How to Add a New Country in the WooCommerce Default Country List

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How to Add a New Country in the WooCommerce Default Country List

September 2, 2016
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Hooks in WordPress allows you to manipulate code without altering the core files. Similarly, action hook enables inserting custom code at various points whenever a particular hook is called.

If you use a hook to add or manipulate the existing code, add it to your custom code in your Theme‘s functions.php file. In this article, you will learn to add a missing country in WooCommerce default countries list without editing WooCommerce core files.

To add a new country in WooCommerce default countries list, WooCommerce provides a hook named as woocommerce_countires. Just add the following code in your Theme‘s functions.php file:

// hook to update WooCommerce countries list
add_action('woocommerce_countries', 'add_new_country_woocommerce', 10, 1);

// function to add new country
function add_new_country_woocommerce( $country ) {
    $country['US'] = 'United State';
   return $country;
 }

// hook to update WooCommerce countries list

add_action('woocommerce_countries', 'add_new_country_woocommerce', 10, 1);

// function to add new country

function add_new_country_woocommerce( $country ) {

$country['US'] = 'United State';

return $country;

}