - Faeroe Islands | 1080 |
Farsi - Iran | 1065 |
Finnish - Finland | 1035 |
French - Belgium | 2060 |
French - Canada | 3084 |
French - France | 1036 |
French - Luxembourg | 5132 |
French - Switzerland | 4108 |
German - Austria | 3079 |
German - Germany | 1031 |
German - Liechtenstein | 5127 |
German - Luxembourg | 4103 |
German - Switzerland | 2055 |
Greek - Greece | 1032 |
Hebrew - Israel | 1037 |
Hungarian - Hungary | 1038 |
Icelandic - Iceland | 1039 |
Indonesian - Indonesia | 1057 |
Italian - Italy | 1040 |
Italian - Switzerland | 2064 |
Japanese - Japan | 1041 |
Korean - Korea | 1042 |
Latvian - Latvia | 1062 |
Lithuanian - Lithuania | 1063 |
Norwegian - Norway (Bokmal) | 1044 |
Norwegian - Norway (Nynorsk) | 2068 |
Polish - Poland | 1045 |
Portuguese - Brazil | 1046 |
Portuguese - Portugal | 2070 |
Romanian - Romania | 1048 |
Russian - Russia | 1049 |
Serbian - Serbia (Cyrillic) | 3098 |
Serbian - Serbia (Latin) | 2074 |
Slovak - Slovakia | 1051 |
Slovene - Slovenia | 1060 |
Spanish - Argentina | 11274 |
Spanish - Bolivia | 16394 |
Spanish - Chile | 13322 |
Spanish - Colombia | 9226 |
Spanish - Costa Rica | 5130 |
Spanish - Dominican Republic | 7178 |
Spanish - Ecuador | 12298 |
Spanish - El Salvador | 17418 |
Spanish - Guatemala | 4106 |
Spanish - Honduras | 18442 |
Spanish - Mexico | 2058 |
Spanish - Nicaragua | 19466 |
Spanish - Panama | 6154 |
Spanish - Paraguay | 15370 |
Spanish - Peru | 10250 |
Spanish - Puerto Rico | 20490 |
Spanish - Spain (Modern Sort) | 3082 |
Spanish - Spain (Traditional Sort) | 1034 |
Spanish - Uruguay | 14346 |
Spanish - Venezuela | 8202 |
Swedish - Finland | 2077 |
Swedish - Sweden | 1053 |
Thai - Thailand | 1054 |
Turkish - Turkey | 1055 |
Ukrainian - Ukraine | 1058 |
Vietnamese - Vietnam | 1066 |