The Philippines
Country Flag:
Google car:
The Philippines has a white reared car.
Sometimes it will have some black just before the white.
Bollard:
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Camera Generation:
3.
Road Lines:
The Philippines uses concrete roads, with either entirely white lines, yellow centre, or no lines.
Sometimes you can find tarmac roads however.
Road Signs:
Road signs are rare in The Philippines in rural areas.
Philippine sign backs often have frames.
Electricity poles:
The Philippines use mainly wooden poles, sometimes metal.
License plates:
The Philippines use white plates with black text.
Yellow plates are used by public transport vehicles.
Phone number:
The Philippines uses phone region codes.
Vegetation/Landscape:
The Philippines is heavily forested and also quite mountainous.
Specific tree:
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Architecture:
Philippines housing often uses thatched rooves or corrugated metal.
General look:
Often you can find basketball hoops/courts in The Philippines.
There is also a lot of phone adverts in The Philippines.
The Philippines also has a lot of election posters.
Common vehicle:
The Philippines has many unique vehicles as follows below.
Motorbikes/bicycles with side cars.
Motorbikes.
Buses.
Tuk-tuks.
Mini-vans.
Alphabet/script:
The Philippines has both English and Filipino as its official languages, however you will sometimes come across Spanish.
Regions:
The Philippines is divided into 17 regions.
Currency:
The Philippines use Philippine Peso as their currency signed with a crossed P.
Domain:
.ph
United Arab Emirates
Country Flag:
Google car:
The UAE has a white backed google car.
Bollard:
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Camera Generation:
3.
Road Lines:
The UAE uses yellow shoulders with white central lines, however you can sometimes find yellow centre lines.
It also has black and yellow, or black and white curbs.
Due to the desert landscape often you will find sand spilling onto the road.
Road Signs:
The UAE uses blue, and green signs with English translations.
The UAE uses black and white poles.
Electricity poles:
The UAE uses wooden poles.
Whilst not electrical poles, the UAE has some uniquely styled street lights.
License plates:
UAE use white backed plates with black text, be aware they can either be more square or rectangular.
The UAE uses a green commercial plate.
Phone number:
UAE uses an area code system, all must begin with 0.
Vegetation/Landscape:
The UAE is a desert nation however it features some mountains in the east of the country.
Specific tree:
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Architecture:
The UAE features many white flat topped houses.
The UAE is home to the worlds tallest building, the Burj Khalifa.
General look:
Sir Baniyas Island:
There is an island off the coast of the mainland which has coverage with a unique google car.
Alphabet/script:
The UAE uses modern standard Arabic.
Regions:
The UAE is made up of 7 Emirates.
Domain:
.ae
Malaysia
Country Flag:
Google car:
Malaysia uses a white backed car.
Bollard:
Malay bollards are white with red rectangles.
Camera Generation:
3, and 4.
Road Lines:
Malay roads uses all white lines with black and white curbs.
They use yellow shoulders in some city locations.
Road Signs:
Malaysia uses blue backed signs for locations, and red for important info.
Malaysian stop signs say berhenti.
It uses yellow diamond warning signs.
Malaysia uses black and white poles for its signs.
Electricity poles:
Malaysia uses wooden poles.
License plates:
Malaysia uses black backed plates with white text.
Phone number:
Malaysia uses a phone code system, all must begin with 0.
Vegetation/Landscape:
Malaysia spans a peninsula and the northern part of Borneo, one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet. It is well forested with several mountains.
Borneo is undergoing massive deforestation for palm oil plantations.
Specific tree:
Yellow Meranti is a fairly common tree often visible towering above the landscape.
Architecture:
Malay has many houses that seem fairly run down.
General look:
Alphabet/script:
Malay is written in a Latin script.
Regions:
Malaysia is divided into 13 states.
Currency:
Malaysia uses the Malaysian Ringgit, signed as RM.
Domain:
.my
Jordan
Country Flag:
Google car:
Jordan has a black reared google car.
