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by martin_a 1001 days ago
I think this has been taken care of:

> I use navigator.languages to get a list of supported languages. For example, en-CA, fr-CA, de-DE. This gives me a list of countries the user might have lived in. I suggest those countries at the top of the country list.

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Not for people like me who always set their browser language to en-us (or just “en”) because they mostly peruse the internet in English.
Then you'll have to press one or two extra keys on your keyboard.
Yep, as a techie I don't see the problem either, but the person who started this subthread apparently minds that

> Usually [you get] 194 other countries in a loooooong list

(cue this website having precisely that list)