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Yellow side lines and white centre lines are a common sight in South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini and Lesotho.
Utility poles in Greece are typically circular and wooden. Greek utility poles stand out from the rest of the world as they are generally very tall; almost comically so. In this image, the utility pole is approximately 4 times taller than the house in the background.
Albanian utility poles vary but their most common poles have a crucifix style horizontal part near the top of the pole. They also tend to have several pine cone shape bulbs pointing upwards.
The majority of the Isle of Man is sparsely populated with the occasional houses popping up in the largely rural areas.
A map showing the Cambodian phone number prefixes by area. If you notice a phone number prefix not listed above, it is likely a mobile phone number. (Source: GeoApprentice).
This type of warning sign (with various images on it) featuring a red outline and white middle occurs throughout most of Africa, Asia (not south-east Asia) and Europe.
Vermont has green on their plates. This can be remembered as Vermont (verd mont) means “green mountain” in French.
The white Street View car is visible in Eswatini. It is also visible in Lesotho, Botswana and parts of South Africa.
This is another Pakistani religious temple. Also note the traditional clothes worn by the Pakistani people in the image.
If you pan down in Lesotho, the white Street View should be visible. The white Street View car is also visible in Botswana, Eswatini and parts of South Africa.
Although dirt roads do exist in Thailand, they are far more common in Cambodia.
The abbreviation ‘Jl.’ appears on many signs in Indonesia. It means ‘Jalan’ which is the equivalent of road or street. If we zoom in on the map for the above location, we are situated on the road ‘Jl. Brigjend Katamso’.
On Ruta 5 from Huara up to Arica (these towns are shows on the below map), you will see a tree’s branch on the back of the Street View car.
Note the distinctive red vertical line on the plates of Kyrgyzstan.
If you look carefully, Qatari plates have a narrow band of maroon on their left. The plates are long and elongated.
The far south of Germany is mountainous and resembles Austria and Switzerland.
Vietnamese sign posts are uniquely red and white striped. These poles hold up most types of official road signs.
Uruguayan cities often have these black and white arrows stuck on walls and on poles.
There are large, dark blotches on the imagery in the far eastern part of North Macedonia as well as the area around the eastern North Macedonian city of Kochani.
The generation 2 Street View camera often produces a halo around the sun, shows images as bright and is of slightly worse image quality than the subsequent cameras. If you recognise that this generation 2 camera has been used, you can narrow down the country you are in.
Sweden commonly has the aforementioned white dashed side lines and a white centre line.
Parts of Portugal (especially the north of the country) are hilly. Olive trees are a common sight right across the country.
There are so many different types of visible vehicles holding the Street View camera across Greenland.
The Street View car in Iceland should have some form of an aerial visible. Sometimes this white, red and blue section of the car will also be visible.
Croatian directional signs are normally yellow and black coloured. These look similar to the Slovenian signs. Croatia’s large directional signs are green with white lettering.
Ecuadorian houses come in a high range of styles. They can also have any roof style from tiles to corrugated iron to vines. Ecuadorian houses are most commonly built with gray coloured bricks. This contrasts most other South American houses which are mainly built using red brick.
Deep south-western Russia commonly has a blue sky (a rarity in Russia) as well as landscapes resembling southern and Eastern Europe.
Manitoba has a green section on the left and right parts of their license plate.
If you want to move quickly in GeoGuessr, press enter while holding down on an arrow using your cursor. If you release your cursor but continue to hold down enter, you will move at lightning speed down the road.
Laos typically has yellow license plates.
This is the blue coloured tent. Note that it is dark blue.
The Street View car’s aerial is visible in Poland if you pan down. The aerial may appear long, short or attached to a white section of a car. Note that recently, some generation 4 coverage was added to Poland.
Oregon is the only US state that doesn’t have ‘speed limit’ on its signs. Oregon just uses the word ‘speed’.
These green directional signs provide useful road number and town direction information when navigating in the Isle of Man. Major roads are ‘A’ roads (despite being major for the Isle of Man, they are often small and narrow) whilst minor roads are ‘B’ roads.
