A VIN describes how a vehicle was built. It cannot describe where it was shipped, and no decoder anywhere changes that. The free GCC spec check reads your VIN, gives a verdict with a certainty score and the evidence behind it, and lists the physical and documentary checks that settle what the VIN cannot, starting with the GSO conformity lookup. The full VIN decoder returns every attribute the decode resolves, and the BMW page explains the scheme above position by position.
Common questions
Does a BMW F15 X5 VIN show the model year?
Not on a rest-of-world car. Position 10 is the literal digit 0, which is not part of the model-year alphabet at all, so there is no year in the VIN. The decoder shows the type code's production window instead, clearly labelled as a range for the variant rather than a year for your car.