Bollard:
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Camera Generation:
3.
Road Lines:
Jordan has yellow shoulder lines with white centre lines.
Road Signs:
Jordan will sometime have English translations for settlements.
Sometimes Jordan uses black and white striped poles.
Electricity poles:
Jordan uses metal, and wooden poles.
License plates:
Jordan uses white plates.
Phone number:
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Vegetation/Landscape:
Jordan is a desert country but is also quite mountainous.
Specific tree:
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Architecture:
Jordan has many white stone buildings with flat rooves.
General look:
Common vehicles:
Jordan has quite a few yellow roofed taxis with green or silver bottoms.
Alphabet/script:
Jordan uses modern standard Arabic, which is read right to left.
Regions:
Jordan is divided into 12 governates.
Domain:
.jo
Laos
Country Flag:
Google car:
Laos has a visible roof rack on its google car everywhere except for in the capital Vientiane.
Bollard:
Laotian bollards are black and white striped.
Camera Generation:
3.
Road Lines:
Laos uses white lines.
Road Signs:
Laos uses blue backed signs for settlements.
It is not uncommon for Laotian signs to have blue backs.
Laos uses blue street signs.
Electricity poles:
Laos uses concrete poles.
License plates:
Laos uses yellow plates.
Phone number:
Laos has an area code system for landlines all must have a 0 before, and mobiles begin with 02.
Vegetation/Landscape:
Laos is a very mountainous country, however all of its coverage is in urban areas.
Specific tree:
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Architecture:
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General look:
Alphabet/script:
Lao is a complex language, also featuring tones.
Regions:
Laos only has coverage in Vientiane, Vang Vieng, Luang Prabang, Savannakhet, and Pakse.
Domain:
.la
Hong Kong
Country Flag:
Google car:
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Bollard:
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Camera Generation:
2, 3, and 4.
Road Lines:
Hong Kong uses yellow shoulders, with white central lines.
Road Signs:
Electricity poles:
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License plates:
Hong Kong uses white fronts with yellow rears.
Phone number:
Landlines begin with 2, or 3. Mobiles with 5, 6, 7, or 9.
Vegetation/Landscape:
Hong Kong is mostly urban but still has some rural areas in it mountains.
Specific tree:
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Architecture:
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General look:
Common vehicles:
You will often find taxis in urban Hong Kong which all have white/silver rooves, but can be either red, green, or blue bodied.
Hong Kong uses double decker buses.
Alphabet/script:
Hong Kong uses a mix of traditional Chinese, Cantonese, and English.
Regions:
Hong Kong is divided into 18 districts.
Domain:
.hk
Mongolia
Country flag:
Google car:
Mongolia is very easily recognizable because of the Google car which looks like this:
and across the entire country you will see those versions on the map:
Bollard:
Camera Generation:
Gen 3
Road Lines:
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Road Signs:
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Electricity poles:
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License plates:
2002+:
Phone number:
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Vegetation/Landscape:
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Specific tree:
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Architecture:
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Japan
Country flag:
Google car:
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Bollard:
Most common bollard that you will find, with white on the front, yellow on the back:
There is also this version:
Camera Generation:
Gen 2; 3 & 4
Road Lines:
–
Road Signs:
Japan has prefectural roads which appear as a hexagon, and national highways which appears as a rounded triangle:
This is how they appear on a sign, where road #11 is a prefectural road and road #305 is a national highway:
And this is how they appear on the map:
Here you can find the numbering mechanism of the national highways, so you can find them easier on the map:
Higher resolution here: RoadNumberingSystem
A very common sign that you will mostly see in the Hokkaido island is this:
Electricity poles:
Do not confuse them with Taiwan or South Korea (they have similar):
License plates:
Since 1998, the most common license plate is green text on white background, where the first two letters on the top indicate the prefecture:
Phone number:
Here is a very good map of all the area codes in Japan:
For higher resolution image, visit this link: Wikimedia.org
Vegetation/Landscape:
Often found in Hokkaido, this is the “Hokkaido Squash/Pumpkin” leaves:
Specific tree:
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Architecture:
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Sri Lanka
Country Flag:
Google car:
Sri Lanka has a distuinguishable Google car, which has some red and blue colors on the back side, but this is not visible all the time:
Bollard:
