---
title: Configuring countries
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k11/multilingual-websites/setting-up-multilingual-websites.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k11/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 forms, where the Country selector form control is used (for example in [Contact management](https://docs.kentico.com/k11/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/contact-management.md)). Also, the list is used for defining countries from which the customers can order products in an on-line store.

## 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     | The string identifier of the country object used by developers in the 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 | Can be used to enter the country's [two-letter country code](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2).                                                                                                                     |
| Country 3-letter code | Can be used to enter the country's [three-letter country code](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-3).                                                                                                                   |