Pokémon GO Regional Pokémon
Every region-exclusive Pokémon we can stand behind, grouped by where to go — so you can plan one trip instead of 42.
Regional Pokémon by region
42 species, grouped by where to go and listed in dex order inside each group — jump to the region you can actually reach. The last group is the hemisphere pairs, where the answer is usually a pattern rather than a place. Verified 24 August 2026; how region-exclusives work, and what we deliberately left off, is below the list.
The Americas
Pokémon GO treats “the Americas and Greenland” as one bucket for its three-way splits, but several entries below are far tighter than that. A US-wide flight will not get you Hawlucha and a Mexico City teleport will not get you Carnivine, so read the location line rather than the heading.
Tauros #128
The United States and Canada
The original North American exclusive, in the game since 2016 and still one of the most-traded regionals simply because so many US trainers hold spares. It never evolves, so a single catch closes the entry for good. Anywhere in the continental US or Canada spawns it — no specific city needed, and no need to gamble on the edges of the range.
Heracross #214
Central and South America
A Gen 2 exclusive to the Latin American band, from Central America down to Argentina. It does not evolve, but it does have a Mega form, and Mega Energy comes from its own raids and from walking it as your buddy — so catch several while you are in region rather than one. A high-IV Heracross is also a usable bug attacker and a strong trade chip.
Carnivine #455
The southeastern United States
Tight enough that a New York or California teleport misses it — aim for Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana or the Carolinas. It has no evolution, so one catch is enough. Do not plan to pick up Bouffalant on the same hop; they sit at opposite ends of the country.
Azelf #482
The Americas and Greenland
The lake trio splits three ways: Azelf here, Mesprit across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and India, Uxie across Asia-Pacific. All three are five-star raid bosses, so you need an active raid and a group, not just a spawn. Niantic makes the whole trio global during some Raid Days — by far the cheapest route.
Panpour #515
The Americas and Greenland
The water monkey of the elemental trio, divided the same three ways as the lake trio but a plain wild spawn rather than a raid. It evolves into Simipour with a Unova Stone, which is rare, so bank the candy while you are in region instead of catching exactly one and leaving.
Maractus #556
Central and South America
A cactus Pokémon restricted to the same Latin American band as Heracross, which makes one trip cover both. It does not evolve and it is not competitively useful — this is purely a dex entry, so catch one, transfer the duplicates and spend the rest of your window on Heracross candy.
Bouffalant #626
New York, in the northeastern United States
The tightest US exclusive on this list. Wider northeastern coverage gets reported, but New York state and New York City are the parts we would actually stake a teleport on. It has no evolution. Times Square is a dense spawn area regardless — it is on our hotspots page with coordinates.
Hawlucha #701
Mexico
Mexico is the area we can stand behind — go there rather than betting on the southern US or Central America. A fighting and flying luchador with no evolution, so one catch closes it. Mexico City and Guadalajara have heavy spawn density if you are teleporting in for a short window.
Europe
Europe is the second of the three buckets — officially “Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India”, so Mesprit and Pansear below are catchable well outside Europe too, anywhere in that bucket. Two of these are single-country exclusives and need you in that specific nation.
Mr. Mime #122
Europe
Europe's launch-day exclusive and the one most non-European trainers are still missing. Anywhere in Europe spawns it. Note this is Kantonian Mr. Mime — Galarian Mr. Mime was released worldwide through eggs and events and is not a regional, although its evolution Mr. Rime is well worth having.
Mime Jr. #439
Europe — mostly from eggs, not wild spawns
The awkward one. Mr. Mime's baby form comes primarily from eggs collected in Europe rather than from wild spawns, so a five-minute teleport will not do it: spin European stops, bank the eggs, then walk them out. It evolves back into Mr. Mime, so it is a second European slot rather than a shortcut to the first.
Mesprit #481
Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India
The European member of the lake trio, and a five-star raid boss — you need a live raid in region and enough trainers to clear it, which remote passes can solve if you have friends nearby. Like Uxie and Azelf it goes worldwide during some Raid Days, which is far easier than travelling for it.
Pansear #513
Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India
The fire monkey, sharing Mesprit's region but spawning in the wild rather than in raids. It evolves into Simisear with a Unova Stone. Spawns are frequent enough that a short teleport into any European city usually produces one — catch a handful so the candy is ready when a stone finally drops.
Klefki #707
France
A single-country exclusive, so aim at Paris, Lyon or Marseille rather than “Europe” generally — a Berlin or Madrid teleport is a wasted hop. A steel and fairy keyring with no evolution, which means one catch is the whole job. Worth pairing with a UK hop for Stonjourner while you are on that side of the map.
