How does google work out what country you are browsing from?

Hi,
Does anyone know how sites like google know what country you are browsing from and automatically forwards you to the local country site? I would like to do something similar with an ApEx application I am writing, showing country-specific things without prompting the user for their country.
Thanks,
Bill
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See
http://linuxjournal.com/article/7856
Read all the comments people have written for that article, they are very informative.
I found http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/city.ch to be uncannily accurate!
See http://www.ip2location.com/

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