but with the structure change of my site (it's rather new), I have

I had on my website category pages.

they were my.site.com/en/somecountry/category/ but with the structure change of my site (it's rather new), I have no need for this my.site.com/en/somecountry/category/ anymore.

Now, google sees it as a crawl error. Obviously... How should I deal with it. I know I have to do a redirect 301 but the big question is... To where!

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@Sarah324

If all you did is removed the language specifier (the /en/ in the URL) why not just do a 301 redirect from /en/somecountry/category/ to /somecountry/category/? This way users can find their way to the same content and search engines will also know the content has moved and to index the new pages and associate any links to the old pages to the new ones.

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@Welton855

The most user-friendly way would be to tell the visitor that you don't have category X any more, and to give a few alternatives - put some links/teasers to other sections/category that are similar, or link your best offer, latest news, whatever.
It is basically "sorry we don't have that anymore, but this is shiny too" - turn the visit on an error page into an opportunity to sell/show something else.

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