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

Use componentRestrictions attribute:

geocoder.geocode({'address': request.term, componentRestrictions: {country: 'GB'}}