Getting a REGION as a CountryCriteriaId for offers in the Shopping Performance Report

[Mhd Mousa Hamad]

We used to get the country targeted by an offer by searching for the provided CountryCriteriaId for that offer in the Geotargets CSV data looking only or entries with COUNTRY as the Target Type.

Recently, for some offer we get a CountryCriteriaId with value 2344 which represents Hong Kong which is a REGION in the Geotargets data. Shouldn't we get China instead as the country targeted by this offer?

If this an expected behaviour, what other Target Types should we expect in the CountryCriteriaId in the Shopping Performance Report?

Best regards,

Mousa

[Bharani Cherukuri (AdWords API Team)]

Hello Mousa, 

Currently, the location ID: 2344 is for Hong Kong which is an independent country. Hence the country code: HK is an expected behavior. If you're noticing any other regions that are with different country codes than expected, please let me know and share the complete report definition, so I can take a look. You can use Reply privately to author to share any sensitive information. 

Thanks,

Bharani, AdWords API Team