hreflang language and region codes

An hreflang value is an ISO 639-1 language code, optionally followed by an ISO 15924 script and an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 region, joined by hyphens. x-default is the one special value.

Common mistakes

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Languages (ISO 639-1)

Code	Language
aa	Afar
ab	Abkhazian
ae	Avestan
af	Afrikaans
ak	Akan
am	Amharic
an	Aragonese
ar	Arabic
as	Assamese
av	Avaric
ay	Aymara
az	Azerbaijani
ba	Bashkir
be	Belarusian
bg	Bulgarian
bi	Bislama
bm	Bambara
bn	Bengali
bo	Tibetan
br	Breton
bs	Bosnian
ca	Catalan
ce	Chechen
ch	Chamorro
co	Corsican
cr	Cree
cs	Czech
cu	Church Slavic
cv	Chuvash
cy	Welsh
da	Danish
de	German
dv	Divehi
dz	Dzongkha
ee	Ewe
el	Modern Greek (1453-)
en	English
eo	Esperanto
es	Spanish
et	Estonian
eu	Basque
fa	Persian
ff	Fulah
fi	Finnish
fj	Fijian
fo	Faroese
fr	French
fy	Western Frisian
ga	Irish
gd	Scottish Gaelic
gl	Galician
gn	Guarani
gu	Gujarati
gv	Manx
ha	Hausa
he	Hebrew
hi	Hindi
ho	Hiri Motu
hr	Croatian
ht	Haitian
hu	Hungarian
hy	Armenian
hz	Herero
ia	Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association)
id	Indonesian
ie	Interlingue
ig	Igbo
ii	Sichuan Yi
ik	Inupiaq
io	Ido
is	Icelandic
it	Italian
iu	Inuktitut
ja	Japanese
jv	Javanese
ka	Georgian
kg	Kongo
ki	Kikuyu
kj	Kuanyama
kk	Kazakh
kl	Kalaallisut
km	Khmer
kn	Kannada
ko	Korean
kr	Kanuri
ks	Kashmiri
ku	Kurdish
kv	Komi
kw	Cornish
ky	Kirghiz
la	Latin
lb	Luxembourgish
lg	Ganda
li	Limburgan
ln	Lingala
lo	Lao
lt	Lithuanian
lu	Luba-Katanga
lv	Latvian
mg	Malagasy
mh	Marshallese
mi	Maori
mk	Macedonian
ml	Malayalam
mn	Mongolian
mr	Marathi
ms	Malay (macrolanguage)
mt	Maltese
my	Burmese
na	Nauru
nb	Norwegian Bokmål
nd	North Ndebele
ne	Nepali (macrolanguage)
ng	Ndonga
nl	Dutch
nn	Norwegian Nynorsk
no	Norwegian
nr	South Ndebele
nv	Navajo
ny	Chichewa
oc	Occitan (post 1500)
oj	Ojibwa
om	Oromo
or	Oriya (macrolanguage)
os	Ossetian
pa	Panjabi
pi	Pali
pl	Polish
ps	Pushto
pt	Portuguese
qu	Quechua
rm	Romansh
rn	Rundi
ro	Romanian
ru	Russian
rw	Kinyarwanda
sa	Sanskrit
sc	Sardinian
sd	Sindhi
se	Northern Sami
sg	Sango
sh	Serbo-Croatian
si	Sinhala
sk	Slovak
sl	Slovenian
sm	Samoan
sn	Shona
so	Somali
sq	Albanian
sr	Serbian
ss	Swati
st	Southern Sotho
su	Sundanese
sv	Swedish
sw	Swahili (macrolanguage)
ta	Tamil
te	Telugu
tg	Tajik
th	Thai
ti	Tigrinya
tk	Turkmen
tl	Tagalog
tn	Tswana
to	Tonga (Tonga Islands)
tr	Turkish
ts	Tsonga
tt	Tatar
tw	Twi
ty	Tahitian
ug	Uighur
uk	Ukrainian
ur	Urdu
uz	Uzbek
ve	Venda
