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As well as the bars being visible in Curaçao, the car’s black bonnet is simultaneously visible. No other country has this combination of the bars and black bonnet being visible simultaneously.
Iceland is one of the few island countries in the world to have its cars drive on the right. Determining where in Iceland you are can be easy by determining where the ocean is. For instance, if it’s to your north, you are probably in the north of the country.
Olive trees can be found around the Mediterranean.
Finnish road lines typically have white side lines and some form of yellow centre line with a secondary centre line. In this example, the secondary centre line is also yellow.
Rural Ukrainian houses come in a range of styles. Those houses pictured, with a triangular prism roof, small window upstairs and made of wood are common in Ukraine.
Ghanaian shops and houses often have corrugated iron roofs.
Sweden uses wooden, circular utility poles. Norway, Finland and a number of other countries also use these poles.
Japan has cylindrical shaped utility poles that occur throughout the country. Japan also has unique yellow and black vertical stripes on many of its poles. On rare occasions, the stripes are diagonal in Japan. In Taiwan and South Korea, they also have the yellow and black markings on some poles however these countries have diagonal stripes, not vertical like the standard Japanese stripes.
It is possible to work out where in Mexico you are located by looking at the first digit of phone numbers, as this map indicates. (Image source: Aromovf, Wikipedia.)
A good method to tell Ireland apart from the U.K. is to look for yellow, dashed edge lines on the road. These are quite common in Ireland but very rare in the U.K..
Bulgarian signs are written in Cyrillic and Latin. They will be blue and green in colour.
Note the number 12 preceding the road name. This number indicates that we are in the 12th district in Vienna. Looking at the above map, we can determine that we are in Meidling which is located south-west of the city centre.
If you pan down in Mexico, you will sometimes see the Street View car’s short, stubby aerial. Within Latin America, you may also see this aerial in Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil. You shouldn’t see it in the US (except Hawaii) nor should you see it in Canada.
The more rural parts of Bangladesh tend to have land on both sides of the road that is lower than the road itself. Trees also commonly line the road in rural Bangladeshi areas. Green grass is common on both sides of the road as are puddles and other forms of water.
Croatian house numbers tend to be white with a blue backing. These are commonly found on the houses themself.
Irish license plates look like typical European plates- white and elongated with a blue vertical stripe on the left. They do however help distinguish the country from the other major European left side of the road driving country: The U.K., which has yellow rear plates.
Tunisia’s landscape has a real Middle-Eastern vibe. Also, note the long, white dashes on the side of the road.
In the top image, I’m facing north (as determined by the red compass). The red, diagonal arrow in the top image shows the direction of the road (north-east to south-west). I can then match the direction of the road onto the map to look for suitable roads facing in the same direction.
The Street View car’s short aerial is typically visible in Hawaii. You will rarely see an aerial in mainland USA.
These small bollards that are cigarette shaped, with a yellow top section, line some roads in the Philippines however they are fairly rare.
Albania’s most common license plate has one blue vertical stripe on each side of the license plate. Italy also has these plates. Italy can be distinguished from Albania as it seldom has the Street View car’s aerial as visible. Albania’s aerial is visible.
The Brazilian landscape is exceptionally varied due to the sheer size of the country. Almost the entire country is flat (with gentle rises) which contrasts many other South American countries.
The roads within the Northern Mariana Islands are often covered with sand. The territory use wooden utility poles.
Malaysia has these distinctive, yellow, irregular hexagon shapes that denote road numbers. They are found throughout the country and appear on the GeoGuessr map. These yellow shapes signify that you are in Malaysia.
The topography of Russia. Note that most of Russia is flat and that the Urals are relatively tiny. (Image source: mappdoutofficial)
Swiss bollards are often this curved-cylindrical shape. This is the front of the bollard.
In general, Australia is very flat. If you see rolling hills, they you are most likely in Tasmania or Victoria.
Houses in Denmark are typically painted light colours. They also have steep roofs with new-looking tiles. Although Danish houses can have visible brick, visible brick houses are much more common in Belgium, the Netherlands and France.
Estonian bollards have two white circles on their rear.
Lithuania has different looking kilometre markers to the other Baltic countries. Lithuanian markers feature two signs on the one pole, pointing to the road. Estonian markers are at right-angles to the road whilst Latvian markers are parallel with the road. Whilst most Lithuanian markers are blue, like Estonian and Latvian markers, green Lithuanian markers can occasionally be seen (like the image above). These are typically seen on the A1/E85.
The Malaysian state of Johor (its location is pictured below) has yellow street name signs.
Connecticut has a light blue colour on the top of their plates.
