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Austrian houses often have slanted, dark-terracotta coloured roofs. The houses are often two-storey, well-maintained and are painted light colours. The houses regularly have TV satellite dishes.
Palm trees can be seen throughout Taiwan. Most of the flat sections of Taiwan features very low vegetation. The mountainous areas of Taiwan feature very dense vegetation.
Kyrgyzstan’s town and cities are often filled with bleak, winter scenery including trees without leave.
Russia typically uses square, concrete poles. These sometimes have a short, horizontal metal bar on top. Several other countries use similar utility poles to Russia, including Ukraine.
Many Croatian cars have the ‘HR’ sticker on their rear.
Dacia Sandero cars are found across much of Spain. They are also found abundantly in Bulgaria and Romania. They can be identified by their logo, pictured.
In this example, we are facing north (as indicated by the red compass). The sun is therefore in the northern hemisphere, making our location the southern hemisphere.
A map showing where the names of different French towns are distributed throughout France. Some notes: ‘Commence par’ means ‘starts with’, ‘Fini end’ means ‘ends with’ and ‘Contient’ means ‘contains’. (Source: Clement Bouchere).
Norway has two common types of road markings. The first is yellow centre lines and white side lines.
This is what the front of bollards in Denmark look like. They are a unique looking bollard and occur abundantly throughout the country. The rear of the bollard lacks the yellow section.
In South Africa (but not Botswana, Eswatini or Lesotho) you will often see the circular blur beneath the Street View car.
The Swedish landscape is much flatter than Norway’s landscape (other than the Sweden-Norway border which is mountainous). Like Finland and Norway, the country has thick vegetation. The Swedish roads are typically fairly wide and commonly have some form of white centre line.
Parts of Czechia will have the hard-to-see, blue Street View car visible. Some other proximate countries, including Slovakia, recently had the blue car added to some of their coverage too.  Although Slovakia’s generation 4 coverage tends to have a small antenna whilst Czechia’s doesn’t.
Most major cities have distinctive street signs. Whilst some of the more notable unique street signs are mentioned in this article, there are hundreds that are worth knowing. Militantcyclist has created this amazing 45 page long document that shows the unique street signs by major cities across the world.
Although Montenegro has Cyrillic and Latin letters on the GeoGuessr map, you will rarely see Cyrillic in Montenegro. If you do, the Cyrillic letters С́ and З́ are unique to Montenegrin Cyrillic. Latin Montenegrin (which you should see on signs has the small ‘v’ or apostrophe looking symbol over three letters- Č, Š and Ž. Three additional Latin Montenegrin letters are: Ć, Ś, and Ź.
Ecuador uses similar highway shields to the US interstate shields.
Kenyan roads are often wider than those in Uganda. The urban parts of Kenya regularly have people on the street or the footpath. Kenyan shops will often have their address displayed on them.
This is the second type of Senegalese utility pole. Note the pine cone shaped objects pointing down. Also note the indents in the pole.
South African cars tend to have quite long and narrow, white license plates- both front and rear.
Two of the more common types of Cambodian utility pole are pictured. The pole on the left is cylindrical shape with nothing on top whilst the pole on the right has the crucifix style top with two upward pointing ‘pine cone’ objects.
The rear of the vehicle on the south island of St Croix is black in colour and also has bars visible. In summary, if you remember the rear of the vehicle is black on the southern island of St Croix (regardless of the front colour) and white on the northern islands of St Thomas and St John then you are set.
Thailand has a very tropical feel. Palm trees, thick green vegetation and visible dirt are features found throughout the country. Thailand has a very similar landscape to Cambodia.
Sweden commonly has white dashed side lines and a white centre line. The Swedish dashes on the sides of the road have the gap between the dashes as longer than the dashes themselves. This contrasts Norway’s side dashes in which the dashes are longer than the gaps.
Most countries in Europe have marked roads consisting of some form of white central road line. This contrasts North America and South America which almost always use yellow central road lines.
Both front and rear license plates on Christmas Island are this distinct yellow colour.
