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Pinpointing in the Philippines can be made easier by finding the name of the island you are on from shop fronts. The names of the islands appear on the GeoGuessr map when you zoom in the correct amount. You can tell what they are as they don’t have a circle by their name like the cities do. In this example, the island is ‘Panay’.
Stop signs in New Brunswick will typically have both words ‘STOP ARRET’ on them. On occasions, they will just display the word ‘STOP’.
This map shows the 3-digit R road distribution across South Africa. If you see an R road sign in South Africa, it can take a while zooming in and out before you find it on the map. This map shows where you should look. (Image source: Thanks Reddit user Mikkybiola for this map).
The north-western part of Russia looks like Finland and features thick coverings of birch trees.
Major Thai roads will likely have a yellow line in the centre of the road and white lines on the sides of the road..
These narrow, red and white signs are almost like bollards in South Africa. They are very common.
On the above billboard, the numbers 701 precede the phone number. This is the area code (often these numbers will be seen in brackets). In this example, we can tell we are in North Dakota based on the above map as 701 is found right across the state of North Dakota.
Wyoming plates are mostly blue with yellow appearing on the base and left side of the plate.
Vehicles in Gibraltar mainly feature yellow rear plates and white front plates- the same style as UK plates. Sometimes you will see standard European plates in Gibraltar thanks to its proximity to Spain.
Guam tends to have a higher quality road network, featuring many dark, wide roads (something the Northern Mariana Islands lack). Guam also tends to be slightly busier than the Northern Mariana Islands.
This dark green Mazda follows the Street View car in almost all of the Tunisian Street View coverage (note the red and black license plate). There is a map situated in the front- centre of this car’s window in Sfax and Gabes. There are some small parts of the country that the dark green Mazda doesn’t follow the Street View car. A darker green Toyota follows the Street View car in Tunis.
The first type of bollard in Australia features a red rectangle. This bollard looks similar to bollards in Turkey and the Netherlands.
The second type of Street View car in Brazil is the white car. It can appear with the short antenna or like this example, without an antenna.
Hong Kong license plates are almost square shaped. They have yellow rear plates and white front plates.
Much of South-East Asia uses these yellow, diamond-shaped warning signs. Cambodian signs have a white outline.
Oregon has a green mid-section of their plates. I remember this as a partial anagram of Oregon: ‘o-gren-o’ which to me looks a bit like the word ‘green’ in the middle.
The flat sections of Taiwan regularly house rice fields. If you see a rice field in GeoGuessr, the most common location is Taiwan.
The Qatari landscape is desert. The land is flat, the roads are wide and well-maintained and there are many tall street lights lining the streets.
The first two digits of this Indonesian phone number are ’02’. When we look at the above map, we can tell that we are on the western part of the island of Java. Also note that Indonesian shops will often have their address on them.
As well as regular, cylindrical utility poles, the most common form of utility pole in Bolivia is asymmetrical and has one diagonal bar stemming from the pole to the horizontal bar, forming a right-angle triangle.
Sometimes you will see the yellow license plates of Israel within Palestine however these plates are far outnumbered by the Palestinian plates.
Flags of Africa and a bit of the Middle East
American Samoa is very hilly, very tropical and has white sand.
Most of Montenegro has the rift visible if you pan up. Generally, if you are in the red oval, you won’t see the rift in Montenegro. Across the rest of the country you should see the rift.
These light posts on utility poles or on their own poles are common throughout India.
If you pan down in Lebanon, you should see this outline of what resembles the Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters.
Nigeria can have a slight reddish soil but it is much rarer than in Kenya and Uganda.
New Zealand has unique bollards lining their highways that have a red/orange strip that stretches around the higher part of the bollard.
Nigeria’s most common utility poles often have a number of indents, like sections have been cut out but not quite enough has been cut out to form holes.
Ontario and British Columbia both have a number of electricity poles with spirals coming off them making them resemble a person.
