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Province
The REST Province API is deprecated as of version 2024-07.
Please refer to the documentation for each individual endpoint and the developer changelog for more information.
The Province resource represents the sales tax that's applied to orders based the sub-regions of a country. Sub-regions might include counties, emirates, governorates, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and territories.
You can use the Province resource to retrieve and update available sub-regions for only the countries that a shop owner has added to a shipping zone. Merchants add countries to a shipping zone from the Shipping page of their Shopify admin.
For information on accessing the tax information for an entire country, including its provinces, see the Country resource.
As of version 2020-10, you can no longer update custom tax values for the Province resource.
Countries that have provinces in Shopify
Shopify provides provincial tax rates for the following countries:
| A-J | M-Z |
|---|---|
| Argentina (24 provinces) | Mexico (32 states) |
| Australia (8 states/territories) | New Zealand (16 regions) |
| Brazil (27 states) | Nigeria (37 states) |
| Canada (13 provinces/territories) | Panama (13 regions) |
| Chile (16 regions) | Peru (26 regions) |
| China (31 provinces) | Philippines (82 provinces) |
| Colombia (33 provinces) | Portugal (20 regions) |
| Egypt (29 governorates) | Romania (42 counties) |
| Guatemala (22 regions) | Russia (82 regions) |
| Hong Kong (3 regions) | South Africa (9 provinces) |
| India (36 states) | South Korea (17 provinces) |
| Indonesia (34 provinces) | Spain (52 provinces) |
| Ireland (26 counties) | Thailand (78 provinces) |
| Italy (110 provinces) | United Arab Emirates (7 emirates) |
| Japan (47 prefectures) | United Kingdom (5 constituent countries/provinces) |
| Malaysia (16 states/territories) | United States (62 states/territories) |
Endpoints
- get/admin/api/latest/countries/{country_
id}/provinces. json Retrieves a list of provinces for a countrydeprecated - get/admin/api/latest/countries/{country_
id}/provinces/{province_ id}. json Retrieves a single province for a countrydeprecated - get/admin/api/latest/countries/{country_
id}/provinces/count. json Retrieves a count of provinces for a countrydeprecated - put/admin/api/latest/countries/{country_
id}/provinces/{province_ id}. json Updates an existing province for a countrydeprecated
The Province resource
Properties
The standard abbreviation for the province.
The ID for the country that the province belongs to.
The ID for the province.
The full name of the province.
The ID for the shipping zone that the province belongs to.
The sales tax rate to be applied to orders made by customers from this province.
The name of the tax for this province.
The tax type. Valid values: null, normal, harmonized, or compounded.
A harmonized tax is a combination of provincial and federal sales taxes.
Normal and harmonized tax rates are applied to the pre-tax value of an order, but a compounded tax rate is applied on top of other tax rates.
For example, if a $100 order receives a 5% normal tax rate and a 2% compound tax rate, then the post-tax total is $107.10 ((100 x 1.05) x 1.02 = 107.1).
The province's tax in percent format.
The Province resource
Anchor to GET request, Retrieves a list of provinces for a countrygetRetrieves a list of provinces for a country deprecated
This endpoint is deprecated as of 2024-07.
Retrieves a list of provinces.
Show only certain fields, specified by a comma-separated list of fields names.
Restrict results to after the specified ID.
Retrieve all provinces for a country
Retrieve all provinces for a country
Retrieve all provinces for a country after the specified ID
Retrieve all provinces for a country after the specified ID
Restrict results to after the specified ID.
/admin/api/2025-07/countries/879921427/provinces.
Response
Anchor to GET request, Retrieves a single province for a countrygetRetrieves a single province for a country deprecated
This endpoint is deprecated as of version 2024-07.
Retrieves a single province for a country
Show only certain fields, specified by a comma-separated list of field names.
Retrieve a single province
Retrieve a single province
/admin/api/2025-07/countries/879921427/provinces/224293623.
Response
Anchor to GET request, Retrieves a count of provinces for a countrygetRetrieves a count of provinces for a country deprecated
This endpoint is deprecated as of version 2024-07.
Retrieves a count of provinces for a country
Count all provinces
Count all provinces
/admin/api/2025-07/countries/879921427/provinces/count.
Response
Anchor to PUT request, Updates an existing province for a countryputUpdates an existing province for a country deprecated
shipping access scope.This endpoint is deprecated as of version 2024-07.
As of version 2020-10, the tax field is deprecated.
Update a province's tax rate
Update a province's tax rate
Show province properties
The ID for the province.
The sales tax rate to be applied to orders made by customers from this province.