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Michigan has a number of license plates with two most commonly occurring. This is one of these most common plates, featuring a dark blueish glow comprising two, vertical stripes. There is also a blue, horizontal line on top.
The Faroe Islands are located north of Scotland.
This is the third most common license plate in Alaska. It features an orange glow in the centre and blue/green outer.
The official language of Tunisia is Arabic however French is also widely spoken and appears on signs alongside Arabic.
How to say “Street” in Europe. Source: https://github.com/fabiencelier/ and https://www.indifferentlanguages.com/words/street
After the two blue stripes plates, Albania’s second most common license plate has a red vertical stripe on the left.
The Japanese Street View car is wider than cars from other countries (other than Switzerland which also has the same wide car).
Almost all of Albania is hilly or mountainous. The mountains are often fairly rocky. The main roads such as the one pictured are well-maintained however most Albanian roads are poorly-maintained.
The order of the taxi numbers in the Panama provinces isn’t random. It’s in alphabetical order. This map shows the names of the Panama provinces. The most important province to remember is Panama Province whose taxis begin with the number 8. The second most important province to remember is Panama Oeste Province, whose taxis begin with the number 13. These two provinces account for most of Panama’s Street View coverage. (Image source: Wikipedia,123Hollic)
The Lesser Sunda Islands are essentially all of the Indonesian islands located directly east of Java. The above map shows the islands in detail (the lower map) and the higher map shows their location relative to the remainder of Indonesia.
A map showing the specific State Highway shield for each USA state. Note that in 2016, North Dakota’s state highway sign switched to an outline of their state with the words ‘North Dakota’ above it. (Source: Mdcastle, reddit)
Sri Lanka also has these black and white stripes on some poles.
In 2023, Google released new, generation 4 Street View coverage across virtually the entire Germany. This means you should see the blue tinge of the Street View car if you pan down.
This is the most common type of Ukrainian bollard. It has a red rectangle that is wider than the rectangles of Hungary, Bulgarian, Croatia and North Macedonia. Ukrainian bollards look like Russian bollards however Russian bollards are attached to a narrow support pole. Ukrainian bollards are typically run-down with the rectangle often damaged.
Sometimes (approximately 15% of the time) Taiwan has low camera imagery. This means that you will feel lower to the ground when travelling around in the Street View car. A byproduct of this low camera is that you will see a blur beneath you that should appear wide on the sides of the car. Japan is entirely covered with low camera footage and the blur as it Switzerland. Sri Lanka also has a small amount of low camera imagery.
Swiss rear license plates are typically much more elongated than the front plates. They appear white but a hard-to-see red patch may be vaguely visible on the left side, right side or both.
Essen has blue street signs with a thick, silver border.
Montenegro also has many brown signs with white lettering. Note the corrugated style on the back of the sign below the brown sign. This is a common rear texture of Montenegro’s larger signs.
Turkey uses the standard European warning signs.
A Primary county road sign in Norway
Switzerland and Japan are the only two countries in the world to have their images captured by the low Street View camera. This means that you will feel lower to the ground in Switzerland than other countries. Sri Lanka and Taiwan also occasionally have low camera imagery.
Most of Tunisia is very flat and its major roads are quite wide, often with a centre strip dividing the road. Tunisian roads are well-maintained and look very smooth although they often have a white, sandy tinge. Dry grass in a sandy soil is a common sight alongside the road. Olive trees are very common throughout Tunisia.
Jordan’s directional signs are blue with white lettering. They sometimes contain just Arabic but on other occasions feature both Arabic and English. Standard highways in Jordan are denoted by a green rectangle and a number in yellow lettering.
Ukrainian directional signs are blue with white lettering. The signs will generally have Cyrillic on top and the Latin equivalent below or just Cyrillic.
A map showing deserts around the world. Note that the orange colour on the map indicates a semi-desert which is somewhere that receives a low amount of rainfall but not as little as a desert. (Source: https://www.kids-world-travel-guide.com/)
If you pan down in Christmas Island, you will see the tray of a ute (pick-up truck). The tray is a light silver colour.
