# Countries

The Countries tab in Settings centralizes all configuration related to how countries are displayed, ordered, and suggested across your store.

## Rename countries

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This setting is only available on **paid** plans.
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This setting controls **how country names appear** across all selectors in your store.

You can select a country name template to define the format used for country names. The **Default** option uses Orbe’s standard naming format. Selecting **English** displays country names in English, while **Native** displays them in their native language. The **English / Native** option shows the English name followed by the native name.

You can also add custom country names. Any country added here will override the selected template and use the custom name instead.

## Highlight countries

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This setting is only available on **Plus** and **Enterprise** plans.
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In **Highlight countries**, you can define which countries appear at the top of the selector. Highlighted countries are shown first, while all other countries appear below. This order is applied across all active selectors and helps prioritize key markets and make country selection faster for users.

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## Fallback country

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This setting is only available on **paid** plans.
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The **Fallback country** defines which country is suggested to visitors coming from regions you don’t ship to. By default, in this scenarios, the welcome popup will preselect the Backup region of your Shopify store, but if you want to change it you can do it selecting it here.\
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This setting is configured per store and does not affect automatic country detection for supported regions. It is only used when no valid country match is available.

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These settings are **not compatible with** [**Share Settings**](/general/connect-stores/settings.md#shared-settings).

However, for **Plus or Enterprise plans with connected stores**, the following applies:

* **Country ordering** is automatically synced across all connected stores;
* **Custom country names** are also synced;
* When editing these settings, you will see all countries from connected stores in the same view.

The *fallback country* is **not synced** and remains a store-specific setting.
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