Identifying country by IP address

Question

Is there a way to figure out the country name just by looking at an IP address  I mean  do countries have specific ranges of IP addresses  For example  Australia can have IP addresses only in the range of 123 45 56 89 - 231 54 65 98  just an example

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IP addresses are quite commonly used for geo-targeting i.e. customizing the content of a website by the visitor's location / country but they are not permanently associated with a country and often get re-assigned.

To accomplish what you want, you need to keep an up to date lookup to map an IP address to a country either with a database or a geolocation API. Here's an example :

> https://ipapi.co/8.8.8.8/country
US

> https://ipapi.co/8.8.8.8/country_name
United States

Or you can use the full API to get complete location for IP address e.g.

https://ipapi.co/8.8.8.8/json

{
    "ip": "8.8.8.8",
    "city": "Mountain View",
    "region": "California",
    "region_code": "CA",
    "country": "US",
    "country_name": "United States",
    "continent_code": "NA",
    "postal": "94035",
    "latitude": 37.386,
    "longitude": -122.0838,
    "timezone": "America/Los_Angeles",
    "utc_offset": "-0800",
    "country_calling_code": "+1",
    "currency": "USD",
    "languages": "en-US,es-US,haw,fr",
    "asn": "AS15169",
    "org": "Google Inc."
}

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Amazon s CloudFront content delivery network can now be configured to pass this information through as a header  Given Amazon s size  they re big and stable  not going anywhere  and this is configuration over code  no third-party API to learn or code to maintain   all around believe this to be the best option   If you do not use AWS CloudFront  I d look into seeing if your CDN has a similar header option that can be turned on  Usually the large providers are quick to push for feature parity  And if you are not using a CDN  you could put CloudFront in front of your infrastructure and simply set the origin to resolve to whatever you are currently using   Additionally  it also makes sense to resolve this at the CDN level  Your CDN is already having to figure out geo location to route the user to the nearest content node  might as well pass this information along and not figure it out twice through a third party API  this becomes chokepoint for your app  waiting for a geo location lookup to resolve   No need to do this work twice  and the second time  arguably less resilient  e g   3rd party geo lookup     https   aws amazon com blogs aws enhanced-cloudfront-customization      Geo-Targeting     CloudFront will detect the user   s country of origin   and pass along the county code to you in the CloudFront-Viewer-Country   header  You can use this information to customize your responses   without having to use URLs that are specific to each country

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I agree with above answers  the best way to get country from ip address is Maxmind    If you want to write code in java  you might want to use i e  geoip-api-1 2 10 jar and geoIP dat files  GeoIPCity dat   which can be found via google   Following code may be useful for you to get almost all information related to location  I am also using the same code   public static String getGeoDetailsUsingMaxmind String ipAddress  String desiredValue                 Location getLocation          String returnString               try                       String geoIPCity datFile   System getenv  AUTOMATION HOME   concat   tpt GeoIP GeoIPCity dat                LookupService isp   new LookupService geoIPCity datFile               getLocation   isp getLocation ipAddress               isp close                   Getting all location details              if desiredValue equalsIgnoreCase  latitude      desiredValue equalsIgnoreCase  lat                                  returnString   String valueOf getLocation latitude                             else if desiredValue equalsIgnoreCase  longitude      desiredValue equalsIgnoreCase  lon                                  returnString   String valueOf getLocation longitude                             else if desiredValue equalsIgnoreCase  countrycode      desiredValue equalsIgnoreCase  country                                  returnString   getLocation countryCode                            else if desiredValue equalsIgnoreCase  countryname                                  returnString   getLocation countryName                            else if desiredValue equalsIgnoreCase  region                                  returnString   getLocation region                            else if desiredValue equalsIgnoreCase  metro                                  returnString   String valueOf getLocation metro code                             else if desiredValue equalsIgnoreCase  city                                  returnString   getLocation city                            else if desiredValue equalsIgnoreCase  zip      desiredValue equalsIgnoreCase  postalcode                                  returnString   getLocation postalCode                            else                               returnString                       System out println  There is no value found for parameter    desiredValue                              System out println  Value of    desiredValue     is    returnString     for ip address    ipAddress                     catch  Exception e                         System out println  Exception occured while getting details from max mind      e                     finally                       return returnString

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No you can t - IP addresses get reallocated and reassigned from time to time  so the mapping of IP to location will also change over time   If you want to find out the location that an IP address currently maps to you can either download a geolocation database  such as GeoLite from MaxMind  or use an API like http   ipinfo io  my own service  which will also give you additional details     curl ipinfo io 8 8 8 8      ip    8 8 8 8      hostname    google-public-dns-a google com      loc    37 385999999999996 -122 0838      org    AS15169 Google Inc       city    Mountain View      region    California      country    US      phone   650

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I think what you re looking for is an IP Geolocation database or service provider   There are many out there and some are free  get what you pay for   Although I haven t used this service before  it claims to be in real-time   https   kickfire com kf-api Here s another IP geo location API from Abstract API - https   www abstractapi com ip-geolocation-api But just do a google search on IP geo and you ll get more results than you need