This car (or a variant of it) took most of the new Nigerian coverage. The old Nigerian coverage is still on Street View and includes black and yellow bars beneath you and a large blur.
Like South Africa, Botswana and Lesotho, Eswatini most commonly has yellow continuous lines on the edges of its roads and a white marking in the centre.
Vehicles drive on the left side of the road in Bermuda and there is most commonly a single, yellow centre line on the roads.
Secondly, there is the car whose rear bar has a black covering on both sides. The car you are located in can help you work out where you are positioned in Senegal, as per the below map.
When you pan down in Midway Atoll, you should see a circular blur thanks to the generation 2 camera that was used to capture the imagery.
Danish directional signs have a unique blend of white background and red writing. If you see this colour scheme, you are in Denmark.
Commercial vehicles in Denmark have yellow license plates. Regular Danish vehicles have the standard European plates that are white with the blue, European stripe on the left.
A map showing motorway zones for Great Britain. If you find a road starting with an ‘M’, the first digit of the road will indicate which area on the above map the road is in. (Source: Nilfanion and Dr Greg, Wikipedia)
The UAE flag appears on the left. I remember it thanks to the red vertical stripe looking like a tall building (which the UAE has many of). The Jordan flag appears on the right. I remember it as it contains a ‘star’ and Michael ‘Jordan’ was a star.
The Malaysian state of Sabah (on the north-east of Borneo) stands out because it has these two horizontal metal poles on most of its utility poles, akin to an equals sign.
These red and white ‘Clasificados Online’ signs are everywhere in Puerto Rico.
On some corners in Serbia, you will see these distinctive black and white, long signs.
Other than the written language sounding Spanish, there are some specific things to look for to identify Spanish and distinguish it from Portuguese and other languages. Look for is the letter ‘y’ as its own word. This means ‘and’ in Spanish. Also, Spanish sometimes has the letter ‘ñ’ appear which is the letter n with a squiggly line over the top. The Basque language is spoken in a small pocket of north-eastern Spain. This region has signs in both Basque and Spanish.
As well as the coverage connecting the main cities, only 8 North Macedonian main cities are covered by Street View coverage. Of these 8 cities, Skopje, Bitola and Tetova had coverage taken in autumn. The remaining 5 cities: Veles, Kumanova, Strumica, Ohrid and Prilep had coverage taken in summer. Note the autumn leaves in this image, meaning we have to be in Skopje, Bitola or Tetova.
Although there are few vehicles in Svalbard, they have this distinctive license plate that is a mixture of gold and black.
The most common road markings in Botswana feature yellow, continuous edge lines and some form of white middle line. These line markings are also common in South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho.
North American Street View coverage. The dots indicate Photo Sphere locations (ignore them).
Parts of Lesotho are quite mountainous yet the area still lacks trees. Parts of the country are fairly rocky
License plates in Colombia are typically yellow in colour for both the front and rear plate. Out of South America, this is endemic to Colombia. Seeing yellow license plates is the easiest way to identify Colombia.
In general, the further south you travel in Norway correlates with thicker vegetation, more vegetation, taller vegetation and less birch trees. This image is from southern Norway.
Vehicles in Rwanda have yellow rear license plate and white front license plates. Note that vehicles drive on the right side of the road in Rwanda. This can help distinguish the country from Kenya and Uganda who drive on the left.
Ireland stands out as it is the only place in Europe with yellow, diamond shaped warning signs.
Buildings in the Dominican Republic are rarely white and often a range of colours. The peach colour pictured appears commonly on buildings throughout the country.
The most common type of bollard in Botswana is a blueish, small obelisk.
Some cars in Ghana have elongated yellow license plates on their rear and front.
Malaysia commonly has these black rectangles with white lettering on their utility poles. These are only in the Malaysian mainland and never in Borneo (although I haven’t checked every pole in Borneo- I’m saving that for a rainy weekend).
In Malta, the cars drive on the left. The only other countries within Europe that drive on the left are the U.K. and Ireland. Malta looks much more Mediterranean than these places.
