diff --git a/src/OrchardCore.Modules/OrchardCore.Localization/Services/LocalizationService.cs b/src/OrchardCore.Modules/OrchardCore.Localization/Services/LocalizationService.cs
index c1c0fc19e8e..7775da8b8ff 100644
--- a/src/OrchardCore.Modules/OrchardCore.Localization/Services/LocalizationService.cs
+++ b/src/OrchardCore.Modules/OrchardCore.Localization/Services/LocalizationService.cs
@@ -1,58 +1,57 @@
 using System.Globalization;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
-using OrchardCore.Entities;
 using OrchardCore.Localization.Models;
 using OrchardCore.Settings;
 
-namespace OrchardCore.Localization.Services
+namespace OrchardCore.Localization.Services;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Represents a localization service.
+/// </summary>
+public class LocalizationService : ILocalizationService
 {
+    private static readonly string _defaultCulture = CultureInfo.InstalledUICulture.Name;
+    private static readonly string[] _supportedCultures = [CultureInfo.InstalledUICulture.Name];
+
+    private readonly ISiteService _siteService;
+
+    private LocalizationSettings _localizationSettings;
+
     /// <summary>
-    /// Represents a localization service.
+    /// Creates a new instance of <see cref="LocalizationService"/>.
     /// </summary>
-    public class LocalizationService : ILocalizationService
+    /// <param name="siteService">The <see cref="ISiteService"/>.</param>
+    public LocalizationService(ISiteService siteService)
     {
-        private static readonly string _defaultCulture = CultureInfo.InstalledUICulture.Name;
-        private static readonly string[] _supportedCultures = new[] { CultureInfo.InstalledUICulture.Name };
-
-        private readonly ISiteService _siteService;
+        _siteService = siteService;
+    }
 
-        private LocalizationSettings _localizationSettings;
+    /// <inheritdocs />
+    public async Task<string> GetDefaultCultureAsync()
+    {
+        var settings = await GetLocalizationSettingsAsync();
 
-        /// <summary>
-        /// Creates a new instance of <see cref="LocalizationService"/>.
-        /// </summary>
-        /// <param name="siteService">The <see cref="ISiteService"/>.</param>
-        public LocalizationService(ISiteService siteService)
-        {
-            _siteService = siteService;
-        }
+        return settings.DefaultCulture ?? _defaultCulture;
+    }
 
-        /// <inheritdocs />
-        public async Task<string> GetDefaultCultureAsync()
-        {
-            await InitializeLocalizationSettingsAsync();
+    /// <inheritdocs />
+    public async Task<string[]> GetSupportedCulturesAsync()
+    {
+        var settings = await GetLocalizationSettingsAsync();
 
-            return _localizationSettings.DefaultCulture ?? _defaultCulture;
-        }
+        return settings.SupportedCultures?.Length == 0
+            ? _supportedCultures
+            : settings.SupportedCultures;
+    }
 
-        /// <inheritdocs />
-        public async Task<string[]> GetSupportedCulturesAsync()
+    private async Task<LocalizationSettings> GetLocalizationSettingsAsync()
+    {
+        if (_localizationSettings == null)
         {
-            await InitializeLocalizationSettingsAsync();
-
-            return _localizationSettings.SupportedCultures == null || _localizationSettings.SupportedCultures.Length == 0
-                ? _supportedCultures
-                : _localizationSettings.SupportedCultures
-                ;
+            var siteSettings = await _siteService.GetSiteSettingsAsync();
+            _localizationSettings = siteSettings.As<LocalizationSettings>();
         }
 
