Edit State, Country, and Territory Details
To customize the states, countries, and territories in your picklists, edit their details.
Required Editions
| Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience |
| Available in: All Editions except Database.com |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To add or edit state, country, or territory details: | Modify All Data |
To add or edit a state or province, navigate to its detail page through the detail page of its associated country.
In the case that the name of a country changes, that change is only automatically applied to new organizations. If you have an existing organization, you must manually update the country name.
Note When there is a state or country translation for the target language
configured in Translation Workbench, the translation value will be displayed in the
picklist.
- From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter State, and then select State and Country/Territory Picklists.
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Click Configure States, Countries, and Territories and choose
your action.
- To add a country, click New Country/Territory.
- To edit a country, click Edit and select the country.
- To add a state or province to a country, click Edit, select the country, and click New State.
- To edit a state or province, click Edit, then select the country and state, and click Edit.
- Configure the State, Country, and Territory picklist fields.
- Specify whether the state, country, or territory is Active and available in the Metadata API and can be imported.
- For an active state, country, or territory, specify whether it’s also Visible and available to users.
- Save your changes.
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