Leipzig has similar signs to Munich and Dortmund.
Czech bollards have these unique fluro orange stripes in the black section of the bollard. The Slovakian bollards look the same as Czech bollards.
In Dutch, the ‘weg’ suffix means ‘road’ and the ‘straat’ suffix means ‘street’.
A map indicating the states of the USA that don’t require front license plates. This can be particularly useful if you spot the lack of front license plates on cars.
North Macedonia has a mix of concrete and wooden utility poles. They are both cylindrical in shape. Some utility poles will have this style of street light hanging off of them.
Montenegrin houses tend to come in a range of styles and colours. They most commonly have the terracotta coloured roofs.
The Street View car’s aerial is visible in Albania, like much of Eastern Europe.
The is a Czech and Slovakian bollard. Both Czech and Slovakian bollards have these unique fluro orange stripes in the black section of the bollard. The back of Czech and Slovakian bollards have a white rectangle in the black section.
Thai kilometre markers also house information on their sides so motorists travelling towards and away from the marker can read the information. The sides of Thai markers feature the next noteworthy sized town name and distance (in the above example, the town is 5km away). Beneath this is the next noteworthy sized town name and distance (in this example, the town is 22km away). Always be sure to look at both sides of Thai road markers and remember that Thai drivers drive on the left when they see the marker information. The further the towns are away, the more likely you are to be able to match their Thai script names with towns on the GeoGuessr map.
Laos writing resembles Thai. It has small circles at the ends of most letters. The writing is distinct from Thai as virtually every part of every letter is curved.
The US Virgin Islands use wooden, cylindrical utility poles.
Brazilian signs have black on their backs. Peru can also have a dark rear on their signs however it isn’t as black as the rear of Brazilian signs
The southern sections of Israel are desert.
The Northern Territory in Australia has plates with red lettering which appear as a slight red blur.
Ecuador have one pole holding two signs indicating to cars that they are on a corner. These are particularly common thanks to the twisting Ecuadorian roads.
The further west and south you travel in Kenya, the more green the vegetation becomes. The one caveat to this is that the Kenyan coastal vegetation in the far-east is also green.
Signs in Colombia are held up by what are almost comically narrow poles that are painted white.
Although dirt roads are more common in Cambodia, paved roads often have some form of yellow central line- sometimes it is dashed and sometimes it is continuous.
In major Austrian cities, the word ‘EINBAHN’ is written on these blue signs everywhere.
White, metal poles most commonly hold up street signs in Japan. Sometimes the poles will just be silver.
Distinctive looking and unique orange license plates appear on some vehicles in Ecuador.
The letters ‘Sdn Bhd’ appear on many Malaysian signs.
Many Turkish residents live in apartments that are a number of stories high with a terracotta, tiled roof. Some of the higher Turkish apartments have flatter roofs.
A high percentage (the majority) of Slovenian signs have a yellow sticker on the back of them. The sticker is sometimes white.
Narrow roads that are winding are more common in Norway than the other Nordic countries.
Some parts of Bulgaria have rolling hills and trees with green leaves.
This is the main type of Serbian bollard. It resembles the bollards of a number of other countries but is distinctly different. The red, rectangle is always to one side- not in the centre.
Other than the written language sounding Spanish, there are some specific things to look for to identify Spanish and distinguish it from Portuguese and other languages. Look for is the letter ‘y’ as its own word. This means ‘and’ in Spanish. Also, Spanish often uses the letter ‘ñ’ which is the letter ‘n’ with a squiggly line over the top.
The second type of Norwegian road marking is the dashed white lines on the side of the road. Other countries also have this however Norway’s dashed lines stand out as the lines themselves are longer than the gap between the lines.
‘Triq’ means ‘street’ in Maltese and this word appears all over Malta on signs.
The follow car in Tunisia will be light green north of Hammamet and dark green south of Hammamet. (Image source: My poor computer skills).
The third type of main Kiwi utility pole is concrete with large holes inside of it.
