Is WiFi address an I P address?

Is WiFi address an I P address? Because when I checked my WiFi address in Setting> About and I tried to find my real address on the Internet from this, the site showed me the location was in Hong Kong, but I actually live in Canada. So I'm confused.

Ummm thats not correct....
MAC addresses do not tell anything about location. When you try to track someones location online you would use their IP address which is assigned to their ISP and issued to their router. All that MAC addresses tell you is who the manufacturer of that device is and works as a universally unique number for that Network Interface Card(NIC) whether it's wired or wireless. Wifi is a wireless network that you give a name to. Your router has a MAC address as it also has a NIC, but a wifi does not have a MAC. It is just the local wireless network to which your computers and devices connect in order to connect to the router and the internet.

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