Directional signs in Slovakia are rectangular and have small white arrows. This contrasts directional signs in Czechia which have a large arrow that forms the shape of the sign (pictured in the above Czechia section).
Dacia Sandero cars are found across much of Romania (as well as Spain and Bulgaria).
The Street View car itself is another easy way to recognise Panama. The car is big and bulky. It should appear white or transparent blurred (or both, like in this image).
The Eastern Russian city of Magadan has distinctive hills surrounding the city. Hills tend to be rather rare in Russia.
Malta and a number of other European islands stand out for their small, stoned walls.
Japan uses the yellow coloured, diamond-shaped warning signs that are common in North and South America as well as Australia and New Zealand.
In rural Czechia, you will commonly see houses that have triangular prism shaped tops. This roof tile style is also common.
Rural bollards in the state of Western Australia sometimes have these brown/gray segments on their base.
Jersey has a flat landscape that often features grass fields beyond the road hedges.
One of the easiest ways to tell if you are in Santo Domingo or Santiago De Los Caballeros is via the utility poles. In Santo Domingo you should more commonly see a yellow base on utility poles.
Like the other southern African countries in GeoGuessr, Eswatini has warning signs featuring a red outline and white centre.
Estonian utility poles are more likely to resemble a crucifix. Utility poles are one of the best ways to distinguish between the Baltic countries.
The second type of these black and white signs displays the letters ‘RN’ followed by a number. These letters denote Argentinian National Roads. These are the major type of Argentinian roads. In the example above we are on National Road number 8. The number beneath the road number denotes how many km along the road you have travelled. The third type of these black and white signs displays the letters ‘RP’ denoting Provincial Road. These are minor roads.
I believe that highway 15 is the only separated highway in Jordan with Street View coverage. In other words, if you are in Jordan and see some sort of divider on a highway, you should be on highway 15 (the highway that starts by running SSE from Amman).
In the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih (as seen on the below map), many utility poles have a red, horizontal stripe around one metre from their base.
Illinois plates have blue and white on them with the blue either appearing on the top or bottom of the plate horizontally.
The Sri Lankan primary written language of Sinhala looks to me like pieces of fruit.
The French word ARRET appears on stop signs in Quebec.
The above map shows telephone prefixes for France. For example, if you spot 03 at the start of a phone number in France, you are in the north-east quadrant of the country. (Source: Babsy, Wikipedia)
New Jersey plates have this upper section of yellow.
The most common type of Indonesian plates have black areas which divide the plate into three white sections. This contrasts Malaysian plates which are divided into two white sections.
If you notice a car without a front license plate, you are most likely in the south-eastern US or perhaps a state stretching up to Michigan or a southern state stretching across to Arizona.
Palm trees in Australia are more commonly found along the coast and in the northern half of the country.
Guatemalan utility poles are sometimes painted towards the bottom of the pole. Some Guatemalan utility poles are completely green.
North Macedonian bollards have the common design featuring a red rectangle within a black strip. Hungary, Bulgaria and Croatia have the same bollards whilst Serbia can have similar bollards with the red rectangle to one side.
Approximately 50% of utility poles in the Australian state of Tasmania have these olive metal wrappings around the pole, generally around 2 metres above the ground. These wrappings are often hard to see unless you zoom in as they are a similar colour to the utility pole. These olive colouered wrappings aren’t seen outside of Tasmania.
This is the fairly generic rear of the Portuguese bollards.
National roads in Norway appear like this on the map.
This is the front view of Luxembourg bollards which are rather generic.
Russian Street View coverage mainly encompasses western Russia however also includes various towns and their connector roads right across the country to Vladivostok. A few more remote corners of the country are also covered in isolation.
You will see a range of plates in Georgia. This plates featuring a green upper section and orange lower section is one of the most common and recognisable in Georgia.
In this example, the phone number begins with a ‘5’. This means, looking at the above map, we are in Mexico City.
A map showing where in Switzerland certain languages are spoken. The majority of the country speak German, The western part speak French, the southern areas speak Italian and smatterings in the east speak Romansh. (Source: Tschubby, Wikipedia).
