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IP Address Lookup

Look up any IPv4 or IPv6 address, or your own, to see its location, city, ISP, timezone, and ASN on an interactive map.

Geolocation Details

Requested IP Detecting...
Country -
Region / State -
City / Town -
Coordinates (Lat, Lon) -
Postal / ZIP Code -

Carrier & Network Details

ISP Provider -
ASN (Network ID) -
Timezone -
Local Time -

Geolocation Map

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Deep Dive: Geolocation & Networking Concepts

How IP Geolocation Works

IP geolocation databases link blocks of IP addresses to physical geographic locations. When an organization (like an ISP or datacenter) registers IP prefixes with regional internet registries (RIRs like ARIN, RIPE, APNIC), they provide address coordinates. Geolocation providers index this data to match IP queries to country, state, city, and approximate latitude/longitude. Note that these lookups reflect network routers and gateways, rather than your exact residential GPS position.

IP Address Privacy & Risks

Your public IP address is visible to every server and router along your transmission path. While exposing an IP does not reveal personal details (like your name or phone number), it allows websites to pinpoint your city and log your activity. Using a VPN, Tor proxy, or iCloud Private Relay redirects your data through intermediary nodes, masking your native IP with the proxy's server IP to protect your browsing privacy.

Autonomous Systems (AS) & ASN

The internet is a network of networks. An Autonomous System (AS) is a massive collection of connected IP routing prefixes controlled by a single administrative entity (like Comcast, Google, or AWS). Each Autonomous System is assigned an Autonomous System Number (ASN)—a unique ID that global routing protocols (like Border Gateway Protocol, or BGP) use to calculate routing paths across the web.

IPv4 vs. IPv6 Structuring

The classic IPv4 addressing standard uses a 32-bit layout yielding about 4.3 billion possible IP allocations. Due to the rapid growth of smart devices, these allocations have been exhausted. The newer IPv6 standard resolves this with a 128-bit structure formatted as eight groups of hexadecimal numbers. IPv6 provides 340 undecillion addresses, guaranteeing that every device on earth can have a unique, direct routing address.

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How IP Geolocation and ASN Data Work

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What an IP Lookup Actually Returns

An IP address lookup queries a geolocation registry that maps blocks of registered IP addresses to a country, region, city, approximate latitude and longitude, postal code, ISP name, ASN, and timezone. This tool returns all of those fields plus the local time at that location and plots the coordinates on an interactive map. Because address blocks are assigned to organizations rather than individual homes, the result points to a network node operated by the internet provider, not necessarily an exact street address.

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IPv4 vs IPv6 Addressing

IPv4 addresses use a 32-bit format written as four decimal numbers such as 8.8.8.8, giving roughly 4.3 billion possible addresses, a supply that has effectively run out as more devices connect to the internet. IPv6 uses a 128-bit format written as eight groups of hexadecimal digits, for example 2001:4860:4860::8888, providing an effectively unlimited address space. This lookup tool accepts either format directly in the search field.

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What an ASN Reveals

An Autonomous System Number (ASN) identifies the specific network operator, such as an ISP, university, or cloud provider, that controls routing for a given block of IP addresses, and is used by routing protocols like BGP to calculate paths between networks. Seeing an ASN that belongs to a known cloud provider instead of a residential ISP is a common signal that a visitor is coming through a VPN, proxy, or data center rather than a home connection.

04

Looking Up Your Own IP vs Any Other

Clicking My IP automatically detects and looks up the current public IP address of the visitor, which is useful for confirming what a website sees, while entering any other address, such as 8.8.8.8 (Google Public DNS), researches a specific server or connection instead. Combine this with the Browser Info tool to get both network identity and client environment details in one diagnostic session.

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Questions, answered

Quick answers about how this tool works.

The tool queries a public geolocation registry API containing mappings between IP address allocations, network blocks, ISPs, and registered physical locations. Geolocations represent estimations based on network endpoints, not a precise GPS location of the user device.

IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses formatted as four decimal blocks (e.g. 192.168.1.1), accommodating about 4.3 billion unique addresses. IPv6 uses a 128-bit address format containing hexadecimal groups (e.g. 2001:db8::ff00:42:8329), providing a virtually unlimited supply of addresses for modern devices.

An Autonomous System Number is a unique identifier assigned by internet registries to large networks (like ISPs, telecom providers, or cloud platforms) that control routing policies for blocks of IP addresses. It helps map routing pathways.

Yes. On page load, the tool automatically queries your active public connection address and populates all ISP, Location, and coordinates parameters.

Once coordinates (Latitude and Longitude) are retrieved, our tool embeds a client-side OpenStreetMap interactive layout, rendering a pin precisely over the registered network node.

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