title: Bing map supported culture
body: <p>I am using bing map in silverlight application and having issues in localizing the tile culture. I want to support 3 different bing map tiles culture which are English, Japanese and Chinese (Traditional). For changing culture of tiles following code is used:</p>
  
  <pre><code>map.Culture = "zh-Hant"; // For Chinese (Traditional)
  map.Culture = "ja"; // For Japanese
  map.Culture = "en-US"; // For English (United States)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The above code works well when culture selected is English or Japanese but when Chinese is selected tiles renders in English.</p>
  
  <p>Just wanted to know why Chinese tiles are not being rendered?</p>
  
  <p>I have checked the url which bing map is using to get tiles and that is:</p>
  
  <p>Japanese</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://ecn.t1.tiles.virtualearth.net/tiles/r13200.png?g=1&amp;mkt=ja&amp;shading=hill&amp;n=z" rel="nofollow">http://ecn.t1.tiles.virtualearth.net/tiles/r13200.png?g=1&amp;mkt=ja&amp;shading=hill&amp;n=z</a></p>
  
  <p>English</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://ecn.t1.tiles.virtualearth.net/tiles/r13200.png?g=1&amp;mkt=en&amp;shading=hill&amp;n=z" rel="nofollow">http://ecn.t1.tiles.virtualearth.net/tiles/r13200.png?g=1&amp;mkt=en&amp;shading=hill&amp;n=z</a></p>
  
  <p>Chinese </p>
  
  <p><a href="http://ecn.t1.tiles.virtualearth.net/tiles/r13200.png?g=1&amp;mkt=zh-Hant&amp;shading=hill&amp;n=z" rel="nofollow">http://ecn.t1.tiles.virtualearth.net/tiles/r13200.png?g=1&amp;mkt=zh-Hant&amp;shading=hill&amp;n=z</a></p>
  
  <p>One can open the above Url's in browser to check the behavior. For 1 and 2 Japanese and English tiles will load but for 3rd URL English tiles will load instead of Chinese.</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be appreciated.</p>