Curbs in the city of Perth tend to have a gradual decline to the ground (or have a very low drop- around 3cm). This contrasts standard curbs across the other major Australian cities which have curbs that slant at 90 degrees and drop straight down for about 13cm.
Jersey has English and French as official languages. The majority of town and street names are in French and general signs mainly appear in English.
This is the rear view of Israeli bollards. Once again, they resemble the generic back of European-style bollards.
Kyrgyzstan has the bars under the car visible as well as black/white side mirrors.
In Canberra, you will often see utility poles with a short, crucifix-style horizontal bar.
Note the phone number prefix in this image is 022. This number is fairly low meaning that we are relatively far north. Based on the above map, we can tell that we are in the Japanese city of Sendai.
Somewhere on the rear of around 10% of cars in San Marino will be a white oval sticker containing the letters RSM standing for Repubblica di San Marino. In most instance the letters will be blurred and you will just see a white oval.
Some of the time in Kenya, you will see this silver 4-wheel drive following you. It is an escort car and may appear up to 100 metres behind you. Nigeria and Tunisia also have escort cars.
Portugal uses these fairly generic bollards. The front contains a vertical, white rectangle encased in the black section. This helps distinguish the country from Spain. The back of Portuguese bollards feature two white circles in the black section. Similar looking bollards can be found in Luxembourg, Sweden (without the circles on the back) and Latvia (narrower bollards). There is a rarer type of Portuguese bollard that has a fatter orange rectangle in place of the white rectangle.
This type of street light is common throughout Tunisia.
The Latvian landscape is flat and has a large amount of grass. There are many cold-climate trees scattered across Latvia. Utility poles can also often be seen across most of the country.
Urban Palestine has the same style of cream-coloured apartment buildings as Israel.
The Philippines has various iterations of green and white plates.
Corn fields are a common sight in Serbia.
Vietnam’s Street View coverage is more restricted than the above map indicates. The above map also includes unofficial coverage. Official coverage includes: Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and a few smaller cities such as Haiphong.
In Peru, a large number of vehicles have various iterations of red and white stickers- the colours of the Peruvian flag. Whilst these stickers are found on some cars in the neighbouring countries, they are most common in Peru.
This is the back (also rather generic) view of Luxembourg bollards.
The far south of Chile, where it snows, has yellow road lines. This contrasts the white middle lines found across the rest of Chile.
Pennsylvania has a blue upper part of the plate and yellow lower part of the plate. These plates appear frequently in the TV show The Office. The Pennsylvanian plate appears similar to the Iowa plate.
Iceland’s Street View coverage is focused around the edge of the country. Road number 1 runs around the circumference of Iceland. Starting in the south of the country, Icelandic road numbers start with a 2. The first number of Icelandic roads increase in a clockwise direction around Iceland until the road numbers begin with a 9 in the east.
Signs in Kigali are often written in both English and Kinyarwanda.
Ecuador has unique looking, double guard rails that feature one guard rail on top of another guard rail.
Southern Ghana tends to be green in colour, have plentiful grass and have tropical, lush vegetation.
As a result of the Vietnamese coverage being taken on a bike, you will appear much closer to the ground in Vietnam.
Large parts of Europe around the Mediterranean use the generation 2 camera.
Many Utah cars have the outline of a large orange pyramid on the right of their plates.
Large signs in North Macedonia have a corrugated rear.
Regional roads in Finland as they appear on the map.
In some parts of Curaçao the foliage is low and spiky. Most of the country has palm trees visible. Cacti are prevalent in some parts of Curacao.
The purple part of this map shows the Croatian region of Slavonia. In this part of Croatia, there is winter coverage and a flat landscape.
Due to the majority of the UAE coverage being centred around greater Dubai, there is often the possibility of seeing the world’s tallest skyscrapers in the background.
Curbs in the major Australian cities other than Perth tend to have curbs that drop straight down to the road (around 13cm straight down)- these are pictured. Curbs in Perth generally have a gradual decline or are very low (around 3cm).
