Geoguessr Metas (A Learnable Meta World - Beginner)

Snorkel on the google car

Kenya!

Although the car in kenya is sometimes seen without it so don’t rule out kenya if the snorkel isn’t there

Uunique google car with a tent on the back

Mongolia

• The mongolian car has a tent on the back and is unique to mongolia

• Another unique car with a blue and white design visible can also be found in Mongolia, around the capital

Car with a slightly rusted black truck bed

American Samoa

• American Samoa has a unique car with a rusted black truck bed visible

• American Samoa is to the right of Samoa, and north east from Australia, near the line of where the map ends and begins

Unique road signs set on a white square background

Singapore

Other indications of singapore:

• Road signs are green with unique white font and rounded edges (see image)

• Drives on the left

• Licence plates are black with white writing, similar to Malaysia or Indonesia

• Roads often have black and white stiped kerbs

• Vibes: concrete and greenery

Ladder poles

France or Spain

• not holey poles so no holes between the ‘rungs’ of the ladder

• use environment to decide if France or Spain

Europe’s Holey poles

Hungary, Romania, Poland

There are some ways to tell them apart:

• If it has white paint at the bottom it is Romanian

  • Romania also often has painted the the trunks of trees white

• Romanian holes are longer than than hungarian or polish

• Polish poles have smaller holes that don’t go all the way to the top or bottom

Near intersections in this country, you commonly see a ‘bollard spam’ (large number of bollards)

Russia

Octagonal metal poles

Phillipines

Can also be found in Bangladesh and some parts of Malaysia

Kilometre markers— black rimmed, mounted at hip height, with KM at the top and the kilometres arranged vertically

Mexico

Licence Plates (old on left, new on right)

Argentina

• Old license plates in Argentina have a black dot in the middle of a white plate, which is easy to spot.

• New license plates are fully white with a blue line at the top, similar to those in Brazil.

Unique bollard, flat and attached to stick

East Russia (east of Omsk)

• Russia has plenty of other bollards that can be found anywhere

White outer lines and long yellow inner lines (with a distinct orange tinge)

Norway

• Many larger roads in Norway have solid outer lines and yellow middle lines. The yellow lines have a distinct tinge of orange, making them easily recognizable.

• If you see yellow/orange inner lines in what looks like north europe 

What are the different stop signs around the world?

Cambodia

• cambodian writing

Malaysia

• BERHENTI

Turkey

• DUR

Central america

• ALTO

South america

• PARE

Quebec/French Canada

• ARRET

Signposts: chunky, often painted white with the bottom black

Thailand

Concrete roads in South East Asia

Most likely Philippines, Thailand (or very rarely Indonesia). 

• Driving on the right = Philippines

• Driving on the left = Thailand/Indonesia

White bollards and stone barriers

Uruguay

• These white bollards, with one side often painted yellow, and stone barriers, are specific to Uruguay.

Stone blocks guardrail on rural roads

Bhutan

• Bhutan commonly uses stone blocks as safety barriers on winding rural roads. These blocks are very common and are one of the best ways to recognize rural roads in Bhutan.

Bollards with yellow-orange reflector and two white circles on back, hollow triangle shape

Spain

The back can sometimes be blank instead of the circles

they are typically hollow but not always

Car with antenna on left

Qatar

• Qatar's landscape is predominantly desert, with arid, mostly flat expanses of sand as far as the eye can see. You will often not see many trees or other greenery.

• The Google car will usually be blurred, with only the antenna on the left and a sliver of the car visible. Sometimes the entire white pickup truck can be visible.

• You might occasionally confuse it with the UAE or Oman pickup truck coverage, but in those countries, the antenna on the pickup car will be in the middle.

Bollard

Poland

Polish bollards feature a red strip that wraps around the entire bollard, with a red reflector on the front (sometimes hard to see) and a white reflector on the back. They may also have numbers on them.

Black licence plates with 2 or 3 white blurs

Malaysia (2 white blurs), Indonesia (3 white blurs)

Entire car blurred, antenna on right

Northern Mariana Islands

• The entire Google car is blurred, but an antenna at the front right can still be seen. It will feel noticeably closer to the car than in other countries with a similar car.

Can be confused with:

• Puerto Rico(Cars there won't have front plates, signs will be Spanish).

