# Setting the default Region in the AWS Management Console
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The following procedure details how you can change your default Region from the Unified Settings page.

**To set your default Region**

1. In the navigation bar, choose the gear icon (⚙).

1. Choose **See all user settings** to navigate to the **Unified Settings** page.

1. Choose **Edit** next to **Localization and default Region**.

1. In **Default Region**, choose a Region.
**Note**  
If you don't select a default Region, the console uses the last Region that you visited. If you sign in with IAM Identity Center, select a specific default Region. The last-visited Region doesn't persist across IAM Identity Center sessions.

1. Choose **Save settings**.

1. (Optional) Choose **Go to new default Region** to immediately go to your new default Region.

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Management Console. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query awsconsolehelpdocs` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).