If you are in the UK, most of you will be familiar with the BBC website bbc.co.uk. The BBC does have several localised websites for non English languages and regional news. If you are browsing from the UK it is not at all obvious how to visit their localised websites as there are no links on their UK website.
Here is how I found their localised websites. Firstly I visited bbc.co.uk and, as one would expect, I landed on their UK homepage. But, there are no links to their localised sites. If there were I would be happy and would not be writing this article. Next I visited the wikipedia BBC article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC and saw that there is a different address bbc.com. I used this address but as I am browsing from the UK it redirects to bbc.co.uk which is not at all helpful. So, I am back to where I started.
To the rescue comes the Opera browser with itʼs builtin VPN. I set the VPN to a non UK location and now when I use bbc.com I do not get redirected to bbc.co.uk. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and I now see links to their localised websites. If you are browsing from the UK without such a VPN service these links will not redirect to bbc.co.uk
For your convenience I list below all the links to the BBC localised websites.
- Arabic عربي bbc.com/arabic
- Azeri AZƏRBAYCAN bbc.com/azeri
- Bangla বাংলা bbc.com/bengali
- Burmese မြန်မာစာ bbc.com/burmese
- Chinese 中文 bbc.com/zhongwen/simp
- French bbc.com/afrique
- Hausa bbc.com/hausa
- Hindi हिन्दी bbc.com/hindi
- Indonesian bbc.com/indonesia
- Japanese 日本語 http://bbc.com/japanese
- Kinyarwanda & Kirundi bbc.com/gahuza
- Kyrgyz Кыргыз bbc.com/kyrgyz
- Marathi मराठी bbc.com/marathi
- Nepali नेपाली bbc.com/nepali
- Pashto پښتو bbc.com/pashto
- Persian فارسی bbc.com/persian
- Portuguese bbc.com/portuguese
- Russian ру́сский bbc.com/russian
- Sinhala සිංහල https://bbc.com/sinhala
- Somali bbc.com/somali
- Spanish bbc.com/mundo
- Swahili bbc.com/swahili
- Tamil தமிழ் bbc.com/tamil
- Turkish TÜRKÇE bbc.com/turkce
- Ukrainian УКРАЇНСЬКA bbc.com/ukrainian
- Urdu اردو bbc.com/urdu
- Uzbek O'ZBEK bbc.com/uzbek
- Vietnamese TIẾNG VIỆT bbc.com/vietnamese
