Get Current Region of Windows phone 8.1

Question

I am just facing a problem in getting the user set region in Windows Phone 8.1 (SilverLight).

Situation: I have set the Region to United Kingdom and the language to English(United States) (it is valid to do that).

In that case I am still getting the region UnitedState(US) via these methods:

• RegionInfo
• Thread.CurrentThread

• System.Globalization

  private static void GetRegion()
  {
      // all of the three returing UnitedStates.
      var dfg = RegionInfo.CurrentRegion;
      var cuture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;
      var cul = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture;
  }
  

Why do these not return United Kingdom as a region?

Answer 1

You could use the RegionInfo.CurrentRegion property as mentioned here which you normally use for WP8 or WP8.1.

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Answer 2

Building on my previous answer: Detect OS Language WP 8.1

string region =
    Windows.System.UserProfile.GlobalizationPreferences.HomeGeographicRegion;