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

The following code will get the first matching address in the UK without the need to modify the address.

  var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
  geocoder.geocode(
  {
    'address':  address,
    'region':   'uk'
  }, function(results, status) {
    if(status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
        for (var i=0; i= 0) {
                    if (results[i].address_components[j].short_name == "GB") {
                        return_address = results[i].formatted_address;
                        return_lat = results[i].geometry.location.lat();
                        return_lng = results[i].geometry.location.lng();
                        ...
                        return;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    });