Eastern and northern Peru are home to green, lush mountains that look like the area around Machu Picchu. This greenery is rarer in Peru, thanks to the lack of coverage in the east of the country.
The most popular South American cars
Houses in Brittany, a western region of France, are coloured white with dark roofs.
It is common for towns in Hungary to have the first part of their name named after the lakes, rivers or counties of Hungary that they are situated. In the above snapshot example, we can see six towns situated on Lake Balaton whose names all begin ‘Balaton’. Many town names in Hungary that are situated on the Danube begin ‘Duna’. Towns on the Tisza River begin ‘Tisza’. Towns in the counties of Zala, Somogy and Bihar amongst others also often begin with their counties name.
French utility poles can have holes as well however these are often smaller holes.
New Mexico has a portion of bluish coloured plates.
The red countries drive on the right side of the road and the blue countries drive on the left side of the road. The grey countries aren’t in GeoGuessr. (Image source: Avery Johnson).
Scattered right across rural Spain on the outskirts of rural Spanish properties are small flags. The most common of these flags are black and white in colour and indicate ‘no public hunting’. Although the black and white small flags are by far the most common, there are small flags featuring a number of colours on Spanish properties including red as well as green and white. These small, Spanish flags are typically mounted on tiny stakes around 50cm high.
Puerto Rico uses the word ‘PARE’ on their stop signs like South America. The Dominican Republic in Central America also use ‘PARE’ on stop signs.
This is the main type of Serbian bollard. It resembles the bollards of Slovenia and Montenegro however the difference is that the Serbian red rectangle is always to one side- not in the centre.
Trees often have black coloured bark in the northern part of Australia, especially around Darwin.
Yellow guardrails are a common sight in the southern Japanese prefecture of Yamaguchi. To my knowledge, these guardrails aren’t found elsewhere in Japan.
Bolivia resembles Peru in many ways however large parts of Bolivia are flat (there are indeed mountainous parts) whilst Peru is almost all undulating or mountainous.
A phone number beginning with ’07’ appears on this sign. Using the above map, we can determine that we are in central or southern Sumatra.
Chile is renowned for having lots of planted forests, especially in the region south of Santiago. These forests feature the same trees of roughly the same size, in a grid formation.
In California, yellow horizontal reflectors are particularly common on utility poles. They mainly appear in groups of three and are seldom seen in other states.
Uruguay has a sprinkling of trees with the landscape mainly consisting of grass.
These are the road lines in Pennsylvania (ie with a typical US road line gap). Note how the lines are closer together and the gap is smaller than a tyre gap.
The Street View coverage is largely concentrated around the greater Torshavn area. The coverage also meanders around most of the roads, criss-crossing many of the islands of the Faroe Islands.
Kyrgyzstan has bollards painted white with a black section. They look like thick planks of wood.
Malaysian license plates have various black markings on them. This is the most common version which divides the plate into two white sections. This contrasts Indonesian plates which are typically divided by black into three white sections. Sometimes the Malaysian black edge sections merge into the plate so you may only see a black section in the middle but still two white sections.
These ‘Philippine-style’ roads comprising large, concrete rectangular blocks can be found in Colombia.
This is the most common type of Ukrainian bollard. It has a red rectangle that is wider than the rectangles of Hungary, Bulgaria, 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.
The Isle of Man imagery was captured exclusively by the generation 2 Street View camera. As a result, there will be a circular blur when you pan down, slightly inferior image quality and brighter colours.
Street View coverage in Puerto Rico is centred around San Juan. It also extends down to Caguas, west over to Ponce and further west to Mayaguez. The coastal areas of Puerto Rico are also covered.
Tunisian street View Coverage essentially stretches along the east coast of the country. It begins at the island of Djerba then hugs the P1 and A1 highways until Tunis before stretching up further north to Bizerte. Very little outside this narrow area is covered in Tunisia.
