Title: Adding regions
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Adding regions

 *  Resolved [yandoos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yandoos/)
 * (@yandoos)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-regions/)
 * Hello is there a way to import regions? It seems I have all the countries but
   would need to manually create each state for each country. Can this be imported?
 * Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/business-directory-plugin/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/business-directory-plugin/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Business Directory Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/businessdirectoryplugin/)
 * (@businessdirectoryplugin)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-regions/#post-6172222)
 * Hi yandoos,
 * Right now, BD allows you to import listings automatically. But we don’t have 
   support for doing the same with regions. We do have a place under Directory Admin-
   >Manage Regions where you can click the tab “Add Multiple Regions” and add a 
   bunch of regions (copy/paste) under a parent region at a time, which does speed
   things up a bit.
 *  Thread Starter [yandoos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yandoos/)
 * (@yandoos)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-regions/#post-6172322)
 * Thank you for letting me know.
 * Does the regions support towns as well? e.g. country > county > town????
 * I’ve tried adding one and in the listing form there is no select generated to
   pick the town.
 * Thank you
 *  Plugin Author [Business Directory Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/businessdirectoryplugin/)
 * (@businessdirectoryplugin)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-regions/#post-6172331)
 * Hi yandoos,
 * If you want that kind of hierarchy, you’ll need to configure the regions to allow
   for that. You can make it whatever you want, but you’ll have to set up the regions
   under Directory Admin->Manage Regions to match that hierarchy first. After that,
   you should make sure you have 3 regions fields under Manage Form Fields that 
   are named as you note above. But it all starts with the hierarchy.
 * Our documentation covers more about it here: [http://businessdirectoryplugin.com/docs/#premium-regions](http://businessdirectoryplugin.com/docs/#premium-regions)

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