diff --git a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tasks/GeneratePackageManagerJava.cs b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tasks/GeneratePackageManagerJava.cs
index 2f3e7bed8ef..cecfd42ada2 100644
--- a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tasks/GeneratePackageManagerJava.cs
+++ b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tasks/GeneratePackageManagerJava.cs
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ void AddEnvironment ()
 			HashSet<string> archAssemblyNames = null;
 			HashSet<string> uniqueAssemblyNames = new HashSet<string> (StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
 			Action<ITaskItem> updateAssemblyCount = (ITaskItem assembly) => {
-				string? culture = assembly.GetMetadata ("Culture");
+				string? culture = MonoAndroidHelper.GetAssemblyCulture (assembly);
 				string fileName = Path.GetFileName (assembly.ItemSpec);
 				string assemblyName;
 
diff --git a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Utilities/MonoAndroidHelper.cs b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Utilities/MonoAndroidHelper.cs
index fb598eadf2a..8fb845dd9df 100644
--- a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Utilities/MonoAndroidHelper.cs
+++ b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Utilities/MonoAndroidHelper.cs
@@ -585,6 +585,38 @@ public static string GetNativeLibsRootDirectoryPath (string androidBinUtilsDirec
 			return Path.GetFullPath (Path.Combine (androidBinUtilsDirectory, relPath, "lib"));
 		}
 
+		public static string? GetAssemblyCulture (ITaskItem assembly)
+		{
+			// The best option
+			string? culture = assembly.GetMetadata ("Culture");
+			if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty (culture)) {
+				return TrimSlashes (culture);
+			}
+
+			// ...slightly worse
+			culture = assembly.GetMetadata ("RelativePath");
+			if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty (culture)) {
+				return TrimSlashes (Path.GetDirectoryName (culture));
+			}
+
+			// ...not ideal
+			culture = assembly.GetMetadata ("DestinationSubDirectory");
+			if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty (culture)) {
+				return TrimSlashes (culture);
+			}
+
+			return null;
+
+			string? TrimSlashes (string? s)
+			{
+				if (String.IsNullOrEmpty (s)) {
+					return null;
+				}
+
+				return s.TrimEnd ('/').TrimEnd ('\\');
+			}
+		}
+
 		/// <summary>
 		/// Process a collection of assembly `ITaskItem` objects, splitting it on the assembly architecture (<see cref="GetTargetArch"/>) while, at the same time, ignoring
 		/// all assemblies which are **not** in the <paramref name="supportedAbis"/> collection.  If necessary, the selection can be further controlled by passing a qualifier