Many times we are receiving support queries in which some of the directory users needed to configure country Based directory site instead of cities.

There is no direct way to do this but we have a workaround for this which works quite well, Follow these steps to achieve this:

1) First of all, Go through your Wp-admin >> Tevolution >> Manage Locations >> Set City selector levels as “Only Cities“

2) Now go through the cities tab, While editing or inserting the cities, Choose your required country from the first drop-down, select any random state and keep the same as of your selected country for the city name field.

3) Save all the changes.

4) Now you can change the naming directly from the .po/.mo file placed at your themes/Directory/languages folder.  (depends upon which directory product you are using right now, if you have activated any child theme then you have to translate .po/.mo file contents from the themes/directorychildtheme name/languages folder.  )

Replace the term “city” entirely with the “country” from .po/.mo file.

For example the string initially reads select your nearest city, we have to replace it with “Select Your nearest country“

Do the same for all the rest of the strings too.

5)  After doing all the settings, you should also need to assign few listings under those countries in order to populate them over the front end city selector region.