99% of the coverage on the Northern Mariana Islands is situated on the northern island of Saipan. There are very small sections of the island of Tinian covered however these are mainly specks of beach. The island of Sinapalu which is to the SSW of the islands pictured also has very small pockets covered mainly including beach areas.
This speed limit sign is Canadian as is says ‘MAXIMUM’. This contrasts US speed limit signs which say ‘SPEED LIMIT’.
Cambodian bollards look a bit like fat matches. They have a white body and red head.
Tamil is green in the above map. It is used in the state of Tamil Nadu- across the Gulf of Mannar from Sri Lanka. Tamil stands out as it has these fancy loops in its letters. It is also unique as the characters appear to be two or three characters joined together. Another way of identifying Tamil is that it has a large number of vertical lines that typically lack the horizontal line on top.
If you pan down in Slovenia, the Street View car’s aerial should typically be visible, like most of Eastern Europe.
The second most common road lines in Eswatini have the standard yellow edges and the two continuous, white, centre lines encasing a white dashed line. These road markings can also be seen in South Africa, Botswana and Lesotho.
There is some boat coverage off the north coastline of Christmas Island.
One of the best methods to identify Western Australia is via its yellow poles which hold up many types of signs. Silver poles tend to hold up signs across the remainder of Australia.
This vehicle covers small pockets of the west of St. Croix (the main island) located south of the other two islands. The front of the vehicle is identical to the vehicle for the northern islands however the rear of the vehicle has a black coloured tray.
Uganda uses fairly generic wooden utility poles. The poles do have one uniqueness- the powerlines are often connected to the pole on three levels.
Bulgarian houses feature roofs that aren’t very steep. The roofs also tend to be the same shade of terracotta. Bulgarian houses are predominantly light coloured or have a brick exterior. The houses are often run-down.
Angkor beer signs are one of the most common sights throughout Cambodia. On the left of the image, the Cambodian language, featuring symbols with hooked ends, is another tell-tale sign you are in Cambodia.
Norway, Sweden and Finland (as well as a number of other countries around the world) all use these standard wooden, circular poles.
If you look closely at most types of Brazilian utility poles, you should see small holes in a vertical formation that look like they have been drilled into the pole.
France is a diverse looking country. It has many grass fields and after Poland is the second country I will guess if I see a European grass field without other clues.
Poland has concrete utility poles with holes in them. Polish poles are distinct from the utility poles of Hungary and Romania as the holes don’t go all the way to the ground- they stop about half a metre above the ground.
Unlike most of Eastern Europe, the North Macedonian car’s aerial shouldn’t be visible if you pan down. This is arguably the easiest way to identify North Macedonia. Within Eastern Europe, Serbia also typically lacks the aerial.
Canals and waterways are a common sight in the Netherlands. The entire country is flat and it is rare to see anything resembling an incline across the country,
Swedish Speed limits are also written in a circle with the same colour system as their warning signs.
These bus stop shelters are found right across Chile. Surprisingly, you will often see them in heavily rural areas and they can be a great way to confirm that you are indeed in Chile.
The UAE looks most similar to Jordan. There is a sandy desert almost everywhere you look in the UAE.
The rear of North Macedonian bollards has the white rectangle within the black section. This is the same rear as the countries in the image above this one.
If you see more of a gray soil colour in South Korea, you should be in the east of the country.
Florida has an orange in the middle of its license plates.
Russian intersections are typically very wide.
Central Chile, around Santiago, is fairly green and Mediterranean looking. Due to the Andes flanking the eastern border of Chile, you will often see mountains to the east of you.
Across almost all of Eastern Europe, the Street View car’s aerial is visible. It is also visible in a number of other places in the world.
The large southern island of Mindanao is where the majority of Muslims reside in the Philippines (especially in the west of this island). If you see Muslims wearing headwear in the Philippines, then you are probably in this part of the country. The rest of the country is majority Christian.
