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. For more information please refer to:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0h88fahh(VS.85).aspx.

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