Europe Tips - GeoGuessr Tips for Beginners
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Sharing useful Europe tips for GeoGuessr and Geotastic! In this GeoGuessr Europe guide, I tell you how to tell European countries apart! These tips can be very useful to know when playing GeoGuessr Competitive Duels!
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Great video but I think I will have to watch this about 10 times to remember it all 🤣😅
Timestamps:
Norway 0:21
Faroe Islands 1:03
United Kingdom 1:31
Iceland 1:57
Ireland 2:24
Finland 2:48 & 4:57
Sweden 3:29
Denmark 4:20 & 5:14
Luxembourg 5:49
Germany 6:04
France 6:28
Belgium 6:57
Netherlands 7:29
Italy 7:48
Portugal 8:15
San Marino 8:54
Spain 9:24
Switzerland 9:48
Poland 10:23
Austria 10:57
Czechia 11:42
Slovenia 12:27
Slovakia 13:02
Romania 13:29
North Macedonia 14:06
Croatia 14:35
Hungary 15:02
Serbia 15:49
Montenegro 16:25
Malta 16:51
Albania 17:08
Greece 17:42
Turkey 18:07
Bulgaria 18:28
Russia 18:56
Ukraine 19:22
Estonia 20:27 & 21:14
Lithuania 20:43 & 22:48
Latvia 22:28
Andorra 23:13
Monaco 23:41
Hope you find this useful!
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I knew a decent amount of these, but I will have to watch 10 times to remember them all...
Yeah, it might be very difficult to remember it all at once :)
🤣🤣🤣I literally just commented the same thing before I read this comment!!!!
I put every video like this (like Europe tips, Africa tips, common bollards, etc) in a note book, I’m at page 30 ish 🤣🤣🤣
In Europe, I look carefully at the pedestrian crossing signs, as they are highly consistent within each country. For example, in Norway, Sweden, and Bulgaria, the stick figure man is walking across four stripes. In Estonia, Ukraine, and Russia, there are three stripes. A good reference is the Wikipedia page “Comparison of European road signs”, subsection “Special Regulations”. 🚶♂️
Thanks for the tip! I should study those signs! :)
and in poland it’s a thin horizontal line
Spain and Andorra are the only two countries to have 8 zebra stripes on their pedestrian signs
I've seen 5 stripes in Norway
Lithuania also has 3 stripes, and has the same pedestrian crossing sign as Russia.
tip: if you are torn between sweden or norway, play the percentage, if you see mountains, higher risk of being norway. sweden has mountains, but they are not as incorporated. if you see rolling hills and vast forest, probably sweden. if you see just forest without any hills, finland.
I find Europe the hardest. This was very helpful thanks Peter!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching! ^^
I find it the easiest personally. I can’t tell apart South America with the oceanic/Asian countries like Malaysia, Thailand, Phillipines, etc. I also don’t know America states and Mexico.
@@chinanumberone7723 Europe is hardest for me, especially Eastern Europe. South America and Africa the easiest IMO
@@hudsoncampbell5389 South America and Africa all looks the same
@@dremmz Nah African countries are distinct. Desert = Botswana. Hilly + green + drive left = Lesotho or Eswatini. drive left and orange roads and green landscape and looks poor = Kenya. drive right + looks poor = Nigeria or Ghana. drives right + speaks french + rift in sky = Senegal. Uganda = looks like Kenya with more jungle/greener. SA = drives left + Westernised neighbourhoods. I agree with South America, I just go off gut feeling.
11:23 "Graz 19km" gives it away faster than anything else to me 🤣
Bonus tip for the Finland tip, when you see the text in both Finnish & Swedish it's only in the very south coast or the lower half of the west coast. Always love these videos, the Czech language tip with E and R is one that I need to remember!
Oo, thanks for the info! I didn't know that! ^^
Also, from 2020 those yellow road markings in Finland will be phased out to all white ones.
To make it more difficult the signs in certain areas of Finland might be only in swedish. That can happen in Åland and in some towns on the coast that have mostly swedish speaking residents. In northern Lapland you can also see sami language on the signs with finnish.
Another tip for Switzerland:
The word „Straße“ (street) on street signs in Switzerland is spelled as „Strasse“. This I believe, is due to the „ß“ not being in Swiss Standard German.
Thanks for sharing the tip!
Yep. We'll, I am Swiss, and i can assure you that we never, EVER, use the ß hahah
We don’t even like to be associated with German people, Swiss german people will switch to English more willingly than to regular german if they spot a non native Swiss German speaker
@@laanz Yep, it was abolished in Switzerland in the mid-20th century.
Also, is it not important to note that Italian and French will be used in some Swiss Cantons?
An explanation for the green license plates in Norway is that vans can be registered as "cars for goods" and be exempted from some taxation, if there are only two or three seats and the back of the car/van is able to store a box of a certain size. There is usually a sort of wall separating the back of the car and the seats in front. No back seats.
