Geoguessr - Bollards & Waystones

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Rwanda

….. uses multiple different red and white cylindrical bollards as well as various different styles of white concrete waystones.

Senegal

Being a former French colony, ….. uses French infrastructure such as bollards, poles, signs and road lines.

Tunisia

These white concrete markers with a rounded red or yellow top can be found throughout ….. . The top can be red, yellow, or green.

Réunion

Being a French Department, you will see French infrastructure, such as signs, bollards and poles.

Bangladesh

….. uses red-and-white concrete bollards throughout the whole country.

They can also be found in a square form instead of a circular form.

Bhutan

These are the ….. road markers, notice the yellow top and the white bottom.

Cambodia

….. has a variety of different bollards. The most common ones are:

• A stone bollard with red-and-white stripes.

• A stone bollard with a red top and a white base, usually with a reflector in the red part.

The road markers are made of stone, with a white-coloured base and a rounded red top.

Hongkong

Yellow bollards with a white arrow in a blue circle are commonly seen at pedestrian crossings, but also elsewhere, indicating where cars should go. There is a flat and a cuboid version.

Indonesia

….. commonly uses these black-and-white square or circular bollards, as well as these yellow-and-black ones, which can also have a red reflector. Other designs can also be found.

Usually yellow waystones that are angled towards the road, and have a cutout close to the top are unique to ….. .

Japan

….. usually uses simple white bollards with circular reflector(s) on the top. However, sometimes these bollards are black, or have other extensions.

Kazakhstan

….. uses a variety of post-Soviet style bollards, as well as ones that resemble Turkish bollards. Notably, the bollards seemingly consisting of two thin bollards attached at a 90° angle are unique to ….. .

Kyrgyzstan

….. uses these simple white bollards with a diagonal black stripe near the top as well as unique kilometre markers with a red-and white triangle pattern.

Laos

….. uses square concrete black and white bollards with one or more black bands. A red and white painted cuboid concrete bollard can sometimes be seen a few metres off the side of the road.

Thailand, Indonesia, and rarely Cambodia use similar bollards.

Malaysia

….. bollards will often have the colours black, white, grey and red. Here are three examples of typical bollards. The kilometre markers have a unique white-and-blue colour scheme.

There can be multiple varieties of these bollards, but the layout is mostly the same.

Mongolia

….. uniquely features white bowling-pin shaped bollards with two red stripes around the top.

Philippines

These tall, square yellow road stones are unique to ….. .

Singapore

Moreover, all bus stops are protected by concrete bollards with unique black-and-yellow warning bands.

Similar, but not quite identical designs are found in some Malaysian cities.

South Korea

You will sometimes see these black and white wedge-shaped bollards. They have a round yellow reflector on the front, and a grey one on the back.

Sri Lanka

These short, wide stone bollards are unique to ….. . They have a tapered shape, with a black base and a white top.

Taiwan

….. uses these bollards with either two or three circular reflectors on a black rectangle.

You can also find these lollipop looking reflectors on guardrails, similar to the designs found in Japan.

Thailand

The ….. bollard is square shaped with a pointed top, and has black-and-white stripes. These two road markers are generally found in ….. . They will either have a white or a black Garuda on them.

In Southeast Asia, these bollards are also found in Cambodia, Laos and Indonesia.

Turkey

….. bollards have a simple design: rectangular, plain white, and with a red reflector on the front. They are thin when seen from the side. 

Romania has similar bollards. However, bollards are relatively rare in Romania.

Albania

….. bollards have a black top with a red and grey reflector. The bottom is painted white.

Italy uses the same kind of bollards.

Andorra

The ….. bollard has an orange reflector and can be occasionally found on the main highways. Yellow and turquoise-green traffic cones are used in the whole country.

This bollard can also be found in Spain.

Austria

….. uses white bollards, with a black top. The colour of the reflector is (dark) red or dark grey. Many bollards also feature a small nipple-shaped black cap on the top. Bollards sometimes have a snow pole on top.

Slovenia and Montenegro use the same bollards, but with bright red reflectors instead of grey or dark red.

Azores

Since ….. is an autonomous region of Portugal, you will often come across various types of Portuguese infrastructure, such as poles, chevrons and bollards.

Belgium

….. uses white bollards with a yellow rectangular reflector on the front and white on the back. A second type of bollard is dark brown with two red stripes at the top. Occasionally, other bollards can be seen.

Denmark uses similar white bollards, but they have a red stripe at the top and the reflector is not rectangular. The dark brown bollard with two red stripes can also be seen in the Netherlands.

Bulgaria

Bollards are generally fairly rare in ….. .