vi	Vietnamese
vo	Volapük
wa	Walloon
wo	Wolof
xh	Xhosa
yi	Yiddish
yo	Yoruba
za	Zhuang
zh	Chinese
zu	Zulu

Regions (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2)

Code	Region
`AD`	Andorra
`AE`	United Arab Emirates
`AF`	Afghanistan
`AG`	Antigua and Barbuda
`AI`	Anguilla
`AL`	Albania
`AM`	Armenia
`AO`	Angola
`AQ`	Antarctica
`AR`	Argentina
`AS`	American Samoa
`AT`	Austria
`AU`	Australia
`AW`	Aruba
`AX`	Åland Islands
`AZ`	Azerbaijan
`BA`	Bosnia and Herzegovina
`BB`	Barbados
`BD`	Bangladesh
`BE`	Belgium
`BF`	Burkina Faso
`BG`	Bulgaria
`BH`	Bahrain
`BI`	Burundi
`BJ`	Benin
`BL`	Saint Barthélemy
`BM`	Bermuda
`BN`	Brunei Darussalam
`BO`	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
`BQ`	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
`BR`	Brazil
`BS`	Bahamas
`BT`	Bhutan
`BV`	Bouvet Island
`BW`	Botswana
`BY`	Belarus
`BZ`	Belize
`CA`	Canada
`CC`	Cocos (Keeling) Islands
`CD`	Congo, The Democratic Republic of the
`CF`	Central African Republic
`CG`	Congo
`CH`	Switzerland
`CI`	Côte d'Ivoire
`CK`	Cook Islands
`CL`	Chile
`CM`	Cameroon
`CN`	China
`CO`	Colombia
`CR`	Costa Rica
`CU`	Cuba
`CV`	Cabo Verde
`CW`	Curaçao
`CX`	Christmas Island
`CY`	Cyprus
`CZ`	Czechia
`DE`	Germany
`DJ`	Djibouti
`DK`	Denmark
`DM`	Dominica
`DO`	Dominican Republic
`DZ`	Algeria
`EC`	Ecuador
`EE`	Estonia
`EG`	Egypt
`EH`	Western Sahara
`ER`	Eritrea
`ES`	Spain
`ET`	Ethiopia
`FI`	Finland
`FJ`	Fiji
`FK`	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
`FM`	Micronesia, Federated States of
`FO`	Faroe Islands
`FR`	France
`GA`	Gabon
`GB`	United Kingdom
`GD`	Grenada
`GE`	Georgia
`GF`	French Guiana
`GG`	Guernsey
`GH`	Ghana
`GI`	Gibraltar
`GL`	Greenland
`GM`	Gambia
`GN`	Guinea
`GP`	Guadeloupe
`GQ`	Equatorial Guinea
`GR`	Greece
`GS`	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
`GT`	Guatemala
`GU`	Guam
`GW`	Guinea-Bissau
`GY`	Guyana
`HK`	Hong Kong
`HM`	Heard Island and McDonald Islands
`HN`	Honduras
`HR`	Croatia
`HT`	Haiti
`HU`	Hungary
`ID`	Indonesia
`IE`	Ireland
`IL`	Israel
`IM`	Isle of Man
`IN`	India
`IO`	British Indian Ocean Territory
`IQ`	Iraq
`IR`	Iran, Islamic Republic of
`IS`	Iceland
`IT`	Italy
`JE`	Jersey
`JM`	Jamaica
`JO`	Jordan
`JP`	Japan
`KE`	Kenya
`KG`	Kyrgyzstan
`KH`	Cambodia
`KI`	Kiribati
`KM`	Comoros
`KN`	Saint Kitts and Nevis
`KP`	Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
`KR`	Korea, Republic of
`KW`	Kuwait
`KY`	Cayman Islands
`KZ`	Kazakhstan
`LA`	Lao People's Democratic Republic
`LB`	Lebanon
`LC`	Saint Lucia
`LI`	Liechtenstein
`LK`	Sri Lanka
