diff --git a/bedrock/sitemaps/management/commands/update_sitemaps.py b/bedrock/sitemaps/management/commands/update_sitemaps.py
index 0ec0a3ea13e..7d98328df04 100644
--- a/bedrock/sitemaps/management/commands/update_sitemaps.py
+++ b/bedrock/sitemaps/management/commands/update_sitemaps.py
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 from bedrock.sitemaps.utils import update_sitemaps
 
 
+# Note that this command is only called by www-sitemap-generator, which uses the Docker image
+# of Bedrock to regenerate sitemap data
 class Command(BaseCommand):
     args = ""
     help = "Update XML sitemaps based on the list of localized pages."
diff --git a/bedrock/sitemaps/utils.py b/bedrock/sitemaps/utils.py
index ddc543fa8e9..508e519eaa8 100644
--- a/bedrock/sitemaps/utils.py
+++ b/bedrock/sitemaps/utils.py
@@ -120,6 +120,15 @@ def get_static_urls():
     for key, values in resolvers.get_resolver(None).reverse_dict.lists():
         for value in values:
             path = value[0][0][0]
+
+            # Re: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/issues/14480
+            # Since the refactor to use Django's i18n mechanism, not our
+            # original Prefixer, resolved URLs are automatically prepended
+            # with settings.LANGUAGE_CODE, which downstream use of this data
+            # is not expecting. The simplest fix is to drop that part of the path.
+            _lang_prefix = f"{settings.LANGUAGE_CODE}/"
+            path = path.replace(_lang_prefix, "", 1)
+
             # Exclude pages that we don't want be indexed by search engines.
             # Some other URLs are also unnecessary for the sitemap.
             if any(exclude.search(path) for exclude in excludes):