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title: "Create Country-specific Views in GA4 Using Filters"
description: "In Universal Analytics (UA), we were able to create reports that contained only certain data. For example, sites with a .ca and .com domain would have a separate CDN View and USD View, and a ALL View..."
url: https://www.boxcarmarketing.com/create-country-specific-views-in-ga4-using-filters/
date: 2022-10-13
modified: 2025-10-10
author: "Monique Sherrett"
image: https://www.boxcarmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/09-library-options.png
categories: ["Google Analytics"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# Create Country-specific Views in GA4 Using Filters

In Universal Analytics (UA), we were able to create reports that contained only certain data. For example, sites with a .ca and .com domain would have a separate CDN View and USD View, and a ALL View (aggregated data from .ca and .com).

GA4 does not have Views. And until recently, you could not easily make a set of reports in GA4 that contained only certain data. Thankfully, Report Filters makes that possible. 

I’ll show you how to set up a basic filter on any report. Then how to customize and save reports into a collection in the Library section of GA4.

## How to set up a basic filter on any report

GA4 prompts demo how to set up a filter to see only Desktop traffic vs. Mobile or Tablet. But we can use the same prompts to filter for Country = United States. 

![01 add filter to any report](https://www.boxcarmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/01-add-filter-to-any-report-1024x477.png)*1. Click “Add filter” under the report heading*

![02 select conditions](https://www.boxcarmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/02-select-conditions-1024x446.png)*2. Select the dimension “Country”*

![03 example country level reports](https://www.boxcarmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/03-example-country-level-reports-1024x542.png)*3. Select United States in the dropdown then click Apply to display only the filtered data*

To create a report that we can save and easily view again, we need to follow the same process but in a different section of GA4.

## How to customize and save reports into a Collection in the Library section of GA4

You can build an entire report collection, pre-filtered to just certain traffic, by using the customize report function and then saving and renaming the filtered report.

### How to create a USA – user acquisition report

![04 customize pencil icon](https://www.boxcarmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/04-customize-pencil-icon-1024x376.png)*1. Click the pencil icon to customize the report*

![05 customize and save filter](https://www.boxcarmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/05-customize-and-save-filter-1024x439.png)*2. Click + Add filter to open the conditions box*

![06 select conditions](https://www.boxcarmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/06-select-conditions-1024x544.png)*3. Select the dimension “Country” then select “United States” from the dimension values dropdown. Click Apply.*

![07 save to new report](https://www.boxcarmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/07-save-to-new-report-1024x537.png)*4. Save as a new report. Make sure to give the report a descriptive name, like “USA – User acquisition: First user default channel grouping”*

![08 add reports then create collection](https://www.boxcarmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/08-add-reports-then-create-collection-1024x488.png)*5. Your saved report will be available in the Library section of GA4 (found at the bottom of the left-hand navigation*

You can customize and save each of your most used reports and add those reports to a collection. In this example, you would select “Blank,” give the collection a name (eg. USA View), and then select the USA-filtered reports that you want to add to the collection.

![09 library options](https://www.boxcarmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/09-library-options-1024x504.png)

Alternatively, you can duplicate an existing collection, like the Life cycle collection. That will duplicate all the reports in the Life cycle collection, which you can then rename “USA – Life cycle”. Next you will customize each duplicated report by adding the Country filter. Remember in this case to “Save changes to current report.”