# Locales

> Locale values returned by `app.getLocale()`.

Electron uses Chromium's `l10n_util` library to fetch the locale. Possible
values are listed below:

| Language Code | Language Name |
|---------------|---------------|
| af | Afrikaans |
| an | Aragonese |
| ar-AE | Arabic (U.A.E.) |
| ar-IQ | Arabic (Iraq) |
| ar | Arabic (Standard) |
| ar-BH | Arabic (Bahrain) |
| ar-DZ | Arabic (Algeria) |
| ar-EG | Arabic (Egypt) |
| ar-JO | Arabic (Jordan) |
| ar-KW | Arabic (Kuwait) |
| ar-LB | Arabic (Lebanon) |
| ar-LY | Arabic (Libya) |
| ar-MA | Arabic (Morocco) |
| ar-OM | Arabic (Oman) |
| ar-QA | Arabic (Qatar) |
| ar-SA | Arabic (Saudi Arabia) |
| ar-SY | Arabic (Syria) |
| ar-TN | Arabic (Tunisia) |
| ar-YE | Arabic (Yemen) |
| as | Assamese |
| ast | Asturian |
| az | Azerbaijani |
| be | Belarusian |
| bg | Bulgarian |
| bg | Bulgarian |
| bn | Bengali |
| br | Breton |
| bs | Bosnian |
| ca | Catalan |
| ce | Chechen |
| ch | Chamorro |
| co | Corsican |
| cr | Cree |
| cs | Czech |
| cv | Chuvash |
| da | Danish |
| de | German (Standard) |
| de-AT | German (Austria) |
| de-CH | German (Switzerland) |
| de-DE | German (Germany) |
| de-LI | German (Liechtenstein) |
| de-LU | German (Luxembourg) |
| el | Greek |
| en-AU | English (Australia) |
| en-BZ | English (Belize) |
| en | English |
| en-CA | English (Canada) |
| en-GB | English (United Kingdom) |
| en-IE | English (Ireland) |
| en-JM | English (Jamaica) |
| en-NZ | English (New Zealand) |
| en-PH | English (Philippines) |
| en-TT | English (Trinidad & Tobago) |
| en-US | English (United States) |
| en-ZA | English (South Africa) |
| en-ZW | English (Zimbabwe) |
| eo | Esperanto |
| et | Estonian |
| eu | Basque |
| fa | Persian |
| fa | Farsi |
| fa-IR | Persian/Iran |
| fi | Finnish |
| fj | Fijian |
| fo | Faeroese |
| fr-CH | French (Switzerland) |
| fr-FR | French (France) |
| fr-LU | French (Luxembourg) |
| fr-MC | French (Monaco) |
| fr | French (Standard) |
| fr-BE | French (Belgium) |
| fr-CA | French (Canada) |
| fur | Friulian |
| fy | Frisian |
| ga | Irish |
| gd-IE | Gaelic (Irish) |
| gd | Gaelic (Scots) |
| gl | Galacian |
| gu | Gujurati |
| he | Hebrew |
| hi | Hindi |
| hr | Croatian |
| ht | Haitian |
| hu | Hungarian |
| hy | Armenian |
| id | Indonesian |
| is | Icelandic |
| it-CH | Italian (Switzerland) |
| it | Italian (Standard) |
| iu | Inuktitut |
| ja | Japanese |
| ka | Georgian |
| kk | Kazakh |
| km | Khmer |
| kn | Kannada |
| ko | Korean |
| ko-KP | Korean (North Korea) |
| ko-KR | Korean (South Korea) |
| ks | Kashmiri |
| ky | Kirghiz |
| la | Latin |
| lb | Luxembourgish |
| lt | Lithuanian |
| lv | Latvian |
| mi | Maori |
| mk | FYRO Macedonian |
| ml | Malayalam |
| mo | Moldavian |
| mr | Marathi |
| ms | Malay |
| mt | Maltese |
| my | Burmese |
| nb | Norwegian (Bokmal) |
| ne | Nepali |
| ng | Ndonga |
| nl | Dutch (Standard) |
| nl-BE | Dutch (Belgian) |
| nn | Norwegian (Nynorsk) |
| no | Norwegian |
| nv | Navajo |
| oc | Occitan |
| om | Oromo |
| or | Oriya |
| sq | Albanian |
| tlh | Klingon |
| zh-TW | Chinese (Taiwan) |
| zh | Chinese |
| zh-CN | Chinese (PRC) |
| zh-HK | Chinese (Hong Kong) |
| zh-SG | Chinese (Singapore) |
