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ar-SA on the App Store: the 11 storefronts that read it

ar-SA is the default search language in 11 of the 128 App Store storefronts we measure — 9% of them. Metadata written once in ar-SA is what search reads in every one of them, so the cost of that text is amortised across 11 markets rather than one.

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01What one listing covers

Of the 42 language slots across the 128 storefronts, ar-SA is the third widest. The widest is en-GB at 40 storefronts; 29 slots reach exactly one storefront each, where the same translation work buys a single market instead of 11.

Storefronts per language slot
en-GB40
es-MX17
ar-SA11
fr-FR7
ru-RU6
de-DE3
en-US3
el-GR2

02The storefronts

StorefrontCodeStorefront ID
AlgeriaDZ143563
BahrainBH143559
EgyptEG143516
JordanJO143528
KuwaitKW143493
LebanonLB143497
OmanOM143562
QatarQA143498
Saudi ArabiaSA143479
TunisiaTN143536
YemenYE143571

Each of these 11 rows was verified against three Apple endpoints: the storefront ID returns suggestions, search returns results in that country, and Apple accepts the language code. Two storefronts that failed were dropped rather than listed.

Default is not the only language. Apple can index more than one language in a storefront; this list is the language each storefront's search reads by default. It answers “where does this text land”, not “which languages are indexed here”.

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