Can I search countries by country_code in AdWords API v201603? - google-ads-api

Question

I want to estimate searches for a keyword, limited to a country.
A similar question was asked about 4 years ago: Can I search countries by country_code in AdWords API v201109?.
The accepted answer was: it is not currently possible.
We are now at version v201603, and I wonder if there is a change.
In my specific case I code in Java, but will appreciate the answer in any language, I'll be able to find the relevant Java counterpart.
Update:
To add to the accepted answer, here is the list of the country codes extracted from AdWords CSV file.
private static HashMap<String, Long> COUNTRIES = new HashMap<String, Long>() {
{
put("ad",2020L); //,Andorra
put("ae",2784L); //,United Arab Emirates
put("af",2004L); //,Afghanistan
put("ag",2028L); //,Antigua and Barbuda
put("al",2008L); //,Albania
put("am",2051L); //,Armenia
put("ao",2024L); //,Angola
put("aq",2010L); //,Antarctica
put("ar",2032L); //,Argentina
put("as",2016L); //,American Samoa
put("at",2040L); //,Austria
put("au",2036L); //,Australia
put("az",2031L); //,Azerbaijan
put("ba",2070L); //,Bosnia and Herzegovina
put("bb",2052L); //,Barbados
put("bd",2050L); //,Bangladesh
put("be",2056L); //,Belgium
put("bf",2854L); //,Burkina Faso
put("bg",2100L); //,Bulgaria
put("bh",2048L); //,Bahrain
put("bi",2108L); //,Burundi
put("bj",2204L); //,Benin
put("bn",2096L); //,Brunei
put("bo",2068L); //,Bolivia
put("br",2076L); //,Brazil
put("bs",2044L); //,The Bahamas
put("bt",2064L); //,Bhutan
put("bw",2072L); //,Botswana
put("by",2112L); //,Belarus
put("bz",2084L); //,Belize
put("ca",2124L); //,Canada
put("cc",2166L); //,Cocos (Keeling) Islands
put("cd",2180L); //,Democratic Republic of the Congo
put("cf",2140L); //,Central African Republic
put("cg",2178L); //,Republic of the Congo
put("ch",2756L); //,Switzerland
put("ci",2384L); //,Cote d'Ivoire
put("ck",2184L); //,Cook Islands
put("cl",2152L); //,Chile
put("cm",2120L); //,Cameroon
put("cn",2156L); //,China
put("co",2170L); //,Colombia
put("cr",2188L); //,Costa Rica
put("cv",2132L); //,Cape Verde
put("cx",2162L); //,Christmas Island
put("cy",2196L); //,Cyprus
put("cz",2203L); //,Czech Republic
put("de",2276L); //,Germany
put("dj",2262L); //,Djibouti
put("dk",2208L); //,Denmark
put("dm",2212L); //,Dominica
put("do",2214L); //,Dominican Republic
put("dz",2012L); //,Algeria
put("ec",2218L); //,Ecuador
put("ee",2233L); //,Estonia
put("eg",2818L); //,Egypt
put("er",2232L); //,Eritrea
put("es",2724L); //,Spain
put("et",2231L); //,Ethiopia
put("fi",2246L); //,Finland
put("fj",2242L); //,Fiji
put("fm",2583L); //,Federated States of Micronesia
put("fr",2250L); //,France
put("ga",2266L); //,Gabon
put("gb",2826L); //,United Kingdom
put("gd",2308L); //,Grenada
put("ge",2268L); //,Georgia
put("gh",2288L); //,Ghana
put("gm",2270L); //,The Gambia
put("gn",2324L); //,Guinea
put("gq",2226L); //,Equatorial Guinea
put("gr",2300L); //,Greece
put("gs",2239L); //,South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
put("gt",2320L); //,Guatemala
put("gu",2316L); //,Guam
put("gw",2624L); //,Guinea-Bissau
put("gy",2328L); //,Guyana
put("hm",2334L); //,Heard Island and McDonald Islands
put("hn",2340L); //,Honduras
put("hr",2191L); //,Croatia
put("ht",2332L); //,Haiti
put("hu",2348L); //,Hungary
put("id",2360L); //,Indonesia
put("ie",2372L); //,Ireland
put("il",2376L); //,Israel
put("in",2356L); //,India
put("iq",2368L); //,Iraq
put("is",2352L); //,Iceland
put("it",2380L); //,Italy
put("jm",2388L); //,Jamaica
put("jo",2400L); //,Jordan
put("jp",2392L); //,Japan
put("ke",2404L); //,Kenya
put("kg",2417L); //,Kyrgyzstan
put("kh",2116L); //,Cambodia
put("ki",2296L); //,Kiribati
put("km",2174L); //,Comoros
put("kn",2659L); //,Saint Kitts and Nevis
put("kr",2410L); //,South Korea
put("kw",2414L); //,Kuwait
put("kz",2398L); //,Kazakhstan
put("la",2418L); //,Laos
put("lb",2422L); //,Lebanon
put("lc",2662L); //,Saint Lucia
put("li",2438L); //,Liechtenstein
put("lk",2144L); //,Sri Lanka
put("lr",2430L); //,Liberia
put("ls",2426L); //,Lesotho
put("lt",2440L); //,Lithuania
put("lu",2442L); //,Luxembourg
put("lv",2428L); //,Latvia
put("ly",2434L); //,Libya
put("ma",2504L); //,Morocco
put("mc",2492L); //,Monaco
put("md",2498L); //,Moldova
put("me",2499L); //,Montenegro
put("mg",2450L); //,Madagascar
put("mh",2584L); //,Marshall Islands
put("mk",2807L); //,Macedonia (fyroM)
put("ml",2466L); //,Mali
put("mn",2496L); //,Mongolia
put("mp",2580L); //,Northern Mariana Islands
put("mr",2478L); //,Mauritania
put("mt",2470L); //,Malta
put("mu",2480L); //,Mauritius
put("mv",2462L); //,Maldives
put("mw",2454L); //,Malawi
put("mx",2484L); //,Mexico
put("my",2458L); //,Malaysia
put("mz",2508L); //,Mozambique
put("na",2516L); //,Namibia
put("nc",2540L); //,New Caledonia
put("ne",2562L); //,Niger
put("nf",2574L); //,Norfolk Island
put("ng",2566L); //,Nigeria
put("ni",2558L); //,Nicaragua
put("nl",2528L); //,Netherlands
put("no",2578L); //,Norway
put("np",2524L); //,Nepal
put("nr",2520L); //,Nauru
put("nu",2570L); //,Niue
put("nz",2554L); //,New Zealand
put("om",2512L); //,Oman
put("pa",2591L); //,Panama
put("pe",2604L); //,Peru
put("pf",2258L); //,French Polynesia
put("pg",2598L); //,Papua New Guinea
put("ph",2608L); //,Philippines
put("pk",2586L); //,Pakistan
put("pl",2616L); //,Poland
put("pm",2666L); //,Saint Pierre and Miquelon
put("pn",2612L); //,Pitcairn Islands
put("pt",2620L); //,Portugal
put("pw",2585L); //,Palau
put("py",2600L); //,Paraguay
put("qa",2634L); //,Qatar
put("ro",2642L); //,Romania
put("rs",2688L); //,Serbia
put("ru",2643L); //,Russia
put("rw",2646L); //,Rwanda
put("sa",2682L); //,Saudi Arabia
put("sb",2090L); //,Solomon Islands
put("sc",2690L); //,Seychelles
put("se",2752L); //,Sweden
put("sg",2702L); //,Singapore
put("sh",2654L); //,Saint Helena
put("si",2705L); //,Slovenia
put("sk",2703L); //,Slovakia
put("sl",2694L); //,Sierra Leone
put("sm",2674L); //,San Marino
put("sn",2686L); //,Senegal
put("so",2706L); //,Somalia
put("sr",2740L); //,Suriname
put("st",2678L); //,Sao Tome and Principe
put("sv",2222L); //,El Salvador
put("sz",2748L); //,Swaziland
put("td",2148L); //,Chad
put("tf",2260L); //,French Southern and Antarctic Lands
put("tg",2768L); //,Togo
put("th",2764L); //,Thailand
put("tj",2762L); //,Tajikistan
put("tk",2772L); //,Tokelau
put("tl",2626L); //,Timor-Leste
put("tm",2795L); //,Turkmenistan
put("tn",2788L); //,Tunisia
put("to",2776L); //,Tonga
put("tr",2792L); //,Turkey
put("tt",2780L); //,Trinidad and Tobago
put("tv",2798L); //,Tuvalu
put("tz",2834L); //,Tanzania
put("ua",2804L); //,Ukraine
put("ug",2800L); //,Uganda
put("um",2581L); //,United States Minor Outlying Islands
put("us",2840L); //,United States
put("uy",2858L); //,Uruguay
put("uz",2860L); //,Uzbekistan
put("va",2336L); //,Vatican City
put("vc",2670L); //,Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
put("ve",2862L); //,Venezuela
put("vn",2704L); //,Vietnam
put("vu",2548L); //,Vanuatu
put("wf",2876L); //,Wallis and Futuna
put("ws",2882L); //,Samoa
put("ye",2887L); //,Yemen
put("za",2710L); //,South Africa
put("zm",2894L); //,Zambia
put("zw",2716L); //,Zimbabwe
}
};

