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This is another fairly common French utility pole. The concrete pole has holes in it. Romania, Hungary and Poland have holes in their poles however these countries have less holes than French utility poles. Turkey can also have holes in their metal utility poles.
Cities in Nigeria are the busiest places on Street View in the entire Africa. There is often wall to wall traffic and a number of people walking around.
A license plate from Portugal. Note the yellow vertical stripe on the right to go with the standard European vertical blue stripe on the left.
Taiwanese residential roads can be very narrow. Note the rice fields on the left which are everywhere in the flat section of Taiwan.
Octagonal shaped utility poles are some of the most common in Mexico. These poles are rarely seen in other countries however do sometimes occur in Colombia.
Lesotho is green and hilly and generally lacks trees (apart from the far north of the country).
High walls are common around most properties in Kigali. This is a great way to distinguish Rwanda from other African countries.
The Irish landscape often has hedges alongside the road. Hedgerows are also very common among the southern part of England.
Approximately 1/3rd of the time in Belgium, I experience generation 2 Street View coverage, featuring the circular blur underneath, inferior image quality and halo around the sun. Very rarely in Belgium (in non generation 2 coverage) you will see a red car beneath you. The red car is much more common in Ukraine.
France also contains many wooden utility poles (as do many other countries around the world). The French wooden poles are unique as they often feature a blue rectangle on them.
The island of Curaçao is located just north of Venezuela. The Street View coverage spans most of the island.
Most of Spain has a warm feel. The main roads are typically of a high quality and much of the country has a Mediterranean vibe.
2nd class Finnish roads range in number from 40-99. These roads generally increase in numbering as you travel north in Finland.
A common type of utility poles in Mexico resembles a crucifix.
Serbian signs are often yellow with black lettering. They can feature Latin lettering, Cyrillic or both.
Although rather rare, Scotland has these white, cylindrical bollards that have either a red or white horizontal ring. France has similar looking bollards with the red ring that are far more common.
Israeli road lines feature yellow, continuous edges and white dashes in the centre. This is the same combination as both Jordan and the UAE.
Pictured above is the Kenyan car that took the new coverage. The car sometimes lacks the snorkel and/or antenna or has a double antenna. The alternative Kenyan car has bars and a snorkel (pictured further up this meta section).
This is the front view of Israeli bollards. They resemble the generic European bollards.
A map showing the distribution of palm trees across the earth.
About 1/4 cars in the state of New South Wales in Australia have yellow license plates. If a car has yellow plates they will appear on both the front and rear.
Spanish is the dominant language in Puerto Rico although English appears on occasions.
These low red and white directional signs are a key giveaway that you are in Denmark. They are also useful for pinpointing.
If you pan down in Norway and Denmark, you should see a very faint blue Street View car. Sometimes it can be hard to tell that it is indeed blue unless you possess superhuman abilities or are of a different species.
The dark blue section on the above map (the far north-east): This part of Botswana stands out for its long grass. The trees are also greener in colour than the remainder of Botswana.
Most Slovenian towns and cities have a large number of stand-alone street lights.
Ankara is the only city in Turkey to have these unique-looking street signs that feature a curved top-middle section of the sign. These signs are found right across Ankara.
The first type of bollard in Australia.
Southern Peru is home to part of the Atacama Desert. This is a featureless area of undulating land.
Bhutanese road signs are often held aloft by black and white striped poles.
Many Cambodian houses are elevated on posts. Some homes will have part of the home elevated on posts and the other part of the home on the ground.
The chevron in San Marino feature yellow backgrounds and red arrows. This contrasts the black and white chevron of Italy.
Brazil has green and blue directional signs, both with white lettering.
Singaporean road lines come in a range of styles. It is common to have double yellow, continuous road lines on the very edges of the road.
Ukraine mainly uses square, concrete poles. Similar looking poles can be found in several countries including Russia.
Sao Tome and Principe stands out due to the massive blur that you will see in all locations across the country. This blur is akin to the blur found in India.
Ukraine has a large number of Soviet-style apartment buildings in cities and larger towns.
Many French roads have these very long, white dashes along both sides of the road. Nowhere else in Europe has such long side dashes as French dashes. In rare cases, France has shorter dashes on the sides of the road.
In Norway, commercial vehicles use green license plates.
If a road is marked in North America, it will typically have some form of yellow centre lines. This contrasts the majority of Europe which tends to use white centre road lines. On average, roads tend to be a bit wider in North America than in Europe.
The central and norther parts of Senegal typically have desert sand or short, dry grass.
The Netherlands stands out for its lack of utility poles. The entire country seemingly has their wires underground. Only street lights line the streets.
The generation 3 camera is the most commonly used in Street View. It produces good quality images. Identifying this camera is rarely useful as it is so ubiquitous.
Sometimes in Ukraine there will be black and white sections painted on the side of the road or on guardrails.
These guardrails which feature a wide central section (enough for 3 top sections to fit in) are only found in Europe within Czechia and Slovakia.
The Philippines uses these European style warning signs. These signs are also found in Laos and Taiwan.
Kinmen Islands are a group of islands with one main island and a smaller island to the west that both have street view coverage. These island belong to Taiwan.
Lithuania has orange reflectors on its guardrails. Latvia has red and white reflectors whilst Estonia doesn’t have reflectors on its guardrails.
New Brunswick plates have red lettering that can be distinguished despite the blur
A Cambodian roadside marker. These often have town names and indicate distances to the nearest town.
Puerto Rico uses kilometres in contrast to the USA which uses miles.
The greater Christchurch region of New Zealand (around half way up the east coast of the South Island) features a large number of tall hedges that skirt the side of the road.
This map shows the individual GeoGuessr road coverage across the world. It is not 100% accurate but it is fairly accurate. (source: reddit u/baubauciaociao). A larger version of this map can be viewed here.
New South Wales is located on the eastern side of Australia. Northern Territory appears in the top-centre. Sorry to Tasmania for chopping you off from Australia.
The Lesser Sunda Islands (whose location is shown on the map below) can be determined thanks to their utility poles which contain a long support beam that runs from the very end of the horizontal crucifix bar, diagonally, to the main pole. Note that the standard Indonesian diagonal support poles are shorter (shown in the image above this one).
In American Samoa, you will commonly just see the back of a black ute if you pan down.
Croatian bollards tend to have a white rectangle in the black section. This is the same as Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Hungary.
The above sign shows county road number 1-1. The symbol before this road matches the south-eastern county in the above map. This means that we are in this county which happens to be Taitung county.
South Korea has diagonal yellow and black stripes on many of its utility poles, much like Taiwan. It also similarly has cylindrical utility poles. Taiwanese stripes mainly stretch all the way to the ground whilst the stripes in South Korea shouldn’t reach the ground. Note: Japan also rarely has South Korean style stripes on their utility poles.
French is the official language of Senegal. As a result, most of the writing you will see in this country will be in French.
These tiny, cramped rickshaws are a common feature of Sri Lanka. They have three wheels and a black covering.
Thanks to the October 2022 update, Senegal’s Street View coverage is now spread across the country, including the southern region.
A Mexican state highway shield. Note the straight sides and flat top of the shield. The letters on the shield denote the specific state that the shield is from. By zooming in to the right level on the GeoGuessr map, you can work out the matching state. For this example, ‘SON’ represents the Mexican state of Sonora.
Some of the more remote Indonesia houses/businesses have corrugated iron roofs. These are more common on Sulawesi, Borneo and Sumatra.