Bug: French Polynesia (France) incorrectly geo-blocked from AI Studio & Antigravity (Gemini API)

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Hello team,

Access to both Google AI Studio and the Antigravity API is currently being blocked from French Polynesia (PF) due to a geo-location error. French Polynesia is an overseas territory of France, just like New Caledonia. As France and New Caledonia are supported regions, blocking access from French Polynesia appears to be an oversight in the geolocation allow-list.

Expected Behavior:
The API and AI Studio should function normally for connections originating from French Polynesian IP addresses, recognizing it as a supported region under French jurisdiction.

Actual Behavior:
Requests fail immediately. The system throws an HTTP 400 Bad Request with a FAILED_PRECONDITION status.

Error Messages & Diagnostic Logs:

  • Error: HTTP 400 Bad Request
  • TraceID: 0x8439ef1748…
  • Trajectory ID: 021dd415-bc30-4c47-884d-…
  • Error Body:
    {
    “error”: {
    “code”: 400,
    “message”: “User location is not supported for the API use.”,
    “status”: “FAILED_PRECONDITION”
    }
    }

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Connect via an ISP located in French Polynesia.
  2. Attempt to use Google AI Studio or initialize the API.
  3. Observe the immediate HTTP 400 block.

Could the DevRel or Engineering team please look into updating the geo-location allow-list to include French Polynesia (PF)?

Thank you!

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Same issue here, any feedback from the dev team ? It worked well in march

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To clarify further:

  • The incorrect blocking issue has been affecting Google AI Studio since it came out (accessing it would redirect users to the supported regions page).
  • Antigravity only started being affected by the issue at some point in March/April 2026.
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Hello,

Mayotte island (France) is also affected by the same issue.

Kind regards,

5

Hello I have the same issue French Polynesia is part of France

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Hi everyone, adding my voice to this issue as an IT professional based in French Polynesia.

The current situation is not only frustrating but extremely ironic. On one hand, Google is actively making massive infrastructure investments right here, laying down submarine cables (like the South Pacific Connect initiative) to make our territory a strategic digital transit hub for the Pacific.

On the other hand, local developers, engineers, and public administrations are completely geo-blocked from using Google’s flagship AI tools due to a simple allow-list oversight. We are literally physically hosting the infrastructure that expands Google’s network, yet we are blocked from the software side.

To add insult to injury, I am a paying subscriber (Google AI Pro), yet I am completely blocked from accessing the developer tools (API, Antigravity, Antigravity CLI) natively. It is incredibly disappointing to financially support a premium ecosystem, only to be forced into using clunky workarounds just to get the tools to work.

Furthermore, this restriction seems entirely specific to Google. The developer APIs for competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic are fully accessible and widely used here without any geo-blocking issues. Consequently, our local IT ecosystem is being forced to build upon competing platforms rather than the Google Cloud/AI ecosystem.

Since French Polynesia is a French overseas territory, we should naturally inherit France’s supported status, just like New Caledonia.

Could the DevRel or Engineering team please escalate this? Aligning your API availability with your own local infrastructure investments would make a lot of sense.