What is my country?

Every request your browser makes carries your IP address, and internet registries hand out IP blocks to providers in specific regions. We match your address against the MaxMind GeoLite2 database to find the country, city and network it belongs to. Nothing is installed and you are never asked for permission - your IP is visible to every website you visit.

Country-level accuracy is high, typically around 99%. City-level accuracy is much rougher: it often points at your provider's regional hub rather than where you actually are, and can be wrong by tens or hundreds of kilometres. IP geolocation is not GPS and should never be treated as your precise position.

The usual cause is a VPN or proxy, which makes you appear at the exit server's location instead of your own. Mobile networks that route traffic through a gateway in another city or country, corporate networks with centralised egress, and satellite connections all have the same effect. IP blocks are also reassigned faster than geolocation databases are updated.

Your IP address is processed to look up your location and is never linked to a profile or sold. Web request logs, which include IP addresses, are kept for up to 90 days for security and abuse prevention, then deleted or anonymised. DNS resolver addresses from the leak test are an exception: they exist in memory only, are discarded within five minutes, and are never written to those logs.

A VPN routes your traffic through a server elsewhere, so sites see that server's address and country instead of yours. The Tor Browser does the same across several relays, with stronger anonymity and lower speed. Neither is complete on its own - WebRTC, your timezone, your browser locale and your DNS resolver can still give you away, which is what our VPN leak test and DNS leak test check.

Yes. Every tool on the site is free with no account and no sign-up: country detection, IP lookup, speed test, browser fingerprint test, VPN leak test and DNS leak test. The site is funded by affiliate commissions from the VPN providers we link to.