Anthropic bans Claude in China, Russia and 10 more countries under new regions policy
scaling01 · x · 2026-10-14
- Anthropic updated its Supported Regions Policy (effective May 12, 2026): Claude.ai, Claude Code, Cowork, the API and cloud-hosted models are available only in 185 listed countries/regions.
- Unlisted regions are unsupported, including users physically located there, entities incorporated or headquartered there, and entities majority-owned by persons in unsupported regions.
- Per the accompanying map, the unsupported list covers 12 countries including China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Syria, Venezuela, Myanmar, Yemen and Belarus; Hong Kong and Macau are excluded along with China; Ukraine is partly supported (excluding Crimea and four oblasts).
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