# IP & Geolocation Lookup Guide

Show your public IP (or any address) with its country, city, coordinates and ISP.

- Tool: https://ilham.dev/tools/ip-lookup/
- Guide URL: https://ilham.dev/guides/ip-lookup/
- Tool guides index: https://ilham.dev/guides/tools/
- Broader guide: Network Debugging Notes (https://ilham.dev/guides/network-debugging/)

## What it does

Show the public IP address you are connecting from, or look up any address, along with its country, region, city, coordinates, timezone and ISP. This is one of the few tools on this site that talks to the internet: it uses free, key-less services and falls back to a second one if the first is unavailable.

## Use the tool

Open https://ilham.dev/tools/ip-lookup/, add the input the tool asks for, run it, and check the output before using it elsewhere.

## Input and output

- Input: text.
- Output: text.
- Category: Network.

## Privacy and processing
This tool needs a network request to complete the lookup or test. Send only data you are comfortable sharing with the target service.

## Questions

### Why does it show a different city than where I am?

Geolocation is based on the address your ISP has registered, not on your physical position, so it usually lands on the nearest city where the provider has infrastructure.

### Which services does it use?

ipwho.is first, then freeipapi.com. Both are free and need no API key, and the tool tells you which one answered.

### Does this site store my address?

No. The request goes from your browser straight to the provider and the result is rendered here. Nothing is logged by this site.