List of HTML lang= Attribute Language and Country Codes
2-letter ISO 639-1 Language Codes and ISO Country Codes
How to Define the Language in a Web Page
The HTML "lang" attribute defines the language of a web page. The 2-letter
code is defined in ISO 639-1.
Specifying the language makes it easier for
search engines and web browsers to recognize the language.
Sample for English:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
...
</html>
Sample for German:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="de">
...
</html>
It is also possible to specify the country in addition to the language. For this purpose, the 2-letter country code is added after a minus sign. However, this is only necessary if you e.g. offer two different web pages in the same language but for two different countries. An example would be two pages in German, one for Germany and one for Austria.
Sample for English (USA):
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en-US">
...
</html>
Sample for English (United Kingdom):
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en-GB">
...
</html>
Sample for German (Germany):
<!doctype html>
<html lang="de-DE">
...
</html>
Sample for German (Austria):
<!doctype html>
<html lang="de-AT">
...
</html>
List of ISO 639-1 Language Codes
<html lang="??">
?? = language code
| Language: | 2-letter ISO Code: |
| Abkhazian | ab |
| Afar | aa |
| Afrikaans | af |
| Akan | ak |
| Albanian | sq |
| Amharic | am |
| Arabic | ar |
| Aragonese | an |
| Armenian | hy |
| Assamese | as |
| Avaric | av |
| Avestan | ae |
| Aymara | ay |
| Azerbaijani | az |
| Bambara | bm |
| Bashkir | ba |
| Basque | eu |
| Belarusian | be |
| Bengali (Bangla) | bn |
| Bihari | bh |
| Bislama | bi |
| Bosnian | bs |
| Breton | br |
| Bulgarian | bg |
| Burmese | my |
| Catalan | ca |
| Chamorro | ch |
| Chechen | ce |
| Chichewa, Chewa, Nyanja | ny |
| Chinese | zh |
| Chinese (Simplified) | zh-Hans |
| Chinese (Traditional) | zh-Hant |
| Chuvash | cv |
| Cornish | kw |
| Corsican | co |
| Cree | cr |
| Croatian | hr |
| Czech | cs |
| Danish | da |
| Divehi, Dhivehi, Maldivian | dv |
| Dutch | nl |
| Dzongkha | dz |
| English | en |
| Esperanto | eo |
| Estonian | et |
| Ewe | ee |
| Faroese | fo |
| Fijian | fj |
| Finnish | fi |
| French | fr |
| Fula, Fulah, Pulaar, Pular | ff |
| Galician | gl |
| Gaelic (Scottish) | gd |
| Gaelic (Manx) | gv |
| Georgian | ka |
| German | de |
| Greek | el |
| Greenlandic | kl |
| Guarani | gn |
| Gujarati | gu |
| Haitian Creole | ht |
| Hausa | ha |
| Hebrew | he |
| Herero | hz |
| Hindi | hi |
| Hiri Motu | ho |
| Hungarian | hu |
| Icelandic | is |
| Ido | io |
| Igbo | ig |
| Indonesian | id, in |
| Interlingua | ia |
| Interlingue | ie |
| Inuktitut | iu |
| Inupiak | ik |
| Irish | ga |
| Italian | it |
| Japanese | ja |
| Javanese | jv |
| Kalaallisut, Greenlandic | kl |
| Kannada | kn |
| Kanuri | kr |
| Kashmiri | ks |
| Kazakh | kk |
| Khmer | km |
| Kikuyu | ki |
| Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) | rw |
| Kirundi | rn |
| Kyrgyz | ky |
| Komi | kv |
| Kongo | kg |
| Korean | ko |
| Kurdish | ku |
| Kwanyama | kj |
| Lao | lo |
| Latin | la |
| Latvian (Lettish) | lv |
| Limburgish (Limburger) | li |
| Lingala | ln |
| Lithuanian | lt |
| Luga-Katanga | lu |
| Luganda, Ganda | lg |
| Luxembourgish | lb |
| Manx | gv |
| Macedonian | mk |
| Malagasy | mg |
| Malay | ms |
| Malayalam | ml |
| Maltese | mt |
| Maori | mi |
| Marathi | mr |
| Marshallese | mh |
| Moldavian | mo |
| Mongolian | mn |
| Nauru | na |
| Navajo | nv |
| Ndonga | ng |
