Could be ISP throttling, at least that’s my experience with cross-country data transfer

Try to open a controversial topic, let’s say CCP or other heated sub reddit, Even when non political, mods straight power tripping when you ask serious questions.

But I think this is a reference for an old thread of “my wife think being a mod is not a real job”

The less straight forward way is to put a Middleware To query the IP with some geoIP site the get the info.

nginx+ supports geoIP blocking as well, there may be a free version of this feature