Seeing your VPN's IP address show one country while your DNS resolver or browser reports something else is a common source of confusion. It's usually explainable by checking a short list of likely causes in order.
Work through these in order
1. Check IP geolocation directly
Confirm what your VPN's exit IP actually geolocates to using a tool like NetRiskScan's IP Risk Check — sometimes the "mismatch" is really just a geolocation database being imprecise about the VPN server's exact location. See How IP Geolocation Works.
2. Check your DNS resolver's region
If your DNS queries are routed through a resolver in a different country than your VPN's exit IP, that's a genuine mismatch worth investigating — see DNS Leaks Explained.
3. Check browser location permissions
Some sites use browser-reported location (via the Geolocation API, if you've granted permission) rather than IP-based location — this can show your real location even through a VPN if you've previously granted the permission and the browser caches it.
4. Check account-level settings
Some services infer or store a "home region" based on your account history, billing address, or previous sessions — independent of your current IP, and not something a VPN changes.
5. Consider a stale geolocation database
If the VPN server's address recently changed hands or was newly provisioned, some geolocation providers may not have updated their records yet.
FAQ
Should all of these show the exact same country?
Ideally the IP and DNS resolver should be consistent; browser permissions and account settings are separate systems that a VPN doesn't necessarily override, so mismatches there are expected, not a sign of a leak.