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It is the application's responsibility to provide valid project and location ids. Passing invalid values will not be checked until the location name is used in an RPC.\nFor more info about locations, see \u003chttps://cloud.google.com/about/locations\u003e\n\n\u003cbr /\u003e\n\nConstructors\n------------\n\n### Location(Location const \\&)\n\nCopy and move\n\n### Location(Location \\&\\&)\n\nCopy and move\n\n### Location(Project, std::string)\n\nConstructs a [Location](/cpp/docs/reference/common/2.27.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Location) object identified by the given `project` and `location_id`.\n\n### Location(std::string, std::string)\n\nConstructs a Location_id object identified by the given IDs. \nThis is equivalent to first constructing a [`Project`](/cpp/docs/reference/common/2.27.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Project) from the given `project_id` and then calling the [`Location(Project, std::string)`](/cpp/docs/reference/common/2.27.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Location#classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Location_1abb6f670c08b832799bd5535b6d8b9571) constructor.\n\nOperators\n---------\n\n### operator=(Location const \\&)\n\nCopy and move\n\n### operator=(Location \\&\\&)\n\nCopy and move\n\nFunctions\n---------\n\n### project() const\n\nReturns the [`Project`](/cpp/docs/reference/common/2.27.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Project) containing this location.\n\n### project_id() const\n\n### location_id() const\n\nReturns the [Location](/cpp/docs/reference/common/2.27.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Location) ID.\n\n### FullName() const\n\nReturns the fully qualified location name as a string of the form: \"projects/"]]