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Hungary
License Plates: white for normal, yellow for taxi |
Street Names: end in utca/ut |
Language: frequent acute accents (é) umlauts (ä) and long words, look out for double acute accents on o and u |
Norway
License Plates: white for normal, green for vans (commercial) |
Signs: "Sone" usually with speed limit |
Street Names: end in vei/veien or gate/gata |
Language: uses Æ, Ø and Å |
Malaysia
License Plates: black with two parts |
Signs: "BERHENTI" on stop signs, "BERI LALUAN" on yield signs |
Language (ex): Setiap orang adalah berhak kepada semua |
Extra: thick yellow bars on the ground |
Kenya
License Plates: front is long and white, rear is square and yellow |
Extra: look out for the mobile network "Safaricom" |
eucalyptus trees are commonly found here |
Argentina
License Plates: 2 types, shows up as black dot or has blue line over the top |
Signs: street signs are generally blue |
Extra: wooden poles, concrete poles with three alternating electricity lines, doubled up poles |
Finland
License Plates: thin white plates with a blue strip on the left |
Language: long words, double vowels, includes ä and ö |
Signs: often end in tie or katu (or polku/kuja) |
Road signs have a yellow background, if it has a red border, there will be a smaller yellow border on the edge of the sign |
Pedestrian signs have 5 black stripes |
Extra: Dense boreal forests |
Denmark
License Plates: thin white plates with a blue strip on the left, yellow for vans (commercial) look out for plates that look like the standard with a bit of yellow towards the left side |
Language: long words, double vowels, does NOT includes ä and ö |
Signs: some signposts bends over the sign |
Pedestrian signs have 5 black stripes as well, but the sides touch |
Guatemala
License Plates: short plates, either look kinda blue or have a green bit on the lower left side |
Architecture: pastel painted stone houses, rusted sheet metal roofs |
Signs: ATLO for stop signs |
Extra: street car will always have a visible roof rack and side mirrors |
Bangladesh
License Plates: white with black blur, black with white blur, or turquiose on rickshaws |
Language: horizontal line over each word, frequent triangle shapes |
Vehicles: Rickshaws, especially green ones |
Sweden
License Plates: thin white plates with a blue strip on the left, yellow for taxis |
Language: long words, double vowels rarely, uses Å, Ä and Ö |
Signs: Pedestrian signs have 4 black stripes like Norway but have more detail to the silhouette |
Road signs have a red border and yellow background |
Street Names: end in vagen/vag/v, gaten/gata/g, or grand vag/gata are always a different word unlike Norway |
New Zealand
License Plates: mostly white |
Driving Direction: left |
Signs: Give-way signs have white outer border and red text |
Most directional/warning signs have white posts holding them |
Warning signs are also diamond and painted yellow |
Ecuador
License Plates: mix of short and long, white normally and orange/orange strip for commerical vehicles |
Signs: Commonly uses square road signs with white background |
Extra: street car will be a white pickup truck with a black trunk and no antenna |
Switzerland
License Plates: fully white, no blue strip, front plates are very short, rear plates are either long or tall |
Signs: Pedestrian signs are tall blue squares and have 7 black stripes. Road signs will have a grey metal border around them and thick metal signposts around bus stops signs. |
Extra: look out for long dashed yellow road lines as well as yellow pedestrian crossings |
Thailand
License Plates: white plates on passenger vehicles and yellow ones on commerical vehicles |
Driving Direction: left |
Language: compact and has tiny circles within most letters, but still some straight/flat lines |
Extra: poles are square and have small holes running vertically up it |
Portugal
License Plates: long, white, blue strip on left, look for yellow strip to the right as well |
Signs: stop signs have large fonts, nearly touching the edges of the sign |
Chevrons are black with yellow arrows |
Pedestrian signs have 5 black stripes and a person wearing a belt |
Most signs are also surrounded by a white border |
Architecture: white painted stone houses with orange tiled roofs are very common. Also look out for yellow/blue outlines around houses |
Language: like Spanish but uses Ç, Ã, Õ, Â, and Ê, and does not use Ñ |
Extra: the word for road is Rua (no accent on the u) |
Hong Kong
License Plates: short/long white front plates, short/long yellow front plates |
Driving Direction: left |
Language: English/Chinese, look out for bilingual signs |
Extra: yellow pedestrian crossings, some intersections can also have yellow grids sections near them |
Vehicles: look out for taxis, they'll have silver roofs and be red (normal), green (Lantau Island/Chep Lap Kok), or blue (northern region) |
Netherlands
License Plates: long and yellow with blue strip |
Language: double vowels, look for cases of ij, ieu, and oe |
Signs: edges of road signs will extend to the back, which makes a visible border from behind |
Street Names: end in weg, laan, pad, plein, or straat (street) |
Extra: sidewalks have a square grey brick tile pattern or have a smaller/slightly red apparence |
United States
Signs: look out for the imperial system (feet, inches, miles) |
Speed limit signs will have "Speed Limit" on them, and have smaller numbers than other countries due to the usage of miles instead of kilometres |
Signs also tend to be wordier than in other countries, ex: yield signs look the same in Canada, but lack the YIELD text |