State and Country/Territory Picklist Error Messages

Understand the errors that can occur when you try to save records with mismatched code and text values for states, countries, or territories.

Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience

Available in: All Editions except Database.com

Error	Cause
Invalid country specified for field	Your country/territory code doesn’t match an existing country or territory.
There’s a problem with this country, even though it may appear correct. Please select a country from the list of valid countries.	Your country/territory integration value doesn’t match an existing country. Or, the country/territory value was mapped to `Unknown value` during data conversion.
Mismatched integration value and ISO code for field	Your code and integration values match different states or countries.
A country must be specified before specifying a state value for field	Your record has a state code or integration value but no country/territory code. You can’t save a state without a corresponding country.
The existing country doesn’t recognize the state value for field	Your state code and integration values belong to a state in a different country.
Invalid state specified for field	Your state code doesn’t match an existing state.

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