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

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

**Available in:** all subroutines

Region code, encoded using UTF-8 encoding.

Because this is a code and contains alphanumeric Latin characters only, it will
always be identical to `client.geo.region.ascii`.