Current Azure Region Names — Reference
How do you get the name of a region to use in CLI or PowerShell for Azure coding? If you do a lot of CLI or PowerShell coding you will want to know the region names that you can reference for any region specific code you write. In this article I show you how easy it is to find the reference name to use in your code. I included a list of all the current regions as a reference guide to save some time.
To get a list of the current Azure regions using CLI let’s first get logged into the Azure Portal at https://portal.azure.com. Next, we have a very short statement to run:
az account list-locations -o table
Take the statement above and copy that. Once you’re logged into Azure CLI you will see the familiar command line starting point:
Go ahead and paste the code from above by right-clicking and choosing Paste. When you’re ready hit Enter.
The results as of February 2021 hold 64 regions:
The results as of July 2021 hold 68 regions:
The results as of February 2022 hold 75 regions:
The results as of October 2022 hold 79 regions:
The results as of February 2023 hold 80 regions:
The results as of November 2023 hold 83 regions:
The results as of February 2024 hold 83regions:
| DisplayName | Name | RegionalDisplayName |
| East US | eastus | (US) East US |
| East US 2 | eastus2 | (US) East US 2 |
| South Central US | southcentralus | (US) South Central US |
| West US 2 | westus2 | (US) West US 2 |
| West US 3 | westus3 | (US) West US 3 |
| Australia East | australiaeast | (Asia Pacific) Australia East |
| Southeast Asia | southeastasia | (Asia Pacific) Southeast Asia |
| North Europe | northeurope | (Europe) North Europe |
| Sweden Central | swedencentral | (Europe) Sweden Central |
| UK South | uksouth | (Europe) UK South |
| West Europe | westeurope | (Europe) West Europe |
| Central US | centralus | (US) Central US |
| South Africa North | southafricanorth | (Africa) South Africa North |
| Central India | centralindia | (Asia Pacific) Central India |
| East Asia | eastasia | (Asia Pacific) East Asia |
| Japan East | japaneast | (Asia Pacific) Japan East |
| Korea Central | koreacentral | (Asia Pacific) Korea Central |
| Canada Central | canadacentral | (Canada) Canada Central |
| France Central | francecentral | (Europe) France Central |
| Germany West Central | germanywestcentral | (Europe) Germany West Central |
| Italy North | italynorth | (Europe) Italy North |
| Norway East | norwayeast | (Europe) Norway East |
| Poland Central | polandcentral | (Europe) Poland Central |
| Switzerland North | switzerlandnorth | (Europe) Switzerland North |
| UAE North | uaenorth | (Middle East) UAE North |
| Brazil South | brazilsouth | (South America) Brazil South |
| Central US EUAP | centraluseuap | (US) Central US EUAP |
| Israel Central | israelcentral | (Middle East) Israel Central |
| Qatar Central | qatarcentral | (Middle East) Qatar Central |
| Central US (Stage) | centralusstage | (US) Central US (Stage) |
| East US (Stage) | eastusstage | (US) East US (Stage) |
| East US 2 (Stage) | eastus2stage | (US) East US 2 (Stage) |
| North Central US (Stage) | northcentralusstage | (US) North Central US (Stage) |
| South Central US (Stage) | southcentralusstage | (US) South Central US (Stage) |
| West US (Stage) | westusstage | (US) West US (Stage) |
| West US 2 (Stage) | westus2stage | (US) West US 2 (Stage) |
| Asia | asia | Asia |
| Asia Pacific | asiapacific | Asia Pacific |
| Australia | australia | Australia |
| Brazil | brazil | Brazil |
| Canada | canada | Canada |
| Europe | europe | Europe |
| France | france | France |
| Germany | germany | Germany |
| Global | global | Global |
| India | india | India |
| Japan | japan | Japan |
| Korea | korea | Korea |
| Norway | norway | Norway |
| Singapore | singapore | Singapore |
| South Africa | southafrica | South Africa |
| Sweden | sweden | Sweden |
| Switzerland | switzerland | Switzerland |
| United Arab Emirates | uae | United Arab Emirates |
| United Kingdom | uk | United Kingdom |
| United States | unitedstates | United States |
| United States EUAP | unitedstateseuap | United States EUAP |
| East Asia (Stage) | eastasiastage | (Asia Pacific) East Asia (Stage) |
| Southeast Asia (Stage) | southeastasiastage | (Asia Pacific) Southeast Asia (Stage) |
| Brazil US | brazilus | (South America) Brazil US |
| East US STG | eastusstg | (US) East US STG |
| North Central US | northcentralus | (US) North Central US |
| West US | westus | (US) West US |
| Japan West | japanwest | (Asia Pacific) Japan West |
| Jio India West | jioindiawest | (Asia Pacific) Jio India West |
| East US 2 EUAP | eastus2euap | (US) East US 2 EUAP |
| West Central US | westcentralus | (US) West Central US |
| South Africa West | southafricawest | (Africa) South Africa West |
| Australia Central | australiacentral | (Asia Pacific) Australia Central |
| Australia Central 2 | australiacentral2 | (Asia Pacific) Australia Central 2 |
| Australia Southeast | australiasoutheast | (Asia Pacific) Australia Southeast |
| Jio India Central | jioindiacentral | (Asia Pacific) Jio India Central |
| Korea South | koreasouth | (Asia Pacific) Korea South |
| South India | southindia | (Asia Pacific) South India |
| West India | westindia | (Asia Pacific) West India |
| Canada East | canadaeast | (Canada) Canada East |
| France South | francesouth | (Europe) France South |
| Germany North | germanynorth | (Europe) Germany North |
| Norway West | norwaywest | (Europe) Norway West |
| Switzerland West | switzerlandwest | (Europe) Switzerland West |
| UK West | ukwest | (Europe) UK West |
| UAE Central | uaecentral | (Middle East) UAE Central |
| Brazil Southeast | brazilsoutheast | (South America) Brazil Southeast |
You can now use the middle column (Name) to reference your region in code statements.
Examples:
az vm list-sizes -l canadacentralaz vm list-sizes -l eastus
Most businesses will use more than one Azure region for different resources so making sure you run your code against the correct region is very important.
Hopefully this will save you some time; so until next time!