`LR`	Liberia
`LS`	Lesotho
`LT`	Lithuania
`LU`	Luxembourg
`LV`	Latvia
`LY`	Libya
`MA`	Morocco
`MC`	Monaco
`MD`	Moldova, Republic of
`ME`	Montenegro
`MF`	Saint Martin (French part)
`MG`	Madagascar
`MH`	Marshall Islands
`MK`	North Macedonia
`ML`	Mali
`MM`	Myanmar
`MN`	Mongolia
`MO`	Macao
`MP`	Northern Mariana Islands
`MQ`	Martinique
`MR`	Mauritania
`MS`	Montserrat
`MT`	Malta
`MU`	Mauritius
`MV`	Maldives
`MW`	Malawi
`MX`	Mexico
`MY`	Malaysia
`MZ`	Mozambique
`NA`	Namibia
`NC`	New Caledonia
`NE`	Niger
`NF`	Norfolk Island
`NG`	Nigeria
`NI`	Nicaragua
`NL`	Netherlands
`NO`	Norway
`NP`	Nepal
`NR`	Nauru
`NU`	Niue
`NZ`	New Zealand
`OM`	Oman
`PA`	Panama
`PE`	Peru
`PF`	French Polynesia
`PG`	Papua New Guinea
`PH`	Philippines
`PK`	Pakistan
`PL`	Poland
`PM`	Saint Pierre and Miquelon
`PN`	Pitcairn
`PR`	Puerto Rico
`PS`	Palestine, State of
`PT`	Portugal
`PW`	Palau
`PY`	Paraguay
`QA`	Qatar
`RE`	Réunion
`RO`	Romania
`RS`	Serbia
`RU`	Russian Federation
`RW`	Rwanda
`SA`	Saudi Arabia
`SB`	Solomon Islands
`SC`	Seychelles
`SD`	Sudan
`SE`	Sweden
`SG`	Singapore
`SH`	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
`SI`	Slovenia
`SJ`	Svalbard and Jan Mayen
`SK`	Slovakia
`SL`	Sierra Leone
`SM`	San Marino
`SN`	Senegal
`SO`	Somalia
`SR`	Suriname
`SS`	South Sudan
`ST`	Sao Tome and Principe
`SV`	El Salvador
`SX`	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
`SY`	Syrian Arab Republic
`SZ`	Eswatini
`TC`	Turks and Caicos Islands
`TD`	Chad
`TF`	French Southern Territories
`TG`	Togo
`TH`	Thailand
`TJ`	Tajikistan
`TK`	Tokelau
`TL`	Timor-Leste
`TM`	Turkmenistan
`TN`	Tunisia
`TO`	Tonga
`TR`	Türkiye
`TT`	Trinidad and Tobago
`TV`	Tuvalu
`TW`	Taiwan, Province of China
`TZ`	Tanzania, United Republic of
`UA`	Ukraine
`UG`	Uganda
`UM`	United States Minor Outlying Islands
`US`	United States
`UY`	Uruguay
`UZ`	Uzbekistan
`VA`	Holy See (Vatican City State)
`VC`	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
`VE`	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
`VG`	Virgin Islands, British
`VI`	Virgin Islands, U.S.
`VN`	Viet Nam
`VU`	Vanuatu
`WF`	Wallis and Futuna
`WS`	Samoa
`YE`	Yemen
`YT`	Mayotte
`ZA`	South Africa
`ZM`	Zambia
`ZW`	Zimbabwe

Scripts (ISO 15924)

Code	Script
`Adlm`	Adlam
`Afak`	Afaka
`Aghb`	Caucasian Albanian
`Ahom`	Ahom, Tai Ahom
`Arab`	Arabic
`Aran`	Arabic (Nastaliq variant)
`Armi`	Imperial Aramaic
`Armn`	Armenian
`Avst`	Avestan
`Bali`	Balinese
`Bamu`	Bamum
`Bass`	Bassa Vah
`Batk`	Batak
`Beng`	Bengali (Bangla)
`Berf`	Beria Erfe
`Bhks`	Bhaiksuki