Stonjourner #874
The United Kingdom
Stonehenge in Pokémon form, exclusive to the UK — England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all count, the rest of Europe does not. It has no evolution and it is not a raid boss, so a wild catch is the only route. Teleport into a dense London or Manchester spawn cluster and wait it out.
Africa & the Middle East
Two exclusives that need you on the African continent or in the eastern Mediterranean. Mesprit and Pansear are catchable here too — the “Europe” bucket officially includes the Middle East, Africa and India.
Tropius #357
Africa and the Middle East
A banana-necked grass and flying Pokémon covering the whole African continent plus the Middle East, which makes it one of the easiest regionals to actually land — almost any teleport onto the continent works. It has no evolution. A single Egypt trip covers both Tropius and Sigilyph.
Sigilyph #561
Egypt and Greece
A psychic and flying Pokémon themed on ancient line art, restricted to the eastern Mediterranean. Egypt and Greece are the two countries we would stake a trip on. No evolution, so one catch finishes it, and both Cairo and Athens have dense stop clusters — a single teleport window is usually enough.
Asia
The third bucket is “Asia-Pacific”, which also covers Australia and New Zealand — so Uxie and Pansage can be cleared from either side. The other two here are tighter: East Asia for one, the Indian subcontinent for the other.
Farfetch'd #83
East Asia — Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong
The leek duck, exclusive to East Asia since launch. This is Kantonian Farfetch'd: the Galarian form went worldwide through eggs and raids and is not a regional, and Sirfetch'd evolves from that Galarian form, not this one. So the Kantonian bird still needs a Japan or Korea teleport of its own.
Torkoal #324
India and South Asia
A coal-burning tortoise exclusive to the Indian subcontinent — India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and the Maldives. It has no evolution. India ranks second among our members' countries by traffic, so this is one of the few regionals a big share of our community already holds spares of — ask in the trade channels before you fly.
Uxie #480
Asia-Pacific
The Asia-Pacific member of the lake trio, and a five-star raid boss rather than a wild spawn, so you need an active raid in region plus enough trainers to clear it. Japan, Australia and New Zealand all count as Asia-Pacific. Watch for Raid Days that make the trio temporarily global.
Pansage #511
Asia-Pacific
The grass monkey, same region as Uxie but a plain wild spawn, which makes it far easier to clear. It evolves into Simisage with a Unova Stone. Catch a handful for candy rather than a single dex entry — the stone is the bottleneck and you want the evolution ready when one arrives.
Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
Australia and New Zealand count as Asia-Pacific for the three-way splits, so one trip down here also picks up Uxie and Pansage, and Chatot on top. Four entries off one flight makes this one of the better-value regional trips to plan.
Kangaskhan #115
Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea
Australia's launch-day exclusive and one of the most requested trades in the game, which makes spares genuinely valuable to someone outside the region. It does not evolve, but it does have a Mega form, and Mega Energy comes from its raids and from walking it as your buddy — so catch several while you are in region rather than exactly one. Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane all have dense spawn areas.
Relicanth #369
New Zealand, Fiji and the South Pacific islands
The narrowest Pacific exclusive — New Zealand and the surrounding island nations, not mainland Australia. Auckland or Wellington is the reliable teleport. It has no evolution. If you are making the trip anyway, Kangaskhan, Chatot, Uxie and Pansage are all catchable in the same part of the world.
Locked by latitude, not by continent
These four ignore borders entirely — what matters is how far north or south of the equator you land. A Paris teleport misses Pachirisu and a Helsinki one does not, even though both are “Europe”.
Corsola #222
The tropics — roughly between 31°N and 31°S
A coral Pokémon restricted to a latitude band rather than a continent: Hawaii, southern Florida, the Caribbean, Central America, southern Asia, northern Australia and most of Africa all qualify. Galarian Corsola is not a regional — it arrived worldwide through raids and eggs, and Cursola evolves from that form.
Pachirisu #417
The far north — Alaska, Canada, Russia, Scandinavia and Iceland
The cold-country exclusive. Anywhere far enough north works: Anchorage, most of Canada, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Finland or Iceland. Plain “Europe” is not enough — a Paris teleport misses it and a Helsinki teleport does not. It has no evolution, so one catch is the entire job.
Chatot #441
The southern hemisphere
Anywhere below the equator counts: South America, southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand. That makes it the easiest regional to combine with another trip — one Australian teleport picks up Chatot, Kangaskhan, Uxie and Pansage together. It has no evolution and it is a common spawn in region.