-        private async Task InitializeLocalizationSettingsAsync()
-        {
-            if (_localizationSettings == null)
-            {
-                var siteSettings = await _siteService.GetSiteSettingsAsync();
-                _localizationSettings = siteSettings.As<LocalizationSettings>();
-            }
-        }
+        return _localizationSettings;
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/OrchardCore.Modules/OrchardCore.Localization/Services/RequestLocalizationMiddleware.cs b/src/OrchardCore.Modules/OrchardCore.Localization/Services/RequestLocalizationMiddleware.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1eb52110183
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/OrchardCore.Modules/OrchardCore.Localization/Services/RequestLocalizationMiddleware.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,226 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Globalization;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Builder;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Localization;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Options;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Primitives;
+
+namespace OrchardCore.Localization.Services;
+/// <summary>
+/// Enables automatic setting of the culture for <see cref="HttpRequest"/>s based on information
+/// sent by the client in headers and logic provided by the application.
+/// The middleware is inspired by <see href="https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/blob/main/src/Middleware/Localization/src/RequestLocalizationMiddleware.cs"/>
+/// and should have the same logic.
+/// </summary>
+public class RequestLocalizationMiddleware
+{
+    private const int MaxCultureFallbackDepth = 5;
+
+    private readonly RequestDelegate _next;
+    private readonly CultureOptions _cultureOptions;
+    private readonly ILocalizationService _localizationService;
+    private readonly ILogger _logger;
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Creates a new <see cref="RequestLocalizationMiddleware"/>.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="next">The <see cref="RequestDelegate"/> representing the next middleware in the pipeline.</param>
+    /// <param name="loggerFactory">The <see cref="ILoggerFactory"/> used for logging.</param>
+    /// <param name="cultureOptions">The <see cref="CultureOptions"/> used for logging.</param>
+    /// <param name="localizationService">The <see cref="ILocalizationService"/> used for logging.</param>
+    /// <see cref="RequestLocalizationMiddleware"/>
+    public RequestLocalizationMiddleware(
+        RequestDelegate next,
+        ILoggerFactory loggerFactory,
+        IOptions<CultureOptions> cultureOptions,
+        ILocalizationService localizationService)
+    {
+        _next = next ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(next));
+        _cultureOptions = cultureOptions.Value;
+        _localizationService = localizationService;
+        _logger = loggerFactory?.CreateLogger<RequestLocalizationMiddleware>() ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(loggerFactory));
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Invokes the logic of the middleware.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="context">The <see cref="HttpContext"/>.</param>
+    /// <returns>A <see cref="Task"/> that completes when the middleware has completed processing.</returns>
+    public async Task Invoke(HttpContext context)
+    {
+        ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(context);
+
+        var localizationOptions = new RequestLocalizationOptions();
+        var supportedCultures = await _localizationService.GetSupportedCulturesAsync();
+        new LocalizationOptionsUpdater(localizationOptions, _cultureOptions.IgnoreSystemSettings)
+            .SetDefaultCulture(await _localizationService.GetDefaultCultureAsync())
+            .AddSupportedCultures(supportedCultures)
+            .AddSupportedUICultures(supportedCultures);
+
+        var requestCulture = localizationOptions.DefaultRequestCulture;
+
+        IRequestCultureProvider winningProvider = null;
+
+        if (localizationOptions.RequestCultureProviders != null)
+        {
+            foreach (var provider in localizationOptions.RequestCultureProviders)
+            {
+                var providerResultCulture = await provider.DetermineProviderCultureResult(context);
+                if (providerResultCulture == null)
+                {
+                    continue;
+                }
+
+                var cultures = providerResultCulture.Cultures;
+                var uiCultures = providerResultCulture.UICultures;
+
+                CultureInfo cultureInfo = null;
+                CultureInfo uiCultureInfo = null;
+                if (localizationOptions.SupportedCultures != null)
+                {
+                    cultureInfo = GetCultureInfo(
+                        cultures,
+                        localizationOptions.SupportedCultures,
+                        localizationOptions.FallBackToParentCultures);
+
+                    if (cultureInfo == null)
+                    {
+                        _logger.UnsupportedCultures(provider.GetType().Name, cultures);
+                    }
+                }
+
+                if (localizationOptions.SupportedUICultures != null)
+                {
+                    uiCultureInfo = GetCultureInfo(
+                        uiCultures,
+                        localizationOptions.SupportedUICultures,
+                        localizationOptions.FallBackToParentUICultures);
+
+                    if (uiCultureInfo == null)
+                    {
+                        _logger.UnsupportedUICultures(provider.GetType().Name, uiCultures);
+                    }
+                }
+
+                if (cultureInfo == null && uiCultureInfo == null)
+                {
+                    continue;
+                }
+
+                cultureInfo ??= localizationOptions.DefaultRequestCulture.Culture;
+                uiCultureInfo ??= localizationOptions.DefaultRequestCulture.UICulture;
+
+                var result = new RequestCulture(cultureInfo, uiCultureInfo);
+                requestCulture = result;
+                winningProvider = provider;
+
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+
+        context.Features.Set<IRequestCultureFeature>(new RequestCultureFeature(requestCulture, winningProvider));
+
+        SetCurrentThreadCulture(requestCulture);
+
+        if (localizationOptions.ApplyCurrentCultureToResponseHeaders)
+        {
+            var headers = context.Response.Headers;
+            headers.ContentLanguage = requestCulture.UICulture.Name;
+        }
+
+        await _next(context);
+    }
+
+    private static void SetCurrentThreadCulture(RequestCulture requestCulture)
+    {
+        CultureInfo.CurrentCulture = requestCulture.Culture;
+        CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture = requestCulture.UICulture;
+    }
+
+    private static CultureInfo GetCultureInfo(
+        IList<StringSegment> cultureNames,
+        IList<CultureInfo> supportedCultures,
+        bool fallbackToParentCultures)
+    {
+        foreach (var cultureName in cultureNames)
+        {
+            // Allow empty string values as they map to InvariantCulture, whereas null culture values will throw in
+            // the CultureInfo ctor
+            if (cultureName != null)
+            {
+                var cultureInfo = GetCultureInfo(cultureName, supportedCultures, fallbackToParentCultures, currentDepth: 0);
+                if (cultureInfo != null)
+                {
+                    return cultureInfo;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    private static CultureInfo GetCultureInfo(
+        StringSegment cultureName,
+        IList<CultureInfo> supportedCultures,
+        bool fallbackToParentCultures,
+        int currentDepth)
+    {
+        // If the cultureName is an empty string there
+        // is no chance we can resolve the culture info.
+        if (cultureName.Equals(string.Empty))
+        {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        var culture = GetCultureInfo(cultureName, supportedCultures);
+
+        if (culture == null && fallbackToParentCultures && currentDepth < MaxCultureFallbackDepth)
+        {
+            try
+            {
+                culture = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo(cultureName.ToString());
+
+                culture = GetCultureInfo(culture.Parent.Name, supportedCultures, fallbackToParentCultures, currentDepth + 1);
+            }
+            catch (CultureNotFoundException)
+            {
+            }
+        }
+
+        return culture;
+    }
+
+    private static CultureInfo GetCultureInfo(StringSegment name, IList<CultureInfo> supportedCultures)
+    {
+        // Allow only known culture names as this API is called with input from users (HTTP requests) and
+        // creating CultureInfo objects is expensive and we don't want it to throw either.
+        if (name == null || supportedCultures == null)
+        {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        var culture = supportedCultures.FirstOrDefault(
+            supportedCulture => StringSegment.Equals(supportedCulture.Name, name, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
+
+        if (culture == null)
+        {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        return CultureInfo.ReadOnly(culture);
+    }
+}
+
+internal static partial class RequestCultureProviderLoggerExtensions
+{
+    [LoggerMessage(1, LogLevel.Debug, "{requestCultureProvider} returned the following unsupported cultures '{cultures}'.", EventName = "UnsupportedCulture")]
+    public static partial void UnsupportedCultures(this ILogger logger, string requestCultureProvider, IList<StringSegment> cultures);
+
+    [LoggerMessage(2, LogLevel.Debug, "{requestCultureProvider} returned the following unsupported UI Cultures '{uiCultures}'.", EventName = "UnsupportedUICulture")]
+    public static partial void UnsupportedUICultures(this ILogger logger, string requestCultureProvider, IList<StringSegment> uiCultures);
+}
diff --git a/src/OrchardCore.Modules/OrchardCore.Localization/Startup.cs b/src/OrchardCore.Modules/OrchardCore.Localization/Startup.cs
index 8c825301c3d..083a3f7c8a0 100644
--- a/src/OrchardCore.Modules/OrchardCore.Localization/Startup.cs
+++ b/src/OrchardCore.Modules/OrchardCore.Localization/Startup.cs
@@ -26,13 +26,12 @@ public class Startup : StartupBase
     {
         public override int ConfigureOrder => -100;
 