| Northern Ndebele | nd |
| Nepali | ne |
| Norwegian | no |
| Norwegian bokmål | nb |
| Norwegian nynorsk | nn |
| Nuosu | ii |
| Occitan | oc |
| Ojibwe | oj |
| Old Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian | cu |
| Oriya | or |
| Oromo (Afaan Oromo) | om |
| Ossetian | os |
| Pāli | pi |
| Pashto, Pushto | ps |
| Persian (Farsi) | fa |
| Polish | pl |
| Portuguese | pt |
| Punjabi (Eastern) | pa |
| Quechua | qu |
| Romansh | rm |
| Romanian | ro |
| Russian | ru |
| Sami | se |
| Samoan | sm |
| Sango | sg |
| Sanskrit | sa |
| Serbian | sr |
| Serbo-Croatian | sh |
| Sesotho | st |
| Setswana | tn |
| Shona | sn |
| Sichuan Yi | ii |
| Sindhi | sd |
| Sinhalese | si |
| Siswati | ss |
| Slovak | sk |
| Slovenian | sl |
| Somali | so |
| Southern Ndebele | nr |
| Spanish | es |
| Sundanese | su |
| Swahili (Kiswahili) | sw |
| Swati | ss |
| Swedish | sv |
| Tagalog | tl |
| Tahitian | ty |
| Tajik | tg |
| Tamil | ta |
| Tatar | tt |
| Telugu | te |
| Thai | th |
| Tibetan | bo |
| Tigrinya | ti |
| Tonga | to |
| Tsonga | ts |
| Turkish | tr |
| Turkmen | tk |
| Twi | tw |
| Uyghur | ug |
| Ukrainian | uk |
| Urdu | ur |
| Uzbek | uz |
| Venda | ve |
| Vietnamese | vi |
| Volapük | vo |
| Wallon | wa |
| Welsh | cy |
| Wolof | wo |
| Western Frisian | fy |
| Xhosa | xh |
| Yiddish | yi, ji |
| Yoruba | yo |
| Zhuang, Chuang | za |
| Zulu | zu |
2-letter language codes are usually lowercase,
while country codes are usually uppercase.
The lists do not claim to be complete.
List of ISO Country Codes
<html lang="xx-??">
?? = country code
| Country: | 2-letter ISO Code: |
| AFGHANISTAN | AF |
| ALBANIA | AL |
| ALGERIA | DZ |
| AMERICAN SAMOA | AS |
| ANDORRA | AD |
| ANGOLA | AO |
| ANTARCTICA | AQ |
| ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA | AG |
| ARGENTINA | AR |
| ARMENIA | AM |
| ARUBA | AW |
| AUSTRALIA | AU |
| AUSTRIA | AT |
| AZERBAIJAN | AZ |
| BAHAMAS | BS |
| BAHRAIN | BH |
| BANGLADESH | BD |
| BARBADOS | BB |
| BELARUS | BY |
| BELGIUM | BE |
| BELIZE | BZ |
| BENIN | BJ |
| BERMUDA | BM |
| BHUTAN | BT |
| BOLIVIA | BO |
| BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA | BA |
| BOTSWANA | BW |
| BOUVET ISLAND | BV |
| BRAZIL | BR |
| BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY | IO |
| BRUNEI DARUSSALAM | BN |
| BULGARIA | BG |
| BURKINA FASO | BF |
| BURUNDI | BI |
| CAMBODIA | KH |
| CAMEROON | CM |
| CANADA | CA |
| CAPE VERDE | CV |
| CAYMAN ISLANDS | KY |
| CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC | CF |
| CHAD | TD |
| CHILE | CL |
| CHINA | CN |
| CHRISTMAS ISLAND | CX |
| COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS | CC |
| COLOMBIA | CO |
| COMOROS | KM |
| CONGO | CG |
| CONGO, D.R. | CD |
| COOK ISLANDS | CK |
| COSTA RICA | CR |
| CÔTE D'IVOIRE | CI |
| CROATIA | HR |
| CUBA | CU |
| CYPRUS | CY |
| CZECH REPUBLIC | CZ |
| DENMARK | DK |
| DJIBOUTI | DJ |
| DOMINICA | DM |
| DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | DO |
| ECUADOR | EC |
| EGYPT | EG |
| EL SALVADOR | SV |
| EQUATORIAL GUINEA | GQ |
| ERITREA | ER |
| ESTONIA | EE |
| ETHIOPIA | ET |
| FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS) | FK |
| FAROE ISLANDS | FO |
| FIJI | FJ |
| FINLAND | FI |
| FRANCE | FR |
| FRENCH GUIANA | GF |
| FRENCH POLYNESIA | PF |
| FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES | TF |
| GABON | GA |
| GAMBIA | GM |
| GEORGIA | GE |
| GERMANY | DE |
| GHANA | GH |
| GIBRALTAR | GI |
| GREECE | GR |
| GREENLAND | GL |
| GRENADA | GD |
| GUADELOUPE | GP |
| GUAM | GU |
| GUATEMALA | GT |
