title: Google Maps API region biasing Europe
body: <p>According to the <a href="https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/geocoding#GeocodingRegionCodes" rel="nofollow">Google Maps API docs</a> you can bias the results using a region code, specified as a <a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry" rel="nofollow">IANA language region subtag</a>. When looking at that second link you'll see that there is a region subtag EU for Europe, which was added on 2009-07-29. However none of the 2 code samples below seems to follow this biasing. When I geocode "Hoboken" I get Hoboken in the US, rather than Hobken in Belgium, EU.</p>
  
  <pre><code>geocoder.geocode( { 'address': address, 'region': 'EU'}, function(results, status) {
      if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
          console.log(results[0].geometry.location);
      }
      else {
          alert('Geocode was not successful for the following reason: ' + status);
      }
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>or using the region parementer in the URL:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false&amp;amp;region=EU"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>