How to get the Country according to a certain IP?

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DylanJ · Aug 4, 2008 · Viewed 16.9k times · Source

Does anyone know any simple way to retrieve the country from a given IP Address, preferably in ISO_3166-1 format?

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There are two approaches: using an Internet service and using some kind of local list (perhaps wrapped in a library). What you want will depend on what you are building.

For services:

http://www.hostip.info/use.html (as mentioned by Mark)
http://www.team-cymru.org/Services/ip-to-asn.html

For lists:

http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country (as mentioned by Orion)
You could roll your own by downloading the lists from the RIRs:

How to get the Country according to a certain IP?

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