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(
    {
        'address':  address,
        'region':   'uk'
    }, function(results, status) {
        if(status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
            lat: results[0].geometry.location.lat(),
            lng: results[0].geometry.location.lng()
    });

address variable is taken from an input field.

I want to search locations only in UK. I thought that specifying 'region': 'uk' should be enough but it's not. When I type in "Boston" it's finding Boston in US and I wanted the one in UK.

How to restrict Geocoder to return locations only from one country or maybe from a certain lat lng range?

Thanks

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<results.length; i++) {
            for (var j=0; j<results[i].address_components.length; j++) {
               if ($.inArray("country", results[i].address_components[j].types) >= 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;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    });