`Blis`	Blissymbols
`Bopo`	Bopomofo
`Brah`	Brahmi
`Brai`	Braille
`Bugi`	Buginese
`Buhd`	Buhid
`Cakm`	Chakma
`Cans`	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
`Cari`	Carian
`Cham`	Cham
`Cher`	Cherokee
`Chis`	Chisoi
`Chrs`	Chorasmian
`Cirt`	Cirth
`Copt`	Coptic
`Cpmn`	Cypro-Minoan
`Cprt`	Cypriot syllabary
`Cyrl`	Cyrillic
`Cyrs`	Cyrillic (Old Church Slavonic variant)
`Deva`	Devanagari (Nagari)
`Diak`	Dives Akuru
`Dogr`	Dogra
`Dsrt`	Deseret (Mormon)
`Dupl`	Duployan shorthand, Duployan stenography
`Egyd`	Egyptian demotic
`Egyh`	Egyptian hieratic
`Egyp`	Egyptian hieroglyphs
`Elba`	Elbasan
`Elym`	Elymaic
`Ethi`	Ethiopic (Geʻez)
`Gara`	Garay
`Geok`	Khutsuri (Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri)
`Geor`	Georgian (Mkhedruli and Mtavruli)
`Glag`	Glagolitic
`Gong`	Gunjala Gondi
`Gonm`	Masaram Gondi
`Goth`	Gothic
`Gran`	Grantha
`Grek`	Greek
`Gujr`	Gujarati
`Gukh`	Gurung Khema
`Guru`	Gurmukhi
`Hanb`	Han with Bopomofo (alias for Han + Bopomofo)
`Hang`	Hangul (Hangŭl, Hangeul)
`Hani`	Han (Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja)
`Hano`	Hanunoo (Hanunóo)
`Hans`	Han (Simplified variant)
`Hant`	Han (Traditional variant)
`Hatr`	Hatran
`Hebr`	Hebrew
`Hira`	Hiragana
`Hluw`	Anatolian Hieroglyphs (Luwian Hieroglyphs, Hittite Hieroglyphs)
`Hmng`	Pahawh Hmong
`Hmnp`	Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong
`Hntl`	Han (Traditional variant) with Latin (alias for Hant + Latn)
`Hrkt`	Japanese syllabaries (alias for Hiragana + Katakana)
`Hung`	Old Hungarian (Hungarian Runic)
`Inds`	Indus (Harappan)
`Ital`	Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.)
`Jamo`	Jamo (alias for Jamo subset of Hangul)
`Java`	Javanese
`Jpan`	Japanese (alias for Han + Hiragana + Katakana)
`Jurc`	Jurchen
`Kali`	Kayah Li
`Kana`	Katakana
`Kawi`	Kawi
`Khar`	Kharoshthi
`Khmr`	Khmer
`Khoj`	Khojki
`Kitl`	Khitan large script
`Kits`	Khitan small script
`Knda`	Kannada
`Kore`	Korean (alias for Hangul + Han)
`Kpel`	Kpelle
`Krai`	Kirat Rai
`Kthi`	Kaithi
`Lana`	Tai Tham (Lanna)
`Laoo`	Lao
`Latf`	Latin (Fraktur variant)
`Latg`	Latin (Gaelic variant)
`Latn`	Latin
`Leke`	Leke
`Lepc`	Lepcha (Róng)
`Limb`	Limbu
`Lina`	Linear A
`Linb`	Linear B
`Lisu`	Lisu (Fraser)
`Loma`	Loma
`Lyci`	Lycian
`Lydi`	Lydian
`Mahj`	Mahajani
`Maka`	Makasar
`Mand`	Mandaic, Mandaean
`Mani`	Manichaean
`Marc`	Marchen
`Maya`	Mayan hieroglyphs
`Medf`	Medefaidrin (Oberi Okaime, Oberi Ɔkaimɛ)
`Mend`	Mende Kikakui
`Merc`	Meroitic Cursive
`Mero`	Meroitic Hieroglyphs
`Mlym`	Malayalam