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Camera Generation:
Gen 3
Road Lines:
Road Signs:
Sri Lanka has the typical “Peru” pattern, with black and white:
Electricity poles:
There are many electricity poles, but the most common one found throughout the country is this:
License plates:
Sri Lanka uses yellow license plate in the back and white in the front. If you manage to see a license plate, the first two letters tell you in which province the car is registered:
And here is a map with all the provinces:
So, if you are for example in the city of Jaffna, you would see a license plate starting with NP
Phone number:
Mobile phone numbers in Sri Lanka consist of 10 digits in the format: xxx zzzzzzz where xxx represents the mobile operator code. All mobile operator codes begin with 07
Vegetation/Landscape:
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Specific tree:
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Architecture:
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General look:
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Kyrgyzstan
Country Flag:
Google car:
Bollard:
Camera Generation:
Gen 3
Road Lines:
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Road Signs:
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Electricity poles:
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License plates:
Phone number:
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Vegetation/Landscape:
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Specific tree:
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Architecture:
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General look:
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Bhutan
Country Flag:
Google car:
Bollard:
Camera Generation:
Gen 3
Road Lines:
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Road Signs:
These little stone sign posts show the distance to the nearest town/village on both sides, the road number on the top part (SL-1 here) and the road kilometre marker on the side. The road numbers in Bhutan aren’t shown on the map in GeoGuessr, so you have to learn them if you want to use them: Bhutan Road Numbering System.
Signs like this are rare and usually on important junctions and around the bigger cities.
Electricity poles:
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License plates:
Bhutan is one of the rare countries which has a red plate, and thus the plate can be recognised in-game even through the blur.
Phone number:
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Vegetation/Landscape:
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Specific tree:
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Architecture:
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General look:
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Alphabet/script:
Dzongkha (the Bhutanese language) uses the Tibetan alphabet. It has a lot of acute lines and vertical straight ones.
Many signs and boards in Bhutan, as well as the stone road sign posts use the Latin script too, so there is some help there.
Subdivisions:
Bhutan is divided into 20 districts (dzongkhags). The name of the dzongkhag is usually the name of the biggest town in the district.
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They appear on many signs and boards:
Tip: Many of the small place names in Bhutan are hidden unless you zoom in on the map, like the one on the sign, so knowing the dzongkhag can definitely be helpful when searching for them on the map.
Cambodia
Country Flag:
Google car:
Bollard:
More variations of the Cambodian bollard: Cambodian Bollard Variations
Camera Generation:
Gen 3
Road Lines:
Cambodia uses the yellow centre line on their roads.
Road Signs:
These little sign posts are all over the place on major roads and show the distance to the nearest town, road number on the side and kilometre number on the top.
Signs like this are rarer, usually on junctions of major roads.
Cambodia uses the American/Southeast-Asian yellow diamond-shaped warning signs:
Road numbering system:
There are 8 major 1-digit roads in Cambodia, which all go from Phnom Penh to other parts of the country, and are numbered in a clockwise direction. The less major 2-digit roads’ first digit is the 1-digit road they feed to, so for example the road 64 feeds into the 6, and so on, so the 2-digit roads are generally always close to the 1-digit road of their first digit. More info about the Cambodian road numbering system: Cambodia Road Numbering System
Electricity poles:
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License plates:
Phone number:
Landline phone area code map:
Vegetation/Landscape:
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Specific tree:
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Architecture:
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Houses on stilts are very common because of many flooding areas in the country.
General look:
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Alphabet/script:
Khmer (the Cambodian language) script is very distinctive and different from Thai and Lao. It has a lot of little wiggles all around, but is generally quite round with a lot of “u” and “n” shapes, in contrast with Thai, which has more sharp corners on letters.
