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# Sitecore Commerce 9: How to Disable Address Validation for State/Country

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[Andrei Paliakou](https://www.brimit.com/blog/author?authors=Andrei%20Paliakou) on November 28, 2019

On one of my project I got a requirement to support all countries and cities from all over the world. If you install Storefront site from scratch you can see that OOTB Sitecore supports only two regions: Canada and United States.

![](https://www.brimit.com/-/media/images/blog/sitecore-commerce-9-disable-address-validation-for-state-and-country.png)

The problem is that you need to create all regions and cities manually in Commerce Control Panel and assign them to Country-Region Storefront configuration. It’s a huge work for content editors.

When you create customer address, submit shipping and billing checkout steps commerce engine validates county and city based on Country-Region Storefront configuration. In my case I looked for any solution, which can just disable validation for State/County.

After some investigation I found, that Sitecore.Commerce.Core.ValidatePartyBlock is responsible for this validation. ValidatePartyBlock is a part of IValidatePartyPipeline. If you don’t need validation for State/County you can just remove this block from IValidatePartyPipeline in your ConfigureSitecore.cs:

  ![](https://www.brimit.com/-/media/images/blog/sitecore-commerce-9-disable-address-validation-for-state-and-country2.png)

I hope it’s useful hack to disable validation for State/County.

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