Ugandan Street View coverage is mainly centred around Kampala and its outskirts. There are also several Ugandan National Parks covered.
Italian is spoken across Italy and in southern Switzerland. Italian can be recognised as most of its words end in a vowel. In some cases, every single word in Italian sentences ends in a vowel.
Arguably the best way to region guess in Panama is based on the taxi numbers. Every taxi plate in Panama begins with a number. This initial number tells you where the taxi is from. (Image source: Reddit user AlbertELP).
Israel has these distinctive yellow license plates on the back and fronts of their cars. There is a blue vertical stripe on the left of these plates, similar to the stripe seen on many European plates.
This is a typical German village- white houses with triangular, brown or red slanted roofs and with quite a large amount of foliage.
This map shows the different scripts across India. Looking at scripts is one of the best ways to work out what part of India you are in. (Image source: oldergogoch)
The US uses wooden, cylindrical utility poles. Canada also uses these poles, as do many other countries around the world.
Flags of Europe. (Source for all flag- world map images is Transparent 6lue, Wikipedia)
The area of Malaysia on the peninsula (around Kuala Lumpur) is more developed, has more cars and less vegetation.
Saskatchewan plates have green lettering that can normally just be seen.
The Street View car’s aerial should typically be visible in Romania. Sometimes the aerial will have tape attached to it. Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia and Czechia may also have tape on the antenna.
License plates in Brazil are large and white, perhaps most closely resembling the size of European license plates. Brazilian plates are visibly larger than the license plates found across the rest of Latin America. Argentina occasionally has long license plates that feature the blue top section as seen above this image.
Vienna in Austria can be distinguished by its blue coloured street name signs.
Much of Colombia has a hilly or mountainous landscape. Many of the Colombian roads are dirt.
Many houses in Belgium have an older look to them. Houses with a visible red brick exterior are a common sight in Belgium. Most of the houses in Belgium have slanted roofs.
Singapore has many different types of license plates. Some cars have black plates, some have yellow rear and white front plates and some have almost square-shaped plates with black on the sides.
Often in Singapore you will see concrete pillars holding up a large, elevated, cement pathway. This is Singapore’s Mass Rapid Transit. It is essentially an expensive transport system that serves the Singaporean public.
Tunisia has black plates that are narrow and long.
Palm trees are a surprisingly common sight in Israel. They occur somewhat inland but are more frequent near the Mediterranean Sea. Tel-Aviv-Yafo is full of palm trees.
This is the third variant of the Mongolian Street View car.
Estonian warning signs have no white border around the red border. This contrasts warning signs in Latvia and Lithuania which have a white border outside the red.
Cologne poles have silver street signs as pictured on the left. Street signs plastered on Cologne buildings are blue, like those on the right.
Like Argentina, urban Uruguay often features trees between the footpath and road. Urban Uruguay tends to look slightly poorer than urban Argentina.
License plates in the Dominican Republic have a yellow top half and white bottom half.
If you don’t see the bars and side view mirrors of the Street View car in Bangladesh, then the remainder of the time you should almost always see the white outline of the end of the Street View car.
Many Greek roads feature a double white line in the centre. This is rare in Europe.
Mexican bollards are white and cigarette shaped. They have a black section on the base of the bollard or near the base.
There are a wide range of utility poles in Puerto Rico. Many of the poles are painted with a white or gray base.
The Pyrenees Mountains stretch across North-Eastern Spain and continue into France. The hill bases next to the roads are often rocky, there are many trees and the roads are typically high quality.
The Slovak houses can look similar to the aforementioned Czechia. Note the colour and type roof tiles that are also common in Slovakia. Many houses have skylights in Slovakia as well as satellite dishes.
This bollard is only found in the region of Central Sulawesi.
Midway Atoll is instantly recognisable thanks to the thousands of albatross chicks that swarm the entire area.
If you see the gray tent, you must be west of Ulaanbaatar (but not too far west).
The rear license plates in Uganda are yellow. Sometimes the rear plates will appear more elongated that the above image. Ugandan front and back plates look the same as Kenyan front and back plates.
