# IP Address Location

## 🌐 What is IP address location ?

The IP address location feature will try to look up the location of a respondent based on its IP address. It can be activated or disabled at any time from the [survey properties](/form-management/form-designer/form-settings.md) page. 

IP location look up will be done only once a respondent has submitted his answers and is not done in "real time" to avoid any delays during response submission.

IP location will also look up location information for any respondent recorded in your survey prior of activating the IP location lookup property.

Following location attribute can be extracted from the IP.

* Continent
* Country
* Region
* City
* Zip code
* Latitude
* Longitude

Latitude and longitude will be override by the respondent browser's location If you have activated [browser location](/form-management/form-designer/geolocation/browser-location.md) on your survey. 

Note that the IP location might not be the exact location of the respondent as the IP used by the respondent might be located in a different place however it will still give you valuable information regarding your respondents locations.

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Once activated on a survey ngSurvey will retroactively lookup the location on any recorded respondent of the survey.
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The IP geolocation feature uses [IPStack.com](https://www.ipstack.com)'s API to get location information as such its mandatory to set your [IPStack API access key](/installation-setup/system-settings/third-party-apis/ipstack.md) in your ngSurvey [system settings](/installation-setup/system-settings.md).
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