Great news! There are now 23 more countries where people can download your Windows Phone apps.

From the Windows Phone Developer Blog:

The 23 new Marketplaces are launching this month in Bahrain, Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Estonia, Iceland, Iraq, Israel, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Vietnam. That’s in addition to the five stores we opened earlier this year in Argentina, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, and the Philippines.

Make sure you go to the App Hub and update your apps to include these new countries and resubmit, it’s not done automatically for you. There are step by step instructions here.