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(
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Answer 1

I find that for a lot of ambiguous queries, the US always takes precedence in Google, even if you try to tell it where to look. You can look at the response and perhaps ignore it if output country=US?

That is the main reason I stopped using Google Geocoder a while ago and started building my own two years ago.

https://geocode.xyz/Boston,%20UK will always return the UK location. You can make extra sure by adding region=UK: https://geocode.xyz/Boston,%20UK?region=UK