Google Photos is from Australia. I thought Maps was US and Japan but am not up to date on that.

Maps originated in Australia, originally developed by an Australian company Where 2 Technologies employing two Danish brothers in Sydney.

> Google Maps first started as a C++ program designed by two Danish brothers, Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen, and Noel Gordon and Stephen Ma, at the Sydney-based company Where 2 Technologies. It was first designed to be separately downloaded by users, but the company later pitched the idea for a purely Web-based product to Google management, changing the method of distribution.[9] In October 2004, the company was acquired by Google Inc.[10] where it transformed into the web application Google Maps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps#Acquisitions