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How to change advanced region settings on Windows 11
How to change advanced region settings on Windows 11

You can change the country and advanced format settings on Windows 11 to match your location. This Article will show you how.

Elsa Stadler avatar
Written by Elsa Stadler
Updated over a week ago

On Windows 11, the region settings make it easy to ensure that the system and apps can show content based on your location. For example, the Microsoft Store uses the region information to display the apps, games, and videos available in your territory.

In addition, you can also adjust regional format settings to show date, time, numbers, or currency in a different format, across the desktop and apps.

Whether you made a mistake during the initial set-up, want to try an app or feature only available in another region, or need to show the date, time, numbers, or currency in a different format, Windows 11 provides an easy way to change region settings with the Settings app.

To customise numbers, currency, time, and date should appear on Windows 11, use these steps:

  1. Open Settings.

  2. Click on Time & language.

  3. Click the Language & region page on the right side.

4. Under the "Related settings" section, click the Administrative language settings option.

5. Click the Formats tab.

6. Click the Additional settings button.

7. Click the Numbers tab.

8. Customize the regional formats for numbers and symbols.

9. Click the Currency tab.

Note: the currency setting for this example is in US Dollar. You should set your currency to what is applicable for your country.

10. Customize the currency formats on Windows 11.

11. Click the Time tab.

12. Customize the time format more granularly.

13. Click the Date tab.

14. Customize the date format more granularly.

Once you complete the steps, the new format for numbers, currency, time, and date will be reflected across the desktop and apps.

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