DVD & Blu-ray Region & Format Reference

Find region by country

Pick a country to see its DVD region number and Blu-ray region letter.

Country — Select a country —

Note: many modern players and discs are region-free, but this is never guaranteed — always check the specific player and disc.

DVD region codes

0 / ALL	Region-free — plays on any DVD player worldwide
1	USA, Canada (and U.S. territories)
2	Europe, UK, Japan, Middle East, Egypt, South Africa, Greenland
3	Southeast Asia, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau
4	Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, Caribbean, Oceania
5	Russia, Eastern Europe, India, Africa, North Korea, Central & South Asia
6	China
7	Reserved / unused (sometimes used for screeners & pre-release media)
8	International venues — airlines, cruise ships, etc.

Blu-ray region codes

A	Americas (N/Central/S America), East & Southeast Asia incl. Japan & Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong (excludes mainland China)
B	Europe, Africa, Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, Greenland
C	Mainland China, Russia, South Asia (India), Central Asia
ABC	Region-free — plays in all three regions

Disc capacity

Marketed capacity uses decimal GB (1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes). The GiB column is the binary equivalent (bytes ÷ 2³⁰) shown by most operating systems.

Format	Layers / sides	Marketed	≈ GiB
CD-ROM	1 layer	0.7 GB	0.65 GiB
DVD-5	1 side, 1 layer	4.7 GB	4.38 GiB
DVD-9	1 side, 2 layers	8.5 GB	7.92 GiB
DVD-10	2 sides, 1 layer each	9.4 GB	8.75 GiB
DVD-18	2 sides, 2 layers each	17.1 GB	15.9 GiB
BD-25	1 layer	25 GB	23.3 GiB
BD-50	2 layers	50 GB	46.6 GiB
BD-66 (UHD)	2 layers	66 GB	61.5 GiB
BD-100 (UHD)	3 layers	100 GB	93.1 GiB

NTSC vs PAL

	NTSC	PAL
Total lines	525	625
Active resolution	480i	576i
Frame rate	29.97 fps	25 fps
Used in	North America, Japan, parts of S. America & SE Asia	Europe, Australia, much of Asia & Africa