Within an Advanced Alert, Mention offers the ability to keyword crawl specific countries utilizing their country codes. With the source_country: operator, you can refine your keyword searches to monitor or block one or multiple countries.

Here are the topics we will cover in this article:

Source_Country Operator
Country Codes for Advanced Alerts
Country Monitoring Shortcuts

⚙️ Country monitoring only works for the following sources: Web, News, Blogs, Forums and Twitter/X.

Boolean Operators for Country Monitoring

In order to conduct country monitoring on an Advanced Alert, you will need to understand the following operators:

source_country: 
-has:source_country

These operators will restrict your mentions based on the data provided by the websites. Most websites will have a country code attached to their configuration. These country codes will be reviewed by Mention if you are actively using a country monitoring operator.

If you want to monitor by a specific a specific country or countries, you can utilize the source_country: operator. This operator will only fetch mentions that have a specific country code. You can write your query like this:

Starbucks AND source_country: (EN or ES)

This query will fetch mentions from the United States (EN) or Spain (ES) as long as the websites meet the country code requirement. Mentions that are not from the United States or Spain will not be brought in!

What if a website does not have a country code?

Some websites do not always include a country code. If a website does not have a country code, you can still monitor it with the operator -has:source_country. Here is an example:

Starbucks AND (source_country: (FR) OR -has:source_country)

This query will fetch mentions from France (FR) and from websites that do not have a listed country code. This is a great way to ensure that your alert can fetch content from France even if some websites do not explicitly list their country code as FR.

Country Codes List

Mention has the ability to monitor any ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code. Below , we have provided a list of some of these country codes to assist with your monitoring! Please feel free to use Command+F / Ctrl +F to easily search for a specific country you want to monitor:

Afghanistan	AF
Aland islands	AX
Albania	AL
Algeria	DZ
American Samoa	AS
Andorra	AD
Angola	AO
Anguilla	AI
Antarctica	AQ
Antigua and Barbuda	AG
Argentina	AR
Armenia	AM
Aruba	AW
Australia	AU
Austria	AT
Azerbaijan	AZ
Bahamas	BS
Bahrain	BH
Bangladesh	BD
Barbados	BB
Belarus	BY
Belgium	BE
Belize	BZ
Benin	BJ
Bermuda	BM
Bhutan	BT
Bolivia	BO
Bosnia & Herzegovina	BA
Botswana	BW
Bouvet Island	BV
Brazil	BR
British Indian Ocean territory	IO
Brunei	BN
Bulgaria	BG
Burkina Faso	BF
Burundi	BI
Cambodia	KH
Cameroon	CM
Canada	CA
Cape Verde
Caribbean Netherlands
Cayman Islands	KY
Central African Republic	CF
Chad	TD
Chile	CL
China	CN
Christmas Island	CX
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	CC
Colombia	CO
Comoros	KM
Congo - Brazzaville	CG
Congo - Kinshasa	CD
Cook Islands	CK
Costa Rica	CR
Côte d'Ivoire	CI
Croatia	HR
Cuba	CU
Curaçao	CW
Cyprus	CY
Czechia	CZ
Denmark	DK
Djibouti	DJ
Dominica	DM
Dominican Republic	DO
Ecuador	EC
Egypt	EG
El Salvador	SV
Equatorial Guinea	GQ
Eritrea	ER
Eswatini	SZ
Falkland Islands	FK
Faroe Islands	FO
Fiji	FJ
Finland	FI
France	FR
French Guinea	GF
French Polynesia	PF
French Southern Territories	TF
Gabon	GA
Gambia	GM
Georgia	GE
Germany	DE
Ghana	GH
Gibraltar	GI
Greece	GR
Greenland	GL
Grenada	GD
Guadalupe	GP
Guam	GU
Guatemala	GT
Guernsey	GG
Guinea	GN
Guinea - Bissau	GW
Guyana	GY
Haiti	HT
Heard & McDonald Islands	HM
Honduras	HN
Hong Kong SAR China	HK
Hungary	HU
Iceland	IS
India	IN
Indonesia	ID
Iran	IR
Iraq	IQ
Ireland	IE
Isle of Man	IM
Israel	IL
Italy	IT
Jamaica	JM
Japan	JP
Jersey	JE
Jordan	JO
Kazakhstan	KZ
Kenya	KE
Kiribati	KI
Kuwait	KW
Kyrgyzstan	KG
Laos	LA
Latvia	LV
Lebanon	LB
Lesotho	LS
Liberia	LR
Libya	LY
Liechtenstein	LI
Lithuania	LT
Macao SAR China	MO
Madagascar	MG
Malawi	MW
Malaysia	MY
Maldives	MV
Mali	ML
Malta	MT
Marshal islands	MH
Martinique	MQ
Mauritania	MR
Mauritius	MU
Mayotte	YT
Mexico	MX
Micronesia	FM
Moldova	MD
Monaco	MC
Mongolia	MN
Montenegro	ME
Montserrat	MS
Morocco	MA
Mozambique	MZ
Myanmar (Burma)	MM
Namibia	NA
Nauru	NR
Nepal	NP
Netherlands	NL
New Caledonia	NC
New Zealand	NZ
Nicaragua	NI
Niger	NE
Nigeria	NG
Niue	NU
Norfolk Island	NF
North Korea	KP
North Macedonia	MK
Northern Mariana Islands	MP
Norway	NO
Oman	OM
Pakistan	PK
Palau	PW
Palestinian territories	PS
Panama	PA
Papúa New Guinea	PG
Paraguay	PY
Peru	PE
Philippines	PH
Pitcairn Islands	PN
Poland	PL
Portugal	PT
Puerto Rico	PR
Qatar	QA
Reunion	RE
Romania	RO
Russia	RU
Rwanda	RW
Samoa	WS
San Marino	SM
São Tomé and Principe	ST
Saudi Arabia	SA
Senegal	SN
Serbia	RS
Seychelles	SC
Sierra Leone	SL
Singapore	SG
Sint Maarten	SX
Slovakia	SK
Slovenia	SI
Solomon Islands	SB
Somalia	SO
South Africa	ZA
South Georgia & Sandwich islands	GS
South Korea	KR
South Sudan	SS
Spain	ES
Sri Lanka	LK
St. Barthelemy	BL
St. Helena	SH
St. Kitts & Nevis	KN
St. Lucia	LC
St. Martin	MF
St. Pierre and Miquelon	PM
St. Vincent and Grenadines	VC
Sudan	SD
Suriname	SR
Svalbard & Jan Mayen	SJ
Sweden	SE
Switzerland	CH
Syria	SY
Taiwan	TW
Tajikistan	TJ
Tanzania	TZ
Thailand	TH
Timor - Lester	TL
Togo	TG
Tokelau	TK
Tonga	TO
Trinidad and Tobago	TT
Tunisia	TN
Turkey	TR
Turkmenistan	TM
Turks and Caicos Islands	TC
Tuvalu	TV
US Outlying Islands	UM
US Virgin Islands	VI
Uganda	UG
Ukraine	UA
United Arab Emirates	AE
United Kingdom	GB
United States	US
Uruguay	UY
Uzbekistan	UZ
Vanuatu	VU
Vatican City
Venezuela	VE
Vietnam	VN
Wallis & Futuna	WF
Western Sahara	EH
Yemen	YE
Zambia	ZM
Zimbabwe	ZW

