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GeoLocation - Amazon Route 53
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GeoLocation

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A complex type that contains information about a geographic location.

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ContinentCode

The two-letter code for the continent.

Amazon Route 53 supports the following continent codes:

  • AF: Africa

  • AN: Antarctica

  • AS: Asia

  • EU: Europe

  • OC: Oceania

  • NA: North America

  • SA: South America

Constraint: Specifying ContinentCode with either CountryCode or SubdivisionCode returns an InvalidInput error.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Fixed length of 2.

Required: No

CountryCode

For geolocation resource record sets, the two-letter code for a country.

Amazon Route 53 uses the two-letter country codes that are specified in ISO standard 3166-1 alpha-2.

Route 53 also supports the country code UA for Ukraine.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 2.

Required: No

SubdivisionCode

For geolocation resource record sets, the two-letter code for a state of the United States. Route 53 doesn't support any other values for SubdivisionCode. For a list of state abbreviations, see Appendix B: Two–Letter State and Possession Abbreviations on the United States Postal Service website.

If you specify subdivisioncode, you must also specify US for CountryCode.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 3.

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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