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Understanding Google My Business & Local Search

Mike Blumenthal in Google+ Local
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Google My Business Categories By Country

With the release of V2 of the Google My Business API, Google simultaneously released categories for each of the 135 countries currently supported by the GMB. I noted it at the time but it was lost in the article but I wanted to be sure that folks so these categories and downloaded them if they needed to.

Categories

The category files list all of the business categories used by Google My Business. Download category files for the countries in which you are interested in creating locations. Each country has a different set of valid categories.

The list of available categories may change at any time.

categories_am_ET.csv
categories_ar_AE.csv
categories_ar_BH.csv
categories_ar_EG.csv
categories_ar_IQ.csv
categories_ar_JO.csv
categories_ar_KW.csv
categories_ar_LB.csv
categories_ar_LY.csv
categories_ar_OM.csv
categories_ar_QA.csv
categories_ar_SA.csv
categories_ar_TN.csv
categories_ar_YE.csv
categories_be_BY.csv
categories_bg_BG.csv
categories_bn_BD.csv
categories_ca_AD.csv
categories_cs_CZ.csv
categories_da_DK.csv
categories_de_AT.csv
categories_de_CH.csv
categories_de_DE.csv
categories_de_LI.csv
categories_de_LU.csv
categories_dv_MV.csv
categories_dz_BT.csv
categories_el_GR.csv
categories_en_AS.csv
categories_en_AU.csv
categories_en_BW.csv
categories_en_CA.csv
categories_en_FJ.csv
categories_en_GB.csv
categories_en_GH.csv
categories_en_GM.csv
categories_en_GU.csv
categories_en_IE.csv
categories_en_IN.csv
categories_en_KE.csv
categories_en_MP.csv
categories_en_MT.csv
categories_en_MU.csv
categories_en_MW.csv
categories_en_MY.csv
categories_en_NA.csv
categories_en_NG.csv
categories_en_NZ.csv
categories_en_PG.csv
categories_en_PK.csv
categories_en_PW.csv
categories_en_SB.csv
categories_en_SC.csv
categories_en_SG.csv
categories_en_TO.csv
categories_en_UG.csv
categories_en_US.csv
categories_en_VU.csv
categories_en_WS.csv
categories_en_ZA.csv
categories_en_ZM.csv
categories_en_ZW.csv
categories_es_AR.csv
categories_es_CL.csv
categories_es_CO.csv
categories_es_DO.csv
categories_es_ES.csv
categories_es_MX.csv
categories_et_EE.csv
categories_fa_AF.csv
categories_fi_FI.csv
categories_fr_BI.csv
categories_fr_BJ.csv
categories_fr_CD.csv
categories_fr_CF.csv
categories_fr_CG.csv
categories_fr_CI.csv
categories_fr_DJ.csv
categories_fr_DZ.csv
categories_fr_FR.csv
categories_fr_GA.csv
categories_fr_MA.csv
categories_fr_NC.csv
categories_fr_PF.csv
categories_fr_RW.csv
categories_fr_SN.csv
categories_fr_TD.csv
categories_fr_TG.csv
categories_hr_HR.csv
categories_hu_HU.csv
categories_id_ID.csv
categories_is_IS.csv
categories_it_IT.csv
categories_iw_IL.csv
categories_ja_JP.csv
categories_km_KH.csv
categories_ko_KR.csv
categories_ky_KG.csv
categories_lo_LA.csv
categories_lt_LT.csv
categories_lv_LV.csv
categories_mg_MG.csv
categories_mk_MK.csv
categories_mn_MN.csv
categories_ms_BN.csv
categories_ne_NP.csv
categories_nl_BE.csv
categories_nl_NL.csv
categories_no_NO.csv
categories_pl_PL.csv
categories_pt_AO.csv
categories_pt_BR.csv
categories_pt_MZ.csv
categories_pt_PT.csv
categories_pt_ST.csv
categories_ro_RO.csv
categories_ru_KZ.csv
categories_ru_RU.csv
categories_si_LK.csv
categories_sk_SK.csv
categories_sl_SI.csv
categories_sr_RS.csv
categories_sv_SE.csv
categories_sw_TZ.csv
categories_tg_TJ.csv
categories_th_TH.csv
categories_tk_TM.csv
categories_tl_PH.csv
categories_tr_TR.csv
categories_uk_UA.csv
categories_uz_UZ.csv
categories_vi_VN.csv
categories_zh_HK.csv
categories_zh_MO.csv
categories_zh_TW.csv
Written By
Mike Blumenthal
Comments

13 Comments

Chris (137 comments)

Wow, that’s something! I’ve tried to fetch these categories earlier before they announced GMB API. It cost me much of semi manual work and I haven’t get even half of what is in one file for Poland.

Thanks for sharing Mike

Boyd Butler (19 comments)

very useful – thank you.

Gerry Downey (1 comments)

Thanking you Mike that’s a handy resource to have at hand.

Andrew Forster (59 comments)

@Mike

Thanks for sharing , I used your previous tool on quite a few occasions.

Paul Morris (6 comments)

Thanks Mike, great share.

I’ll take a look through these new Google categories. I hope they’ve added some new ones. I’ve had a few clients recently who have been quite tricky to pin down.

Mike Blumenthal (3913 comments)

Paul – do NOT HOLD BREATH

Akila (1 comments)

Thanks Mike, great resource.

Nico (26 comments)

One question: What is the gcid:xyz for?

Posted first under wrong name.

Alex (34 comments)

Hi Mike, where did you find this information from Google? Is there a link from a Google webpage?

Mike Blumenthal (3913 comments)

Originally I was scraping it, but now Google makes it available via the developer section of the Google My Business API

Hafiz Faraz Mukhtar (1 comments)

Please add Google Pakistan

Sc (3 comments)

The new location for the lists is here: Multi Tabbed Spreadsheet with each tab being a country code:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10QhWFmHYhZI7FL7cQZUqkDkRbexPVthEIfp8iibhA3s/edit#gid=968917860

I saved a local copy b/c this thing seems elusive.

Ramon (1 comments)

Thanks for sharing that link SC. But this list seems incomplete.
Try searching for “Oral Surgeon” on a GMB business profile, that one is completely missing from that spreadsheet, as many others.

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