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Road signs in Cambodia usually have Latin transcription too, but other than there the Latin script is extremely rare in the country.
Subdivisions:
Cambodia is divided into 24 provinces and the special administrative region of Phnom Penh (the capital):
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Macau
Country Flag:
Google car:
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Bollard:
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Camera Generation:
2.
Road Lines:
Macau uses tarmac and concrete roads, with either all white lines, or white center with yellow shoulders.
Road Signs:
Macau signs are written in Cantonese, and Portuguese.
Electricity poles:
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License plates:
Macau uses black plates.
Phone number:
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Vegetation/Landscape:
Macau is entirely built up as a city, entirely urban.
Specific tree:
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Architecture:
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General look:
Macau has a lot of these parking meters.
Common vehicle:
Macau has a lot of Taxis which look like this.
Alphabet/script:
Macau has 2 official languages, Cantonese, and Portuguese.
Regions:
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Domain:
.mo
Nepal
Country Flag:
Google car:
Nepal uses a Google Trekker and therefore doesnt have a car. Youre gonna see people around you with hiking gear. Its also very limited coverage as shown below.
Bollard:
Nepal doesn’t have a unique bollard listed on Streetview due to their limited coverage.
Camera Generation:
Gen 3 Trekker
Road Lines:
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Road Signs:
While there are no road signs in this coverage, you will find these prayer flags near a lot of the peaks.
Electricity poles:
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License plates:
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Phone number:
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Vegetation/Landscape:
Nepal is very mountainous, with all of their official coverage being near these mountains. Its clear when you are in Nepal.
Specific tree:
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Architecture:
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General look:
Nepal looks like most post cards or images of Mt. Everest. It is almost seen everywhere due to its massive size.
However, there are some areas further south (and lower in elevation) that are a bit more green and have more trees.
Alphabet/script:
The official language of Nepal is Nepali. However, the limited coverage contains a bunch of English signs due to the mass tourism by mountaineers. This is all generally located in the town of Namche (Which isnt actually where its marked on the map. Look for the Namche Bazar on the map.)
Thailand
Country Flag:
Google car:
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Bollard:
Thai bollards use black and white stripes.
Camera Generation:
3, and 4.
Road Lines:
Thailand uses a mix of tarmacked roads with white lines outside with a yellow central line, concrete, and dirt roads.
Road Signs:
Thailand uses blue/green backed location signs.
Thai signs use white poles, with black bases.
Thailand uses yellow diamond warning signs.
Electricity poles:
Thai poles are concrete and feature these small holes.
License plates:
Thailand uses a wide variety of number plates however the most common are white, with yellow commercial plates.
Phone number:
Thailand uses an are code system.
Vegetation/Landscape:
Thailand is a well forested country containing a fair few mountains often in the north.
Thailand can often feature red dirt.
Specific tree:
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Architecture:
More regal Thai buildings have unique roofing.
General look:
Alphabet/script:
The Thai script is incredibly complex consisting of many symbols as well as being tonal featuring 5 tones.
Regions:
Thailand is divided into 77 provinces.
Domain:
.th
South Korea
Country Flag:
Google car:
Black or white car with no antenna, but more often black:
Bollard:
White bollard with a black stripe and a yellow dot:
Camera Generation:
Gen 3 (negligible amount of Gen 2)
Road Lines:
Yellow centreline with a white sideline:
Road Signs:
Green signs with white text and romanization (Latin transliteration of Hangul):
Korea uses yellow background for their warning signs:
The turn arrows are black on a yellow background:
Road numbering system:
South Korea has motorways, national roads and provincial roads.
Motorways are numbered with a 0 or 5 at the end depending if they are going east-west or north-south respectively. The numbers increase from south to north and from west to east. The numbers go from 10 to 65, except the highway number 1 which goes from Seoul to Busan.
