Run a Browserbase session in a specific geographic region
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Documented steps
Pass the `region` parameter at session creation. Node: `bb.sessions.create({ region: "ap-southeast-1" });` Python: `bb.sessions.create(region="ap-southeast-1")`.
Available regions: us-west-2 (Oregon, DEFAULT), us-east-1 (Virginia), eu-central-1 (Frankfurt), ap-southeast-1 (Singapore).
Choose the region closest to your deployed code or your target site to reduce round-trip latency (can yield an 8-9x performance gain without code changes).
For geo-restricted content, combine a region with a residential proxy in the same target geography (proxy configured under Agent Identity).
Official doc: https://docs.browserbase.com/optimizations/latency/multi-region
Known gotchas
All sessions default to us-west-2 if you omit region — audit your region for compliance/latency needs.
Region only controls where the browser runs; use Browserbase proxy settings (residential/datacenter + geography) to control the apparent IP location.
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