how to change country in google play store account in 2021

As many of you already know that the apps and games and other digital product availability differ based on the location you are living, including Google Play Store and App Store, and not only in apps and games this thing can be seen in movies as well.

Dependent upon a user's region and different other minor components, he or she will be offered different types of applications to choose from. There are lots of factors and reasons, Sometimes it’s a matter of copyrights, or and sometimes it's for your convenience, for example, if you are living in japan you wouldn't want to see german food delivery apps in your google play library wouldn't you? while searching for Japanese restaurant food delivery apps.

Whatever the case is, we acknowledge that by this point all of our readers should know how to access those apps or content that’s unavailable in your location in your play store. 

So let's see ...

how to change the country in google play store account in 2021

Ways to change the country in google play


the most common way to do that is by using a VPN to access those play store apps, pick a server in the country where the application you need is allowed, and voila. 

but is VPN the only way to access those blocked apps/games in your country?
and what if the VPN itself gets banned for your location? there are many countries such as Russia, China, North Korea, etc why the government has banned the VPN.

Fortunately, there is another way to access those blocked apps and games on google play store than just using a VPN

let's see how you can change the country of your google play account

But in the Google play store, it's not that easy to switch your desired country in their app store. 
because in order to do that you actually have to physically travel to the region you’d like to switch to or use a VPN.

however, apart from this, there is one way through which you can change the country of your google account.


But Critical NOTICE! You should know that according to Google's licenses policy, google allows you to change region only once per year.
how to change country in google play store account in 2020
source: quora


So before you proceed with this guide, you won't be able to undo it.

so let's see 

how you can change your google play account country


here are the steps to change the google play store country:
  1. Go to google payments
  2. go to settings –> Country
  3. Click the Create new profile
  4. Click continue
  5. choose the country
  6. enter all the necessary details and submit
  7. Set the new profile as the Default country profile in the top left of your Payments page.
  8. Go to your Google Play Store and choose Account in the menu to the left.
  9. Scroll down and tap Country and profiles.
  10. Select the profile that you’ve just created and restart Google Play Market.
That is it! You've successfully changed the Play store country and you should now be able to see the apps of the country even without a VPN. 

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2 Comments

  1. Does the Country Change apply to all devices under the account?
    as in do all the devices change together to the new country and go under the 365day block?
    or does it just change 1 device only?

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  2. In spite of endless Google support replies saying it's not possible to change your country without adding a payment method, this works (as of september 2021, they change things all the time without changing their documentation)

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