Comfey #764
Tropical regions — confirm the current band before you travel
Needs confirming before you travel
A Gen 7 fairy restricted to tropical areas. We are confident it is region-locked and confident the band is tropical, but not confident enough in the exact 2026 boundary to send anyone across the world on it. Check a current sighting in the area you plan to hit before you spend the teleport.
Split down the middle — one half is already yours
Each of these comes in two (or more) region-locked halves, so one of them is already spawning where you live and the other needs a hemisphere change. Lunatone and Solrock are the pair we can name the halves for — Lunatone west, Solrock east — and for the rest we name the pattern instead of the place, because Niantic has swapped which half is which before and a wrong hemisphere sends you across the planet for nothing. Work out which half you already have from your own local spawns, then confirm a live sighting on the other side before you commit the teleport. The upside: these splits divide the world along roughly the same line, so one well-chosen long-haul trip can clear several at once.
Volbeat #313
One half of the world — Illumise holds the other
The male half of a two-Pokémon world split, running roughly Europe, Asia and Australia against the Americas and Africa. Niantic has swapped the halves of hemisphere pairs before, so confirm which side you are on rather than trusting an old list. Neither Volbeat nor Illumise evolves, so it is two catches and no candy grind.
Illumise #314
The opposite half from Volbeat
Volbeat's counterpart, holding whichever half of the world Volbeat does not. If Volbeat is your local spawn then Illumise is the trip, and vice versa. Niantic has swapped the halves of hemisphere pairs before, so we will not pin one to either name without a fresh sighting. Firefly-themed bug, no evolution.
Zangoose #335
One half of the world — Seviper holds the other
The mongoose half of a classic version-exclusive pair carried into Pokémon GO as a world split, facing Seviper across the hemispheres. Niantic has swapped the halves of hemisphere pairs before, so confirm a live sighting before you travel rather than trusting an older list. Normal type, no evolution, one catch and done.
Seviper #336
The opposite half from Zangoose
Zangoose's snake counterpart on the other side of the world. One of the two is spawning near you right now and the other needs a teleport. Poison type, no evolution. Both are frequent spawns in their own territory, so a short window in region is plenty for whichever one you are missing.
Lunatone #337
The Western Hemisphere — North and South America
Moon to Solrock's sun, and the one split pair where we will name the halves, because we have a confirmed answer for it: Lunatone holds the Western Hemisphere, so anywhere in North or South America spawns it. Rock and psychic, no evolution, and common enough inside its own half that a short teleport window is plenty.
Solrock #338
The Eastern Hemisphere — Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa
Lunatone's sun counterpart, holding the Eastern Hemisphere: Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa all spawn it, so a European teleport is the cheapest option for most people missing it. Both halves are common inside their own territory — there is no rare spawn window to plan around, only the correct side of the world.
Shellos #422
Both hemispheres — one sea form on each side
Shellos and its evolution Gastrodon come in two forms, West Sea (pink) and East Sea (blue), divided down the middle of the world. You already have one of them; the other needs a hemisphere change. Both count separately in a full Living Dex and both evolve, so bank candy while you are over there.
Throh #538
One half of the world — Sawk holds the other
The red judo fighter, holding one half of the world against Sawk on the other: the Americas on one side, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia on the other. Fighting type, no evolution. Worth catching a few if you make the trip, because a high-IV fighting type is never wasted.
Sawk #539
The opposite half from Throh
Throh's blue karate counterpart on the opposite half. The pair behaves exactly like Volbeat and Illumise — you already have one, you travel for the other. Check a current sighting before you book the teleport, because Niantic has swapped the halves of hemisphere pairs before and old lists keep the pre-swap answer.
Basculin #550
Both hemispheres — one stripe on each side
Red-Striped and Blue-Striped Basculin divide the world in half, one stripe per hemisphere. White-Striped Basculin is the Hisuian form and is not a regional — it arrived worldwide alongside Basculegion. So the regional job here is a single stripe: whichever one is not already spawning at home.
Heatmor #631
One half of the world — Durant holds the other
The anteater half of a hemisphere pair, facing Durant across the world. Fire type, no evolution. Heatmor and Durant are predator and prey in the lore, which is why they were split in the first place — and like every pair here, one of the two is already in your local spawn pool.
Durant #632
The opposite half from Heatmor
Heatmor's steel ant counterpart on the other side of the world, with no evolution. If you are planning one long-haul teleport to clear several splits at once, note that these pairs all divide the planet along broadly the same line — a single well-chosen trip can pick up four or five of them.