When you see them, they almost always have this somewhat generic design, which is relatively similar to the bollards found in Croatia and Hungary. They have a red reflector on the front, and a white one on the back. The design isn’t terribly consistent: sometimes they are thinner, and the shape of the reflector varies.

Croatia

….. bollards are white with a black rectangle and red or white reflector. From the top, it is shaped like a triangle.

Hungarian and Lithuanian bollards look similar, but have more rounded edges compared to Croatia’s sharper edges. Lithuanian bollards will also have an orange reflector.

Czechia

Bollards in ….. have orange double reflectors on the front and a single white reflector on the back. There are also rarer blue and red variants.

The only other country with the same design is Slovakia.

Denmark

….. has a very recognizable white bollard with a yellow reflector and a dark orange stripe. This bollard is unique to the country. You may also find a green variant.

You will rarely see these stone bollards, which may be painted red at the top, near bicycle paths.

Belgium has bollards that may look somewhat similar. However, it will never feature the orange stripe.

Estonia

….. bollards have a round, baton-like shape.

They have a rectangular reflector on the front and two circular reflectors on the back. The reflectors can be white or orange.

Latvian and Lithuanian bollards look different.

Faroe Islands

….. bollards are small wooden sticks that are mainly painted yellow and sometimes red on the top.

Finland

….. has long black-and-white bollards with a rectangular, white reflector on the front and two dots on the back. They can be either round or thin and curved. The black strip is typically diagonal.

France

The ….. bollard is extremely recognizable and appears very often. It is a round white post with a pointed top and a reflector band going all the way around. The band can be grey or red. Some rare variations have a fully red top. 

A different round white bollard, with two reflective indented bands, is unique to ….. . You can also find designs in other colours like green or yellow.

Less common wedge-shaped bollards with wide rectangular white reflectors on both the front and back are also unique to ….. .

Germany

….. uses these black and white bollards, with white and light-grey reflectors. The reflector will be orange on bollards next to intersections. Many bollards also feature blue attachments on the side.

Many European countries have similar bollards, however most will have different coloured reflectors. Luxembourg uses almost identical bollards, but they have 3 bolts instead of 2 on the reflector.

Greece

….. bollards are wedge-shaped with almost square reflectors, being red on the front and white on the back.

Hungary

….. bollards are black-and-white, wedge-shaped, and typically have a red reflector at the front, and a white reflector at the back. Blue reflectors are also somewhat common.

Croatian bollards are very similar. They do, however, typically have the reflector closer to the top, and appear somewhat thinner than in ….. .

Iceland

….. has unique yellow bollards with a white reflector. These bollards are extremely common and can be found throughout the country on almost every section of rural road.

Ireland

These green and white bollards can be a good clue for ….. . They are not entirely unique to the country, but they are especially helpful in 50-50s with the UK.

Isle of Man

These blue bollards can commonly be found in urban areas.

Italy

….. bollards are triangular in shape, and white with a black top. They have a red front and a white rear reflector.

Albania uses the same bollards.

Latvia

….. bollards have a thin, slightly curved shape. 

They have a rectangular reflector on the front, and two circular reflectors on the back. The reflectors can be white or orange. The black strip is slightly angled. Bollards often have numbers below the front reflector.

Estonian and Lithuanian bollards look different.

Liechtenstein

….. uses black-and-white cylindrical bollards with a white or grey reflector and a rounded top. They also often have a blue attachment on the side. 

When attached to guardrails, they will use the wedge design instead.

Switzerland can use almost identical bollards.

Lithuania

….. bollards are wedge-shaped.

They have an orange reflector on the front, and a white reflector on the back. Both reflectors are rectangular. You may find this thin version as well.

Estonian and Latvian bollards look different.

Luxembourg

Bollards are black and white. They are wedge-shaped and have grey reflectors. Some have a distinctive indent in the lower half.

They look more or less identical to German bollards. The most notable difference is that the reflectors on German bollards have two bolts, while in ….. they have three.

Madeira

….. commonly uses small and unique stone bollards with a red reflector. They are either cuboidal or cylindrical in shape.

Montenegro

The most common bollard is white with a red reflector on the front and a white one on the back. The bollard also has a black top.

These bollards are also found in Slovenia.

Netherlands

….. has a simple, white bollard with a red reflector.

On rare occasions, you can find round French-style bollards with a red band and a pointed top. A difference with French bollards is that the red wrap usually does not go all the way around the bollard.

North Macedonia

….. uses two types of bollards. One is rounded and very thin, while the other one is wedge-shaped. They both are white and have red or white reflectors, typically on a black surface.

Croatia uses the same wedge-shaped bollard. Hungary has a similar wedge-shaped bollard but with more white space above the black rectangle.

