diff --git a/cal.php b/cal.php
index 68b5ca1331..0ee2bc2e83 100644
--- a/cal.php
+++ b/cal.php
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ function date_for_recur($recur, $day, $bom, $eom)
 function display_events_for_day($day, $events): void
 {
     // For preservation of state in the links
-    global $cm, $cy, $COUNTRY;
+    global $cm, $cy;
 
     // For all events, try to find the events for this day
     foreach ($events as $event) {
@@ -241,12 +241,10 @@ function display_events_for_day($day, $events): void
         if (($event['type'] == 2 && $event['start'] <= $day && $event['end'] >= $day)
          || ($event['start'] == $day)) {
             echo '<div class="event">',
-                 ($COUNTRY == $event['country'] ? "<strong>" : ""),
                  '<a class="cat' . $event['category'] . '" href="/cal.php',
                  "?id=$event[id]&amp;cm=$cm&amp;cy=$cy", '">',
                  stripslashes(htmlentities($event['sdesc'], ENT_QUOTES | ENT_IGNORE, 'UTF-8')),
                  '</a>',
-                 ($COUNTRY == $event['country'] ? "</strong>" : ""),
                  '</div>';
         }
     }
diff --git a/include/ip-to-country.inc b/include/ip-to-country.inc
index 995d55e85e..87b38514cf 100644
--- a/include/ip-to-country.inc
+++ b/include/ip-to-country.inc
@@ -1,188 +1,4 @@
 <?php
-
-/*
-
- This script uses the local copy of the ip-to-country.com
- database available on all php.net mirror sites to find
- out what country the user is in. This data is stored in
- a cookie for future usage, and another check is only done,
- if the cookie is expired.
-
- We have an index to speed up the search. The first line of
- the index file contains the step value used to create the
- index. The IP should be divided by this number, when an
- appropriate index entry is searched for. Then CSV formatted
- lines are placed in the file with the division results and
- starting indexes (pointing to the data file).
-
- The data file has a fixed record size format to ease
- fseek()ing. The format of the database is:
-
-  n records representing IP range and country relations
-  the format of a record is:
-
-   - starting IP number [10 bytes, padded with zeros from left]
-   - ending IP number   [10 bytes, padded with zeros from left]
-   - ISO country code   [3 bytes / letters]
-   - newline            [1 byte: \n]
-
- IP numbers can be created with i2c_ip2num().
-
- Some things to consider:
-
-  - Now 'NA' is stored in the cookie (no country detected).
-    This is partly for safety reasons, not to bog down the
-    server with country detection in case the data files are
-    not there, or they are bogus, or the user has a non listed
-    IP.
-*/
-
-// Start the detection
-i2c_go();
-
-// Try to find out the country of the user and
-// set a cookie in the browser (in case there is no
-// cookie already storing this information)
-function i2c_go()
-{
-    global $COUNTRY;
-
-    // Get the real IP of the user
-    $ipnum = i2c_realip();
-
-    // User already has a country detected with this IP stored
-    if (!empty($_COOKIE['COUNTRY']) && strpos($_COOKIE['COUNTRY'], ',') !== false) {
-       list($COUNTRY, $storedip) = explode(",", $_COOKIE['COUNTRY']);
-       if ($storedip == $ipnum) { return true; }
-    }
-
-    // Convert the IP number to some useable form for searching
-    $ipn = (float) sprintf("%u", ip2long($ipnum));
-
-    // Find the index to start search from
-    $idx = i2c_search_in_index($ipn);
-
-    // If we were unable to find any helpful entry
-    // in the index do not search, as it would take
-    // a very long time. It is an error, if we have
-    // not found anything in the index
-    if ($idx !== false) {
-        $country = i2c_search_in_db($ipn, $idx);
-    } else {
-        $country = 'NA';
-    }
-
-    // Set global variable for further usage
-    $COUNTRY = $country;
-
-    // Set the country in a cookie for a week
-    return mirror_setcookie("COUNTRY", "$country,$ipnum", 60 * 60 * 24 * 7);
-
-}
-
-// Find nearest index entry for IP number
-function i2c_search_in_index($ip)
-{
-    // Indexed part and record number to jump to
-    $idxpart = 0; $recnum = 0;
-
-    // Open the index file for reading
