Could be ISP throttling, at least that’s my experience with cross-country data transfer

Idk, raping, kindaping and beheading babies, elders, and killing civilians on sight is not my cup of tea when trying to occupy a land.

The less straight forward way is to put a Middleware To query the IP with some geoIP site the get the info.

nginx+ supports geoIP blocking as well, there may be a free version of this feature