What Country is the User Currently In?

Question

I\'ve looked around a bit on stackoverflow and Google Groups and haven\'t really found an answer for this exact question.

I simply want to be able to know what c

Answer 1

You could try reverse Geo Coding :)

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/

Check this link. The country is returned in JSON.

http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=40.714224,-73.961452&sensor=false

I honestly do not know whether this will work in all scenarios but I believe this is something that can help.

EDIT: Looks like it kinda works :)

Tried with my country and seems to work perfectly.

http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=6.822716,79.878159&sensor=false

You will get

{
  "status": "ZERO_RESULTS",
  "results": [ ]
}

for example, if the user is in the middle of an ocean by any chance :P