Google Geocoding API - "va" returns "vatican" instead of "virginia"

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I am using Google's Geocoding API to take a natural language input and convert it to lat/long coordinates.

My requests look like so:

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=va&region=US

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=birmingham&region=US

However, in both instances I am receiving results in Europe. How can I bias the results to a country? Is my only option to explicitly specify the bounds of each country per request?

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1 Answers

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Try adding "US" to the end of the address parameter. I.e. this works:

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=va%2C%20US&region=US