GCP Region Names

gcp-regions.md

Alterantive naming schemes for GCP regions

Purpose

The intent is to define terse. standard-supported names for GCP regions.

Schemes

Region	Location	GCP code	A1	A2	B	Launched
Asia Pacific	Changhua County, Taiwan	asia-east1	asea1	ase1	twcha	2015
Asia Pacific	Hong Kong	asia-east2	asea2	ase2	hk	2018
Asia Pacific	Tokyo, Japan	asia-northeast1	asne1	asne1	jp13	2016
Asia Pacific	Osaka, Japan	asia-northeast2	asne2	asne2	jp27	2019
Asia Pacific	Seoul, South Korea	asia-northeast3	asne3	asne3	kr11	2020
Asia Pacific	Mumbai, India	asia-south1	asso1	ass1	inmh	2018
Asia Pacific	Delhi, India	asia-south2	asso2	ass2	indl	2021
Asia Pacific	Jurong West, Singapore	asia-southeast1	asse1	asse1	sg05	2017
Asia Pacific	Jakarta, Indonesia	asia-southeast2	asse2	asse2	idjk	2020
Asia Pacific	Sydney, Australia	australia-southeast1	ause1	ause1	aunsw	2017
Asia Pacific	Melbourne, Australia	australia-southeast2	ause2	ause2	auvic	2022
EU Central	Warsaw, Poland	europe-central2	euce2	euc2	pl03	2021
EU	Hamina, Finland	europe-north1	euno1	eun1	fi01	2018
EU	Madrid, Spain	europe-southwest1	eusw1	eusw1	esm	2022
EU West	St. Ghislain, Belgium	europe-west1	euwe1	euw1	bewht	2015
EU West	London, England, UK	europe-west2	euwe2	euw2	gblnd	2017
EU West	Frankfurt, Germany	europe-west3	euwe3	euw3	dehe	2017
EU West	Eemshaven, Netherlands	europe-west4	euwe4	euw4	nlgr	2017
EU West	Zurish, Switzerland	europe-west6	euwe6	euw6	ch12	2019
EU West	Milan, Italy	europe-west8	euwe8	euw8	itmi	2022
EU West	Paris, France	europe-west9	euwe9	euw9	fr75	2022
EU West	Turin, Italy	europe-west12	euw12	euw12	itto	2023
Middle East	Doha, Qatar	me-central1	mece1	mec1	qadoha	2023
Middle East	Tel Aviv, Israel	me-west1	mewe1	mew1	iltel	2021
North America	Montréal, Québec, Canada	northamerica-northeast1	nane1	nane1	caqc	2017
North America	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	northamerica-northeast2	nane2	nane2	caon	2021
South America	São Paulo, Brazil	southamerica-east1	saea1	sae1	brsp	2017
South America	Santiago, Chile	southamerica-east2	saea2	sae2	clsb	2021
US Central	Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA	us-central1	usce1	usc1	usia	2015
US East	Moncks Corner, South Carolina, USA	us-east1	usea1	use1	ussc	2015
US East	Ashburn, Northern Virginia, USA	us-east4	usea4	use4	usva	2017
US East	Columbus, Ohio, North America, USA	us-east5	usea5	use5	usoh	2022
US South	Dallas, Texas, USA	us-south1	usso1	uss1	ustx	2022
US West	The Dalles, Oregon, USA	us-west1	uswe1	usw1	usor	2016
US West	Los Angeles, California, USA	us-west2	uswe2	usw2	usca	2017
US West	Salt Lake City, Utah, USA	us-west3	uswe3	usw3	usut	2020
US West	Las Vegas, Nevada, USA	us-west4	uswe4	usw4	usnv	2020

Code	Description
A1	Abbreviated GCP Code(equal length)
A2	Abbreviated GCP Code
B	Concatenated ISO 3166 code

reference

• document templated by https://gist.github.com/colinvh/14e4b7fb6b66c29f79d3
• https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2

Last updated: Jul 7, 2023

For people who need it as json list

[
    "asia-east1",
    "asia-east2",
    "asia-northeast1",
    "asia-northeast2",
    "asia-northeast3",
    "asia-south1",
    "asia-south2",
    "asia-southeast1",
    "asia-southeast2",
    "australia-southeast1",
    "australia-southeast2",
    "europe-central2",
    "europe-north1",
    "europe-southwest1",
    "europe-west1",
    "europe-west2",
    "europe-west3",
    "europe-west4",
    "europe-west6",
    "europe-west8",
    "europe-west9",
    "europe-west12",
    "me-central1",
    "me-west1",
    "northamerica-northeast1",
    "northamerica-northeast2",
    "southamerica-east1",
    "southamerica-east2",
    "us-central1",
    "us-east1",
    "us-east4",
    "us-east5",
    "us-south1",
    "us-west1",
    "us-west2",
    "us-west3",
    "us-west4"
]

This is provided as of 4 April, 2024. In case you want the list of regions as of the date you are reading, just run following script in devtools:

[...document.querySelectorAll("table tr td:nth-child(3)")].map(x=> x.innerText.trim())