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updatedAt: 2026-03-01T18:45:21.000Z
agentTools:
  siteIndex: https://techdocs.akamai.com/llms.txt
  projectIndex: https://techdocs.akamai.com/iam-api/v2/llms.txt
---

# View supported countries

Return all the possible countries that Akamai supports. Use the values from this operation to add or update a user's country information. Administrators use this operation to set a user's country. Users who modify it need to run [View supported countries for a user profile](ref:get-user-countries).

# OpenAPI definition

```json
{
  "externalDocs": {
    "description": "See documentation for Akamai's Identity and Access Management API",
    "url": "https://techdocs.akamai.com/iam-user-admin/reference"
  },
  "info": {
    "license": {
      "name": "Apache 2.0",
      "url": "https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html"
    },
    "title": "Common resources, for administrators",
    "version": "2"
  },
  "openapi": "3.0.0",
  "paths": {
    "/user-admin/common/countries": {
      "get": {
        "description": "Return all the possible countries that Akamai supports. Use the values from this operation to add or update a user's country information. Administrators use this operation to set a user's country. Users who modify it need to run [View supported countries for a user profile](https://techdocs.akamai.com/iam-api/reference/get-user-countries).",
        "externalDocs": {
          "description": "See documentation for this operation in Akamai's Identity and Access Management API",
          "url": "https://techdocs.akamai.com/iam-user-admin/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": [
                  "Papua New Guinea",
                  "Cambodia",
                  "Heard and Mc Donald Islands",
                  "Kazakhstan",
                  "Paraguay",
                  "South Georgia and the South Sa",
                  "Bahamas",
                  "Solomon Islands",
                  "Montserrat",
                  "Mali",
                  "Marshall Islands",
                  "Guadeloupe",
                  "Panama",
                  "Laos",
                  "Tanzania, United Republic of",
                  "Argentina",
                  "Seychelles",
                  "Congo, Democratic Republic of",
                  "Belize",
                  "Zambia",
                  "Bahrain",
                  "Congo",
                  "Namibia",
                  "Faroe Islands",
                  "Finland",
                  "Comoros",
                  "Netherlands Antilles",
                  "Georgia",
                  "Saint Kitts and Nevis",
                  "Yemen",
                  "St. Vincent and Grenadines",
                  "Puerto Rico",
                  "Eritrea",
                  "Madagascar",
                  "Aruba",
                  "Ivory Coast",
                  "Sweden",
                  "Cocos (Keeling) Islands",
                  "Malawi",
                  "Andorra",
                  "Liechtenstein",
                  "Poland",
                  "Jordan",
                  "Bulgaria",
                  "Tunisia",
                  "Wallis and Futuna Islands",
                  "Channel Islands",
                  "United Arab Emirates",
                  "Tuvalu",
                  "Kenya",
                  "French Polynesia",
                  "Lebanon",
                  "Djibouti",
                  "Azerbaijan",
                  "Cuba",
                  "Czech Republic",
                  "Saint Lucia",
                  "Mauritania",
                  "Mayotte",
                  "San Marino",
                  "Israel",
                  "Australia",
                  "Tajikistan",
                  "Myanmar",
                  "Cameroon",
                  "Gibraltar",
                  "Cyprus",
                  "Northern Mariana Islands",
                  "Ascension Island",
                  "France, Metropolitan",
                  "Malaysia",
                  "Oman",
                  "Iceland",
                  "Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav",
                  "Armenia",
                  "Gabon",
                  "Yugoslavia",
                  "Saint Vincent and the Grenadin",
                  "Luxembourg",
                  "Brazil",
                  "Turks and Caicos Islands",
                  "Algeria",
                  "Slovenia",
                  "Antigua and Barbuda",
                  "Colombia",
                  "Ecuador",
                  "Iran (Islamic Republic of)",
                  "Vanuatu",
                  "Honduras",
                  "Italy",
                  "Antarctica",
                  "Nauru",
                  "Guinea-bissau",
                  "Haiti",
                  "Burundi",
                  "Afghanistan",
                  "Russian Federation",
                  "Singapore",
                  "French Guiana",
                  "St. Lucia",
                  "American Samoa",
                  "Christmas Island",
                  "Russia",
                  "Netherlands",
                  "China",
                  "Martinique",
                  "Kyrgyzstan",
                  "Korea",
                  "Reunion",
                  "Bhutan",
                  "Romania",
                  "United States Minor Outlying I",
                  "Falkland Islands (Malvinas)",
                  "Togo",
                  "Philippines",
                  "Uzbekistan",
                  "Holy See (Vatican City State)",
                  "Pitcairn",
