Checking a visitor's geographical location in a Django app

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Published on 2010-02-24T13:28:42Z Indexed on 2010/03/07 23:11 UTC
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I am making a multilingual Django website. I want the site to check from which country the user is accessing the website, and according to that decide which language to use.

What would be a good tool to use for that?

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