Another interstate minor example is pictured above The interstate minor 180 runs off from the interstate major 80. As the 180 begins with an odd number, it will never connect back to the interstate major 80.
Some plates in Argentina have a blue, horizontal stripe along the top of the plate.
This is one version of French utility pole. Note that there are no holes but rather indents. Spain can have similar utility poles that are whiter in colour.
This is the same car that took the Street View imagery as the above large circular blur image. Whilst you will normally see just the circular blur in India, you will sometimes move forward and see the rectangular car.
By looking at the soil colour alone, it is possible to make surprisingly accurate guesses. For example, the Brazilian state of Goias has reddish soil, which contrasts the soil colour across most of South America. Playing the potentially unintentionally pun-named map ‘A Soiled World’, you can improve your soil expertise: Play NMPZ- https://www.geoguessr.com/maps/607d8ba950996a00015439cc
On the island doublet of Ofu-Olosega coverage is mainly focused along the beach.
Kenya sometimes has the bars visible as well as a black ‘snorkel’ at the front of the Street View car. Seeing this snorkel indicates that you are in Kenya.
If you pan down in Svalbard, most of the time you will see the small Street View vehicle’s side view mirror.
Tunisia has several types of license plates. All of these variants contain black. This image shows the all-black license plate.
The other common license plate in Alaska contains a blue upper horizontal stripe and yellow lower horizontal stripe.
Laos has such a small amount of coverage compared to neighbouring Thailand that it looks empty in the above map. Laos coverage includes: Vientiane, Pakse, Savannakhet, Vang Vieng and Luang Prabang.
Kenya mainly uses the fairly generic cylindrical, wooden utility poles.
Ecuador can look vastly different away from the Andes with a drier landscape.
New Hampshire has green on the right side of their license plates.
A map showing the above pedestrian sign types across Europe. A larger version of this map can be found here. I don’t know who created this map but thanks whoever you are.
A reasonable portion (approximately 25%) of poles in the Baltic countries consist of a pole resting against another pole. This is a much rarer sight across the remainder of Europe.
The front and back view of Japanese bollards.
English is the most used written language in Singapore.
The Ford F150, the most popular car across large parts of the USA
Islands in the Netherlands situated south-west of Rotterdam tend to have dashed white lines along the sides of their roads. These dashed lines can also be found on smaller N roads. Dashed lines in the Netherlands indicate a maximum speed limit of 80km/h.
In the remainder of Kyrgyzstan (everything outside the red circle on the above map), if you look in the left side-view mirror, you will see approximately 60% of the Kyrgyzstan silver car being reflected. Approximately 40% of the road is reflected. In some instances, more of the car will be reflected however it is still less than the 90% in south-western Kyrgyzstan.
This is a basic map showing the general regions of Russian phone number prefixes. A more detailed map appears below.
If you pan down in Czechia, you may just see a standard aerial without tape.
Ontario often has this black section covering 1/5th of the bottom part of the ‘Maximum’ signs. The remainder of Canada doesn’t have this.
One of the easiest ways to tell you are in Panama is by looking at the cars. Cars in Panama typically don’t have front plates. Be careful not to confuse the country with Puerto Rico, which can look similar and also lacks front plates.
Qatar has many signs across the country that will help you pinpoint your location. The first sign you will want to use in most scenarios is the yellow sign that has a blue silhouette of the country. These signs will have a number on them- in this case ‘5’. This correlates with a highway number (in this case highway 5) which will appear within a yellow square on your map.
Yellow and black coloured signs are used for several purposes across Slovenia, including indicating the direction of towns. These look similar to the Croatian signs.
South Korea has patchy Street View coverage that tends to avoid its tallest mountains. The island of Jeju is also covered which lies to the south of South Korea.
This flow chart indicates which letters are unique to which European languages. A larger image can be seen if you click on the chart in this website: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/33070800 (Source: Scutigera, duolingo)
Luxembourg stands out for its yellow front and rear license plates. They also feature the standard European vertical blue stripe on the left. Luxembourg plates look the same as the Netherlands and Israel. Luxembourg has undulating terrain distinguishing it from the Netherlands and it has a vastly different landscape to Israel.
