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

I had to filter results to a country myself today. I found out that the two character country code in componentRestrictions:country: does not work. But the full country name does.

This is the full_name in the address_components from a result.