Flabébé #669
Flower colour is set by region
Flabébé's flower colour is decided by where it spawns, and the colour carries through Floette and Florges — so each colour is effectively three dex entries rather than one. Red, yellow and blue are the regional colours; orange and white have only appeared through events. Confirm which colour your target region is producing.
Spritzee #682
One half of the world — Swirlix holds the other
A Gen 6 fairy that arrived as one half of a region pair with Swirlix. Unlike most of these splits it evolves, into Aromatisse, so the trip is worth candy rather than a single catch. Which half sits where is the part to confirm with a live sighting before you travel.
Swirlix #684
The opposite half from Spritzee
Spritzee's cotton-candy counterpart, holding the other half of the world and evolving into Slurpuff. Catch enough for the full evolution while you are in region — coming back for a second trip because you grabbed exactly one is the classic regional mistake, and the one this page exists to prevent.
Oricorio #741
Four styles, each locked to a different part of the world
Four styles, so four dex entries rather than one, and each one has its own region: Baile Style (fire and flying) in Europe, the Middle East and Africa; Pom-Pom Style (electric and flying) across the Americas; Pa'u Style (psychic and flying) on the African, Asian, Pacific and Caribbean islands; Sensu Style (ghost and flying) in the Asia-Pacific region. Plan against those four — style-to-region can change, so confirm a live sighting before a long-haul flight.
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The short answer
A region-exclusive Pokémon only spawns in one part of the world. Niantic locks each one to a continent, a single country, a latitude band, or one half of the planet — so a trainer in Berlin cannot catch Tauros and a trainer in Chicago cannot catch Mr. Mime. This page lists 42 of them, grouped by where to go rather than alphabetically, because that is what you actually plan a trip around. For 16 of them the answer is usually a pattern rather than a place — they come in pairs that take one half of the world each, so one of every pair is already spawning where you live. Last verified 24 August 2026.
Why region-exclusives exist
Pokémon GO is a game about where you physically are, and regional exclusives are the strongest expression of that: they give a country something no other country has, they push trainers to trade across borders, and they make the game's world map mean something. Several are jokes about the place they belong to — Stonjourner is Stonehenge, Klefki is French, Hawlucha is a Mexican luchador, Kangaskhan carries a joey around Australia.
The catch is that the rules are set by Niantic and change without a patch note. A species can be swapped to the opposite hemisphere, widened to a whole continent, or made global for a weekend during an event. That is why this page carries a verification date and why some entries are marked as needing confirmation instead of being stated as fact — a regionals list that is confidently wrong sends someone to the other side of the world for nothing.
The pairs that split the world in half
16 of the 42 entries above are not locked to a country at all. They come in pairs — Volbeat and Illumise, Zangoose and Seviper, Heatmor and Durant, Throh and Sawk — and each half of the pair takes one half of the planet. The practical consequence is the good news: one of every pair is already spawning where you live, so only the other one is ever a trip.
Only one of those pairs gets its halves named: Lunatone holds the Western Hemisphere and Solrock the Eastern, which we are confident enough of to print. For the rest we name the pattern rather than pinning a hemisphere to a name that may have been reversed since, because Niantic has swapped the halves of hemisphere pairs before. Check which one you already catch locally, then confirm a live sighting of its partner in the area you are aiming at before you spend the teleport.
That last step is the part a list cannot do for you. Any A–Z page — this one included — is only as current as the day it was written, whereas a live feed answers “which half is it today?” by showing you what is being found right now. Our free coordinates feed and 100% IV feed post live spawns with their coordinates as they are found, and the regional channel in Discord is dedicated to these species — so you can see a Seviper actually sitting in the region you were about to fly to, rather than take a page's word for it.
The Living Dex problem
A Living Dex means holding one of every Pokémon in your storage at the same time, rather than just having registered them. Regionals are the wall every Living Dex hits: you can grind raids for legendaries, hatch your way to the rare babies and wait out event spawns, but no amount of playing in one country will ever produce a Relicanth if you live in Ohio. The last slots are always regional.
There are exactly three ways past that wall, and only one of them is free: fly there, trade for it, or teleport to a live coordinate in the region. Our Living Dex tracker shows you which entries you are actually missing — tick off what you have caught and the regionals stand out immediately, because they are the ones that never fill in on their own.
Three ways to get a regional
- ✦ Travel. The intended route, and the expensive one. A single well-planned trip clears several at once — Australia alone covers Kangaskhan, Chatot, Uxie and Pansage, and the hemisphere pairs all split the world along roughly the same line.
- ✦ Trade. A Kangaskhan caught in Sydney is still a Kangaskhan after it changes hands, so the fastest route for most people is finding someone who lives where the Pokémon does. Build a For Trade / Looking For list with our trade list generator — it lets you specify the exact form, which matters for the split species where the wrong half is worthless to you.