The USA often uses a double, yellow, centre line. This contrasts Canada which mainly uses a single, yellow, centre line. The USA will sometimes use the single, yellow line but it is less prevalent than in Canada.
As a very general rule, if you see lots of palms, you should guess Southern Philippines and if you see no palms, you should guess Northern Philippines. Note: This doesn’t always work but if you have no other information in the Philippines, it’s better than nothing.
Rhode Island’s license plate features a blue base and blue wave emanating from the base.
Some of the time in Croatia, you will see a significantly blurred car if you pan down. The blurred car generally has a pointy outline. In this part of Europe, Bulgaria occasionally has the same car. The Baltic States also commonly have a similar car. Other parts of Eastern Europe tend to have a more subtle blurring of the car.
Tennessee plates have some form of olive colour. The olive colour can often be hard to see therefore they regularly appear white.
The red strip doesn’t quite stretch around the rear of New Zealand bollards.
If you see the leaning tent, you must be directly north of Ulaanbaatar or in a small pocket north-west of Ulaanbaatar.
Bollards are fairly rare in South Korea, nonetheless, this is their front. Their rear has a yellow disk rather than a white disk.
The rear of the most common type of Latvian bollard has two white circles.
One of the best ways to identify San Marino and tell it apart from Italy is to look for these pedestrian crossings that feature blue and white markings on the road and often a middle metal pole splitting into two. Italy only rarely have these crossings and if they do, they lack the unique pole splitting into two that holds the pedestrian crossing signs.
A map showing Huara and Arica. On Ruta 5- the main road between the towns, there is a branch on the back of the Street View car.
The blue stripe on the left of the license plate is visible despite the blurring in GeoGuessr and indicates a European location.
Many Portuguese houses are white or light coloured and many have tiled, terracotta coloured roofs.
These small, white bollards with black bases are found near creeks, rivers and other water sources in Sri Lanka.
Bolivian Street View coverage is fairly limited. Six of Bolivia’s major cities are covered: La Paz, Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, Sucre, Oruro and Potosi. Some of the main roads connecting these cities or spreading radially from these cities are also covered. Minor, rural roads aren’t included in Bolivian coverage. Nothing in the northern half of the country is covered and very little east of Santa Cruz de la Sierra is covered.
This version of the sign, on a rectangular backing, is only found in Newfoundland.
Town name signs in Slovakia have a slightly thinner black outline around them when compared to Czechia signs (a Czechia town name sign is pictured in the above Czechia section).
There are many densely crammed apartment buildings in Mongolia’s capital- Ulaanbaatar.
The sides of many Bhutanese roads are skirted with stone makers painted white with yellow signs on them. These white stone markers come in various shapes and sizes.
The generation 2 camera is predominantly used in a number of small countries or regions. These include: Monaco, San Marino, the Isle of Man, Jersey and Macau.
Ecuadorian Street View coverage is mainly found on the western half of the country. Greater Quito is covered as well as all of Guayaquil. Many other Ecuadorian towns and cities are also covered as well as the roads connecting these areas. The coverage in the south and east of Ecuador is self-contained. In other words, there is no way out.
Finnish street name suffixes are most commonly ‘..katu’ and ‘…ntie’
Finnish directional signs are blue or green coloured. Sweden also has blue directional signs.
These short trees are a common sight in parts of Botswana. They often don’t have leaves in the Street View imagery.
Ulaanbaatar also stands out because it has these mountains just south of the city.
Ugandan Street View coverage mainly focuses around Kampala and its outskirts. There is also coverage in some of their National Parks. If you pan down in a Ugandan National Park, you should see a circular blur and sometimes the very front of the Street View car.
These old-fashioned ‘Lada’ cars are abundant throughout Ukraine (and Russia).
License plates in Costa Rica have a blue blur on both front and rear plates.
A reasonable portion of the time in Palestine there is a follow car behind you. This white Suzuki is the most common follow car.