⚙️ Please be aware that this is not the full list of country codes. If you would like to review the full list, please head on over to the ISO website and search by country codes:

Countries Monitoring Shortcuts for the Advanced Alert:

To save time, we have compiled quick shortcuts for country monitoring based on specific regions. Please feel free to copy these shortcuts into your boolean query to monitor specific countries:

If you want to monitor all the European countries, you can use this shortcut:

AND source_country:(AL OR AD OR AM OR AT OR AZ OR BY OR BE OR BA OR BG OR HR OR CY OR CZ OR DK OR EE OR FI OR FR OR GE OR DE OR GR OR HU OR IE OR IT OR KZ OR LV OR LI OR LT OR LU OR MT OR MD OR MC OR ME OR NL OR NO OR PL OR PT OR RO OR RU OR SM OR RS OR SK OR SI OR ES OR SE OR CH OR TR OR UA OR GB)

If you want to monitor all African countries, you can use this shortcut:

Source_country: ("DZ" OR "AO" OR "BJ" OR "BW" OR "BF" OR "BI" OR "CM" OR "CV" OR "CF" OR "TD" OR "KM" OR "CG" OR "CD" OR "CI" OR "DJ" OR "EG" OR "GQ" OR "ER" OR "ET" OR "GA" OR "GM" OR "GH" OR "GN" OR "GW" OR "KE" OR "LS" OR "LR" OR "LY" OR "MG" OR "ML" OR "MW" OR "MR" OR "MU" OR "YT" OR "MA" OR "MZ" OR "NA" OR "NE" OR "NG" OR "RE" OR "RW" OR "ST" OR "SN" OR "SC" OR "SL" OR "SO" OR "ZA" OR "SS" OR "SD" OR "SZ" OR "TZ" OR "TG" OR "TN" OR "UG" OR "EH" OR "ZM" OR "ZW")

If you need to monitor all the Middle East countries, you can copy paste this in your Boolean query:

AND source_country:(AT OR BE OR BG OR HR OR CY OR CZ OR DK OR EE OR FI OR FR OR DE OR GR OR HU OR IE OR IT OR LV OR LI OR LT OR LU OR MT OR MD OR MC OR NL OR NO OR PL OR PT OR RO OR RU OR SM OR RS OR SK OR SI OR ES OR SE OR CH OR TR OR UA OR GB OR AE OR QA OR SA OR JO OR LB OR IQ OR IN OR IL OR EG OR OM OR BH OR KW)

If you need to monitor all the LATAM countries:

AND source_country:(BR OR PE OR MX OR CO OR AR OR VE OR CL OR EC OR GT OR CU OR BO OR DO OR HT OR HN OR PY OR SV OR NI OR CR OR PR OR PA OR UY OR SR OR GY)

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