If you see exposed rock in Canada, you will mainly be in either the eastern half of Ontario or the western half of Quebec.
The Faroe Islands look similar to Greenland and Iceland. Within the Faroe Islands there will occasionally be grass on house roofs although most commonly the roofs are black in colour. There are unique looking red and yellow bollards used in the Faroe Islands. Cars drive on the right side of the road in the Faroe Islands.
The ‘Cambodian People’s Party’ signs are a common fixture in Cambodia. Anything in this shade of blue points to you being in Cambodia. Many of the signs contain the village and province location of the sign written at the bottom of the sign in English.
These bars with thick black lines indicate that you are in the Dominican Republic or Mongolia.
Turkey has a diverse landscape. The northern and western parts of the country are green with moderate amounts of flora.
Botswana’s sign poles have black and yellow stripes.
One of the easiest ways to distinguish Thailand from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and the Philippines is to look at what side of the road the cars are driving on. Out of all these countries, only Thailand drives on the left.
These narrow, red and white signs are in some ways the bollard equivalent in South Africa. They are very common.
French towns typically consist of two-storey buildings made out of visible stone. The buildings virtually join one another and are built right on the edge of the footpath.
Chilean utility poles have one long indent that runs up the pole.
Palestine has the same road lines as Israel (and Jordan and the UAE). They feature yellow continuous edge lines and a white, dashed, centre line).
If you notice generation 4 coverage in Chile, (this can be represented by the blue car if you pan down), then you are in Temuco or Santiago.
Ecuador has a number of different shaped bollards. The type pictured is the most common- featuring two red stripes. Another Ecuadorian bollard contains just one red stripe.
Stop signs in Laos feature the Laos script plus the English word ‘STOP’.
The south-western section of Finland often features road and directional signs with both Finnish and Swedish.
The island of Jersey largely has a blue sky on Street View.
This map shows the tree distributions across Russia. Learning this map is one of the best ways to score well in Russia. Note that larch trees (light brown on the map) are found across the eastern half of the country. Spruce trees (dark pink on the map) are mainly found from the Finnish border south-east right down to Yekaterinburg. A larger key to the map appears below. A larger version of this map can be found here
Many Portuguese houses are white or light-coloured and many have tiled, terracotta coloured roofs.
If you pan down in the Northern Mariana Islands, there WON’T be a bar on the back-left side of the car. This is important as there is the end of a bar in Guam. This is the best way to distinguish the Northern Mariana Islands from Guam.
The most common type of Latvian bollard is a thin plank with a generic white rectangle on the front. The rear of the most common type of Latvian bollard has two white circles.
The most common form of Sri Lankan road lines feature white, continuous edge lines and a dashed, white, centre line.
Primary county roads in Norway appear like this on the map.
1st class Finnish roads appear like this on the map.
There are two useful tips to help you pinpoint in Singapore. Firstly, three letter highway names (such as TPE, SLE and CTE above) are generally easy to find on the map. Secondly, other highways in Singapore are commonly named after the district they are located in. In the above example, Upper Changi Road East is located in Changi, a district whose name is clearly visible on the map.
The image above shows a Thai kilometre marker. The markers have 3 sides with information on them. The side facing the road features a bird enclosing a number. This is the road number we are on. In the above example we are on road 1069. The Thai script below the bird means ‘kilometre’. The number below the Thai word for kilometre is the distance we are from the start of the road. In this example, we are 4km from the start of the road.
Some cities in Puerto Rico and parts of San Juan can be identified thanks to the colour combination that the base of their utility poles are painted. For example, many utility poles in Fajardo are pained with two shades of light blue. I won’t list every colour combination-city combination here however if you are a Puerto Rico-fanatic, this information is useful.
Southern Asian Street View coverage.
This is a Russian bollard. Russian bollards often have a unique feature- a narrow support pole on one side of them. This makes them unique from Ukrainian bollards. Russian bollards are primarily found at intersections.
Bricks are used to construct a large portion of houses in Great Britain whilst in Ireland, brick is very rare.
The southern section of Romania largely consists of agricultural land.
The further south you are located in Nigeria, the greener and more tropical-looking the landscape.
A map showing the town/city signs in European countries. This is the information appearing just above this in a map form. (Source: reddit user, Melongated).
New Zealand street signs are blue or green in colour. This contrasts Australia’s white street signs.
If you see a winding road in the hills of Europe with thick foliage very close to the road, then there is a good chance you are in Slovenia.
Soviet-style apartment blocks are common in larger Russian towns and Russian cities.
Recently, the UAE gained generation 4 coverage that was taken with this truck. This truck can only be found in Dubai and Sharjah.