-    $dbidx = fopen(
-        __DIR__ . "/../backend/ip-to-country.idx",
-        "r",
-    );
-    if (!$dbidx) { return false; }
-
-    // Read in granularity from index file and
-    // convert current IP to something useful
-    $granularity = (int) fgets($dbidx, 64);
-    if (!$granularity) {
-        // The file is empty (demo file)
-        return false;
-    }
-    $ip_chunk = (int) ($ip / $granularity);
-
-    // Loop till we can read the file
-    while (!feof($dbidx)) {
-
-        // Get CSV data from index file
-        $data = fgetcsv($dbidx, 100);
-
-        // Compare current index part with our IP
-        if ($ip_chunk >= $idxpart && $ip_chunk < (int) $data[0]) {
-            return [$recnum, (int) $data[1]];
-        }
-
-        // Store for next compare
-        $idxpart = (int) $data[0];
-        $recnum = (int) $data[1];
-    }
-
-    // Return record number found
-    return [$recnum, -1];
-}
-
-// Find the country searching from record $idx
-// $ip should be an IP number and not an IP address
-function i2c_search_in_db($ip, $idx)
-{
-    // Default range and country
-    $range_start = 0; $range_end = 0;
-    $country = "NA";
-
-    // Open DB for reading
-    $ipdb = fopen(
-        $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/backend/ip-to-country.db",
-        "r",
-    );
-
-    // Return with "NA" in case of we cannot open the db
-    if (!$ipdb) { return $country; }
-
-    // Jump to record $idx
-    fseek($ipdb, ($idx[0] ? (($idx[0] - 1) * 24) : 0));
-
-    // Read records until we hit the end of the file,
-    // or we find the range where this IP is, or we
-    // reach the next indexed part [where the IP should
-    // not be found, so there is no point in searching further]
-    while (!feof($ipdb) && !($range_start <= $ip && $range_end >= $ip)) {
-
-        // We had run out of the indexed region,
-        // where we expected to find the IP
-        if ($idx[1] != -1 && $idx[0] > $idx[1]) {
-            $country = "NA"; break;
-        }
-
-        // Try to read record
-        $record = fread($ipdb, 24);
-
-        // Unable to read the record => error
-        if (strlen($record) != 24) { $country = "NA"; break; }
-
-        // Split the record to it's parts
-        $range_start = (float) substr($record, 0, 10);
-        $range_end = (float) substr($record, 10, 10);
-        $country = substr($record, 20, 3);
-
-        // Getting closer to the end of the indexed region
-        $idx[0] += 1;
-    }
-
-    // Close datafile
-    fclose($ipdb);
-
-    // Return with the country found
-    return $country;
-}
-
-// Check if the current country is valid
-function i2c_valid_country()
-{
-    global $COUNTRY, $COUNTRIES;
-    return (!empty($COUNTRY) && $COUNTRY != "NA" && isset($COUNTRIES[$COUNTRY]));
-}
-
 // Returns the real IP address of the user
 function i2c_realip()
 {
diff --git a/include/prepend.inc b/include/prepend.inc
index 1ffd80f1b0..83e50b8260 100644
--- a/include/prepend.inc
+++ b/include/prepend.inc
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ unset($RSIDEBAR_DATA);
 unset($SIDEBAR_DATA);
 unset($SEARCH_BASE);
 unset($LANG);
-unset($COUNTRY);
 unset($ONLOAD);
 unset($LAST_UPDATED);
 
@@ -86,7 +85,7 @@ include __DIR__ . '/site.inc';
 // Choose language used for translated parts
 include __DIR__ . '/langchooser.inc';
 
-// Get country of the user and set it in a cookie
+// Import function to get the real IP address
 include __DIR__ . '/ip-to-country.inc';
 
 // Common layout functions
diff --git a/my.php b/my.php
index 1fdb9d2824..88ccab0b74 100644
--- a/my.php
+++ b/my.php
@@ -146,25 +146,6 @@
  <a href="/docs.php">language selection</a> pages, etc.
 </p>
 
-<h2>Your country</h2>
-
-<p>
- The PHP.net site tries to detect your country
- using the <a href="http://www.directi.com/?site=ip-to-country">Directi
- Ip-to-Country Database</a>. This information is used to mark
- the events in your country specially.
-</p>
-
-<div class="indent">
-<?php
-if (i2c_valid_country()) {
-    echo "We detected that you are from <b>" . $COUNTRIES[$COUNTRY] . "</b>";
-} else {
-    echo "We were unable to detect your country";
-}
-?>
-</div>
-
 <h2>URL search fallback</h2>
 
 <p>