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:
⚙️ 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.
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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!
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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 |
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Caribbean Netherlands |
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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 |
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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:
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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)
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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)
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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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