• Guam (You should be able to see little part of roof rack but as long you will guess NMI or Guam and not Peurto Rico you will get good points)

Vibes

• Dry, flat

• African vegetation a bit away from the road

• Driving left

• White back of car

• Yellow outer lines

Botswana

Can be confused with

• Eswatini & Lesotho — will be more hilly

• South Africa — most new coverage will have blue back of car

White bollards with red

Australia, New zealand, Turkey

Australia: flat, with red rectangle on front

Turkey: flat, with red square on front, nothing on back

New Zealand: more cylindrical, red wraps nearly fully around

Bollards

North Macedonia

North Macedonia uses two types of bollards. One is rounded and very thin, while the other one is wedge-shaped(looks like Croatia bollard). They both are white and have red or white reflectors, typically on a black surface.

Unique no hunting signs

Spain

In rural areas of Spain, you will often find no hunting signs. There are two versions, both unique to Spain. One is a simple white sign with text starting with "coto" and ending in "caza." The other has a diagonally divided black and white background.

Street signs ending in tee or tn

Estonia

Words for street are tänav and tee

Bollard

Slovenia

Austria uses similar bollards but back reflector usually grey rather than white (white reflectors are rare but not impossible)

• Nipple shaped black cap on top

Tuktuks and Trikes

Philippines

Tuktuks and trikes very common in the philippines, so will often see them in coverage

White and red chevrons in the Americas

Argentina

• only country in Americas with red an white chevrons

What do Croatian and Hungarian bollards look like?

• triangle shaped

• white with black rectangle

• red or white reflectors

to tell the difference:

• black part is lower down for hungarian bollards

Black and yellow diagonal stripes on poles

Taiwan and Japan

to tell the difference:

• Taiwan’s are longer, more orange tinted, and extend all the way to the bottom of the pole

Car with roof-rack in south east asia

Laos

• A car with a roof-rack in in South East Asia will be in one of four cities in Laos: 

  • Vang Vieng, Luang Prabang, Savannakhet, and Pakse.

What country commonly has forbidding walls, spiked fences, signs about the anti-burglar protections?

South africa

Bollard

Estonia

• circular

• white or orange reflector on front

• white or orange circles on back

can be confused with Latvia’s bollards

• these will be half circles

• sometimes have numbers on then

Unique car in Africa

uganda

• specifically Kampala 

white with visible square mirrors

some national parks in Uganda are covered with different cars, but these are quite rare

I remember it as U is similar to the shape of the wing mirrors

Bollards (left is most common)

Czechia and Slovakia

sometimes the orange colour has worn off and it looks like two white reflectors

Blue sticker/plates on poles

France

Bollard

france

• some rare variations have fully red top

Can be confused with one in scotland:

• but that has a blunt top instead of pointed

‘Bird pole’

South africa

• 1-5 horizontal poles

• thin white insulators that look like rows of birds perched on a pole

Alternating pole tops shaped like upward facing hooks

Bulgaria

3 large alternating insulators shaped like upward-facing hooks

Triple road lines in the Americas (Double yellow with white dashes in between them)

uruguay

• not seen anywhere else in the americas

unique no hunting signs

portugal

• hunting signs with red and white colour scheme 

• commonly in rural areas of portugal

• can be diamond shaped or rectangular

Bollards

Thailand

• can sometimes have yellow reflectors

• very rarely have a blue top

Black poles with red and white 

Indonesia

• can remember because red white is the indonesia flag (reverse of poland) 

• may not have the flag so may just be painted black

vibes

• blue licence plate strip

• warm mediterranean vibe

• drives left

• limestone rock walls

Malta

White metal cross on back of signposts

Colombia

Bollards

Ecuador

• uses bollards extensively

• Two main types: round bollard with two red stripes, flat bollard with two red reflectors on black

• there are other types but will all follow similar scheme and style

Bollards

Luxembourg

• similar to german bollards but have 3 bolts on the long reflector instead of 2

• some have distinctive indent in lower half

• grey reflectors (can look white)

Black pickup truck

Turkey

• Can be found in turkey gen 4 coverage

• similar car can be found in Senegal and kenya

Unique car 

Ghana (note the tape and google car wrapping)

Unique landscape

• bare/treeless mountains with unusual ‘table-top’ shape and rocky horizontal ridgelines

Lesotho

• lesotho mountains

• can confirm its lesotho by: white back of car, driving left, yellow outer lines

can be confused with

• eswatini: hills have trees and usually has tall golden grass

• botswana: very flat

• south africa: normally has blue car

Unique arrows, indicating where shoulder line is when under snow

Japan — Hokkaido arrows

• almost exclusively in Hokkaido

holey poles in asia

Vietnam

• utility poles made of concrete have see-through holes

• can extend half or ¾ of the way up the pole

• occasionally two poles joined together

Roadlines- two offset squares

france