National roads are 1- and 2-digit and the numbers are increasing in the same way as for the motorways, from south to north and from west to east. The 1-digit ones are a nice way to find out where you are as their numbers increase regularly from west to east coast (1, 3, 5, 7 (north-south going roads)) and from south coast to NK border (2, 4 ,6 (east-west going roads)). They have blue oval highway shields.
Provincial roads are 3- or 4-digit and their numbers follow a pattern according to the province they are in. They have orange rectangular highway shields.
For any more info on the South Korean road numbering system: South Korea Road Numbering System
Electricity poles:
South Korea has these black and yellow diagonal stripes on poles that are wider and less tall than the Taiwanese ones:
License plates:
White long plates on private vehicles:
Service vehicles use yellow plates, and buses have narrow plates too:
Taxi/service vehicle regular:
Bus:
Phone number:
Each province and city with special status has a different landline area code:
Vegetation/Landscape:
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Specific tree:
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Architecture:
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General look:
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Alphabet/script:
Korean has their own unique alphabet which is very distinctive and easy to recognise. It has circles which neither Chinese and Japanese scripts have.
Subdivisions:
South Korea is made up of 17 first-tier administrative subdivisions – 9 provinces and 8 cities with special status:
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Internet domain:
.kr
Lebanon
Country Flag:
Google car:
Lebanon uses the Google Trekker to cover their sites. You can clearly tell that youre on a sidewalk.
You can also end up in a park.
Bollard:
Due to the limited coverage, there was no good shot of any bollards if they exist.
Camera Generation:
Gen 3
Road Lines:
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Road Signs:
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Electricity poles:
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License plates:
Lebanon is super weird as their front and back plates are different. You get a short and stubby front plate v.s a plate that looks like it belongs in the EU. There are also some cars that just use either the stubby or the elongated plate. Taxi’s have a red color license plate.
(Front)
(back)
(Taxi)
Phone number:
Phone numbers are really limited, but there are a few that can be seen like whats show above.
The (951) is the international calling code, while the (3) indicates that it is a mobile number.
Vegetation/Landscape:
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Specific tree:
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Architecture:
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General look:
These pictures will be BELOW the image you can see in the area.
There are a few scattered parks, universeries and random landmarks covered in Lebanon. I wont be able to show you them all, but they are listed from North to South (Generally) as follows.
The University of Balamand, Koura Campus
Some Path east of Chouwen Lake Park
Jeita Grotto
(There are signs everywhere with this name)
A small northern coastal path along the North of Beirut
The Shouf Biosphere Reserve (All of the different parks covered under that name are on streetview)
(There arent really any good indicators here. No signs might be a good sign!)
The Moussa Castle
Its a castle, museum and a giftshop. You can see images from inside (and outside).
A Place called the Dr. Mohamad Chatah Cedar Tree. Its next to a weird body of water.
A path around the Cedars of Lebanon
The Beirut Arab University, Campus Debbieh
(This is the gate on the East, its very obvious)
The Sidon Sea Castle
Its a bunch of ruins surrounded by water located in Sidon.
and then the Ruins of Tyre
Alphabet/script:
What little language exists, its English and an arabic script. You can generally see it on the signs (posted above) and in Beirut.
Taiwan
Country Flag:
Google car:
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Bollard:
Taiwanese bollards are slim poles with circular reflectors on top.
Camera Generation:
2, 3, & 4.
Road Lines:
Taiwan uses white shoulder lines with yellow central.
Road Signs:
These smaller signs can be found on road sides and tell you which road you are on.
These mirrors are a common sight.
Taiwanese traffic lights.
Electricity poles:
A common site on poles in Taiwan are these black and yellow diagonal lines.
License plates:
Taiwanese plates are quite short with white backgrounds and black text.
Phone number:
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Vegetation/Landscape:
Taiwan is a very tropical and mountainous country.
Specific tree:
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Architecture:
Often Taiwanese buildings are quite square.
General look:
All along the western coast of Taiwan is very built-up containing most of the population of the country.
The central area is very mountainous down towards the east coast.
Where it is flat you often find farm land, often being rice paddies.
Alphabet/script:
The official language of Taiwan is Mandarin.