Answer 1

Yes - you can use the Targeting Idea Service to specify any location code (which includes countries, regions, cities, etc) for a Search Volume based query.
I am unfamiliar with the Java client library but I am sure it will be similar to the .NET one. The C# code below outputs the search volume for the terms 'blue fedora' and 'red fedora' for queries based in Canada.
var targettingIdeaSvc = (TargetingIdeaService)awUser.GetService(AdWordsService.v201601.TargetingIdeaService);
var searchQueries = new string[] { "blue fedora", "red fedora" };
var ideasPg = targettingIdeaSvc.get(new TargetingIdeaSelector
{
ideaType = IdeaType.KEYWORD,
requestType = RequestType.STATS,
requestedAttributeTypes = new AttributeType[]
{
AttributeType.SEARCH_VOLUME
},
searchParameters = new SearchParameter[]
{
new RelatedToQuerySearchParameter
{
queries = searchQueries,
},
new LocationSearchParameter
{
locations = new Location[]
{
new Location
{
id = 2124 // This is the location id for Canada - comprehensive list of location ids is available here https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/geotargeting
}
}
},
},
paging = new Paging
{
numberResults = 5,
startIndex = 0
}
});
for (var i = 0; i < searchQueries.Length; i++)
{
var searchVolume = (ideasPg.entries[i].data.First().value as LongAttribute).value;
Console.WriteLine($#"Search Term: ""{searchQueries[i]}"" has search volume of {searchVolume} in Canada");
}
This service uses a location id. You can look up a specific id from the AdWords Geo-Location reference page (or even access this list programatically if you need to)