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title: New Asia-Pacific location hints: apac-ne and apac-se
description: Durable Objects now supports two new location hints for Northeast and Southeast Asia-Pacific, giving you finer-grained control within the `apac` region.
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## New Asia-Pacific location hints: apac-ne and apac-se

Jun 19, 2026 

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Durable Objects now supports two new location hints for Asia-Pacific: `apac-ne` (Northeast Asia-Pacific) and `apac-se` (Southeast Asia-Pacific). Use `apac-ne` or `apac-se` when you want finer-grained placement within Asia-Pacific rather than the broader `apac` hint.

Use the new hints the same way as any other `locationHint`:

JavaScript

```
// Northeast Asia-Pacific (Japan, Korea, etc.)const stubNE = env.MY_DURABLE_OBJECT.get(id, { locationHint: "apac-ne" });
// Southeast Asia-Pacific (Singapore, Indonesia, etc.)const stubSE = env.MY_DURABLE_OBJECT.get(id, { locationHint: "apac-se" });
```

If your users are spread across all of Asia-Pacific, the existing `apac` hint remains the right choice. Only reach for `apac-ne` or `apac-se` when your traffic is clearly concentrated in one sub-region and you want to minimize round-trip time to that audience. The default behavior and what we generally recommended is not adding a location hint unless absolutely needed, this will create the Durable Object as close to the initializing request as possible to reduce latency.

As with all location hints, these are best-effort suggestions. Cloudflare will place the Durable Object in a nearby data center, not necessarily the exact hinted location.

For the full list of supported hints, refer to [Data location — Provide a location hint](https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/reference/data-location/#provide-a-location-hint).

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