This is an example of a B-profile guardrail (the purple areas on the above map). Note that the top row, bottom row and middle row all consist of 90 degree angles.
If you pan down in the Baltic countries, you will often see a significantly blurred car with a jagged outline. Croatia also commonly has this car. Other parts of Eastern Europe tend to have a more subtle blurring of the car.
Unique stickers and patterns are found on poles in Japanese prefectures. These stickers and patterns can help you identify the prefecture you are located in. The above yellow and red stickers are found in the prefecture of Kochi. PizzaGuy, Costa_Rica and Alok have done an amazing job in making a map showing the unique stickers found in Japanese prefectures. Check out the map here: https://www.scribblemaps.com/maps/view/Japan-Prefecture-Tips/3cptmvLxxV
A map showing the road numbering systems and signs for each GeoGuessr relevant country in Europe. Note that the road sign that appears the highest on each country in the map is the more major type of road in that country. The road types gradually become smaller as you look down each country on the map until the bottom road of each country on the map is minor. A larger version of this map can be seen here.(Source, reddit user, u/Melongated).
The generation 2 camera produces bright colours and slightly inferior image quality relative to the generation 3 and 4 cameras.
Often in Ukraine, random things are painted in the colours of their flag- blue and yellow.
Yellow diamond warning signs are used in Indonesia. These same signs are used in much of the region including Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Sri Lanka.
The Taiwanese stripes often stretch to the ground. This contrasts the stripes of South Korea and Japan which shouldn’t go down to the ground.
Directional arrows that point to Italian towns are blue with a white end. These arrows look relatively similar to the Czechia town directional arrows however they are distinct.
In general, if I see rolling hills, like this image, I will guess the NZ North Island. If I see flat and/or mountainous terrain, I will guess the NZ South Island.
When you zoom in further, the meaning of the colours on the map changes. Green represents forests and national parks at these higher zoom levels. The grassland colours are no longer relevant at these zoom levels.
Kyrgyzstan also has visible bars beneath the Street View car. This is in tandem with the visible side-view mirrors that may be black or white in colour.
License plates in the Netherlands are the easiest way to identify the country. Both front and back plates are yellow with the blue, vertical, European stripe appearing on the left. Plates from Luxembourg and Israel look the same as the Netherlands. The Netherlands’ landscape looks flatter than Luxembourg and vastly different to Israel.
This is the blue/purple part of Spain on the above map (the northern section of Spain). Due to the high rainfall, the area is very green and lush.
Marked Icelandic roads have various versions of white lines.
Stobie poles are the utility poles used in the state of South Australia. These poles aren’t used outside of this state. The poles consist of steel on both sides and concrete in the centre.
These gray and white striped poles hold up most of the signs in the south-east Romanian Constanta Country (this country is shown on the below map).
Not all Brazilian phone numbers include an area code although area codes on shops tend to be a bit more common than not. If a phone number in Brazil contains 10 digits it has the area code as the first two digits. In the example above, this means the area code is ’21’ and looking at the above map, we are in Rio de Janeiro. A large portion of the time, the two-digit Brazilian area codes appear in brackets before the phone number. Be warned though- if a phone number in Brazil has just 8-digits, it doesn’t contain the area code. Area codes are the best and easiest way to narrow down your region in Brazil.
The Canadian province of New Brunswick has words on signs in both English and French. On this sign we can see the English word ‘West’ and the French equivalent ‘Ouest’.
Tuk tuks with a black and yellow body (ignore the roof colour) are mainly found in the state of Maharashtra (Mumbai is in this state).
Australian speed limit signs appear on a white rectangle. This contrasts New Zealand speed limit signs which appear as a circular cut-out. South Australian and Western Australian speed limit signs (and often other signs) appear on rectangular prism shaped poles with holes running up them. The Western Australian poles are yellow, as pictured above this picture.
Large parts of the remainder of Turkey are dry with a real lack of flora.
