Azure geographies
Azure geographies group one or more regions into discrete markets that support data residency and compliance requirements.
Geography boundaries do not guarantee that every service, feature, or workload configuration meets a specific residency or compliance requirement. Confirm service availability and data handling requirements before deployment.
Regions by Azure geography
Unrestricted regions available to customers and partners in the Azure global cloud.
Showing 30 geographies and 47 regions
| Geography | Regions |
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| Africa |
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| Asia Pacific |
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| Australia |
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| Austria |
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| Belgium |
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| Brazil |
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| Canada |
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| Chile |
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| Denmark |
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| Europe |
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| France |
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| Germany |
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| India |
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| Indonesia |
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| Israel |
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| Italy |
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| Japan |
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| Korea |
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| Malaysia |
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| Mexico |
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| New Zealand |
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| Norway |
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| Poland |
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| Qatar |
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| Spain |
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| Sweden |
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| Switzerland |
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| United Arab Emirates |
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| United Kingdom | |
| United States |
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What is an Azure geography?
An Azure geography is a discrete market that contains one or more Azure regions. Geography boundaries help Microsoft offer regional data residency, compliance, and service availability options, but the guarantees available to a workload remain service-specific.
Confirm where each Azure service stores and processes data, which features are available in a region, and whether your configuration meets the required compliance standard. See the official Azure data residency guidance (opens in new tab).
Azure geography vs. region
These infrastructure terms describe different levels of Azure location and resiliency.
- Geography
- A market and data-residency boundary containing one or more regions.
- Region
- A latency-defined deployment location made up of datacenters connected by a regional network.
- Availability zone
- A physically separated group of datacenters within a region, where supported.
- Region pair
- A documented relationship used by some Azure services for replication or recovery sequencing.
Compare individual Azure regions, explore the region map, or review availability zone support.
Additional resources
Explore related Azure infrastructure directories and official planning guidance.
Azure geography documentation
Learn how Microsoft organizes Azure regions into geographic markets.
Explore Azure geographiesAzure data residency
Review how Azure services store and process customer data by geography.
Review data residencyAzure region pairs
Understand paired and nonpaired regions for service-specific resiliency planning.
Read region-pair guidance