---
title: client.geo.country_name.utf8
summary: null
url: >-
  https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/vcl/variables/geolocation/client-geo-country-name-utf8
---

**Type:** STRING  
**Access:** read-only

**Available in:** all subroutines

Country name, encoded using UTF-8 encoding.

This field is the [ISO 3166-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1) English
short name for a country.