Region 4 - Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Central America, Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean. Region 5 - Eastern Europe, Russia, the Indian Subcontinent, Africa, North Korea, and Mongolia. Region 6 - China. Region 7 - reserved for unspecified special use.
Region 4
The region code, which in some languages is referred to as a "country code", usually appears on the back of DVD cases toward the bottom, and may be represented merely as a number or as a number within a stylized or squashed globe. The region code refers to a geographic region of the world rather than the language of the DVD
0-Region code "0" is an informal way of saying that all region codes are set, which is equivalent to the absence of a region code. There is not really a region code "0".
1-USA and Canada (not Mexico or Greenland)
2-Western Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, and Japan
3-Southeast Asia
4-Central and South America and Oceania
5-Africa, India, and countries of the Former Soviet Union
6-Mainland China
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Australia is DVD-region 4:
DVD-Region codes and countries
Region code
Area
FREE
Informal term meaning "worldwide". Region 0 is not an official setting; discs that bear the region 0 symbol either have no flag set or have regions 1-6 flags set. Region 0 is commonly referred to as "Region Free", especially when talking about DVD and Blu-ray Disc players.
0
1
United States, Canada, Bermuda, Caribbean, U.S. territories
2
Europe, Middle East, Japan, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Greenland, British Overseas Territories, British Crown Dependencies, French Overseas departments and territories
3
Southeast Asia, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau
4
South America, Central America, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea and much of Oceania
5
Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Africa (exceptEgypt, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho), Central Asia, Mongolia, North Korea
6
China
7
Reserved for future use, MPAA-related DVDs and "media copies" of pre-releases in Asia
8
International venues such as aircraft, cruise ships, spacecraft, etc.
9
These region discs have all eight flags set, allowing the disc to be played in any location, on any player.
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