Japanese residential streets are typically very narrow. The houses generally have small yards with a few neatly trimmed hedges or small trees a common sight. Japanese houses are large, normally two-storey and crammed together. Japanese residential roads often have no footpath.
Sometimes you will get an inkling that you are in Brazil thanks to the reddish soil next to the road.
The majority of houses in the rural part of Ireland has some semblance to the house pictured. They are generally either white coloured or stone and have these dark roofs. Looking at the houses from the road, they tend to be wide but not very deep (they look like a rectangle from above). They are normally one or two storey. Brick is rarely visible in Irish buildings whilst it is quite common in Great Britain. Ireland tends to have longer driveways than Great Britain.
The USA tends to use metal signs posts, often with small holes in them, to hold up road signs. In contrast, Canada mainly uses wooden sign posts, often painted white. Canada does use some metal sign posts but they are less prevalent than US sign posts.
Argentinian Street View coverage extends across most of the country, including the harsh southern parts. Typically main roads are covered as well as cities and towns.
This is an example German phone number. Note that German phone numbers typically appear beginning with a 0 but this digit should be ignored. We need to focus on the next two digits- 76. Based on the above map, we are in the south-western corner of Germany.
Sri Lanka has a very tropical feel. Almost the entire country of Sri Lanka is covered with palm trees. If I see palm trees with few other clues, I will guess Sri Lanka by default.
This is the rarer version of Serbian bollards. Note that the red rectangle is also to one side. The rear of the bollard has a white rectangle. Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary and North Macedonia have similar looking bollards but instead have the red rectangle centred.
English words and signs are surprisingly almost everywhere in the Philippines, indeed, English is one of the two official languages in the country. Players on Battle Royale often see English in the Philippines and guess incorrect countries. Filipino is the other official language and this has more of an influence on Filipino place names. Filipino reminds me a bit of Malay and Indonesian.
These tall and distinctively coloured snow marker poles line many roads in Andorra.
US cities often have a horizontal bar stemming from utility poles or traffic lights at intersections. This horizontal pole holds up street name signs, other signs and traffic lights.
Spanish bollards are fairly unique. They feature the standard European black and white bollard with a bright yellow, narrow rectangle encased in the black section of the bollard.
Turkey typically has wide roads with undulating land throughout most of the country, including urban areas.
The countries of Botswana, Eswatini and Lesotho have only a white car visible if you pan down. South Africa either has a white car visible, the large circular blur caused by the generation 2 camera or occasionally a slightly blue car caused by the generation 4 camera.
The northern parts of Kenya are desert.
The rural Palestinian landscape consists of rolling hills, dry scenery and low lying bushes. It also features many white rocks of various sizes alongside the road.
Tuk tuks are everywhere in India.
Ghanaian cities are a hive of activity. Bicycles and motorbikes are common, signs are plentiful and there are often people milling around. A brown/reddish dirt is a common sight across large parts of the country.
Rickshaws in Bangladesh tend to have either green or white license plates.
Russian directional signs are blue with white lettering. They most commonly have just the Cyrillic words. Sometimes they have both Latin and Cyrillic.
Guam uses these blue highway shields that helpfully say ‘Guam’.
Utility poles in Thailand comes in all shapes and sizes. Fortunately, they can be easily recognised as they virtually all have small holes in them, running vertically. They look like someone has drilled into them. This small hole facet of the poles is rarely seen in utility poles across the rest of the world.
Kansas plates are mainly blue with a square white section near the base of the plates.
If you see a dim image, with faded light, you should mainly be on the north island- Principe. Occasionally you will see this heavy saturation on Sao Tome, but it’s much rarer there.
Iceland is one of the few European countries without the blue vertical strip on the left side of its license plates. Icelandic license plates are simply elongated and white.
These bollards are a common sight throughout Turkey and resemble the Australian and Netherlands bollards however they have a slightly fatter rectangle in Turkey.
The Vietnamese landscape in GeoGuessr is urban. The streets are generally crowded, there are lots of motorbike/moped riders, shops line the streets and drivers drive on the right.
A Brazilian highway sign. The intricacies of the Brazilian road system are explained in depth in the ‘Highway Numbering Systems’ section near the top of this article.
If you pan down on the most eastern American Samoan island of Ta’u, you will see a silver coloured car.
A map showing what colour follow car is visible in Nigeria. Note: In the purple area, one side of the road is covered by the police car and the other side is covered by the black car. Note: Nigeria received additional coverage in October 2022 that extends beyond what the above map shows. (Source: reddit user, Oxygen0796).