`Modi`	Modi, Moḍī
`Mong`	Mongolian
`Moon`	Moon (Moon code, Moon script, Moon type)
`Mroo`	Mro, Mru
`Mtei`	Meitei Mayek (Meithei, Meetei)
`Mult`	Multani
`Mymr`	Myanmar (Burmese)
`Nagm`	Nag Mundari
`Nand`	Nandinagari
`Narb`	Old North Arabian (Ancient North Arabian)
`Nbat`	Nabataean
`Newa`	Newa, Newar, Newari, Nepāla lipi
`Nkdb`	Naxi Dongba (na²¹ɕi³³ to³³ba²¹, Nakhi Tomba)
`Nkgb`	Naxi Geba (na²¹ɕi³³ gʌ²¹ba²¹, 'Na-'Khi ²Ggŏ-¹baw, Nakhi Geba)
`Nkoo`	N’Ko
`Nshu`	Nüshu
`Ogam`	Ogham
`Olck`	Ol Chiki (Ol Cemet’, Ol, Santali)
`Onao`	Ol Onal
`Orkh`	Old Turkic, Orkhon Runic
`Orya`	Oriya (Odia)
`Osge`	Osage
`Osma`	Osmanya
`Ougr`	Old Uyghur
`Palm`	Palmyrene
`Pauc`	Pau Cin Hau
`Pcun`	Proto-Cuneiform
`Pelm`	Proto-Elamite
`Perm`	Old Permic
`Phag`	Phags-pa
`Phli`	Inscriptional Pahlavi
`Phlp`	Psalter Pahlavi
`Phlv`	Book Pahlavi
`Phnx`	Phoenician
`Piqd`	Klingon (KLI pIqaD)
`Plrd`	Miao (Pollard)
`Prti`	Inscriptional Parthian
`Psin`	Proto-Sinaitic
`Qaaa`	Reserved for private use (start)
`Qabx`	Reserved for private use (end)
`Ranj`	Ranjana
`Rjng`	Rejang (Redjang, Kaganga)
`Rohg`	Hanifi Rohingya
`Roro`	Rongorongo
`Runr`	Runic
`Samr`	Samaritan
`Sara`	Sarati
`Sarb`	Old South Arabian
`Saur`	Saurashtra
`Seal`	(Small) Seal
`Sgnw`	SignWriting
`Shaw`	Shavian (Shaw)
`Shrd`	Sharada, Śāradā
`Shui`	Shuishu
`Sidd`	Siddham, Siddhaṃ, Siddhamātṛkā
`Sidt`	Sidetic
`Sind`	Khudawadi, Sindhi
`Sinh`	Sinhala
`Sogd`	Sogdian
`Sogo`	Old Sogdian
`Sora`	Sora Sompeng
`Soyo`	Soyombo
`Sund`	Sundanese
`Sunu`	Sunuwar
`Sylo`	Syloti Nagri
`Syrc`	Syriac
`Syre`	Syriac (Estrangelo variant)
`Syrj`	Syriac (Western variant)
`Syrn`	Syriac (Eastern variant)
`Tagb`	Tagbanwa
`Takr`	Takri, Ṭākrī, Ṭāṅkrī
`Tale`	Tai Le
`Talu`	New Tai Lue
`Taml`	Tamil
`Tang`	Tangut
`Tavt`	Tai Viet
`Tayo`	Tai Yo
`Telu`	Telugu
`Teng`	Tengwar
`Tfng`	Tifinagh (Berber)
`Tglg`	Tagalog (Baybayin, Alibata)
`Thaa`	Thaana
`Thai`	Thai
`Tibt`	Tibetan
`Tirh`	Tirhuta
`Tnsa`	Tangsa
`Todr`	Todhri
`Tols`	Tolong Siki
`Toto`	Toto
`Tutg`	Tulu-Tigalari
`Ugar`	Ugaritic
`Vaii`	Vai
`Visp`	Visible Speech
`Vith`	Vithkuqi
`Wara`	Warang Citi (Varang Kshiti)
`Wcho`	Wancho
`Wole`	Woleai
`Xpeo`	Old Persian
`Xsux`	Cuneiform, Sumero-Akkadian
`Yezi`	Yezidi
`Yiii`	Yi
`Zanb`	Zanabazar Square (Zanabazarin Dörböljin Useg, Xewtee Dörböljin Bicig, Horizontal Square Script)
`Zinh`	Code for inherited script
`Zmth`	Mathematical notation
`Zsye`	Symbols (Emoji variant)
`Zsym`	Symbols
`Zxxx`	Code for unwritten documents
`Zyyy`	Code for undetermined script
`Zzzz`	Code for uncoded script