| GUINEA | GN |
| GUINEA-BISSAU | GW |
| GUYANA | GY |
| HAITI | HT |
| HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS | HM |
| HONDURAS | HN |
| HONG KONG | HK |
| HUNGARY | HU |
| ICELAND | IS |
| INDIA | IN |
| INDONESIA | ID |
| IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF | IR |
| IRAQ | IQ |
| IRELAND | IE |
| ISRAEL | IL |
| ITALY | IT |
| JAMAICA | JM |
| JAPAN | JP |
| JORDAN | JO |
| KAZAKHSTAN | KZ |
| KENYA | KE |
| KIRIBATI | KI |
| KOREA, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF | KP |
| KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | KR |
| KUWAIT | KW |
| KYRGYZSTAN | KG |
| LAOS | LA |
| LATVIA | LV |
| LEBANON | LB |
| LESOTHO | LS |
| LIBERIA | LR |
| LIBYA, STATE OF | LY |
| LIECHTENSTEIN | LI |
| LITHUANIA | LT |
| LUXEMBOURG | LU |
| MACAO | MO |
| MACEDONIA | MK |
| MADAGASCAR | MG |
| MALAWI | MW |
| MALAYSIA | MY |
| MALDIVES | MV |
| MALI | ML |
| MALTA | MT |
| MARSHALL ISLANDS | MH |
| MARTINIQUE | MQ |
| MAURITANIA | MR |
| MAURITIUS | MU |
| MAYOTTE | YT |
| MEXICO | MX |
| MICRONESIA | FM |
| MOLDOVA | MD |
| MONACO | MC |
| MONGOLIA | MN |
| MONTENEGRO | ME |
| MONTSERRAT | MS |
| MOROCCO | MA |
| MOZAMBIQUE | MZ |
| MYANMAR | MM |
| NAMIBIA | NA |
| NAURU | NR |
| NEPAL | NP |
| NETHERLANDS | NL |
| NETHERLANDS ANTILLES | AN |
| NEW CALEDONIA | NC |
| NEW ZEALAND | NZ |
| NICARAGUA | NI |
| NIGER | NE |
| NIGERIA | NG |
| NIUE | NU |
| NORFOLK ISLAND | NF |
| NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS | MP |
| NORWAY | NO |
| OMAN | OM |
| PAKISTAN | PK |
| PALAU | PW |
| PALESTINE, STATE OF | PS |
| PANAMA | PA |
| PAPUA NEW GUINEA | PG |
| PARAGUAY | PY |
| PERU | PE |
| PHILIPPINES | PH |
| PITCAIRN | PN |
| POLAND | PL |
| PORTUGAL | PT |
| PUERTO RICO | PR |
| QATAR | QA |
| REUNION | RE |
| ROMANIA | RO |
| RUSSIAN FEDERATION | RU |
| RWANDA | RW |
| SAINT HELENA | SH |
| SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS | KN |
| SAINT LUCIA | LC |
| SAINT PIERRE AND MIQUELON | PM |
| SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES | VC |
| SAMOA | WS |
| SAN MARINO | SM |
| SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE | ST |
| SAUDI ARABIA | SA |
| SENEGAL | SN |
| SERBIA | RS |
| SEYCHELLES | SC |
| SIERRA LEONE | SL |
| SINGAPORE | SG |
| SLOVAKIA | SK |
| SLOVENIA | SI |
| SOLOMON ISLANDS | SB |
| SOMALIA | SO |
| SOUTH AFRICA | ZA |
| SOUTH GEORGIA AND SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS | GS |
| SOUTH SUDAN | SS |
| SPAIN | ES |
| SRI LANKA | LK |
| SUDAN | SD |
| SURINAME | SR |
| SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN | SJ |
| SWAZILAND | SZ |
| SWEDEN | SE |
| SWITZERLAND | CH |
| SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC | SY |
| TAIWAN | TW |
| TAJIKISTAN | TJ |
| TANZANIA | TZ |
| THAILAND | TH |
| TIMOR-LESTE | TL |
| TOGO | TG |
| TOKELAU | TK |
| TONGA | TO |
| TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO | TT |
| TUNISIA | TN |
| TURKEY | TR |
| TURKMENISTAN | TM |
| TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS | TC |
| TUVALU | TV |
| UGANDA | UG |
| UKRAINE | UA |
| UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | AE |
| UNITED KINGDOM | GB |
| UNITED STATES | US |
| U.S. MINOR OUTLYING ISLANDS | UM |
| URUGUAY | UY |
| UZBEKISTAN | UZ |
| VANUATU | VU |
| VENEZUELA | VE |
| VIET NAM | VN |
| VIRGIN ISLANDS, BRITISH | VG |
| VIRGIN ISLANDS, U.S. | VI |
| WALLIS AND FUTUNA | WF |
| WESTERN SAHARA | EH |
| YEMEN | YE |
| ZAMBIA | ZM |
| ZIMBABWE | ZW |
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