Are all combinations of language codes and regions in the language-subtag-registry valid?

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RFC 5646 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5646.html) and IANA language subtag registry (https://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry) describe and list the language and region codes that make up the tags for identifying languages, respectfully.

My question is:

  • is every combination of language subtag and region subtag valid?

For example, these are obvious variants of English:

  • en-GB is "English as spoken in Great Britain"
  • en-CA is "English as spoken in Canada"
  • en-US is "English as spoken in United States of America"

But is this valid, or is this combination not allowed because it is not recognized as a valid variant of English?

  • en-CN is "English as spoken in China"

Thanks!

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