Azure Region Names – Reference
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
The results as of November 2023 hold 83 regions:
| Display Name | Name | Regional Display Name |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Jio India West | jioindiawest | (Asia Pacific) Jio India West |
| East US 2 EUAP | eastus2euap | (US) East US 2 EUAP |
| South Central US STG | southcentralusstg | (US) South Central US STG |
| 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 |
| Japan West | japanwest | (Asia Pacific) Japan West |
| 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 |
We can now use the column (Name) to reference the region in code statements.
az vm list-sizes -l canadacentralaz vm list-sizes -l eastus
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