Macau has a similar feel to Hong Kong- it has many high-rise buildings, has a tropical feel and is densely populated. Cars also drive on the left in Macau.
Some commercial vehicles in Hungary (such as taxis and some trucks) have yellow license plates. Regular Hungarian vehicles have the standard European plates.
If you look at the map of India, each city name is written in the local script underneath the Latin script. This can be useful if you don’t wish to memorise the difference between the scripts that are mentioned above.
Sri Lankan houses most commonly feature terracotta tiles on their roofs. There are concrete walls typically separating Sri Lankan houses from the narrow, paved paths that are found everywhere in Sri Lanka.
The US Virgin Islands has a highway shield consisting of a white circle.
Much of the U.K. has narrow, windy roads, hedges skirting the sides of the roads and green fields.
Albania has the same looking bollards at Italy featuring a red rectangle in the black section of the bollard that extends to the top. Bollards are fairly rare to see in Albania compared to Italy.
Parts of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and neighbouring smaller islands contain these small fences comprising narrow vertical sticks. Whilst these fences can be found elsewhere in Indonesia, they are most common in and around Sulawesi.
Malaysian stop signs display the word ‘BERHENTI’.
Parts of American Samoa feature very steep mountains that are rather conspicuous from most of the island.
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. Wooden fences are common around Ukrainian houses.
This concrete cylindrical pole is the most common type of utility pole found in Czechia and Slovakia. It is also found in a number of other places. The Czech and Slovak poles often have several small metal circles going around the pole. They also sometimes have a small white box and a wire running up the pole, as pictured.
The Slovakian bollards generally look the same as the Czech bollards. There are a small number of Czech bollards that are painted a completely different colour from top to toe such as blue. Additionally, some standard Slovak bollards have a black base.
If you pan down in the UAE, you will almost always see a white Street View car. This can be an easy way to tell the country apart from Jordan which has a black Street View car.
In Vietnam, shop fronts regularly list their address. This can make it easier to pinpoint. In the above image, HCMC means Ho Chi Minh City and Da Kao is a ward within the city.
Peruvian bollards can also be a triangular prism in shape (with the same colour scheme as the previous picture or lacking the black stripes) rather than cylindrical.
Urban Japan is normally very flat with very well maintained roads and the odd tree along the side of the road.
The western half of Kazakhstan has summer coverage.
A map indicating the regional grass lengths of the USA Prairies. Light green = short grass, medium green = mixed grass and dark green = tall grass. (Source, Wikipedia: user: Theshibboleth)
The easiest way to tell that you are in Kazakhstan is to pan down. All the coverage in the country was taken in this white truck.
The above GeoGuessr location was located within southern Saskatchewan which is depicted on the map as a similar colour to the grassland. The GeoGuessr map, when zoomed in to the correct degree provides clues about the landscape around the world and thickness of vegetation.
Palm trees are common in Tunisia. The architecture is normally white and has Mediterranean elements fused with Middle-Eastern elements. The sky is normally blue in Tunisia.
In countries or areas with few main roads, it is important to look at the road orientation before you guess. This is particularly true in areas including Patagonia, Botswana, Mongolia, Jordan and outback Australia. As there are so few major roads in these areas that you can be on, by looking at the road orientation, there is a high chance you can guess the precise road you are situated on. Firstly, pan down so you are facing the road directly, secondly, orientate your position so the compass is facing north and finally, look for roads on the map that run in the same direction as your road.
Buildings in Andorra are typically multi-storey, affluent looking and made of gray stones compressed together. This unique, stone building style is the best way to identify Andorra.
Like Mexico, the word “ALTO” appears on Guatemalan stop signs. This contrasts the word “PARE” appearing on South American stop signs.
State Highways in the USA appear with this symbol on the map.
There are a number of yellow and black painted curbs in Tunisia as well as red and white painted curbs.
This map shows the shape of guardrails by European country. An example of A-profile, B-profile and thin B-profile are provided below. (Once again, thanks to whoever created this map!)