Thanks for the info!
Fantastic video, I’ve watched a few of your tip videos but this one that got me to subscribe. Quite a few things in here that I didn’t know or had forgotten. A couple things of the top of my head:
•Croatia often does not have the blue stripe on the license plates (I don’t think you mentioned this but I could be wrong). However, you will see the blue license plate stripe in Zagreb, because that is the only place in Croatia to be covered since Croatia switched plate styles.
•Czechia and Slovakia have distinctive house number plates, in both countries there are usually two plates. Czechia has a red and a blue background with white numbers and often a street name. Slovakia has white backgrounds with a red and a blue border and have roman numerals in addition to numbers, but rarely any text. Chimera has a great map for practicing this!
•I’m sure this is in your poles video (which I’m about to watch), but the baltic countries love those leaning poles for support. I’ve also seen them in Russia and occasionally elsewhere.
•North Macedonia, Greece, Iceland, Sweden, and Finland are the only countries that use warning signs with a thick red border and a yellow inside.
•Denmark’s roads have those tiny little dashes along the sides that are very close together. (If you haven’t already made one, a road markings video could be a good idea!)
•Finland is flatter than other Nordic countries and tends to have a lot more unpaved roads, in my experience.
I’m sure you’re familiar with most of these, but they could be useful for any commenters scrolling through looking for more knowledge!
Edit: Of course, this is meant as a beginner/intro video, so it makes sense that you couldn’t include everything.
Very useful tips! Thanks for sharing! Some of them I have included in my other videos but others not. :)
"Finland is flatter than other Nordic countries" Definitely not flatter than Denmark. :D
Way or street in some nordic countries:
vej / gade = Denmark
vei / gate / gata = Norway
väg / gata / gatan = Sweden
btw, Polish highway signs also have a unique font with very round letters. If you have a green sign with almost bubbly looking letters, it's usually Poland.
True, in the UK there are A roads, B roads and M (motorway) mainly , any Brown signage indicates a Tourist site of interest
The Croatian barred "d" is also found in Vietnam. However, Vietnamese is easy to recognize.
Ireland has signs in two languages with one on bold and one in italics
That's a good clue as well!
What an amazing information packed video! Years of knowledge squeezed into 25 minutes.
Glad it was helpful!
Dunno if anyone has mentioned this already but UK car registration plates are yellow only on the back, at the front they are white. Also with Irish signs they tend to be in both English and Irish (Gaelic).
Very useful video, thank you!
Just to add something, if you see 'carrer' or 'avinguda' on street name you're in Spain, Catalan speaking (Catalonia, Valencia or Baleares) or Andorra. For some reason most of the time I get Spain in country streak it's in Barcelona. You can also see these words in Andorra as Catalan is one of their languages.
In Spain you can also find Galician and Basque, you can search how they say street if interested.
Also, I believe caddesi means avenue in Turkish, useful if you don't recognize the language.
Thank you for the additional tips!
The only official language of Andorra is Catalan.
I really appreciate your command of languages and lettering Peter. The tips on non Russian Cyrillic really help.
Another great video I saw this one being played live! Keep up the good work
Thanks a lot for your support!
In Norway, county roads are very distinguishable because of the longer dashed lines on the sides that are roughly the same size as the gap between them, these types of road are the most common and also have no yellow centre line.
Thanks for the tip! :)
This is the best tip video you've made yet! Maybe next time you cover a large area, can you put a map on the region somewhere on the screen and as you go through each country you can highlight it on the map? I think that would help to distinguish which clues belong in which country!
Thanks for the suggestion! :)
I believe the H bus sign in Austria is also in some German cities, like Hamburg. Great video!
Thanks for the info! And thanks for watching!
It’s even all over germany
Keep up the great job! Next time, can you please hover under or next to what you are showing us because the cursor masks the image somewhat and it's harder to see / read the details Thanks :)
Noted! Thanks for the feedback! :)
Belgium : partially black and yellow banded traffic lights = Flanders. Partially red and white banded traffic lights = Wallonia and Brussels. Bilingual signs French + Dutch = probably Brussels. Bilingual signs French + German : the Ostkantons (east of Wallonia).
Supermarkets named Okay, Colruyt, Delhaize.
Good tips, thanks! :)
Im new to the game and im a spreadsheet nerd...dude, you're a LEGEND 😂 Thank you!!!
Happy to help! 😄
such a helpful video, thanks! (fyi - In spanish, the double L is pronounced like a y, so calle is like caye, not cale)
Thanks for the info! ^^
Ukraine also has black cars in Donetsk, and in order not to be confused with Russia, in Donetsk always is cloudy
Netherlands will almost never have their power lines up high. They have their power lines stored underground. Plus Dutch has a lot of double letters in their words.
