---
updatedAt: 2026-03-01T18:48:03.000Z
agentTools:
  siteIndex: https://techdocs.akamai.com/llms.txt
  projectIndex: https://techdocs.akamai.com/iam-api/llms.txt
---

# View countries

This operation lists the supported countries. Administrators should use the values from this operation to add or update a user's `country`. Users should run the [View supported countries for a user profile](ref:get-user-countries) operation before modifying their country.

# OpenAPI definition

```json
{
  "externalDocs": {
    "description": "See documentation for Akamai's Identity and Access Management API",
    "url": "https://techdocs.akamai.com/iam-api/reference"
  },
  "info": {
    "license": {
      "name": "Apache 2.0",
      "url": "https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html"
    },
    "title": "Common resources, for administrators",
    "version": "3"
  },
  "openapi": "3.0.0",
  "paths": {
    "/user-admin/common/countries": {
      "get": {
        "description": "This operation lists the supported countries. Administrators should use the values from this operation to add or update a user's `country`. Users should run the [View supported countries for a user profile](https://techdocs.akamai.com/iam-api/reference/get-user-countries) operation before modifying their country.",
        "externalDocs": {
          "description": "See documentation for this operation in Akamai's Identity and Access Management API",
          "url": "https://techdocs.akamai.com/iam-api/reference/get-common-countries"
        },
        "operationId": "get-common-countries",
        "parameters": [
          {
            "description": "For customers who manage more than one account, this [runs the operation from another account](https://techdocs.akamai.com/developer/docs/manage-many-accounts-with-one-api-client). The Identity and Access Management API provides a [list of available account switch keys](https://techdocs.akamai.com/iam-api/reference/get-client-account-switch-keys).",
            "in": "query",
            "name": "accountSwitchKey",
            "required": false,
            "schema": {
              "example": "1-5C0YLB:1-8BYUX",
              "type": "string"
            }
          }
        ],
        "responses": {
          "200": {
            "content": {
              "application/json": {
                "example": [
                  "Lao People's Democratic Republ",
                  "Greece",
                  "Greenland",
                  "Grenada",
                  "Tanzania, United Republic of",
                  "Thailand",
                  "Togo",
                  "Tokelau",
                  "Tonga",
                  "Djibouti",
                  "Dominica",
                  "Christmas Island",
                  "Cocos (Keeling) Islands",
                  "Colombia",
                  "Comoros",
                  "Curacao"
                ],
                "schema": {
                  "items": {
                    "minLength": 1,
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "minItems": 0,
                  "type": "array",
                  "x-akamai": {
                    "file-path": "schemas/list-of-string.yaml"
                  }
                }
              }
            },
            "description": "The response provides the supported countries."
          }
        },
        "summary": "View countries",
        "tags": [
          "Locale"
        ]
      },
      "x-akamai": {
        "file-path": "paths/countries-admin.yaml",
        "path-info": "/user-admin/common/countries"
      }
    }
  },
  "servers": [
    {
      "url": "https://{hostname}/identity-management/v3"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    {
      "description": "List locale information you can use when creating a user account.",
      "name": "Locale"
    }
  ],
  "x-akamai": {
    "auth-type": "EDGE_GRID",
    "file-path": "06-common-api.yaml"
  },
  "x-readme": {
    "samples-languages": [
      "curl",
      "python",
      "node"
    ],
    "explorer-enabled": true,
    "proxy-enabled": true
  }
}
```

# Sibling pages

* [View states](https://techdocs.akamai.com/iam-api/reference/get-common-states.md)
* [View languages](https://techdocs.akamai.com/iam-api/reference/get-common-languages.md)
* [View time zones](https://techdocs.akamai.com/iam-api/reference/get-common-timezones.md)