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What site gives you the country that a UPC is from?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorCubbyUps
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I can remember someone posting a link to a site that would give you the country that a UPC# is from.
Don't know if it was the complete UPC# or just a portion of it.

Anyone have it?
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But you need to take it with a grain of salt.

For example, I have a lot of 505* EANs that are purely for the German market, e.g.

5-053083-071813



According to the wiki page, 505 is a UK prefix. It's probably due to the fact that the manufacturing company is located there and simply produces the DVDs for the entire EU market (at least until Brexit).
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Definitely a tricky subject, as DJ points out. When I was writing BulkEdit, I needed to guess the locality for profiles imported from outside DVD Profiler.

I have found that the Rating is a good predictor for locality, especially when it is unique. The GS1 code is more closely aligned with Country of Origin (manufacture), whereas Locality (reflected in the Rating) indicates the target market.

In DI's case, the DVD was likely manufactured in the UK for markets where the FSK Rating system is in effect, including of course Germany, which was exactly his conclusion.

The kind of information found here, is used in the BulkEdit Locality Guesser.

Invleos provides a complete table of localities with corresponding Ratings in use by DVD Profiler. On Windows 10, it is found in \Users\yourname\AppData\Local\DVD Profiler\localities.xod (an XML file)
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributorrdodolak
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You can also lookup who owners a particular UPC/EAN (GTIN) prefix.

http://gepir.gs1.org/index.php/search-by-gtin

Also, here is the link to the GS1 company (country) prefix:

https://www.gs1.org/standards/id-keys/company-prefix
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