Domain:
.tw
Vietnam
Country Flag:
Google car:
Vietnam uses a moped for their coverage. The helmet of the individual driving the moped can tell you where you are. There are some instances when you wont see the moped at all. Scroll down to see what those helmets look like.
Official Coverage:
Vietnam has limited coverage, and can be listed much like we did over on Germany.
My Tho
Song Cau
Hue
Hanoi
Hai Phong
Ha Long
Bach Ninh
Thai Nguyen
Yen Bai
Ho Chi Minh
Helmet Coverage:
Dark Blue helmets are found in Hai Phong, Ha Long, Thai Nguyen and Song Cau. Song Cau has gen 4 coverage with this helmet.
Black helmets are found in Ho Chi Minh, My Tho, Hue (Which has orange stickers or a green hat under it) and Hanoi (Which is very shiny)
Grey helmets are found in Ho Chi Minh, My Tho and Bach Ninh (with stripes and without stripes)
White helmets are found in Yen Bai and Hanoi (With red stripes)
Green helmets are only found in Ho Chi Minh.
I found this blue helmet with a white stripe in Hue. I didn’t see it anywhere else, but that doesn’t mean it cant exist outside of Hue.
How To Read Addresses:
Id like to thank a member of the GeoPro Community for this guide. It can be found on Reddit.
A Small Guide To Vietnam
There is an example of this below, but the guide does a much better job at explaining it.
Almost all of the addresses in Vietnam will have a city listed. This example is Yen Bai. The first part of that line is the address, including the street you are on. You can also see a phone number towards the end.
There is also this note about food items.
Bollard:
These bollards are pretty French. They seem to be cement and are painted white with a red top. Its important to note that these were not taken from Street view, so its tough to say if learning these will be useful due to Vietnam being mostly city coverage.
These KM Markers look like the markers we see in a lot of South East Asia. The language itself is what is different.
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Here is an example again of the KM marker and a bollard. There is also a street sign thrown in for good measure.
Camera Generation:
Gen 3 and 4
Road Lines:
Vietnam uses a yellow divider line and what appears to be nothing for the sides.
Road Signs:
These are the common signs for most cities. Almost every pole will be painted this red and white striped pattern.
There are unique signs for cities. The one above can only be found in Hanoi. It has a little temple in the top left hand corner.
These are only found in Hue. It has a boat/temple in the middle of the sign.
Electricity poles:
The poles in Vietnam are nothing special, However, they have so many different wires going into them. Its a clear sign you’re in Vietnam.
License plates:
Both of these license plates can be found around the country.
Phone number:
Area codes can be very specific in Vietnam. Its not worth learning all of them (Due to the coverage), but Vietnam coverage may expand eventually.
Phone numbers in Vietnam are set up like 0xxx xxx xxxx or 0xxx xxx xxx.
Vegetation/Landscape:
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Specific tree:
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Architecture:
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General look:
The language is the biggest give away, even before you realize you’re on a moped. Keep an eye out for the color of the helmet, it really is a life saver!
Alphabet/script:
Vietnam uses Vietnamese for their language. Its very unique and can be distinguished easily from the rest of South East Asia.
Domain:
.vn
Israel
Country Flag:
Google car:
The most common google car has a long antenna and black rear, however this is not always the case.
Israel also features a lot of trekker footage along the length of it’s national trail.
Bollard:
Camera Generation:
3
Road Lines:
Israeli roads use yellow shoulders with white centre lines.
Road Signs:
These diamond signs will tell you which road you are on.
Electricity poles:
Israel features a mix of concrete and metal poles.
License plates:
Despite not being in the EU Israel uses an Eu styled plate in yellow.
Phone number:
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Vegetation/Landscape:
Israel is a fairly mountainous country, with very lush green hills in the north, and very dry arid desert in the south.
Specific tree:
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Architecture:
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General look:
Northern israel is very lush and green.
The south however is very arid and dry.
