country detect by ip

[flashman]

how can i detect what country user visited at my website?
I need detect country by ip.

With best regards.

[victor]

Best you can manage in most cases is the country of the ISP. Think, for example, of AOL. They have users worldwide, but all their IP address map back to Virgina, USA.

A starting point is:

[ripe.net...]

[zoltan]

Or you can check:
[maxmind.com...]

[killroy]

There are lots of free ip2location and ip2country (search for those terms) available.

the map all available IP ranges to their respective countries. If you have mostly US traffic with a large AOL followign though, that might skew the results, even though they usually have local proxies.

Country information should be quite accurate (erm well, let's say usefull, I feel uneasy usign the word "accurate" with anything connected to onlline logging).

SN