geolocation – macOS Location Companies offers my location as being in China once I’m exterior China

I’ve purchased a MacBook Air M2 in China. The macOS Maps app works effectively when I’m in China the place it appropriately identifies my location. Nevertheless, I’m at the moment touring to Europe and I seen that the Maps app both cannot decide in any respect my location or it determines the situation as Changsha, China. I’ve restarted the MacBook and I’ve additionally turned Location Companies on and off a number of instances however there was no enchancment. I’m operating the final model of Sonoma (macOS 14.5). Furthermore, that is definitely not particular to the Maps app. The automated timezone detection additionally locations me in China (which is how I first discovered that one thing is fallacious: the timezone did not mechanically change to the native timezone after I related to a WiFi), and the Climate app additionally fails to determine my location now (but it surely works completely effectively once I’m in China).

One other information level that will or is probably not associated. I downloaded the Amazon Kindle app utilizing a Dutch App Retailer account. Nevertheless, the Kindle app (regardless that it doesn’t use Location Companies) asks me to check in with a Chinese language Amazon account and it would not acknowledge my Dutch Amazon account. So, I assume that in some way the Kindle app is aware of that I am utilizing a “Chinese language system” and accordingly restricts my choices.

I’m wondering if these issues are in software program or {hardware}. Would a full reinstall of macOS clear up these issues, or there’s something within the {hardware} that identifies my MacBook as being Chinese language? Or, possibly, there’s one other rationalization?