PlacesAPI: TextSearch region and radius parameters are not working

[AndreiPrigorkin]

Environment details

1. Places API
2. Ubuntu 22.04
3. Last Places API version

Steps to reproduce

1. I tried searching (in Dammam, Saudi Arabia) with Text search API call with selected radius=10000 and region='SA'
2. And I'm getting as city in Greece in response constantly, despite restricted region and radius.
   So region and radius parameters are not working.

Please fix it.

[wangela]

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[nora-soderlund]

@AndreiPrigorkin can you provide your API query? I'm getting good results with this:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?key=API_KEY&query=Dammam

Perhaps your location parameter is bad?