What state am I in?

The card above shows the state, province or region you are in right now, the first division below the country, worked out from your device's position.

What counts as a state here?

Every country divides itself differently. In the United States, Mexico, Brazil and Australia the first division is a state. In Canada and the Netherlands it is a province, in Spain an autonomous community, in France a région. This page shows whatever the map records as the first division below the country, under the name the map uses for it.

How accurate is it?

States are large, so the accuracy figure rarely matters. Even the roughest reading this app will describe covers a few kilometres, and almost every state or province is far wider than that. A reading too vague to earn a street name has usually still earned its state with room to spare.

The exception is a reading taken close to a border. If the accuracy circle on the card crosses the line, the lookup names the side the reading falls on, and you may be standing on the other. If that matters, wait a few seconds for the figure to come down.

Why is the answer blank?

Either the lookup did not come back, or the map has no division at this level for that spot, which is the case in some small countries and at sea. The page does not borrow the county or the country to fill the space.

If you want the full reasoning behind leaving things out rather than guessing, we wrote it down.