A Brazil National Highway sign
Norway uses yellow directional signs. This contrasts the blue and white of Swedish and Finnish signs and the red and white of Danish signs. Iceland has similar looking directional signs to Norway.
Townhouses, like those pictured, are common in the U.K. Bricks are used to construct a large portion of houses in Great Britain whilst in Ireland, brick is very rare.
The white Street View car is often visible in Botswana. It can also be visible in South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho.
I often notice these embankments on either side of the road in Brazil.
A red line through a town’s name indicates that you have reached the end of the built up area of that town.
This is a Croatian guardrail. It is a B-profile guardrail which consists of 90-degree angles and a narrow central section. In Europe, this type of guardrail is only found in Croatia, Serbia, Poland and Denmark. It is also found in some parts of Turkey, North Macedonia, Ireland and Germany.
In the example above showing another variant of Polish utility poles, there are two poles converging into one.
Albania has rifts in some parts of the country. Montenegro has rifts across almost all of the country.
Argentinian cities have these street signs that run perpendicular to one another. The street signs vary in colour depending on what city you are placed in. I have seen blue, black and green street signs in Argentina.
The UAE is one of only a few countries in the world to have some black and white striped poles. Although Jordan sometimes has these too however they are much rarer in Jordan.
A license plate from Switzerland. In Europe, Switzerland, Iceland, Russia, most of the Croatian plates and some plates in North Macedonia are white. These stand out for lacking the typical blue, left, vertical stripe of Europe.
This is what Swedish national roads look like on the map.
Some parts of Senegal received new coverage that was released in October 2022. Part of this coverage was taken from this white truck. If you turn around 180 degrees, there is a tray in the back of the truck.
Qatar has just gained Street View status. The country stands out thanks to the white truck beneath you. It looks similar to the white Senegal truck; however, the Qatari truck has a narrow antenna on the far-left. In contrast, the white Senegal truck has as stubbier, black antenna on the front-centre.
Another common feature of Lithuanian utility poles is to have a diagonal supporting beam.
Denmark have these unique metal poles that hold up many of their circular signs. The poles curve around the top of the circular signs.
Invercargill has the common NZ signs featuring a blue background with white lettering as well as these yellow tips on the top and bottom at the end of the sign.
Another variant of Tunisian plates depicts some section of the plate as black- this black section can be in the middle or off to one side.
How connecting roads in Finland appear on the map.
Indonesia is a rare place in Asia that requires license plates on the front of motorbikes. Despite being blurred, you should be able to notice the presence of these front plates.
Occasionally there will be no car visible if you pan down in the UAE although this is fairly uncommon.
German is spoken across Germany and Austria. It’s also spoken in most of Switzerland, north Italy and a tiny speck of eastern Belgium. The language is fairly recognisable if you read it aloud. The umlaut appears regularly in German: ä, ü and ö. If you see the letter ß you are in Germany of Austria, not Switzerland which uses ‘ss’ in place of ß.
Almost every pole in Northern Wisconsin and the peninsula of Michigan (this is north-east of Wisconsin) have these white stickers with orange sections.
Like some other Eastern European locations, Polish houses often have small wooden or metal fences around them. Polish flora often includes trees that are associated with relatively cold climates.
The Slovakian landscape largely consists of rolling hills. The roads are well maintained. Trees with few leaves are also a common sight across Slovakia. If you are tossing up between Czechia and Slovakia, Slovakia has more hills whilst Czechia is flatter.
There are unique looking bins in Greece. They contain location information on them which can prove most useful on the Greek islands.
In Belgium cities, it is common to have the city’s name on street signs. In the above example, the city name ‘Liege’ is written on the street sign.
The rear of certain types of signs in Belgium (some circular and some rectangular) are coloured this distinctive orange colour.
Peru is a largely mountainous and hilly country.
Ghana can be recognised as it has a piece of black coloured tape around one of its four bars.
This secondary type of Romanian utility pole also has the recognisable yellow mark.
Dunedin has the common blue New Zealand signs with white lettering with the added orange corner.
