diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 40890a66e..cd3c11d97 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 ### Analyzer
 #### Fixed
+- `PhoneRecognizer.DEFAULT_SUPPORTED_REGIONS` used `"UK"`, which is not a valid `phonenumbers` (libphonenumber) region code — region codes are ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, where the United Kingdom is `"GB"`. The `"UK"` entry was a no-op, so UK numbers in national/local format (e.g. `020 7946 0958`) were never detected by default; only international-format `+44 …` numbers matched, because they carry the country code and match under any region. Replaced `"UK"` with `"GB"`.
 - Language model recognizers (`BasicLangExtractRecognizer`, `AzureOpenAILangExtractRecognizer`) configured in a recognizer registry YAML now honour `config_path` (and other recognizer-specific kwargs). Previously these entries were validated by the strict `PredefinedRecognizerConfig` schema, which has no `config_path` field and does not allow extra keys, so `config_path` was silently dropped and the recognizer fell back to its bundled default model configuration. Added a `LangExtractRecognizerConfig` model (`extra="allow"`) and registered both recognizer class names in `CONFIG_MODEL_MAP`.
 - `BasicLangExtractRecognizer` now honours values under `langextract.model.provider.language_model_params` (including `timeout` and `num_ctx`). Previously these were silently dropped because `langextract.extract()` ignores its `language_model_params` argument when a pre-built `ModelConfig` is passed via `config=`, causing Ollama-backed recognizers to fall back to langextract's 120s default regardless of the configured timeout. The recognizer now merges `language_model_params` into `ModelConfig.provider_kwargs`, which is the path that reaches the provider constructor. Explicit entries under `provider.kwargs:` still take precedence. Also fixed a `TypeError` when `kwargs:` or `language_model_params:` is `null` in the YAML. (#1943, Thanks @lsternlicht)
 
diff --git a/presidio-analyzer/presidio_analyzer/predefined_recognizers/generic/phone_recognizer.py b/presidio-analyzer/presidio_analyzer/predefined_recognizers/generic/phone_recognizer.py
index 5eb6a3f00..1df82a8e0 100644
--- a/presidio-analyzer/presidio_analyzer/predefined_recognizers/generic/phone_recognizer.py
+++ b/presidio-analyzer/presidio_analyzer/predefined_recognizers/generic/phone_recognizer.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ class PhoneRecognizer(LocalRecognizer):
 
     SCORE = 0.4
     CONTEXT = ["phone", "number", "telephone", "cell", "cellphone", "mobile", "call"]
-    DEFAULT_SUPPORTED_REGIONS = ("US", "UK", "DE", "FR", "IL", "IN", "CA", "BR")
+    DEFAULT_SUPPORTED_REGIONS = ("US", "GB", "DE", "FR", "IL", "IN", "CA", "BR")
 
     def __init__(
         self,
diff --git a/presidio-analyzer/tests/test_phone_recognizer.py b/presidio-analyzer/tests/test_phone_recognizer.py
index bb47d93e6..fbbe3ffe6 100644
--- a/presidio-analyzer/tests/test_phone_recognizer.py
+++ b/presidio-analyzer/tests/test_phone_recognizer.py
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ def recognizer():
         ("BR: +55 11 98456 5666", 1, ["PHONE_NUMBER"], ((4, 21), ), 0.4),
         ("My Japanese number is 090-1234-5678", 1, ["PHONE_NUMBER"],((22, 35), ), 0.4),
         ("My CN number is 13812345678", 1, ["PHONE_NUMBER"],((16, 27), ), 0.4),
+        # GB national-format number: only matched when region is the valid ISO code
+        # "GB" (not "UK"). Regression test for the DEFAULT_SUPPORTED_REGIONS fix.
+        ("My UK number is 020 7946 0958", 1, ["PHONE_NUMBER"], ((16, 29), ), 0.4),
         # fmt: on
     ],
 )