Add options to make locations coherent

[Akryum]

Clear and concise description of the problem

Currently location functions such as city() are fully random.

Suggested solution

Add options to pass a country or other contextual information about the location to make it plausible.

Example:

faker.location.city({ countryCode: 'FR' })

Alternative

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[github-actions]

Thank you for your feature proposal.

We marked it as "waiting for user interest" for now to gather some feedback from our community:

• If you would like to see this feature be implemented, please react to the description with an up-vote (:+1:).
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We would also like to hear about other community members' use cases for the feature to give us a better understanding of their potential implicit or explicit requirements.

We will start the implementation based on:

• the number of votes (:+1:) and comments
• the relevance for the ecosystem
• availability of alternatives and workarounds
• and the complexity of the requested feature

We do this because:

• There are plenty of languages/countries out there and we would like to ensure that every method can cover all or almost all of them.
• Every feature we add to faker has "costs" associated to it:
  • initial costs: design, implementation, reviews, documentation
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[ST-DDT]

The city names are partially random due to them having patterns.
But the patterns and generated names refer to the selected locale. The default faker instance is EN.
If you need FR city names, use the fakerFR import instead.

https://fakerjs.dev/guide/localization.html

Does that help you?

[ST-DDT]

Closing, because no feedback has been provided.

Please use fakerFR.location.city() instead or please describe why that doesn't help in your case.