Parts of Albania have the rift in the sky if you pan up. Montenegro is the only other European country that can have a rift.
Unpaved roads that consist of gravel or dirt are a very common sight in Romania.
Cambodian utility poles may also have a number of indents in them.
Slovakia has recently gained some generation 4 coverage. This generation 4 coverage tends to have a small antenna whilst Czechia’s lacks this small antenna.
If you are in a Portuguese town/city, you should see a sidewalk. Portuguese sidewalks are unique and consist of small white squares placed together at a diagonal from the road. They resemble a mosaic.
A few types of bollards are visible in the Netherlands. This type is the most commonly seen. Similar looking bollards are also in Turkey and Australia although these countries have a less elongated red rectangle.
Switzerland is one of the rare European countries that lack the blue vertical stripe of Europe on their license plates. Front Swiss license plates are typically less elongated than the rest of Europe.
Most of Lesotho has short grass that is typically patchy. This can help distinguish the country from Eswatini which mainly has long grass.
A map indicating the Russian license plate codes for every region in East Russia
Norway has unique warning signs compared to the other Nordic countries (but normal European signs). These warning signs feature a triangle with a red outline and white colouring. From the Nordic countries only Denmark has the same warning signs as Norway. Iceland, Finland and Sweden have yellow colouring rather than white on their warning signs.
Warning signs in Lithuania have a white border outside a thinner red border. Estonia has no white outside border and the same thickness of red border as Lithuania. In contast, Latvia has a white border outside a thicker red border.
Gravel and dirt roads are common for minor roads in Russia. Russian roads are often poorly maintained and full of cracks. The more major Russian roads are often better maintained.
The Albanian language stands out for having lots of q, j and k letters. It also has the rare ç as well as ë. In general, the Albanian language reminds me most of Turkey.
Due to the small size of the Northern Mariana Islands located in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, they can sometimes be hard to find on the map. I find them by locating Manila and panning directly east.
Black and white corner signs are a common sight in Albania.
If you notice palm trees in Kenya, then you are probably in or around Mombasa.
Cars in Brazil have rather large license plates. These plates are white and somewhat resemble the size of European license plate. Brazilian plates contrast the other Latin American countries which tend to have small license plates. Argentina occasionally has long plates however these have an upper blue section.
The Street View car in Panama has this unique antenna that is found nowhere else on Earth. It should be visible when you pan down- although not necessarily as visible as this image.
The most common type of Malaysian plates have black areas which divide the plate into two white sections.
Some French license plates have a narrow blue section on the right of the plate (as well as the standard, thicker blue on the left.
Most marked roads in Denmark will have small dashes along the sides.
A typical example of a European license plate. Note the letter on the left hand side of the plate. In this instance, the letter ‘E’ is visible. This means the license plate is from Spain (Espanol).
Olive trees are everywhere in Greece. Virtually the whole country is hilly or mountainous.
A wide range of different looking license plates can be found in Taiwan. Almost all plates will have this same shape. Some plates have bluish markings like the image above, some plates have green sections but most plates are white.
This is another variant of French utility poles. Spain can have similar utility poles that are white in colour.
The colour of post boxes around the world. I find this most useful in distinguishing Canada (red post boxes) from the USA (blue post boxes). A larger image can be viewed here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Map_of_colours_of_post_boxes.svg Source: NuclearVacuum, Wikipedia.
One and two digit roads in Sweden with this blue sign denote national roads. The numbers increase the further north you travel in Sweden. Road number 9 is in the south of the country and road 99 is in the very north of the country.
The red and white striped arrow pointing downwards indicates that you are in Japan, most likely on the northern island of Hokkaido or possibly on the main island of Honshu, near mountains.
North Macedonian directional signs are yellow with black lettering. Note the Cyrillic town name on top and the Latin translation beneath.
Alberta has red lettering on its plates.
In the above example, the digits 863 are the first (and only in this case) digits in the brackets. 863 correlates to the area around Rostov-on-Don on the above map.