Jade Wang from Google’s Places, business help, team posted in the Google Business Help forums that they have greatly expanded the business category support by adding over a 1,000 new categories internationally.

Previously, they had a very limited number of categories for international (Non USA) businesses. The reason was because it was complicated to translate them all. Well, now Google has translated a ton and can support 1,000 new categories.

Jade said:

Why not sooner? Jade explained:

So if you manage Google Places/ Google Local + for businesses outside of the United States, dig in and set those new categories.

Forum discussion at Google Business Help.