The following is a list of country/regions strings recognized by setlocale. Strings for countries/regions that are not supported by the operating system are not accepted by setlocale. Three-letter country/region-name codes are from ISO/IEC (International Organization for Standardization, International Electrotechnical Commission) specification 3166.
| Country/Region | Country/Region String |
| Australia | "aus" or "australia" |
| Austria | "austria" or "aut" |
| Belgium | "bel" or "belgium" |
| Brazil | "bra" or "brazil" |
| Canada | "can" or "canada" |
| Czech Republic | "cze" or "czech" |
| Denmark | "denmark" or "dnk" |
| Finland | "fin" or "finland" |
| France | "fra" or "france" |
| Germany | "deu" or "germany" |
| Greece | "grc" or "greece" |
| Hong Kong | "hkg", "hong kong", or "hong-kong" |
| Hungary | "hun" or "hungary" |
| Iceland | "iceland" or "isl" |
| Ireland | "ireland" or "irl" |
| Italy | "ita" or "italy" |
| Japan | "japan" or "jpn" |
| Mexico | "mex" or "mexico" |
| Netherlands | "nld", "holland", or "netherlands" |
| New Zealand | "new zealand", "new-zealand", "nz", or "nzl" |
| Norway | "nor" or "norway" |
| People’s Republic of China | "china", "chn", "pr china", or "pr-china" |
| Poland | "pol" or "poland" |
| Portugal | "prt" or "portugal" |
| Russia | "rus" or "russia" |
| Singapore | "sgp" or "singapore" |
| Slovak Repubic | "svk" or "slovak" |
| South Korea | "kor", "korea", "south korea", or "south-korea" |
| Spain | "esp" or "spain" |
| Sweden | "swe" or "sweden" |
| Switzerland | "che" or "switzerland" |
| Taiwan | "taiwan" or "twn" |
| Turkey | "tur" or "turkey" |
| United Kingdom | "britain", "england", "gbr", "great britain", "uk", "united kingdom", or "united-kingdom" |
| United States of America | "america", "united states", "united-states", "us", or "usa" |