Locales

The Mimesis supports multiple locales. This means that you can generate data in different languages and for different countries.

The default locale for all providers is English (United States) (Locale.EN).

You have to import Locale object first, like this:

from mimesis.locales import Locale

Now you can specify a locale when creating providers and they will return data that is appropriate for the language or country associated with that locale:

from mimesis import Address
from mimesis.locales import Locale

de = Address(locale=Locale.DE)
ru = Address(locale=Locale.RU)

de.region()
# Output: 'Brandenburg'

ru.federal_subject()
# Output: 'Алтайский край'

de.address()
# Output: 'Mainzer Landstraße 912'

ru.address()
# Output: 'ул. Пехотная 125'

See the table below for more details.

Overriding locale

Sometimes you need only some data from other locale and creating an instance for such cases is not really good, so it’s better just temporarily override current locale for provider’s instance:

from mimesis import Person
from mimesis.locales import Locale

person = Person(locale=Locale.EN)
person.full_name()
# Output: 'Ozie Melton'

with person.override_locale(Locale.RU):
    person.full_name()

# Output: 'Симона Богданова'

person.full_name()
# Output: 'Waldo Foster'

You can also use it with Generic():

from mimesis import Generic
from mimesis.locales import Locale

generic = Generic(locale=Locale.EN)
generic.text.word()
# Output: 'anyone'

with generic.text.override_locale(Locale.FR):
    generic.text.word()

# Output: 'mieux'

generic.text.word()
# Output: 'responsibilities'

Supported locales

Mimesis currently includes support for 35 different locales (see Locale for more details).

The table below lists all supported locales and their associated countries.

Country	Code	Associated attribute	Name	Native Name
🇨🇿	cs	Locale.CS	Czech	Česky
🇩🇰	da	Locale.DA	Danish	Dansk
🇩🇪	de	Locale.DE	German	Deutsch
🇦🇹	de-at	Locale.DE_AT	Austrian German	Deutsch
🇨🇭	de-ch	Locale.DE_CH	Swiss German	Deutsch
🇬🇷	el	Locale.EL	Greek	Ελληνικά
🇺🇸	en	Locale.EN	English	English
🇦🇺	en-au	Locale.EN_AU	Australian English	English
🇨🇦	en-ca	LocALE.EN_CA	Canadian English	English
🇬🇧	en-gb	Locale.EN_GB	British English	English
🇪🇸	es	Locale.ES	Spanish	Español
🇲🇽	es-mx	Locale.ES_MX	Mexican Spanish	Español
🇪🇪	et	Locale.ET	Estonian	Eesti
🇮🇷	fa	Locale.FA	Farsi	فارسی
🇫🇮	fi	Locale.FI	Finnish	Suomi
🇫🇷	fr	Locale.FR	French	Français
🇭🇷	hr	Locale.HR	Croatian	Hrvatski
🇭🇺	hu	Locale.HU	Hungarian	Magyar
🇮🇸	is	Locale.IS	Icelandic	Íslenska
🇮🇹	it	Locale.IT	Italian	Italiano
🇯🇵	ja	Locale.JA	Japanese	日本語
🇰🇿	kk	Locale.KK	Kazakh	Қазақша
🇰🇷	ko	Locale.KO	Korean	한국어
🇳🇱	nl	Locale.NL	Dutch	Nederlands
🇧🇪	nl-be	Locale.NL_BE	Belgium Dutch	Nederlands
🇳🇴	no	Locale.NO	Norwegian	Norsk
🇵🇱	pl	Locale.PL	Polish	Polski
🇵🇹	pt	Locale.PT	Portuguese	Português
🇧🇷	pt-br	Locale.PT_BR	Brazilian Portuguese	Português Brasileiro
🇷🇺	ru	Locale.RU	Russian	Русский
🇸🇰	sk	Locale.SK	Slovak	Slovensky
🇸🇪	sv	Locale.SV	Swedish	Svenska
🇹🇷	tr	Locale.TR	Turkish	Türkçe
🇺🇦	uk	Locale.UK	Ukrainian	Українська
🇨🇳	zh	Locale.ZH	Chinese	汉语