# GeoIP Accuracy in Crimea

_January 27, 2015_

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> This release note is more than two years old and may no longer reflect
> current behavior. View the
> [latest release notes](/geoip/release-notes/).

We are working on improving the accuracy in Crimea.

Approximately 60% of website visitors who are from Crimea are currently located
by GeoIP as being in Crimea. We plan to increase this to 75% in the next couple
of months.

Approximately 95% of the visitors who are located in Crimea by GeoIP are
actually in Crimea.

We currently locate Crimea in Ukraine, as we use GeoNames data and they locate
Crimea in Ukraine. If GeoNames locates Crimea in Russia in the future, we will
follow their change and post an announcement here as well as on
https://twitter.com/maxmind

In legacy GeoIP, we return a FIPS region code of 11 or 20. In GeoIP2, we return
an ISO code of 40 or 43 in the subdivision object.

Due to the nature of geolocation technology and other factors beyond our
control, we cannot guarantee any specific future accuracy level. Further,
accuracy figures are subject to change as IP networks are reallocated.