IPFS is a world wide network which provides fast lookup of locations based on the content of data. Obviously there are plenty of nodes all over the world.
The question is more: Where is your data provided to the network?
If your users don’t run an IPFS client, they won’t help in distributing on their continent, but instead you have to provide the data for all users.
The gateway under ipfs.io is meant for convience and testing, not to distibute large data in a timely manner. Don’t rely on that like this.