Time and Language Find Device Setup Country or Region Geographic Location (GeoID) in Windows 11

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This tutorial will show you how to find out which country or region was selected during device setup (OOBE) for Windows 11.

The country or region home location in Windows, referred to as geographic location (GeoID), indicates the country or region you are in.

The device region is the country or region that was selected during Windows Setup.

Users can change the country or region used for their account instead of the device setup region, but the device setup region cannot be changed unless going through OOBE again.

Starting with Windows 11 build 26100.4484, the country or region selected during device setup now appears under Settings > Time & language > Language & region.



Contents

  • Option One: Find Device Setup Country or Region Geographic Location (GeoID) in Settings
  • Option Two: Find Device Setup Country or Region Geographic Location (GeoID) in Registry Editor
  • Option Three: Find Device Setup Country or Region Geographic Location (GeoID) in PowerShell


EXAMPLE: Selecting country or region during Windows Setup (OOBE)

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Option One

Find Device Setup Country or Region Geographic Location (GeoID) in Settings


1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on Time & language on the left side, and click/tap on Language & region on the right side. (see screenshot below)


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3 Under the Region section, you will see the Device setup region (ex: "United Kingdom"). (see screenshot below)

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4 You can now close Settings if you like.




Option Two

Find Device Setup Country or Region Geographic Location (GeoID) in Registry Editor


1 Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe).

2 Navigate to the key below in the left pane of Registry Editor. (see screenshot below step 3)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\DeviceRegion​

3 In the right pane of the DeviceRegion key, look at the DeviceRegion DWORD decimal Data value (ex: "242"). (see screenshot below)

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4 Look up this decimal Data value (ex: "242") under the Geographical location identifier (decimal) column in the Microsoft table linked below to see which country or region (ex: "United Kingdom") it's for.

learn.microsoft.com

Table of Geographical Locations - Win32 apps

This topic lists the available geographical locations with identifiers (data type GEOID).
learn.microsoft.com

5 You can now close Registry Editor if you like.




Option Three

Find Device Setup Country or Region Geographic Location (GeoID) in PowerShell


1 Open Windows Terminal, and select Windows PowerShell.

2 Copy and paste the command below into Windows Terminal, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)

Get-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\DeviceRegion" | Select-Object DeviceRegion​

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3 Look up the DeviceRegion output (ex: "242") under the Geographical location identifier (decimal) column in the Microsoft table linked below to see which country or region (ex: "United Kingdom") it's for.

learn.microsoft.com

Table of Geographical Locations - Win32 apps

This topic lists the available geographical locations with identifiers (data type GEOID).
learn.microsoft.com

4 You can now close Windows Terminal if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink


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Option Three can be replaced by Get-WinHomeLocation:

Code: 
PS C:\Users\GARLIN\Downloads> Get-WinHomeLocation

GeoId HomeLocation
----- ------------
  244 United States

PS C:\Users\GARLIN\Downloads> Get-WinHomeLocation | Select GeoId

GeoId
-----
  244
 

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garlin said:
Option Three can be replaced by Get-WinHomeLocation:

Code: 
PS C:\Users\GARLIN\Downloads> Get-WinHomeLocation

GeoId HomeLocation
----- ------------
  244 United States

PS C:\Users\GARLIN\Downloads> Get-WinHomeLocation | Select GeoId

GeoId
-----
  244
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Nope, it's not the same:


Code: 
Get-WinHomeLocation

GeoId HomeLocation
----- ------------
  244 United States

Get-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\DeviceRegion" | Select-Object DeviceRegion

DeviceRegion
------------
         242
 

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garlin said:
Option Three can be replaced by Get-WinHomeLocation:
Click to expand...

Thank you, but unfortunately that only shows the currently set Region which is not always the same as the device setup region.
 

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