Google's Geocoder returns wrong country, ignoring the region hint

Question

I\'m using Google\'s Geocoder to find lat lng coordinates for a given address.

    var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
    geocoder.geocode(
    {
            


        

Answer 1

UPDATE: This answer may not be the best approach anymore. See the comments below the answer for more details.

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In addition to what Pekka already suggested, you may want to concatenate ', UK' to your address, as in the following example:

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I find that this is very reliable. On the other hand, the following example shows that neither the region parameter, nor the bounds parameter, are having any effect in this case: