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Excel is currently available in over 30 international languages. These languages and their corresponding country codes are as follows:
Language Country code Countries/regions
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Arabic 966 (Saudi Arabia)
Czech 42 (Czech Republic)
Danish 45 (Denmark)
Dutch 31 (The Netherlands)
English 1 (The United States of America)
Farsi 98 (Iran)
Finnish 358 (Finland)
French 33 (France)
German 49 (Germany)
Greek 30 (Greece)
Hebrew 972 (Israel)
Hungarian 36 (Hungary)
Indian 91 (India)
Italian 39 (Italy)
Japanese 81 (Japan)
Korean 82 (Korea)
Norwegian 47 (Norway)
Polish 48 (Poland)
Portuguese (Brazil) 55 (Brazil)
Portuguese 351 (Portugal)
Russian 7 (Russian Federation)
Simplified Chinese 86 (People's Republic of China)
Spanish 34 (Spain)
Swedish 46 (Sweden)
Thai 66 (Thailand)
Traditional Chinese 886 (Taiwan)
Turkish 90 (Turkey)
Urdu 92 (Pakistan)
Vietnamese 84 (Vietnam)
The codes shown above are derived from the country codes used by the
telephone system in the United States of America.
In a custom application, it may be necessary to determine which language
version of Excel is running. For example, if you are writing a
custom application for your company, and the company has offices in two different countries, the country code makes it possible to write a single
macro for both offices. Additionally, you can display different dialog boxes based on the language version of Excel being used. Below are
examples of returning and using the country code in a Microsoft Visual
Basic for Applications macro.
Sample Visual Basic Procedure
You can use the
Application.International function to return information about the current country and international settings of Excel. The built-in constant
xlCountryCode returns the country code.
The following sample macro returns the country code and then, based on that code, displays "Hello" in the appropriate language:
Sub Code()
Country_Code = Application.International(xlCountryCode)
If Country_Code = 1 Then
MsgBox ("Hello")
ElseIf Country_Code = 34 Then
MsgBox ("Hola")
End If
End Sub