Those are good tips!
Tip: In the Netherlands almost all the wires are underground, so no poles. Don't know what other countries have this.. Also: weg = way straat = street on the signs :P
Ahh, thanks for the correction! ^^
in NL, i've seen weg country-wide but if you see an abundance of "straat" or "laan", lane, with blueish purpleish signs on buildings thats likely Amsterdam, in my exp.
good video again:)
Thank you! ^^
In Ireland they use the metric system and in the UK they use the imperial system
That's a good tip as well!
That's quite thorough for a beginner video :D
Just some basic info for every European country :D
Fantastic videos and channel! Keep going the good work. It would also be cool to have videos about a specific country referencing everything about it (road marking/langages/meta etc...). Just an idea ;)
Thanks for the suggestion! I'm happy you enjoy my content! :)
For me, if a location looks like it could be Italy or Russia at the same time, it's usually either Romania or Croatia.
You said, that -weg would be the street name in the Netherlands. That is true, but -weg can also be found in Germany, Austria and Swizzerland. In this case it could name a smaller street.
True! However, Germany and Switzerland both have other unique tricks to tell them apart :)
That Lithuanian bus stop... Is that for 1 person who lives in the woods?
Great video Pete!
Thanks for watching! ^^
finally i have been needing this... i suck at distinguishing countries in Europe, so thank you!
Happy to help! ^^
Hey! Are the camera generation tips still up to date? Or has google updated some of these countries coverage with newer cameras? Also great video love your accent!
@@willyblondehair8070 Thanks! There have been new coverage releases since I made this video, so the camera generation tips might be outdated in some cases :)
@@GeoPetertysm! I’ll keep that in mind
15:16, missed a very important fact that Hungarian uses "sz" very often or if text has "az" which is also very common since it has multiple meanings and I think it meant "the" or "a".
Thanks for the tip!
Also, turkish stop signs say "DUR"
True! That can be very useful!
Great vid, thanks man. Cant wait to apply some of these tips to my game!
I hope they help to win some games! ^^
Thanks for doing Europe! It is my hardest continent to guess in.
Happy to help! ^^
Holy poles in Romania, gotta remember that 😅 Great vid, thanks Peter
Thanks! Happy to help! 😃
11:04 I've also seen these bollards in Serbia. But It's very rare.
Yeah, you are right. But it's so rare I usually don't mention it. :)
One more unique feature of Hungarian is frequent usage of "cs" and "zs" digraphs, pronounced as "č" and "ž".
I was watching this video, and at 4:00 i got this strong dejavu i almost felt ill, and i thought i recognized that area. And when you started turning around i was like WHAT THE ACTUAL WHAT, ITS THE STREET NEXT TO WHERE I LIVE 50M away NOWAY!!
Wow, nice coincidence! :D
no fucking way lol
thats creepy
Iceland can be recognized only because there are no trees growing there 😁
good video!
Thanks! 😃
Great video, thanks Peter! If you don't mind me asking, which country are you from yourself? Your english is flawless!
Thanks! ^^ I'm from Latvia
@@GeoPeter Isn't your independence day on May the 4th? I imagine youve got some very happy Star Wars fans in Latvia
Correction, one of your independence days!
tip: polish poles have holes that go neither to the bottom neither to the top they are just in the middle kind of
Yellow/red street signs are also Common in poland as far as I know
"This holey pole almost looks Polish to me"
They're poles so it makes sense that they'd be Polish
also the netherlands often have red pavement
11:27
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that house on the right side, with brown on top and white on the bottom, is very common in Austria. I believe it's a premade design, because literally 50% of houses in rural Austria look exactly like that.
Don't know if exactly Austria but they definitely are in the area around Alps.
Good video! I see a problem with your spreadsheet though, you write countries instead of languages. Take Norway for example, you can have streetsigns in different Sami languages up north, with other letters!
And you also marked q, but not é for Norway. Neither would be common on street signs, and yes, q is in the alphabet and not é, but é is probably more common in Norwegian than q is. You also find more rare ones like ü, è, ô etc.
Thanks for the feedback! The spreadsheet is meant to determine the country you might be in GeoGuessr, that's why they are separated by countries and not languages. :)
@@GeoPeter Oh, I think my comment was removed because I had links to Google Maps.
Anyway, it makes sense it's for the country of course. However, it's wrong no matter how you look at it. Norwegian has symbols over certain letters and Sami languages have letters like ö, đ (despite of your claim at 16:45), č etc. You might find official street signs that's only in Sami and no Norwegian translation even.
Usually it might be fine to go by your spreadsheet, but one should be careful. Though if you include Q, I see no reason not to include the other stuff
These are such great tips! Thank you! 👍
Glad they were helpful! ^^
great video man, keep up the good work!
