How to get user's region on Windows 10 UWP?

Question

I want to download a website's content based on user's current region. For that I need country code like US , FR etc.. How to get that?

I tried these:

this always shows US. I think it comes from app manifest.

var region = RegionInfo.CurrentRegion;

and this:

var cultureName = new DateTimeFormatter("longdate", new[] { "US" }).ResolvedLanguage;

return new CultureInfo(cultureName);

this works. returns something like en-US which I can extract country code from it. but sometimes it may return only language en without country code.

How to get system's current two character country code? thanks.

Answer 1

To get user's home region setting, we can use GlobalizationPreferences.HomeGeographicRegion property.

// Obtain the user's home geographic region.
var region = Windows.System.UserProfile.GlobalizationPreferences.HomeGeographicRegion;

The home region is usually set when Windows is installed and is available in
Settings → Time & language → Region & language → Country or region.

Windows.Globalization also has a GeographicRegion object that is provided as a helper object. It lets apps inspect details about a particular region, such as its display name, native name, and currencies in use.

// Get the user's geographic region and its two-letter identifier for this region.
var geographicRegion = new Windows.Globalization.GeographicRegion();
var code = geographicRegion.CodeTwoLetter;

For more info, please see Manage language and region.