App Engine - How to create project in region us-central

[jan]

I need to create a new project on Google App Engine in the region "us-central" since my SQL database is located in this region and I can not connect projects from other regions to the SQL database.

If I create a new project, it is located by default in EU. There is no option to choose the region during project creation. See the attached screenshot. Is there a way to create a project in "us-central"?

[Jordan (Cloud Platform Support)]

Before when you would create a new project, the console would automatically default to an App Engine region and make an App Engine app for you in that region. This has caused a lot of issues where customers did not want their app in the default location, and did not know to set it at project creation time.

You can now create a new project and not have it auto-create an App Engine app. When this happens, simply select the App Engine section after your project is created, and the console should prompt you to select a coding language and region then. You can also use the following GCloud command to create your App Engine app via the command line:

gcloud app create [--region=REGION]