Norway

….. uses thin, curved rectangular bollards with the reflector inside of a black parallelogram.

Poland

….. bollards have a red strip that wraps all the way around the bollard. This strip has a red reflector on the front (sometimes hard to see), and a white reflector on the back. Bollards sometimes have numbers on them.

The same design can be found in Zakarpattia Oblast in Ukraine.

Portugal

….. bollards are either wedge-shaped with a noticeably thin white top, or flat with a wide reflector. While most reflectors will be white, you may also find orange reflectors. These are noticeably darker than the yellow reflectors in Spain.

Black and white waystones can commonly be found in ….. .

Romania

Romanian bollards are thin and white, with a red vertical strip near the top. It is worth noting that bollards in Romania are somewhat rare.

It is very common to see waystones in ….. . They are typically fairly large, with red or blue framing with the road number on the side, or made of actual stone and somewhat rugged-looking. There is also a very small variant which is all white.

Turkey has a very similar bollard.

Russia

….. has three main types of bollards: a very thin type being attached to a stick, one with a black top section and a red vertical reflector below and a German-style bollard.

Near intersections in you will commonly see a very large number of bollards.

San Marino

Road signs and bollards are generally identical to the ones used in Italy.

Many road signs give directions to the nearby Italian city of Rimini.

Serbia

….. has a few bollard designs, however most of them will have an off-centred reflector. The bollards are usually flat, with no depth to them.

Slovakia

Bollards in ….. have orange double reflectors on the front and a single white reflector on the back. There are also rarer blue and red variants.

The only other country with the same design is Czechia.

….. recently changed its standard bollard to a design very similar to the one found in Hungary: a standard European wedge-shaped bollard with a red front reflector. Note that for the time being, this bollard is still very rare.

Slovenia

….. bollards are white with a black top. The front reflector will typically be bright red, while the back reflector will be white.

Austrian bollards have the same design, but with a dark red front reflector and a black or grey back reflector. Montenegrin bollards also have a very similar design, also with a red and a white reflector.

Spain

The standard ….. bollards have a yellow-orange reflector on the front and two white dots on the back (though the back can also be blank). They are typically hollow.

Sweden

….. bollards are black-and-white, typically with a grey reflector. Reflectors by intersections are commonly orange instead. They can be either wedge-shaped, round, or thin and curved.

Switzerland

….. bollards are black-and-white with white or grey reflectors. They can be either wedge-shaped or cylindrical with a rounded top.

Liechtenstein uses almost identical round bollards.

United Kingdom

The most common bollard in ….. looks like this. It has a rounded shape, with a red reflector on the front and a white one on the back. The base and top are black, with a white stripe in the middle.

This yellow traffic bollard is commonly found in the ….. .

Mexico

These small, cylindrical white bollards with a black base are unique to ….. . A yellow reflector can sometimes be seen, as well as a flat version.

United States

White and orange fibre optic cable markers are almost unique to ….. .

This is an example of the most common type of orange construction barrel in ….. . They are made out of orange plastic with horizontal white stripes and a black rubber base.

Australia

….. bollards are white, with a red reflector on the front, and a grey reflector on the back.

New Zealand uses a bollard where the red reflector wraps around the back, meaning the reflector goes from end to end while the ….. one stops in the middle.

Christmas Island

….. uses the standard Australian bollard. It is a simple white bollard with a red reflector on the front, and a grey reflector on the back.

New Zealand

Bollards in ….. have a red strip which wraps around the top of the bollard. This strip wraps the whole way around the back and part of the front. The front or back of the bollard often contains a thin yellow or white reflector.

These bollards are unique to ….. .

Chile

….. bollards are similar to Spanish style bollards, with a white reflector at the front and a yellow-orange reflector at the back. They are not super common.

While regular bollards are somewhat rare in ….., you may sometimes find this orange, temporary bollard, with two white stripes at the top.

Colombia

….. uses two types of kilometre markers: a tall green version with the letters “Pr” at the top, and the traditional stone marker with black lettering. Both designs are unique to the country.

Ecuador

….. is one of the few Latin American countries where bollards are very common.

You will find two main types of bollards: 

• A round bollard with two red stripes,

• A flat bollard with two red reflectors on black.

Many other bollards can be found, however, they will almost always have the same colour scheme and style.

A similar rectangular bollard can sometimes be found in Malaysia.

Peru

Bollards in ….. are painted red or yellow, and the country mainly uses a variety of triangular-shaped concrete bollards. Occasionally you will also spot other designs, such as these circular concrete variants.

Kilometre markers in are made out of concrete and are painted black and white.

Uruguay

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

This green-painted stone kilometre marker is unique to ….. .