-        /// <inheritdocs />
         public override void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
         {
             services.AddScoped<IDisplayDriver<ISite>, LocalizationSettingsDisplayDriver>();
             services.AddScoped<INavigationProvider, AdminMenu>();
             services.AddScoped<IPermissionProvider, Permissions>();
-            services.AddScoped<ILocalizationService, LocalizationService>();
+            services.AddSingleton<ILocalizationService, LocalizationService>();
 
             services.AddPortableObjectLocalization(options => options.ResourcesPath = "Localization").
                 AddDataAnnotationsPortableObjectLocalization();
@@ -40,23 +39,9 @@ public override void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
             services.Replace(ServiceDescriptor.Singleton<ILocalizationFileLocationProvider, ModularPoFileLocationProvider>());
         }
 
-        /// <inheritdocs />
         public override void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IEndpointRouteBuilder routes, IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
         {
-            var localizationService = serviceProvider.GetService<ILocalizationService>();
-
-            var defaultCulture = localizationService.GetDefaultCultureAsync().GetAwaiter().GetResult();
-            var supportedCultures = localizationService.GetSupportedCulturesAsync().GetAwaiter().GetResult();
-
-            var localizationOptions = serviceProvider.GetService<IOptions<RequestLocalizationOptions>>().Value;
-            var ignoreSystemSettings = serviceProvider.GetService<IOptions<CultureOptions>>().Value.IgnoreSystemSettings;
-
-            new LocalizationOptionsUpdater(localizationOptions, ignoreSystemSettings)
-                .SetDefaultCulture(defaultCulture)
-                .AddSupportedCultures(supportedCultures)
-                .AddSupportedUICultures(supportedCultures);
-
-            app.UseRequestLocalization(localizationOptions);
+            app.UseMiddleware<RequestLocalizationMiddleware>();
         }
     }