A map showing the coverage in American Samoa on the large island of Tutuila. It largely includes the entire southern coastline and the edge of the National park of Tutuila, located in the northern, centre of the island.
Denmark’s landscape is very flat. It has less vegetation that Norway, Sweden and Finland and has drier foliage and grass. There tend to be more fields in Denmark than the aforementioned places and a different type of vegetation that is less birch tree and more bushy trees and bushes. There also tends to be less vegetation in Denmark.
A map showing which language is spoken where in Belgium. Gold= Flemish (Dutch), Red= French and Blue=German. (Source: Vascer, Knorck, Wikipedia).
The large southern island of the US Virgin Islands, known as St Croix is mainly covered by a red vehicle. Note that small pockets in the west of St Croix are covered by the white vehicle that lacks the antenna and antenna holder.
Thai warning signs have the yellow diamond that is used across much of South-East Asia. Note the yellow outline on the warning sign which distinguishes it from Cambodia’s warning signs which have a white outline.
Buildings in Andorra are typically multi-storey, affluent looking and often made of stones compressed together. This unique, stone building style is how I identify Andorra.
Directional information in the UAE is sometimes provided on green signs with white lettering. On the middle panel above, there is a crown enclosing the motorway number ‘E18’. These motorway numbers are easily visible on the GeoGuessr map.
National roads in Chile can also be referred to simply as ‘Ruta’.
Munich street signs feature a blue background with white lettering and dark, almost square corner sections.
In Bermuda’s official Street View coverage, you will see either a black truck, a jagged blurred car or both, as pictured below. This is all the same vehicle taking the Street View imagery, just sometimes the black truck has been completely blurred out. In the unofficial coverage, you will see the word ‘Bermuda’ on a big blue circle beneath you when you pan down.
There are a large number of cows visible in Uruguayan fields. If I notice cows in a field and I am tossing up between Uruguay and the similarly looking Argentina, I will guess Uruguay.
Street View coverage in the Dominican Republic is largely limited to Santo Domingo and Santiago De Los Caballeros.
If you notice lots of yellow tape on the left hand side of the car, then you should be in central Kenya (stretching from around Nairobi to the north). This tape isn’t found in eastern or western Kenya. It’s important to note that most of central Kenya doesn’t have this tape so if you don’t see the tape, it isn’t useful in working out where you are.
The south-western Canadian province of British Columbia is largely mountainous as is the western part of the next province to the east- Alberta.
This image shows Guam’s antenna. This is located virtually at the corner of the car. In contrast, you will notice that the antenna for the Northern Mariana Islands (the image above this one) has the antenna closer to you and away from the corner. Try and remember Guam=corner.
The Czechia landscape is one of the hardest in the world to describe and identify. The Street View car went through the country at different times of the year meaning the country looks vastly different on Street View depending on where you are in the country. Additionally, parts of the country resemble Austria with rolling hills whilst other parts are flat with green or dry grass.
The reflectors on the front of Austrian bollards are often a blackish colour. Seeing this black reflector and the black hat on the bollard is one of the easiest ways to tell that you are in Austria. No other countries have both of these features on their bollards.
The north-eastern parts of Brazil can have a lighter soil colour with little flora. The north-eastern parts of Brazil are very dry.
The northern parts of Israel are more likely to be grassed.
The GeoGuessr map displays Russian house numbers. This can make pinpointing slightly easier.
Houses in Svalbard are made of wood and come in a range of bright colours.
National Roads (RN) in Argentina are denoted on the map by these white shapes.
Due to the low camera on the Street View car in Switzerland, if you can see the outline of the car, it will appear wider than normal.
Street signs in Auckland are the standard blue and white colours with a white arrow on the end of the sign. Note that this arrow can be found in some other NZ towns/smaller cities.
Various parts of Jordan are quite mountainous.
If you pan down in Argentina, you should see a black coloured Street View car. The only other place that looks remotely like Argentina with the black car is Uruguay (although Chile too very, very rarely has the black car). In very rare newer coverage, the Argentine car will appear white but this is rare. Argentina also very occasionally has generation 4 Street View coverage featuring the blue car.
