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 Mercedes-Benz page explains the scheme above position by position.
Common questions
Does a Mercedes GLE and M-Class VIN show the model year?
Not on a rest-of-world car. Position 10 is the steering side, where 1 and 5 mean left-hand drive and 2 and 6 mean right-hand drive. Because those are all valid model-year characters, a decoder that does not know the difference will confidently report a year that can be a decade out. This decoder suppresses it and reports the Baureihe production window instead.