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?

@xmashallax Yes, I had. I went to setting => region=> selected UnitedKingdom -(haven't change the language) => restarted phone => check again for region => it UK. — loop, Nov 11 '14 at 12:27
Take a look at this StackO question/answers maybe you can find more info there: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12560412/winrt-apps-and-regional-settings-the-correct-way-to-format-dates-and-numbers-ba — Depechie, Nov 13 '14 at 14:54

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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Building on my previous answer: Detect OS Language WP 8.1

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

edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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answered Nov 11 '14 at 12:07

Chubosaurus Software

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sorry I forgot to mention that I am developing on WP8.1 silverlight. – loop Nov 11 '14 at 12:22
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@loop ah I see, looks like the only fixed it in 8.1 runtime, see : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17675081/get-country-region-name-from-windows-phone-8 – Chubosaurus Software Nov 11 '14 at 22:14
thanks for the reference but really can't use that.That is not a good solution. :( – loop Nov 12 '14 at 13:05

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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

Detecting home country of Windows Phone 7

edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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answered Nov 11 '14 at 13:16

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not helpful already checked that.. I do not want the change in language. that is working. I want the change in country that can be changed without the change in language. – loop Nov 11 '14 at 18:07

Get Current Region of Windows phone 8.1

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