Geographical Location Codes

Geographical locations data can be used to for Location Targeting e.g. show ads to people in a specific country/region, state/province, county, metro area (Microsoft Market Area in the United States), postal code, or city. You can call the GetGeoLocationsFileUrl operation to get a temporary file URL that can be used to download the latest geographical locations data. You can also get the locations data from the Microsoft Advertising Developer Portal. You must be signed in to the developer portal with a Microsoft account user who has Microsoft Advertising credentials.

Note

As a best practice you should download the file instead of opening it directly through an application such as Microsoft Excel. If you view the locations data in a text editor, be sure to use UTF-8 encoding instead of ANSI, otherwise some characters will not be displayed accurately.

For code examples that demonstrate how to download the geographical locations codes, see Geographical Locations Code Example.

Location Codes File Format

The comma separated value (CSV) file contains data organized in the following non-localized column headings. Only the Bing Display Name is localized depending on the file URL used above.

Important

New columns may be added at any time, so your implementation must ignore unknown columns.

The order of locations is not guaranteed, so you should not take dependencies on any perceived column sort order or hierarchy.

File Format Version 2.0

If you specified Version as 2.0 when calling the GetGeoLocationsFileUrl operation, the following data is available in the downloaded file. Bing Ads API currently only supports file format version 2.0.

Column Name Description
Location Id The unique Microsoft Advertising system identifier for the location. You must use this value to set the location criterion.
Bing Display Name The optional name that you can use to display the locations data, for example to users of your application. Vertical bars are used to separate the location components from most to least specific. For example given Seattle|Washington|United States the most specific component is the city of Seattle within the state of Washington of the United States.

Multiple location IDs can have the same display name. You must not use the display name for anything other than presentation, for example do not assume any hierarchy or take any dependencies on the display name.
Location Type Determines the location sub type (e.g., City, County, Country, MetroArea, PostalCode, or State) that corresponds to the Location Id column.

Neighborhood locations are coming soon.

New location sub types can be added anytime. Rarely will the location type change for a given location ID.
Replaces Reserved for future use to indicate which location or locations are replaced by the location in this row.
Status Indicates whether the location in this row is active, pending deprecation, or deprecated.

- Active: You can target or exclude the location.
- Pending Deprecation: The location is still used by the delivery engine for targeting or exclusions; however, the location will be deprecated within the next 30 days.
- Deprecated: the location criterion is no longer used for targeting or exclusions. Deprecated location criteria can still be retrieved via the Bing Ads API e.g., GetCampaignCriterionsByIds, but you cannot add or update deprecated location criteria. Please consider calling the GetGeoLocationsFileUrl operation once or twice each month to determine if the contents of the file have changed e.g., status. You should not need to download the entire file unless the returned LastModifiedTimeUtc value has changed since the last time you synced the locations data.
AdWords Location Id The Google Ads location ID that matches closest to the Microsoft Advertising geographical location ID. You can use this for mapping Microsoft Advertising locations to the estimated Google Ads locations.

This value is a heuristic estimate that can be used for mapping Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising geographical locations. The field is empty if the location was not mapped.

Country Codes

In some contexts the API requires a country code string e.g., for the business address of an AdvertiserAccount object. The following country codes are supported by Microsoft Advertising.

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

See Also

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