Fastly Geolocation information about an IP address

Can be retrieved for the incoming request's client IP address using the geo accessor, and for arbitrary addresses using getGeolocationForIpAddress.

Example

In this example we return the geolocation details for the provided ip querystring parameter or for the incoming client request if the querystring parameter does not exist.

Hierarchy

  • Geolocation

Properties

area_code: null | number

The telephone area code associated with an IP address.

These are only available for IP addresses in the United States, its territories, and Canada.

as_name: null | string

The name of the organization associated with as_number.

For example, fastly is the value given for IP addresses under AS-54113.

as_number: null | number

Autonomous system (AS) number.

city: null | string

City or town name.

conn_speed: null | string

Connection speed.

conn_type: null | string

Connection type.

continent: null | string

Continent.

country_code: null | string

A two-character ISO 3166-1 country code for the country associated with an IP address.

The US country code is returned for IP addresses associated with overseas United States military bases.

These values include subdivisions that are assigned their own country codes in ISO 3166-1. For example, subdivisions NO-21 and NO-22 are presented with the country code SJ for Svalbard and the Jan Mayen Islands.

country_code3: null | string

A three-character ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for the country associated with the IP address.

The USA country code is returned for IP addresses associated with overseas United States military bases.

country_name: null | string

Country name.

This field is the ISO 3166-1 English short name for a country.

gmt_offset: null | string

Time zone offset from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) for city.

latitude: null | number

Latitude, in units of degrees from the equator.

Values range from -90.0 to +90.0 inclusive, and are based on the WGS 84 coordinate reference system.

longitude: null | number

Longitude, in units of degrees from the IERS Reference Meridian.

Values range from -180.0 to +180.0 inclusive, and are based on the WGS 84 coordinate reference system.

metro_code: null | number

Metro code, representing designated market areas (DMAs) in the United States.

postal_code: null | string

The postal code associated with the IP address.

These are available for some IP addresses in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

For Canadian postal codes, this is the first 3 characters. For the United Kingdom, this is the first 2-4 characters (outward code). For countries with alphanumeric postal codes, this field is a lowercase transliteration.

proxy_description: null | string

Client proxy description.

proxy_type: null | string

Client proxy type.

region: null | string

ISO 3166-2 country subdivision code.

For countries with multiple levels of subdivision (for example, nations within the United Kingdom), this variable gives the more specific subdivision.

This field can be None for countries that do not have ISO country subdivision codes. For example, None is given for IP addresses assigned to the Ă…land Islands (country code AX, illustrated below).

utc_offset: null | number

Time zone offset from coordinated universal time (UTC) for city.

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