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Yes  countries have specific IP address ranges as you mentioned   For example  Australia is between 16777216 - 16777471  China is between 16777472 - 16778239  But one country may have multiple ranges  For example  Australia also has this range between 16778240 - 16779263   These are numerical conversions of IP addresses  It depends whether you use IPv4 or IPv6   More information about these ranges can be seen here  http   software77 net cidr-101 html  We get the ip addresses of our website visitors and sometimes want to make relevant campaign for a specific country  We were using bulk conversion tools but later on decided to define the rules in an Excel file and convert it in the tool  And we have built this Excel template  https   www someka net excel-template ip-to-country-converter   Now we use this for our own needs and also sell it  I don t want it to be a sales pitch but for those who are looking for an easy solution can benefit from this

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You could use ipdata co to perform the lookup     This answer uses a  test  API Key that is very limited and only meant for testing a few calls  Signup for your own Free API Key and get up to 1500 requests daily for development    curl https   api ipdata co 23 221 76 66 api-key test   Ipdata has 10 endpoints globally each able to handle  10 000 requests per second   Gives         ip    23 221 76 66        city    Cambridge        region    Massachusetts        region code    MA        country name    United States        country code    US        continent name    North America        continent code    NA        latitude   42 3626       longitude   -71 0843       asn    AS20940        organisation    Akamai International B V         postal    02142        calling code    1        flag    https   ipdata co flags us png        emoji flag     ud83c uddfa ud83c uddf8        emoji unicode    U 1F1FA U 1F1F8        is eu   false       languages                            name    English                native    English                        currency              name    US Dollar            code    USD            symbol                 native                 plural    US dollars              time zone              name    America New York            abbr    EDT            offset    -0400            is dst   true           current time    2018-04-19T06 32 30 690963-04 00              threat              is tor   false           is proxy   false           is anonymous   false           is known attacker   false           is known abuser   false           is threat   false           is bogon   false

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It s not that easy   IP adresses are not assigned to countries as such  but to companies and organizations   But maybe this can help you out  http   www maxmind com app geolitecountry

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I know that it is a very old post but for the sake of the users who are landed here and looking for a solution  if you are using Cloudflare as your DNS then you can activate IP geolocation and get the value from the request header    here is the code snippet in C  after you enable IP geolocation in Cloudflare through the network tab   var countryCode   HttpContext Request Headers Get  cf-ipcountry       in older asp net versions like webform use HttpContext Current Request       var countryName   new RegionInfo CountryCode   EnglishName    you can simply map it to other programming languages  please take a look at the Cloudflare s documentation here    but if you are really insisting on using a 3rd party solution to have more precise information about the visitors using their IP here is a complete  ready to use implementation using C    the 3rd party I have used is https   ipstack com  you can simply register for a free plan and get an access token to use for 10K API requests each month  I am using the JSON model to retrieve and like to convert all the info the API gives me  here we go   The DTO       using System      using Newtonsoft Json        public partial class GeoLocationModel                 JsonProperty  ip            public string Ip   get  set              JsonProperty  hostname            public string Hostname   get  set              JsonProperty  type            public string Type   get  set              JsonProperty  continent code            public string ContinentCode   get  set              JsonProperty  continent name            public string ContinentName   get  set              JsonProperty  country code            public string CountryCode   get  set              JsonProperty  country name            public string CountryName   get  set              JsonProperty  region code            public string RegionCode   get  set              JsonProperty  region name            public string RegionName   get  set              JsonProperty  city            public string City   get  set              JsonProperty  zip            public long Zip   get  set              JsonProperty  latitude            public double Latitude   get  set              JsonProperty  longitude            public double Longitude   get  set              JsonProperty  location            public Location Location   get  set              JsonProperty  time zone            public TimeZone TimeZone   get  set              JsonProperty  currency            public Currency Currency   get  set              JsonProperty  connection            public Connection Connection   get  set              JsonProperty  security            public Security Security   get  set                public partial class Connection                JsonProperty  asn            public long Asn   get  set              JsonProperty  isp            public string Isp   get  set               public partial class Currency                JsonProperty  code            public string Code   get  set              JsonProperty  name            public string Name   get  set              JsonProperty  plural            public string Plural   get  set              JsonProperty  symbol            public string Symbol   get  set              JsonProperty  symbol native            public string SymbolNative   get  set               public partial class Location                JsonProperty  geoname id            public long GeonameId   get  set              JsonProperty  capital            public string Capital   get  set              JsonProperty  languages            public Language   Languages   get  set              JsonProperty  country flag            public Uri CountryFlag   get  set              JsonProperty  country flag emoji            public string CountryFlagEmoji   get  set              JsonProperty  country flag emoji unicode            public string CountryFlagEmojiUnicode   get  set              JsonProperty  calling code            public long CallingCode   get  set              JsonProperty  is eu            public bool IsEu   get  set               public partial class Language                JsonProperty  code            public string Code   get  set              JsonProperty  name            public string Name   get  set              JsonProperty  native            public string Native   get  set               public partial class Security                JsonProperty  is proxy            public bool IsProxy   get  set              JsonProperty  proxy type            public object ProxyType   get  set              JsonProperty  is crawler            public bool IsCrawler   get  set              JsonProperty  crawler name            public object CrawlerName   get  set              JsonProperty  crawler type            public object CrawlerType   get  set              JsonProperty  is tor            public bool IsTor   get  set              JsonProperty  threat level            public string ThreatLevel   get  set              JsonProperty  threat types            public object ThreatTypes   get  set               public partial class TimeZone                JsonProperty  id            public string Id   get  set              JsonProperty  current time            public DateTimeOffset CurrentTime   get  set              JsonProperty  gmt offset            public long GmtOffset   get  set              JsonProperty  code            public string Code   get  set              JsonProperty  is daylight saving            public bool IsDaylightSaving   get  set            The Helper       using System Configuration      using System IO      using System Net      using System Threading Tasks       public class GeoLocationHelper               public static async Task lt GeoLocationModel gt  GetGeoLocationByIp string ipAddress                        var request   WebRequest Create string Format  http   api ipstack com  0  access key  1    ipAddress  ConfigurationManager AppSettings  ipStackAccessKey                  var response   await request GetResponseAsync                using  var stream   new StreamReader response GetResponseStream                                   var jsonGeoData   await stream ReadToEndAsync                    return Newtonsoft Json JsonConvert DeserializeObject lt GeoLocationModel gt  jsonGeoData

