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It'll have a region set by the manufacturer in it's firmware. IEEE 802.11d-2001 also added country information to AP beacons and probes. Nearby access points will advertise a country code to each other. Hostapd and/or the Wi-Fi device firmware can take advantage of that.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11d-2001

[2]: https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/plain/hostapd/hostapd.conf

Fun fact: Access points can also advertise a timestamp and timezone.

[3]: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/basic#bss_t...