SharePoint Locale ID (LCID) Table

SharePoint Locale ID (LCID) Table

Windows uses a Locale Identifier (LCID) to determine the language and culture to use when displaying information to a user.  The users LCID is picked up from his/her regional settings within windows or from the language settings for the browser.  The application then displays resources, number and date formatting according to the the local.  This post lists a table of LCID's, the short name and full name of each locale.
All products, such as SharePoint, SQL, .NET all use this to assist with formatting.  As this post is focusing on LCIDS in SharePoint, there are several folders within the 12 hive that allow you to globalise and localise your application.
\BIN\LCID

SharePoint deploys local specific dll's for custom messages used within the SharePoint framework.  You will typically not be updating this folder with your own DLL's.

\HCCab\LCID

You are able to create and deploy your own help files that integrate into the SharePoint help system.  Doing this is not the simplest of tasks and does require a very specific way to deploy your help files.

\Help\LCID  

  This folder contains a compiled help file (.chm) that is used when installing SharePoint.  There is no need for you to change this folder.

\TEMPLATE\LCID  

SharePoint is an international product and supports globalisation.  You are able to localise your site to any supported language.  The LCID is the local identifier for a language and is commonly used through windows programming.

\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\LCID  

The layouts folder contains application pages and there is a LCID folder for each language.  This LCID folder contains localised java scripts, cascading style sheets and images used in the application page. 

\TEMPLATE\SQL\LCID  

Localised default script and data used when the SharePoint provisioning engine creates a database.

\ISAPI\HELP\LCID  

Help content for the SharePoint web services.

Table of locals

Locale Description	Short String	Decimal Value
Afrikaans	af	1078
Albanian	sq	1052
Arabic - United Arab Emirates	ar-ae	14337
Arabic - Bahrain	ar-bh	15361
Arabic - Algeria	ar-dz	5121
Arabic - Egypt	ar-eg	3073
Arabic - Iraq	ar-iq	2049
Arabic - Jordan	ar-jo	11265
Arabic - Kuwait	ar-kw	13313
Arabic - Lebanon	ar-lb	12289
Arabic - Libya	ar-ly	4097
Arabic - Morocco	ar-ma	6145
Arabic - Oman	ar-om	8193
Arabic - Qatar	ar-qa	16385
Arabic - Saudi Arabia	ar-sa	1025
Arabic - Syria	ar-sy	10241
Arabic - Tunisia	ar-tn	7169
Arabic - Yemen	ar-ye	9217
Armenian	hy	1067
Azeri - Latin	az-az	1068
Azeri - Cyrillic	az-az	2092
Basque	eu	1069
Belarusian	be	1059
Bulgarian	bg	1026
Catalan	ca	1027
Chinese - China	zh-cn	2052
Chinese - Hong Kong SAR	zh-hk	3076
Chinese - Macau SAR	zh-mo	5124
Chinese - Singapore	zh-sg	4100
Chinese - Taiwan	zh-tw	1028
Croatian	hr	1050
Czech	cs	1029
Danish	da	1030
Dutch - The Netherlands	nl-nl	1043
Dutch - Belgium	nl-be	2067
English - Australia	en-au	3081
English - Belize	en-bz	10249
English - Canada	en-ca	4105
English - Caribbean	en-cb	9225
English - Ireland	en-ie	6153
English - Jamaica	en-jm	8201
English - New Zealand	en-nz	5129
English - Phillippines	en-ph	13321
English - South Africa	en-za	7177
English - Trinidad	en-tt	11273
English - United Kingdom	en-gb	2057
English - United States	en-us	1033
Estonian	et	1061
Farsi	fa	1065
Finnish	fi	1035
Faroese	fo	1080
French - France	fr-fr	1036
French - Belgium	fr-be	2060
French - Canada	fr-ca	3084
French - Luxembourg	fr-lu	5132
French - Switzerland	fr-ch	4108
Gaelic - Ireland	gd-ie	2108
Gaelic - Scotland	gd	1084
German - Germany	de-de	1031
German - Austria	de-at	3079
German - Liechtenstein	de-li	5127
German - Luxembourg	de-lu	4103
German - Switzerland	de-ch	2055
Greek	el	1032
Hebrew	he	1037
Hindi	hi	1081
Hungarian	hu	1038
Icelandic	is	1039
Indonesian	id	1057
Italian - Italy	it-it	1040
Italian - Switzerland	it-ch	2064
Japanese	ja	1041
Korean	ko	1042
Latvian	lv	1062
Lithuanian	lt	1063
FYRO Macedonian	mk	1071
Malay - Malaysia	ms-my	1086
Malay – Brunei	ms-bn	2110
Maltese	mt	1082
Marathi	mr	1102
Norwegian - Bokmål	no-no	1044
Norwegian - Nynorsk	no-no	2068
Polish	pl	1045
Portuguese - Portugal	pt-pt	2070
Portuguese - Brazil	pt-br	1046
Raeto-Romance	rm	1047
Romanian - Romania	ro	1048
Romanian - Republic of Moldova	ro-mo	2072
Russian	ru	1049
Russian - Republic of Moldova	ru-mo	2073
Sanskrit	sa	1103
Serbian - Cyrillic	sr-sp	3098
Serbian - Latin	sr-sp	2074
Setsuana	tn	1074
Slovenian	sl	1060
Slovak	sk	1051
Sorbian	sb	1070
Spanish - Spain	es-es	1034
Spanish - Argentina	es-ar	11274
Spanish - Bolivia	es-bo	16394
Spanish - Chile	es-cl	13322
Spanish - Colombia	es-co	9226
Spanish - Costa Rica	es-cr	5130
Spanish - Dominican Republic	es-do	7178
Spanish - Ecuador	es-ec	12298
Spanish - Guatemala	es-gt	4106
Spanish - Honduras	es-hn	18442
Spanish - Mexico	es-mx	2058
Spanish - Nicaragua	es-ni	19466
Spanish - Panama	es-pa	6154
Spanish - Peru	es-pe	10250
Spanish - Puerto Rico	es-pr	20490
Spanish - Paraguay	es-py	15370
Spanish - El Salvador	es-sv	17418
Spanish - Uruguay	es-uy	14346
Spanish - Venezuela	es-ve	8202
Sutu	sx	1072
Swahili	sw	1089
Swedish - Sweden	sv-se	1053
Swedish - Finland	sv-fi	2077
Tamil	ta	1097
Tatar	tt	1092
Thai	th	1054
Turkish	tr	1055
Tsonga	ts	1073
Ukrainian	uk	1058
Urdu	ur	1056
Uzbek - Cyrillic	uz-uz	2115
Uzbek – Latin	uz-uz	1091
Vietnamese	vi	1066
Xhosa	xh	1076
Yiddish	yi	1085
Zulu	zu	1077