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May be these two links can help you Associate IP addresses with countries  http   en wikipedia org wiki Regional Internet Registry

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You can try using https   ip-api io - geo location api that returns country among other IP information   For example with Node js  const request   require  request-promise    request  http   ip-api io api json 1 2 3 4      then response   gt  console log JSON parse response       catch err   gt  console log err

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Yes  you can download the IP address ranges by country from https   lite ip2location com ip-address-ranges-by-country  You can see that each country has multiple ranges and changes frequently

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Here is my solution in Python 3 x to return geo-location info given a dataframe containing IP Address s   efficient parallelized application of function on vectorized pd series dataframe is the way to go   Will contrast performance of two popular libraries to return location    TLDR  use geolite2 method   1  geolite2 package from geolite2 library  Input     pip install maxminddb-geolite2 import time from geolite2 import geolite2 geo   geolite2 reader   df 1   train data loc  50   IP Address     def IP info 1 ip       try          x   geo get ip      except ValueError     Faulty IP value         return np nan     try          return x  country    names    en   if x is not None else np nan     except KeyError     Faulty Key value         return np nan  s time   time time     map IP -- gt  country  apply fn  applies fn  on all pd series elements df 1  country     df 1 loc    IP Address   apply IP info 1  print df 1 head      n   print  Time   str time time  -s time   s  n    print type geo get  48 151 136 76       Output         IP Address         country 0   48 151 136 76   United States 1    94 9 145 169  United Kingdom 2   58 94 157 121           Japan 3  193 187 41 186         Austria 4   125 96 20 172           China   Time  0 09906983375549316s    lt class  dict  gt    2  DbIpCity package from ip2geotools library  Input     pip install ip2geotools import time s time   time time   from ip2geotools databases noncommercial import DbIpCity df 2   train data loc  50   IP Address    def IP info 2 ip       try          return DbIpCity get ip  api key    free   country     except          return np nan df 2  country     df 2 loc     IP Address   apply IP info 2  print df 2 head    print  Time   str time time  -s time   s    print type DbIpCity get  48 151 136 76  api key    free       Output         IP Address country 0   48 151 136 76      US 1    94 9 145 169      GB 2   58 94 157 121      JP 3  193 187 41 186      AT 4   125 96 20 172      CN  Time  80 53318452835083s    lt class  ip2geotools models IpLocation  gt    A reason why the huge time difference could be due to the Data structure of the output  i e direct subsetting from dictionaries seems way more efficient than indexing from  the specicialized  ip2geotools models IpLocation object   Also  the output of the 1st method is dictionary containing geo-location data  subset respecitively to obtain needed info   x   geolite2 reader   get  48 151 136 76   print x    gt  gt  gt        city     geoname id   5101798   names     de    Newark    en    Newark    es    Newark    fr    Newark    ja              pt-BR    Newark    ru                  continent     code    NA    geoname id   6255149   names     de    Nordamerika    en    North America    es    Norteam  rica    fr    Am  rique du Nord    ja             pt-BR    Am  rica do Norte    ru                        zh-CN               country     geoname id   6252001   iso code    US    names     de    USA    en    United States    es    Estados Unidos    fr      tats-Unis    ja               pt-BR    Estados Unidos    ru           zh-CN              location     accuracy radius   1000   latitude   40 7355   longitude   -74 1741   metro code   501   time zone    America New York       postal     code    07102       registered country     geoname id   6252001   iso code    US    names     de    USA    en    United States    es    Estados Unidos    fr      tats-Unis    ja               pt-BR    Estados Unidos    ru           zh-CN              subdivisions      geoname id   5101760   iso code    NJ    names     en    New Jersey    es    Nueva Jersey    fr    New Jersey    ja                 pt-BR    Nova J  rsia    ru       -          zh-CN

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