diff --git a/src/opnsense/mvc/app/controllers/OPNsense/Firewall/Api/AliasController.php b/src/opnsense/mvc/app/controllers/OPNsense/Firewall/Api/AliasController.php
index f3d13c4c6..e8b88a61e 100644
--- a/src/opnsense/mvc/app/controllers/OPNsense/Firewall/Api/AliasController.php
+++ b/src/opnsense/mvc/app/controllers/OPNsense/Firewall/Api/AliasController.php
@@ -182,7 +182,12 @@ class AliasController extends ApiMutableModelControllerBase
      */
     public function listCountriesAction()
     {
-        $result = array();
+        $result = [
+            'EU' => [
+                'name' => gettext('Unclassified'),
+                'region' => 'Europe'
+            ]
+        ];
 
         foreach (explode("\n", file_get_contents('/usr/local/opnsense/contrib/tzdata/iso3166.tab')) as $line) {
             $line = trim($line);
diff --git a/src/opnsense/mvc/app/models/OPNsense/Firewall/FieldTypes/AliasContentField.php b/src/opnsense/mvc/app/models/OPNsense/Firewall/FieldTypes/AliasContentField.php
index dab5039e8..54203f08f 100644
--- a/src/opnsense/mvc/app/models/OPNsense/Firewall/FieldTypes/AliasContentField.php
+++ b/src/opnsense/mvc/app/models/OPNsense/Firewall/FieldTypes/AliasContentField.php
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ class AliasContentField extends BaseField
     private function getCountryCodes()
     {
         if (empty(self::$internalCountryCodes)) {
+            // Maxmind's country code 6255148 (EU Unclassified)
+            self::$internalCountryCodes[] = 'EU';
             foreach (explode("\n", file_get_contents('/usr/local/opnsense/contrib/tzdata/iso3166.tab')) as $line) {
                 $line = trim($line);
                 if (strlen($line) > 3 && substr($line, 0, 1) != '#') {
diff --git a/src/opnsense/scripts/filter/lib/geoip.py b/src/opnsense/scripts/filter/lib/geoip.py
index 26d503671..53a1141fa 100755
--- a/src/opnsense/scripts/filter/lib/geoip.py
+++ b/src/opnsense/scripts/filter/lib/geoip.py
@@ -90,8 +90,11 @@ def download_geolite():
                         locations = zf.open(file_handles[result['locations_filename']]).read()
                         for line in locations.decode().split('\n'):
                             parts = line.split(',')
-                            if len(parts) > 4 and len(parts[4]) >= 1 and len(parts[4]) <= 3:
-                                country_codes[parts[0]] = parts[4]
+                            if len(parts) > 4 and parts[0].isdigit():
+                                if len(parts[4]) >= 1:
+                                    country_codes[parts[0]] = parts[4]
+                                elif parts[2] == 'EU':
+                                    country_codes[parts[0]] = parts[2]
                         # process all details into files per country / protocol
                         for proto in ['IPv4', 'IPv6']:
                             if result['address_sources'][proto] is not None: