How to restrict a Google search to results of a specific language? – Web Applications Stack Exchange
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/07
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] How to restrict a Google search to results of a specific language? – Web Applications Stack Exchange (thanks [Wayback/Archive] ZygD):
1. Web interface language:
hl=Example:
www.google.com/search?q=vilnius&hl=lt2. Pages in specified language:
lr=lang_Example:
www.google.com/search?q=vilnius&lr=lang_lt3. Pages originating from specified country:
cr=countryExample:
www.google.com/search?q=vilnius&cr=countryLT
Note that the two country code characters have to be in UPPERCASE ! Otherwise Google ignores the parameter (as of 2017-01-03) (even though lower case works fine forhl=andlr=lang_).
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Web Interface Language Codes hl=af Afrikaans hl=ak Akan hl=sq Albanian hl=am Amharic hl=ar Arabic hl=hy Armenian hl=az Azerbaijani hl=eu Basque hl=be Belarusian hl=bem Bemba hl=bn Bengali hl=bh Bihari hl=xx-bork Bork, bork, bork! hl=bs Bosnian hl=br Breton hl=bg Bulgarian hl=km Cambodian hl=ca Catalan hl=chr Cherokee hl=ny Chichewa hl=zh-CN Chinese (Simplified) hl=zh-TW Chinese (Traditional) hl=co Corsican hl=hr Croatian hl=cs Czech hl=da Danish hl=nl Dutch hl=xx-elmer Elmer Fudd hl=en English hl=eo Esperanto hl=et Estonian hl=ee Ewe hl=fo Faroese hl=tl Filipino hl=fi Finnish hl=fr French hl=fy Frisian hl=gaa Ga hl=gl Galician hl=ka Georgian hl=de German hl=el Greek hl=gn Guarani hl=gu Gujarati hl=xx-hacker Hacker hl=ht Haitian Creole hl=ha Hausa hl=haw Hawaiian hl=iw Hebrew hl=hi Hindi hl=hu Hungarian hl=is Icelandic hl=ig Igbo hl=id Indonesian hl=ia Interlingua hl=ga Irish hl=it Italian hl=ja Japanese hl=jw Javanese hl=kn Kannada hl=kk Kazakh hl=rw Kinyarwanda hl=rn Kirundi hl=xx-klingon Klingon hl=kg Kongo hl=ko Korean hl=kri Krio (Sierra Leone) hl=ku Kurdish hl=ckb Kurdish (Soranî) hl=ky Kyrgyz hl=lo Laothian hl=la Latin hl=lv Latvian hl=ln Lingala hl=lt Lithuanian hl=loz Lozi hl=lg Luganda hl=ach Luo hl=mk Macedonian hl=mg Malagasy hl=ms Malay hl=ml Malayalam hl=mt Maltese hl=mi Maori hl=mr Marathi hl=mfe Mauritian Creole hl=mo Moldavian hl=mn Mongolian hl=sr-ME Montenegrin hl=ne Nepali hl=pcm Nigerian Pidgin hl=nso Northern Sotho hl=no Norwegian hl=nn Norwegian (Nynorsk) hl=oc Occitan hl=or Oriya hl=om Oromo hl=ps Pashto hl=fa Persian hl=xx-pirate Pirate hl=pl Polish hl=pt-BR Portuguese (Brazil) hl=pt-PT Portuguese (Portugal) hl=pa Punjabi hl=qu Quechua hl=ro Romanian hl=rm Romansh hl=nyn Runyakitara hl=ru Russian hl=gd Scots Gaelic hl=sr Serbian hl=sh Serbo-Croatian hl=st Sesotho hl=tn Setswana hl=crs Seychellois Creole hl=sn Shona hl=sd Sindhi hl=si Sinhalese hl=sk Slovak hl=sl Slovenian hl=so Somali hl=es Spanish hl=es-419 Spanish (Latin American) hl=su Sundanese hl=sw Swahili hl=sv Swedish hl=tg Tajik hl=ta Tamil hl=tt Tatar hl=te Telugu hl=th Thai hl=ti Tigrinya hl=to Tonga hl=lua Tshiluba hl=tum Tumbuka hl=tr Turkish hl=tk Turkmen hl=tw Twi hl=ug Uighur hl=uk Ukrainian hl=ur Urdu hl=uz Uzbek hl=vi Vietnamese hl=cy Welsh hl=wo Wolof hl=xh Xhosa hl=yi Yiddish hl=yo Yoruba hl=zu Zulu Search Language Codes lr=lang_af Afrikaans lr=lang_ar Arabic lr=lang_hy Armenian lr=lang_be Belarusian lr=lang_bg Bulgarian lr=lang_ca Catalan lr=lang_zh-CN Chinese (Simplified) lr=lang_zh-TW Chinese (Traditional) lr=lang_hr Croatian lr=lang_cs Czech lr=lang_da Danish lr=lang_nl Dutch lr=lang_en English lr=lang_eo Esperanto lr=lang_et Estonian lr=lang_tl Filipino lr=lang_fi Finnish lr=lang_fr French lr=lang_de German lr=lang_el Greek lr=lang_iw Hebrew lr=lang_hi Hindi lr=lang_hu Hungarian lr=lang_is Icelandic lr=lang_id Indonesian lr=lang_it Italian lr=lang_ja Japanese lr=lang_ko Korean lr=lang_lv Latvian lr=lang_lt Lithuanian lr=lang_no Norwegian lr=lang_fa Persian lr=lang_pl Polish lr=lang_pt Portuguese lr=lang_ro Romanian lr=lang_ru Russian lr=lang_sr Serbian lr=lang_sk Slovak lr=lang_sl Slovenian lr=lang_es Spanish lr=lang_sw Swahili lr=lang_sv Swedish lr=lang_th Thai lr=lang_tr Turkish lr=lang_uk Ukrainian lr=lang_vi Vietnamese…
Sources:
https://sites.google.com/site/tomihasa/google-language-codes
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-see-google-search-results-for-other-locations/25203/
Archived sources:
- [Wayback/Archive] tomihasa – Google Language Codes
- [Wayback/Archive] How To See Google Search Results And Rankings For Different Locations
Query: [Wayback/Archive] search google specific language – Google Search.
–jeroen
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