Define Globalization and Localization

Globalization is the process of making a product multi-lingual.Localization is the process of adapting a global product for a particular language .
1. You can visualize globalization as more of architecture decisions. While localization is adapting your content to local market. Localization phase occurs before globalization phase.
2. Globalization is process of identifying how many resources needs to be localized to adopt a multiple culture support, while Localization is actual process of translating resource to a specific c\ulture.