Attributing a particular IP address to a specific location is hard and often fails miserably. There are several difficulties that I have talked about before: Out-of-date whois data, data that is outright fake, or was never correct in the first place. Companies that have been allocated a larger address range are splitting it up into different geographic regions, but do not reflect this in their whois records.
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