diff --git a/searx/engines/__init__.py b/searx/engines/__init__.py
index fa9749e9..a3dd7a95 100644
--- a/searx/engines/__init__.py
+++ b/searx/engines/__init__.py
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ def set_language_attributes(engine):
     if hasattr(engine, '_fetch_supported_languages'):
         headers = {
             'User-Agent': gen_useragent(),
-            'Accept-Language': 'ja-JP,ja;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.5,en;q=0.3',  # bing needs a non-English language
+            'Accept-Language': "en-US,en;q=0.5",  # bing needs to set the English language
         }
         engine.fetch_supported_languages = (
             # pylint: disable=protected-access
diff --git a/searx/engines/bing.py b/searx/engines/bing.py
index 59fc22be..1170227a 100644
--- a/searx/engines/bing.py
+++ b/searx/engines/bing.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 """
 
 import re
-from urllib.parse import urlencode
+from urllib.parse import urlencode, urlparse, parse_qs
 from lxml import html
 from searx.utils import eval_xpath, extract_text, match_language
 
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ paging = True
 time_range_support = False
 safesearch = False
 supported_languages_url = 'https://www.bing.com/account/general'
-language_aliases = {'zh-CN': 'zh-CHS', 'zh-TW': 'zh-CHT', 'zh-HK': 'zh-CHT'}
+language_aliases = {}
 
 # search-url
 base_url = 'https://www.bing.com/'
@@ -127,18 +127,27 @@ def response(resp):
 
 # get supported languages from their site
 def _fetch_supported_languages(resp):
+
     lang_tags = set()
 
-    setmkt = re.compile('setmkt=([^&]*)')
     dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
-    lang_links = eval_xpath(dom, "//li/a[contains(@href, 'setmkt')]")
-
-    for a in lang_links:
-        href = eval_xpath(a, './@href')[0]
-        match = setmkt.search(href)
-        l_tag = match.groups()[0]
-        _lang, _nation = l_tag.split('-', 1)
-        l_tag = _lang.lower() + '-' + _nation.upper()
-        lang_tags.add(l_tag)
+    lang_links = eval_xpath(dom, '//div[@id="language-section"]//li')
+
+    for _li in lang_links:
+
+        href = eval_xpath(_li, './/@href')[0]
+        (_scheme, _netloc, _path, _params, query, _fragment) = urlparse(href)
+        query = parse_qs(query, keep_blank_values=True)
+
+        # fmt: off
+        setlang = query.get('setlang', [None, ])[0]
+        # example: 'mn-Cyrl-MN' --> '['mn', 'Cyrl-MN']
+        lang, nation = (setlang.split('-', maxsplit=1) + [None,])[:2]  # fmt: skip
+        # fmt: on
+
+        if not nation:
+            nation = lang.upper()
+        tag = lang + '-' + nation
+        lang_tags.add(tag)
 
     return list(lang_tags)
diff --git a/searxng_extra/update/update_languages.py b/searxng_extra/update/update_languages.py
index 52646934..3a172d5d 100755
--- a/searxng_extra/update/update_languages.py
+++ b/searxng_extra/update/update_languages.py
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ def fetch_supported_languages():
             if type(engines_languages[engine_name]) == list:
                 engines_languages[engine_name] = sorted(engines_languages[engine_name])
 
+    print("fetched languages from %s engines" % len(engines_languages))
+
     # write json file
     with open(engines_languages_file, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
         json.dump(engines_languages, f, indent=2, sort_keys=True)
@@ -97,7 +99,11 @@ def join_language_lists(engines_languages):
                 country_name = ''
                 if locale:
                     # get country name from babel's Locale object
-                    country_name = locale.get_territory_name()
+                    try:
+                        country_name = locale.get_territory_name()
+                    except FileNotFoundError as exc:
+                        print("ERROR: %s --> %s" % (locale, exc))
+                        locale = None
 
                 language_list[short_code]['countries'][lang_code] = {'country_name': country_name, 'counter': set()}
 
@@ -186,17 +192,24 @@ def write_languages_file(languages):
         "language_codes =",
     )
 
-    language_codes = tuple(
-        [
-            (
-                code,
-                languages[code]['name'].split(' (')[0],
-                languages[code].get('country_name') or '',
-                languages[code].get('english_name') or '',
-            )
-            for code in sorted(languages)
-        ]
-    )
+    language_codes = []
+
+    for code in sorted(languages):
+
+        name = languages[code]['name']
+        if name is None:
+            print("ERROR: languages['%s'] --> %s" % (code, languages[code]))
+            continue
+        item = (
+            code,
+            languages[code]['name'].split(' (')[0],
+            languages[code].get('country_name') or '',
+            languages[code].get('english_name') or '',
+        )
+
+        language_codes.append(item)
+
+    language_codes = tuple(language_codes)
 
     with open(languages_file, 'w') as new_file:
         file_content = "{file_headers} \\\n{language_codes}".format(