                  "St. Pierre and Miquelon",
                  "Zimbabwe",
                  "British Indian Ocean Territory",
                  "Montenegro",
                  "Dominica",
                  "Indonesia",
                  "Benin",
                  "Angola",
                  "Micronesia, Federated States o",
                  "Virgin Islands (British)",
                  "Sudan",
                  "East Timor",
                  "Brunei Darussalam",
                  "Portugal",
                  "New Caledonia",
                  "Grenada",
                  "Cayman Islands",
                  "Greece",
                  "Latvia",
                  "Mongolia",
                  "Morocco",
                  "Iran",
                  "Guatemala",
                  "Guyana",
                  "Iraq",
                  "Chile",
                  "Cote D'ivoire",
                  "Nepal",
                  "Ukraine",
                  "Ghana",
                  "Anguilla",
                  "India",
                  "Canada",
                  "Maldives",
                  "Turkey",
                  "Belgium",
                  "Taiwan",
                  "Trinidad and Tobago",
                  "South Africa",
                  "Bermuda",
                  "Central African Republic",
                  "Jamaica",
                  "Peru",
                  "Turkmenistan",
                  "Germany",
                  "Fiji",
                  "Tokelau",
                  "Hong Kong",
                  "Guinea",
                  "Chad",
                  "Somalia",
                  "Sao Tome and Principe",
                  "Thailand",
                  "Kiribati",
                  "Equatorial Guinea",
                  "St. Martin",
                  "Costa Rica",
                  "Vietnam",
                  "Kuwait",
                  "Nigeria",
                  "Croatia",
                  "USA",
                  "Syrian Arab Republic",
                  "Uruguay",
                  "Cook Islands",
                  "Sri Lanka",
                  "United Kingdom",
                  "Switzerland",
                  "Samoa",
                  "Palestinian Authority",
                  "Spain",
                  "Venezuela",
                  "Liberia",
                  "Burkina Faso",
                  "Swaziland",
                  "Palau",
                  "Estonia",
                  "Libyan Arab Jamahiriya",
                  "Niue",
                  "Austria",
                  "South Korea",
                  "St. Helena",
                  "Mozambique",
                  "El Salvador",
                  "Monaco",
                  "TBD",
                  "Guam",
                  "Lesotho",
                  "Tonga",
                  "Western Sahara",
                  "Hungary",
                  "Japan",
                  "Slovakia (Slovak Republic)",
                  "Belarus",
                  "Curacao",
                  "Mauritius",
                  "Bouvet Island",
                  "Albania",
                  "Norfolk Island",
                  "Virgin Islands (U.S.)",
                  "New Zealand",
                  "St. Kitts and Nevis",
                  "Senegal",
                  "Congo, The Democratic Republic",
                  "Moldova, Republic of",
                  "Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands",
                  "Ethiopia",
                  "Egypt",
                  "Macau",
                  "Sierra Leone",
                  "Bolivia",
                  "Malta",
                  "Saudi Arabia",
                  "Cape Verde",
                  "Pakistan",
                  "Gambia",
                  "Qatar",
                  "Ireland",
                  "Serbia and Montenegro",
                  "Slovakia",
                  "France",
                  "Serbia",
                  "Lithuania",
                  "Bosnia and Herzegovina",
                  "Korea, Democratic People's Rep",
                  "Niger",
                  "Rwanda",
                  "Lao People's Democratic Republ",
                  "French Southern Territories",
                  "Bangladesh",
                  "Nicaragua",
                  "Barbados",
                  "St. Maarten",
                  "Norway",
                  "Botswana",
                  "Denmark",
                  "Dominican Republic",
                  "Uganda",
                  "Mexico",
                  "Suriname",
                  "Greenland"
                ],
                "schema": {
                  "description": "Lists available values.",
                  "items": {
                    "description": "Available value.",
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "type": "array",
                  "x-akamai": {
                    "file-path": "schemas/ListOfString.yaml"
                  }
                }
              }
            },
            "description": "The response lists countries."
          }
        },
        "summary": "View supported countries",
        "tags": [
          "Locale"
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "servers": [
    {
      "url": "https://{hostname}/identity-management/v2"
    }
  ],
  "x-akamai": {
    "auth-type": "EDGE_GRID",
    "file-path": "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/v2/reference/get-common-states.md)
* [View languages](https://techdocs.akamai.com/iam-api/v2/reference/get-common-languages.md)
* [View time zones](https://techdocs.akamai.com/iam-api/v2/reference/get-common-timezones.md)