- ✦ Coordinates. Teleport to a live spawn in the region and catch it yourself. We run a dedicated regional coordinate channel in Discord, plus regional-form search in the Candy bot — free members get one Candy Bot search a day — alongside the 100% IV feed. Every channel is readable by every member, and free members get 10 coordinate reveals a day — enough to clear several regionals in a week without paying anything.
If you are teleporting for these, two things save wasted hops: the free coordinates feed for live spawn points, and our hotspots list for dense spawn areas in the right cities — landing in the correct country but a dead suburb is the usual way a regional trip fails.
Regional forms are not regional Pokémon
This is the most common mix-up, and it costs people flights. Alolan, Galarian, Hisuian and Paldean forms are regional forms— a different look for a species from a different game region — but Pokémon GO has released them worldwide through eggs, raids and events. Galarian Farfetch'd, Galarian Mr. Mime and Galarian Corsola are all globally available, even though their Kantonian originals are genuine region-exclusives sitting on this list.
Furfrou is the other one people ask about. The species itself is global; only some of its trims have ever been region-locked, and the trims rotate with events. Because the base Pokémon is catchable everywhere, it is not on this list.
What we left off, and why
Longer regional lists exist. Ours is shorter on purpose: an entry only appears here if we are confident the species is region-exclusive and confident enough about where it spawns to send a member there. Where a species splits the world into halves — the version-exclusive pairs, the sea forms, the flower colours — we name the half only where we have a confirmed answer, as with Lunatone and Solrock, and name the pattern everywhere else, because Niantic has swapped the halves of hemisphere pairs before and old lists still carry the pre-swap answer.
Flapple and Appletun are not region-locked, so they are not on this list. Applin is global, and the evolution mechanic that decides which of the two you get is not a regional lock — some lists file them here anyway, which is the sort of entry that costs someone a flight.
No Paldea (Gen 9) species appears on this list. Several are in the game, but as of 24 August 2026 we have not confirmed a Gen 9 region-exclusive we would stake a trip on, and a placeholder entry is worse than no entry. The same goes for a handful of older species other lists carry: if we could not confirm the current state, we left them off rather than guess.
When a regional changes — a swap, a widening, an event that makes one global — this page gets the correction and the verification date at the top moves. That is the whole reason to bookmark it rather than a static A–Z.
Regional Pokémon — FAQ
- What are regional Pokémon in Pokémon GO?
- Region-exclusive Pokémon only spawn in one part of the world. Niantic locks them to a continent, a country, a latitude band or one half of the planet, so a trainer in Europe cannot catch Tauros and a trainer in the United States cannot catch Mr. Mime without travelling, trading or using coordinates.
- How many regional Pokémon are there in Pokémon GO?
- This list carries 42 region-exclusive Pokémon, 41 of them with a region we are willing to stand behind as of 24 August 2026. We deliberately do not pad the count: species whose current status we cannot confirm are flagged or left off rather than guessed at.
- Can you complete a Living Dex without regional Pokémon?
- No. A Living Dex means one of every Pokémon in your storage, and regionals are part of the National Dex, so the last few slots are always regional exclusives. Every completed Living Dex was finished by travelling, by trading, or by teleporting to a coordinate.
- Are Alolan, Galarian, Hisuian and Paldean forms regional Pokémon?
- No. They are regional forms — a different look for a species from a different game region — but Pokémon GO releases them worldwide through eggs, raids and events. Galarian Farfetch'd, Galarian Mr. Mime and Galarian Corsola are all globally available even though their Kantonian originals are region-exclusive.
- Do regional Pokémon ever become available worldwide?
- Temporarily, yes. GO Fest, Go Tour and some Raid Days make regionals global for a day or a weekend — the lake trio of Uxie, Mesprit and Azelf goes worldwide most often. Those windows are the cheapest way to clear several regionals at once, which is why the event calendar is worth watching.
- How do I get regional Pokémon without travelling?
- Two routes. Trade with someone who lives there — a Pokémon caught in Australia stays a Kangaskhan after the trade — or use live coordinates to teleport to a spawn in the region yourself. PokeXperience runs a dedicated regional coordinate channel plus regional-form search in the Candy bot, which free members can use once a day. Every channel is readable by every member.
Clear the regionals your dex is missing
Tick off what you have caught in the Living Dex tracker, then use the regional coordinate channel or the trade channels to close the gaps. Joining is free, every channel is readable by every member, and free members get 10 coordinate reveals a day.
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