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> They are mentionning the country, not the US state.

Yes, I know :) I don't think IP geolocation is so poor that it'd put Georgian residents into Russia. Could be wrong though, of course.

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Then why is it so poor that it sometimes put me in Romania while I am in Spain and closer to Africa than most other european countries but Portugal?

> Then why is it so poor that it sometimes

it being a company that estimates the location based on publicly available information like "This ASN belongs to this corporate entity which is registered in this country/related to this association" and so on.

There is no official hashmap with "IP => Geographical Location", they're all guesses and estimates.

a large chunk of Georgian territory is occupied by Russia, Abkhazia is one (which essentially functions as basically a breakaway state but is de facto russian controlled), and South Ossetia (which essentially functions as a de facto Russian oblast). That's probably the issue.

I think OP would have mentioned that if their goal was to have an honest discussion.

that was in Tbilisi

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