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title: Setting up multilingual websites
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> 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).

Kentico websites can host content in multiple languages (cultures). Multilingual websites have separate versions of documents for each language. The system allows you to automatically offer culture versions of the website to visitors based on various settings. Users can also switch between individual languages manually using a dedicated web part.

You can find a list of available cultures in the **Localization** application on the **Cultures** tab. All major cultures are provided by default. You can assign cultures to websites and then translate the content to the respective languages.

> **Info:** **Multilingual user and administration interface**
>
> The administration interface of Kentico can also be multilingual. To learn more, refer to the [Setting up a multilingual user interface](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/multilingual-websites/setting-up-a-multilingual-user-interface.md) chapter.

## Setting up multiple cultures for websites

To add more cultures to a website:

1. Open the **Sites** application.
2. Edit () your site.
3. Switch to the **Cultures** tab.
4. Click **Add cultures**.
5. In the selection dialog, choose the cultures you wish to use.
6. Click **Select**.

The cultures are now assigned to the website and editors can start translating pages.

![Assigning cultures to a website](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/setting-up-multilingual-websites/Sites_Cultures.png "Assigning cultures to a website")

Open the **Pages** application. You can now switch between languages using the selector below the content tree.

![Switching between languages in the Pages application](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/setting-up-multilingual-websites/Pages_Culture_Selector.png "Switching between languages in the Pages application")

To learn how to manage pages for different cultures, continue with [Editing the content of multilingual websites](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/multilingual-websites/editing-the-content-of-multilingual-websites.md).

## Setting the default content culture

When you create a new website, you specify the default culture in the [New site wizard](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/configuring-kentico/managing-sites/installing-new-sites/creating-new-sites-using-the-wizard.md). If you create a website based on a web template, the site uses the culture of the given web template. All default Kentico web templates use **English - United States** as their default culture.

You can modify the default culture settings of a website in:

- **Settings -> Content -> Default content culture**
- **Sites -> Edit a site -> Default content culture**

The two settings are interlinked. Values configured in one section are reflected in the other location.