diff --git a/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/services/resources/admin/AdminConsole.java b/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/services/resources/admin/AdminConsole.java
index 51d02014a6..889e1dd7ef 100644
--- a/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/services/resources/admin/AdminConsole.java
+++ b/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/services/resources/admin/AdminConsole.java
@@ -163,6 +163,11 @@ public class AdminConsole {
         public void setLocale(Locale locale) {
             this.locale = locale;
         }
+
+        @JsonProperty(value = "locale")
+        public String getLocaleLanguageTag() {
+            return locale != null ? locale.toLanguageTag() : null;
+        }
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/test/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/admin/AdminConsoleWhoAmILocaleTest.java b/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/test/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/admin/AdminConsoleWhoAmILocaleTest.java
index 6c9a1805b6..0d9338b4df 100644
--- a/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/test/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/admin/AdminConsoleWhoAmILocaleTest.java
+++ b/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/test/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/admin/AdminConsoleWhoAmILocaleTest.java
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ public class AdminConsoleWhoAmILocaleTest extends AbstractKeycloakTest {
     private static final String DEFAULT_LOCALE = "en";
     private static final String REALM_LOCALE = "no";
     private static final String USER_LOCALE = "de";
-    private static final String EXTRA_LOCALE = "ru";
+    private static final String EXTRA_LOCALE = "zh-CN";
 
     private CloseableHttpClient client;