In short. Brave Search documents page-language and country operators alongside separate display-language, region and local-results settings.

Definition: Brave Search localisation is the selection of language and geographical conditions for a search. As of 17 October 2026, Brave documents query operators for page language and country, alongside settings for display language, search region and local results.

Key facts

Brave's Search Operators documentation describes lang: as a page-language filter and loc: as a country or region filter.
Brave's Search settings separates Display language, used for interface text, from Region, used for search results.
Brave's Anonymous local results documentation describes optional localisation based on a device's IP address, meaning its network address.

How do language and country operators work?

A search operator is a command included in a query to filter results. Brave's Search Operators documentation gives lang: and language: as alternatives for selecting pages written in a specified language. It requires an ISO 639-1 two-letter language code.

The country equivalents are loc: and location:, using ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes. The same documentation gives this combined query for English pages from the United Kingdom:

visa loc:gb AND lang:en

Here, AND requires both conditions. Brave labels these operators experimental. The operators page does not explain how Brave assigns a page to a country.

Which settings affect the interface and results?

Brave's Search settings describes Display language as applying to buttons, labels and hints. Region has a separate selector described as applying to search results. Its available choices include All regions and individual countries such as Canada and the United Kingdom.

These labels identify different controls for a search comparison: the language of the interface and the selected geographical scope of results. The page-language operator provides a further explicit condition in the query. Recording the selected Region alongside that query makes the conditions of a website visibility check explicit.

How do local results affect a comparison?

Brave's Anonymous local results documentation says the optional feature uses the device's IP address to determine a general location. Brave states that it uses the address for the location-based query without storing it. Its example, restaurants near me, illustrates a search whose intended results depend on nearby places.

Brave's search overview also documents a manually set location. For a comparison involving a local business, the local-results setting and any manually selected location therefore belong in the recorded search conditions, alongside the country filter. The overview provides a feedback route for unexpected results: the Settings gear, then Share feedback.

FAQ

How can I request English pages from the United Kingdom?

Use Brave’s documented query, visa loc:gb AND lang:en, replacing the subject as needed. Keep in mind Brave's experimental status for search operators.

Can I specify a place directly in my search?

Yes. Brave's local-results documentation presents specifying a location in the query as an alternative to enabling anonymous local results.

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