Alphabet/script:
The official language of israel is Hebrew, however you can find examples of Arabic, and English.
Domain:
.il
Bangladesh
Country Flag:
Google car:
Bangladesh has a handful of different cars used in coverage.
This is the most common;
The white reared is most likely to be seen if it is not the above car.
This car with the gentleman on the back is located around the city of Syhlet in the north east.
The sundarbans in the south west feature some boat coverage.
There is also some trekker coverage seen in the nation.
Bollard:
Bangladeshi bollards are red/white striped and usually made of concrete or metal.
Camera Generation:
3.
Road Lines:
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Road Signs:
Most bangladeshi signs are in Bengali, however in urban areas you can sometimes find English.
Many signs use black and white poles too, however this is not always the case.
Electricity poles:
Bangladeshi poles are made of wood.
License plates:
Bangladesh uses black plates however you can sometimes spot a few white ones.
Phone number:
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Vegetation/Landscape:
Due to its location and featuring many tributaries Bangladesh is a very wet looking country and very green, it is also very flat.
Specific tree:
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Architecture:
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General look:
Urban.
Rural.
Common vehicles:
Bangladesh has a few very common vehicles rarely seen in other countries including;
Trikes.
Tuk-tuks, often green.
These variant Tuk-tuks with elongated rears.
Lorries often vibrantly painted.
Double decker buses.
Alphabet/script:
The official language of Bangladesh is Bengali.
Domain:
.bd
Singapore
Country Flag:
Google car:
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Bollard:
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Camera Generation:
2, 3, 4.
Road Lines:
Singapore uses yellow shoulder, and white centre lines.
Singapore features black and white curbs.
Road Signs:
Singaporean street names are on green signs.
Electricity poles:
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License plates:
Singpore plates are black with white text, however you can on occassion find yellow plates, though these are quite rare.
Phone number:
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Vegetation/Landscape:
Singapore is a city-state so it is mostly built up, however you can find green patches which consist of tropical foliage.
Specific tree:
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Architecture:
Singaporean traffic lights have a patterned elbow.
General look:
Unique vehicle:
Double decker buses.
Singaporean taxis come in a variety of bright colours such as blue, yellow, and silver.
Alphabet/script:
Sinagpore has 4 official languages in, English, Tamil, Malay, and Mandarin.
The most commonly seen though is English.
The Tamil alphabet:
Vowels.
Consonants.
Domain:
.sg
Pakistan
Country Flag:
Google car:
Pakistan doesn’t have a google car, instead relying on a Trekker for all their coverage.
Google Coverage:
There are only about two dozen historical temples, monuments or other sights that are on street view for Pakistan. Most of these are in the City of Lehore. There is nothing official besides the pins you can see.
Bollard:
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Camera Generation:
Gen 3
Road Lines:
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Road Signs:
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Electricity poles:
There are a few instances were you can either see these concrete poles or these metal poles.
License plates:
There are a few parking lots that have coverage, and you can see these license plates occasionally.
Phone number:
You wont find many examples of Phone numbers in Pakistan. The only one that will be worth learning is 042 for Lahore, but that is a stretch.
Vegetation/Landscape:
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Specific tree:
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Architecture:
Most of what is shown on Google Street view here is historical temples, monuments, or other historically important sights. This is the general look of some of those temples.
You can also find your way inside of a Museum in Lahore. Seeing some of the stuff in there is interesting and its highly recommended that you check it out.
General look:
Pakistan is full of historical sights. If you get a significant temple, you need to be in the city of Lehore. Smaller temples are more likely to be found in other areas.
Alphabet/script:
Urdu and English are the two official languages of Pakistan. Urdu is the National Language. The map above shows the majority language by district. Only the top half of the map may be useful due to googles coverage in the area.
Domain:
.pk
Russia
Country Flag:
Google car:
Russia usually has a black car with a long antenna:
Rarely, in some areas, like parts of the Chelyabinsk Oblast and Primorsky Krai, there is a white car with a long antenna:
Sometimes the antenna can appear small too:
Bollard:
Multiple types of bollards, different from the Ukrainian ones:
Camera Generation:
Gen 3
Road Lines:
Full white:
Potholes and other road deformations are quite common in Russia, maybe a bit less than in Ukraine.