Everywhere approximately outside the red oval, you will see rifts in Montenegro. Within the red oval, the sky should appear normal.
Indian city names and addresses often appear on shop signs. In this example, we are in the city of Amritsar.
Spanish houses are generally either white or a shade of some warm colour such as red, orange or yellow.
Certain types of Romanian signs have a yellow edge including Romanian pedestrian signs.
In addition to the aerial protruding from the white, blue and red part of the car, you may see a second aerial emerging from the car in Iceland.
Houses in North Macedonia mainly have terracotta tiled roofs and multiple chimneys. They are often two-storey and occasionally you will see houses with a curved front element; for example, the house on the left has front windows that curve outwards.
The second type of Utah plates have an orange top section.
This type of warning sign (a thick red outline with yellow colouring) with various images on it occurs in Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Greece, North Macedonia, Vietnam and South Korea.
A type of palm tree. Palms are typically found in the tropics.
New Zealand have unique bollards lining their highways that have a red/orange strip that stretches around the higher part of the bollard.
A Romanian roadside marker. This holds information about the road number and distance to the nearest towns. These are another useful way to identify Romania. These can come in other colours such as blue and white. The ‘24C’ in the image indicates the road number and the distance to the nearest towns is written on the marker.
Guardrails in Spain have these yellow-orange reflectors which are typically found every few meters. These yellow-orange reflectors can also be found in Italy.
The eastern island of Sakhalin commonly has dirt roads and dense forests.
The Street View car’s bars are visible in Curaçao.
This taxi begins with a 4, which tells us (based on the above map) that we are in the west Panama province of Chiriqui. Taxis in Panama also often say the city/province name beneath their number; however, these can be hard to read. In this example, the taxi says ‘DAVID-CHIRIQUI’. David is the largest city in the province of Chiriqui.
This map shows the location of the Japanese prefecture of Yamaguchi (where yellow guardrails are abundant).
Colombian commercial vehicles such as taxis and trucks, have license plates on their side. These are sometimes blurred. If they aren’t blurred, you will be able to read the name of the city or area. In the image above, the plate says ‘Bogota’. Colombian taxis also have the city name on their roof. Peru and Bolivia have similar side license plates on commercial vehicles. Ecuador can have blurred sides on their taxis however these blurred areas on Ecuadorian taxis don’t cover license plates or city names.
If you are tossing up between the USA and Mexico and notice the generation 2 camera has been used then you are likely in Mexico as the USA generally doesn’t use this camera much.
These trees (similar to Australian Eucalyptus) are found in the Andes.
Botswana’s Street view coverage is mainly limited to the A1, A2 and A3 highways which link together to create a circle. The coverage also has various roads generally leading radially away from the A1, A2 and A3 highways. The large space in the centre of the country isn’t covered.
The third thing you may see in Nigeria if you pan down is a relatively mild blur. What makes the Nigerian blur unique is its thickness where the bars on the Street View car are. In other words, the blur will appear of normal width around the front and back of the car then bulge out under the middle of the car.
Poland is a flat country full of grass fields. If I see a European location with only a grass field to go by, Poland will be my first guess.
The white edges of the Street View car and the black, side view mirrors can easily be seen in Uganda.
The paved roads in Rwanda typically feature a yellow centre line and white side lines. These lines are often faded. The paved road quality in Rwanda is fairly high.
This is the second type of Senegalese utility pole. Note the pine cone shaped objects pointing down. Also note the indents in the pole, similar to the Nigerian utility poles.
The Isle of Man has a distinct red, vertical stripe on the left of their license plates. Only Albania and Kyrgyzstan share the red stripe on the left of their license plates. The front Isle of Man plates are white.
Colombian Street View coverage is virtually non-existent in the south and east of the country. The western coast, south of Panama, also lacks coverage. Unlike Ecuador, which mainly has coverage of major roads and cities, Colombian coverage also incorporates minor roads. As a result, you will often see dirt roads in Colombian coverage whilst these are rather rare in Ecuador.
In Eastern Russia you will sometimes see the white car as opposed to the more common Russian black car.
Another example of a US County Highway sign
The Puerto Rico landscape can be quite varied. In general, Puerto Rico is relatively tropical looking and green.
New Zealand sometimes has this unique looking, blue and white car.
Cars in the U.K. drive on the left which is a rarity in Europe with only Ireland and Malta also driving on the left.
In Czechia, these distinctive and unique blue signs with white arrows point to the nearest towns. In the above image, the arrow points behind the sign however other signs have the large, white arrow on the end of the sign. Italian town directional arrows look relatively similar to these Czechia town directional arrows.