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There are few approaches to find the location of the visitor with their IP. I’ll show you some of the approaches that I know :

• With including a javascript : This is very useful and trust-worthy method, I’ve seen so far. And is really easy to implement.
  Just Include a file
  <script src="http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/my-ip-address.php" type="text/javascript"></script>Powered by <a href="http://www.ipaddresslocation.org">IP Address Locator</a>
  wherever you want to display. See below how it displays the result :
  
  Powered by IP Address Locator

  If you are good at javascript or their libraries, you can change it how you wanted to change.
  Original Source by
  www.ipaddresslocation.org

• Another method is by using service like :
  http://www.hostip.info/use.html
  Call this URL with REST Method and get the result :

  'http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip='
  

  I, personally don’t recommend to use it, because it has very poor output. May be below 60% accuracy.
  See the result below, how accurately this method is showing your location:

  
  

• For Database approach see the link http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country. You can get Many sites which will provide the database with codes package.