# Two letters country tags **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [June 25, 2017, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/two-letters-country-tags/196923 "2017-06-25T12:58:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Youri\_Margarine](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/youri_margarine/32/82963_2.png) [@Youri\_Margarine](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Youri_Margarine)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/two-letters-country-tags/196923/1 "2017-06-25T12:58:23Z")
Hep! I noticed many movies now receive a 2 letters country tag which is quiet frustrating when you don’t know the code for obscure countries like Cameroon, Chile or whaterver. I’d much prefer having the full country name there. Is there a way to change that? ---
**Author:** ![Youri\_Margarine](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/youri_margarine/32/82963_2.png) [@Youri\_Margarine](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Youri_Margarine)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 7:21am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/two-letters-country-tags/196923/3 "2017-07-01T07:21:30Z")
> @trumpy81 said: > Unfortunately, both 2 and 3 letter language codes are a part of a standard and Plex follows that standard. I can understand that. But then why does it uses 2/3 letters codes sometimes and the whole country names some other times. That’s not what I call “Following a standard”, it just makes a mess of the whole country thing. > @trumpy81 said: > For your examples, Cameroon is a mostly French speaking country and the code is fr or fra. Chile is mostly a Spanish speaking country and the language code is es or spa. Yes, but then again, plex files it under CR and CL repectively. Users should not need a code list to search for anything. I should be simple. ---
**Author:** ![Youri\_Margarine](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/youri_margarine/32/82963_2.png) [@Youri\_Margarine](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Youri_Margarine)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 6:37pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/two-letters-country-tags/196923/5 "2017-07-01T18:37:56Z")
But I wasn’t talking about the subtitles, which are fine, but the country tags, as shown in this picture: ![](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/uploads/default/original/3X/f/6/f6596fbd1acca82ad3c7a67dc823ba50f7ede89b.png) ---
**Author:** ![teneightypea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@teneightypea](https://forums.plex.tv/u/teneightypea)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/two-letters-country-tags/196923/7 "2017-07-01T22:40:24Z")
I’ve just checked my library and can confirm both _France_ and _FR_ exist together but there are no movie overlaps when I actually filter using either country. Is this based on the database the film information is sourced from? I think I use TMDb for movies. Even weird non-countries like _West Germany_ are present so there appears to be something weird going on with where this country information is sourced from. ---
**Author:** ![teneightypea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@teneightypea](https://forums.plex.tv/u/teneightypea)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 5:55am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/two-letters-country-tags/196923/9 "2017-07-02T05:55:23Z")
One I see as a problem example is for the film _The Act of Killing_ IMDb: [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375605/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375605/) and TMDb: [https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/123678-the-act-of-killing](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/123678-the-act-of-killing) My Plex server library lists the country for the film as: DK and I also have Denmark as an option to filter by in my library which displays other films and not _The Act of Killing_. ---
**Author:** ![robot2xl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/robot2xl/32/4102_2.png) [@robot2xl](https://forums.plex.tv/u/robot2xl)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/two-letters-country-tags/196923/11 "2017-07-10T16:04:42Z")
Same here. Any fix? ---
**Author:** ![robot2xl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/robot2xl/32/4102_2.png) [@robot2xl](https://forums.plex.tv/u/robot2xl)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 12:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/two-letters-country-tags/196923/13 "2017-09-05T12:19:42Z")
Please fix ---
**Author:** ![Youri\_Margarine](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/youri_margarine/32/82963_2.png) [@Youri\_Margarine](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Youri_Margarine)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/two-letters-country-tags/196923/14 "2017-11-11T18:29:32Z")
It seems to have been silently fixed, I refreshed my collection metadata and bam, 99.9% is tagged correctly, only a few of them are not. Can someone confirm? ---
**Author:** ![robot2xl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/robot2xl/32/4102_2.png) [@robot2xl](https://forums.plex.tv/u/robot2xl)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2017, 10:28am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/two-letters-country-tags/196923/15 "2017-11-15T10:28:52Z")
The problem is back. ---
**Author:** ![robot2xl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/robot2xl/32/4102_2.png) [@robot2xl](https://forums.plex.tv/u/robot2xl)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 3:30am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/two-letters-country-tags/196923/17 "2017-11-16T03:30:00Z")
I do not understand the attempt to justify. Regardless of whether IMDB always provides the name of the country using ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 (because the TMDB agent sends the full name except when no one has added the country of production), a Plex script must be able to convert those codes to the name of the country and offer a clean and consistent database. It is logical and reasonable. When I say that the problem returned it is because a few days ago when adding a new library using the IMDB Plex Movies agent the country appeared with its name in all the movies but doing exactly the same a few days later they were added again with the code ISO 3166- 1 alpha-2. I do not know why. Try yourself adding a new library using the Plex Movies agent and you will see that it happens. Regardless of whether TMDB or IMDB is selected inside the Plex Movies agent. If you add a new library using the TMDB agent and secondly Plex Movies, the problem is solved. But I do not want to use the TMDB agent, I want to use the Plex Movie agent as the primary agent because if I use the TMDB agent as the primary agent it could not include Open Subtitiles or Cine Material. Never in the many years that Plex has existed there was a problem like this. Always the country was deployed with the full name, how it should be, not ISO 3166- 1 alpha-2 code. It is a problem of the agent “Plex Movies” that the guys of Plex must solve. And it’s incredible that they do not care. ---
**Author:** ![Youri\_Margarine](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/youri_margarine/32/82963_2.png) [@Youri\_Margarine](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Youri_Margarine)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 9:05am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/two-letters-country-tags/196923/18 "2017-11-16T09:05:39Z")
> @trumpy81 said: > You are aware that some countries have both full names and two letter codes and that some countries only have two letter codes. The country selector is looking a whole lot better than it did before. Just to be concise, when I still had this problem, none of the movies had both tags. NL and Netherlands for example gave two different sets of movies. ---
**Author:** ![robot2xl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/robot2xl/32/4102_2.png) [@robot2xl](https://forums.plex.tv/u/robot2xl)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/two-letters-country-tags/196923/19 "2017-12-12T20:10:49Z")
Please fix ---
**Author:** ![tbins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ea924/32.png) [@tbins](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tbins)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 2:13pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/two-letters-country-tags/196923/20 "2018-01-13T14:13:58Z")
Same issue here… Much obliged for a fix ! ---
**Author:** ![Paulios](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/paulios/32/84113_2.png) [@Paulios](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Paulios)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 12:46pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/two-letters-country-tags/196923/21 "2018-02-22T12:46:16Z")
This brought me to this thread. Noticing the problem, I mean. I just lost a hard drive so found myself with the horrible task of re-adding my collection to plex to create a new library. Firstly, not too many of them actually have descriptions until I fix match and then use plex movie as the agent or tmdb. That’s another issue though. I have loads of different two letter countries and also country names, many that are representing the same country, as others have stated. Hardly what you expect from a software such as this. How hard would it be to have Plex grab those codes and turn them into proper country word for the end user to understand - without the need to consult a list? Easy, I reckon. Easier than a script to concatenate the two into one? A simple merging of two equal country entries, such as US and USA or ES and Spain… I could write that in dos hehe, or a batchfile, but can’t offer any real help! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 11:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/two-letters-country-tags/196923/22 "2020-01-07T23:27:03Z")