Another feature of Eswatini is that it often has long grass. This can help distinguish it from South Africa and Lesotho (which normally has patchy, short grass).
The Kenyan landscape can be quite varied. Some parts of the country are quite hilly. The distinctive reddish dirt can be found in Kenya but often there is a more subtle dirt colour. The foliage in Kenya can range from dense and tropical to empty grasslands.
The eastern part of Turkey is green, with little to no flora.
It’s common for signposts in Texas to have a yellow white band around them.
Paved roads in Kyrgyzstan often have continuous, white, edge lines and white dashes in the centre.
Christmas Island is located in the Indian Ocean. The easiest way to find it on the map is to locate Jakarta and pan down.
East of the Ural Mountains, you will often find a dense covering of these trees or swampy grassland.
Mongolian coverage is centred around Ulaanbaatar. The coverage stretches out across the country although little of the southern part of Mongolia is covered. Mongolia is also fairly unique as parts of its coverage are autonomous. In other words, you may be positioned in south-east Mongolia and travel as far as possible before reaching a dead end. You may then travel in the opposite direction and reach another dead end.
Bangladeshi Street View coverage generally includes the largest cities in the country and the major roads connecting these cities.
Like the UK, the Isle of Man uses these black, white and red bollards. The rear of the bollard has a white rectangle instead of the red rectangle.
Turkey uses a wide range of utility poles. Some of the more recognisable poles have large holes in them. These poles are different to the poles in Romania, Hungary and Poland as they are made out of metal and have larger holes. There are variants of the above poles in Turkey, featuring zigzagging metal bars throughout the centre.
A chart showing the pedestrian crosswalk signs across Europe. (Image source: Simco_, from Wikipedia).
San Marino has a large number of these light-green coloured bins. Bins in San Marino often have a waves logo on them, like the green and blue waves on the bin pictured above.
The southern part (approximately 1/3rd) of Senegal tends to have long grass that is green in colour.
There are two scrips used in Japanese writing. The first script can be easily confused with Chinese and appears on the top section of the sign. The second Japanese script appears on the bottom section of the sign and comprises very minimalistic strokes and characters comprising just 1 or 2 strokes such as ノ, シ, い and く.
Bremen has near identical street signs to Cologne.
The US Virgin Islands stand out from the rest of the world as a bulky car (ute) is visible. You can distinguish the two northern islands from the large southern island in the US Virgin Islands by panning down. The two northern islands (St Thomas and St John) in the US Virgin Islands are covered by this white vehicle whilst the large southern island (St Croix) is covered by the equivalent red vehicle or a white vehicle lacking the antenna and antenna holder.
The language of Austria is German. If you see the ß symbol, you are in Austria or Germany. Switzerland doesn’t use ß.
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 (they do occur in Belgium).
A license plate from the Netherlands. The Netherlands and Luxembourg have these yellow European front and rear plates. The UK has yellow rear plates and white front plates. France has a small number of vehicles with yellow rear plates.
Portuguese ‘no hunting’ signs will sometimes appear on the edge of farms. These signs come in two forms- the tiny red and white diamond as pictured above or a small, red and white sign that looks identical to the Indonesian flag.
License plates in the Northern Territory generally have a reddish tinge that is just visible if you look carefully.
License plates in Laos are this strong shade of yellow. Some cars will have white plates. The cars in Laos drive on the right.
This is what the front of Lithuanian bollards look like. These plastic bollards (that look like wood) with an orange rectangle are one of the best ways to distinguish Lithuania from the other Baltic countries (and other European countries). Latvia and Estonia both have bollards with a white rectangle on the front and white dots on the back.
The steep limestone monolith that is the Rock of Gibraltar stands out in the territory of Gibraltar.
Ecuadorian taxis sometimes have blurred out areas on their side. Unlike Peru, Bolivia and Colombia, these occasional blurred out sections don’t reveal the name of the city nor do they display the license plate.
Large, green fields are common in Russia in the area near the Ukrainian border.