# Business Area

Defining an active business area is essential when operating your marketplace within a specific region. A business area consists of selected countries and states/subdivisions/regions. To help you configure this, you can either watch the tutorial or follow the steps outlined below:

Warning: The active status will not affect the platform’s active business area if your marketplace business area is set to “Worldwide” in system settings. You can set your operation type from SETTINGS SYSTEM SETTINGS

When your business area is limited, you can control your active business area from this module. All active countries and states/reasons will be included in your active business area, vendors will be able to include active areas only to their shipping zones.

ACTIVE BUSINESS AREA

Under a country, you can add all states/regions to set your business area. Click the + button on the right option column to manage states/regions.

## States/Subdivisions/Regions

You have to know the universal `ISO` values of the states/regions you want to add in your active business area. On the left, the image shows the information about Alaska, a US state. Here you can find ISO values of all US states.

The system already has many regions in the database from all over the world but still, you may find some regions that are not available. You may find all the info you may need to add new regions here.

TIPS: If you can not find the `ISO` code formate of your states/regions, this `how to` the article can help you find out easily.

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