This is another fairly common plate in Illinois, featuring a large, blue upper-right section and white remainder of the plate.
Iceland has triangular give-way and warning signs with a thick red border and yellow filling. These are also found in Sweden, Finland, Greece and North Macedonia. Poland has a thin red line around its yellow warning signs.
Iowa has a plate with a blue top stripe and yellow bottom stripe.
The north-east part of the US tends to have this grand, Colonial style of wooden, (typically white-coloured), two-storey house that has a fairly steep roof. Ranch style houses often appear in the southern USA states. California bungalows appear (as the name suggests) throughout California. Conch houses are found in Florida.
Directional information can also be provided on blue signs with white lettering. E roads are motorways that stretch across the entire UAE. The first letter of local roads can indicate where in the UAE you are. ‘A’ roads are around Ajman (located just north of Sharjah), ‘D’ roads= Dubai, ‘F’ roads= Fujairah and ‘S’ roads= Sharjah.
This is a Serbian 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 Serbia, Croatia, Poland and Denmark. It is also found in some parts of Turkey, North Macedonia, Ireland and Germany.
A wide range of utility poles are found across Sri Lanka. The most common pole I’ve seen contains three thick, upward facing ‘pine cones’ on top.
The back of Swedish bollards.
Czechia has several types of utility poles. This is the most common type across the country (it is also found in Slovakia and other places). It features a concrete cylindrical pole, often with a vertical line down the middle of the pole (a wire) and a white box. The top of the pole has a crucifix style horizontal part.
Many parts of the US Virgin Islands feature overgrown flora. Large parts of the islands also consist of rolling hills.
Cars drive on the left in the Isle of Man, their language is English and in most respects, the Isle of the Man has identical features to the UK.
The most common Italian bollard has a front that features a vertical, red rectangle inside a black, diagonal strip. Note that the black part goes to the top of the bollard- this is rare in bollard world. Albanian bollards look similar however bollards are rare in Albania.
The most common type of bollard on Christmas Island resembles the Australian bollard featuring a red, elongated rectangle on a white bollard. The rear of these Christmas Island bollards have a silver rectangle.
Qatar coverage is centred around the greater Doha area but extends across the country.
Kyrgyzstan has a red vertical stripe on the left side of its license plates.
Lebanon only has official coverage on paths, footpaths and places people walk.
There are other road markings in Denmark and these all tend to be rarer and consist of various white lines. In the above example, the road consists of very long, side dashes with a tiny gap.
The far north of Norway stands out for its low-lying and patchy vegetation.
Lithuania is a flat country that has lots of grassland around its roads. The houses are modest and rarely look new. The country’s landscape is a bit of a mixture of the aforementioned southern Finland and Poland.
An example of a Russian license plate. Note that the number above the Russian flag (in this case 78) indicates the administrative region of Russia that the license plate is from. 78 corresponds with St. Petersburg.
The United States Highway Shield
Irish cars drive on the left- which is a rarity in Europe with only the U.K. and Malta also driving on the left out of the Street View covered countries.
The red and white striped arrow pointing downwards indicates that you are in Japan, most likely on the island of Hokkaido or possibly on the island of Honshu near mountains.
In Canada, road signs are typically held up by wooden poles that are sometimes painted white. This contrasts poles from the US which are metal.
This type of ‘spiky’ palm tree, known as an oil palm, is more of a common sight on Sulawesi, Sumatra and Borneo- the more remote islands.
These types of thin trees are more likely to be found alongside parts of the road in the northern Baltic country of Estonia. They are less likely to be found in the southern Baltic county of Lithuania.
The Jordan car is black if you pan down. This contrasts the white car of the UAE.
There are a number of religious temples with coverage in Cambodia. India also has coverage of a number of its religious buildings.
If you pan down in India, one of the more common things you will see is a very large circular blur.
Ghana typically uses these wooden poles that have a horizontal bar with three ‘pine cone’ like protrusions pointing upwards from the bar.
Other Dutch townhouses are notorious for their steep roofs.