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title: Configuring countries
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/multilingual-websites/setting-up-multilingual-websites.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/multilingual-websites/setting-up-a-multilingual-user-interface.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

The Countries application allows you to configure a list of countries, which is used in various places throughout the system. The countries defined in this list are offered in administration interface forms, where the **Country selector** form control is used. For example, country selectors appear in the [Contact management](https://docs.kentico.com/13/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/contact-management.md) interface, or when filling in the billing or shipping address for [e-commerce orders](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/managing-on-line-stores/orders.md).

## Creating new countries

Click **New country** to define a new country. The following properties are available when creating or editing a country object:

| Country display name  | The name of the country displayed to the users of your website.                                                                                                                                                              |
| --------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Country code name     | A unique identifier of the country object used by developers in code. Unless there is a reason to set a particular value, you can leave the default _(automatic)_ option, and the system generates an appropriate code name. |
| Country 2-letter code | The country's [two-letter country code](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2).                                                                                                                                    |
| Country 3-letter code | The country's [three-letter country code](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-3).                                                                                                                                  |