The curbs and guardrails can very often be painted black and white:
Road Signs:
Russia has blue road signs with white text on them:
Sometimes the kilometre distances on signs can be enormously large in remote parts of the country:
Russian road signs are very often painted black on the bottom:
Russia has blue kilometre markers on its roads, not unlike other ex-Soviet countries, which tell you how many kilometres of that road you have passed:
The turn arrows in Russia are white with a red background, the same as in Ukraine:
The settlement entrance and exit signs follow the same format as other road signs – blue with white text, unlike Ukraine which uses white signs with black text:
These signs are quite common on Russian roads:
Russia, like Ukraine, has these large region (rayon and oblast) entrance signs stating the name of the region you are entering:
Sometimes there are built up area entrance/exit signs:
The white signs in cities tell you the directions to parts of the city or streets or certain points of interest:
Note that улица means “street” in Russian, and it is shortened as ул. In the same way, город means “city” and is shortened as г. This is useful for searching for city/street names on signs and billboards.
The crosswalk signs in Russia usually have a lime reflective frame for additional visibility during the night:
The crosswalks themselves can often be yellow (or orange) and white, as in the picture.
Road numbering system:
Electricity poles:
The most common types:
Electricity/light poles can often be painted white at the bottom:
Light poles by the side of the road can also have black and white stripes on them at the bottom to serve as reflectors for drivers in the night:
License plates:
Regular plates are all-white with a Russian flag in the corner:
The 2 or 3-digit number above the flag signifies the region (oblast) the plates were issued in (see the region number map below).
Public transport vehicle plates are yellow:
The tractor or agricultural vehicle (1st) and motorcycle (2nd) plates are more boxy:
The region (oblast) numbers on the plates are as follows:
Sometimes buses and UAZ vans can have their license plate numbers/characters written big on their backs, which is useful as they are not blurred like the plates:
Original picture: Bus to Zelenogorsk
However, if you are lucky, you can find an unblurred plate, or more often a corner of a plate with the oblast number not blurred.
The Tatarstan plates are a little bit different from the rest of the country and have the region’s flag and no region number:
Phone area codes:
Vegetation/Landscape:
An EXTREMELY useful map of tree ranges in Russia which is enormously helpful for narrowing down the location in the country:
Right click on the image, “View image” for higher resolution.
You can Google the trees to see how they look.
Trees in Russia can often be painted white at the bottom as an insect repellent or roadside reflector:
Specific tree:
Probably the most distinctive out of all the vegetation in Russia is the famous “Hokkaido cabbage”, which in Russia grows only on the island of Sakhalin in the far east of the country:
The accurate name for this plant is (giant) butterbur, or fuki in Japanese (Latin: Petasites japonicus).
Another distinctive plant/tree is the Siberian larch, which grows only in Siberia and the Far East, and not in the rest of the country (see the range on the map above):
Larch is one of the rare coniferous tree species which sheds it’s needles during the winter, so you can also see it with yellow or without any needles in some parts of the country, depending on when the coverage was taken:
(Picture from Mongolia.)
Architecture:
A very common old rural house style, made from dark logs with colourful ornate windows:
General look:
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Alphabet/script:
Russian uses the Cyrillic script:
Full guide to reading Russian Cyrillic, comparison with Latin, and differences with Ukrainian/Belarusian (written by Alok):
East Slavic Cyrillic Guide
Subdivisions:
The Russian Federation consists of 85 federal subjects – 46 oblasts, 22 republics, 9 krais, 4 autonomous okrugs, 3 federal cities and 1 autonomous oblast:
Right click on the image, “View Image” for higher resolution.
Many of these are named after the biggest, capital city in the region. There are also lower level subdivisions, like rayons (districts), and they are also usually named after the capital/biggest city/town in them.