Thanks, will do!
6:55 I live in Germany and these stop signs are also here
Sometimes if i see a car or a board with something written on them i always hope for an URL adress, because the .xx gives the country away, i don't count how many countries i got right from URLs
URL can be very helpful if you can find it :)
If its on a car, I usually look for 2 URLs. One time I looked at the URL on a semi/lorry and it was wrong
@@ericBorja520 because trucks travel between countries
Thanks for the tips peter
Happy to help! ^^
Just finished the vid .
Banger 🐐
Thanks a lot for watching and supporting!
Italy has narrow front plates bcs of alfa romeos. They have the front car symbol designed in a way that front plate can be only set up asymetrically meaning wither left or right of the center and id they were longer it would be bummer. Just google alfa romeos and you will find both wioth italian and non italian plates. You will notice how terrible non italian front plates look on alfas.
If you see a lot of red letter license plates behind the blur, you're most likely in Belgium as they are the only country with red letter plates. (Some german plates are an exception to this)
Yes, you are completely right :)
In ireland, when you are put near countryside houses, they always have really long driveways.
Thanks for the tip! I didn't know that! ^^
Hello, Peter, there are a few mistakes in your letter sheet. Ukrainian doesn't have "Ѓ", it has "Ґ", it's used very rarely, but still exists, also Ukrainian doesn't have "Џ". Also in Cyrillic script, the capital "у" is written like "У".
Thanks for the corrections!
Bollards in Austria can be found in Slovenia, Montenegro, and rarely Serbia
Austrian bollards are darker most of the time :)
In Ireland the road signs will be bi-lingual, English in one font, Irish in an italic font.
That's a good tip!
im always real bad when it comes to serbia, romania, slovakia and croatia
I hope this video helps! ^^
Romanian looks like Italian, so if you see something that looks like Italian but it looks worse than Italy or Balkanish that's Romania
In Slovenia, almost every single stop and yield sign will have a yellow sticker on the back of them!
Good tip! :)
first time i had andorra i was very confused but the tip is if you see some signs in spanish and some signs in a spanish similar language, it could be catalan, which is andorra's official language
The problem is the Catalan-Spanish mixture also happens in other parts of Spain, like Catalonia, Balearic Islands and Valencia.
These guides are just what I personally were looking for. Thanks.
Glad I could help! :)
Regarding car registration plates, Dutch taxi's have instead of yellow plates light blue plates without the blue EU strip.
Thanks for the info!
Yesterday I had a photo inside a tunnel. It was the Faroe Islands!
Tunnels are tricky for sure! You can get them in many countries
"In Spain you will have the ""kahle" name which is 'street'" - As a spanish person I died a little bit from that pronunciation of calle
Sorry 😂
Another tip is you get signs in Irish and English in Ireland, which makes it different from Uk which is all english
Thanks for sharing the tip! :)
@@GeoPeter Np, it is my home country. Hello from Ireland
Vej in Danish means way, not street. Same goes for weg in Dutch. Street in Dutch is straat, but idk the Danish translation for street
Tip: When you see a car brand called Škoda (find the logo on Google), you will most likely be in Czechia. Because Škoda is a Czech brand, a lot of people drive it (maybe 25%). However, you can be in Slovakia as well.
Thanks for the tip!
Pretty sure Škoda is one of the most popular car brands in Poland too. I see them everywhere.
@@Morrov Quite common here in England too!
However you can also be in Serbia, Slovenia, N. Macedonia, it's very common there used by country officials and it's also a police car all over ex-yu
For Switzerland keep in mind that you can also find french and italian
helpful video for sure but way too broad, going too fast thru each segment (maybe to keep the video shortert idk) but info is often not clear enough cos of it. For exmple at 13:30 when you talk about romanian poles you mention they can be also found in Hungary and sometimes Poland, which would imply when you re in game and you see a pole like that you would think you re in one of this 3 countries so you would need to look for other clue to figure out which of the 3, but that's almost never the case because in fact this poles are not the same in Hungary or Poland. The romanian ones are much thicker with wider/bigger holes and very very often will be painted white at the bottom.
I go more in even details in my other videos. This one is intended for beginners and highlights what you should pay attention to :)
this is much needed. thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
@4:03 I actually seen it when I was playing country streak
Edit:Corrected the timestamp
"you also see these lines in estonia but we're talking about nordic countries right now"
estonia: :(
Haha, I'm sorry, Estonia 😄
I’m going to have to watch this video about 100 more times to absorb all of these tips😂
It is a lot to take in for sure :D
I can't tell you how many times I thought it was Italy because the blue on both sides of the plate but it was Albania.
If it looks worse than Italy it's probably Albania
And also Albania has full size front plates while Italy has smaller front than the back ones
What about Belarus? Is there no coverage at all? Their language has two unique features in the alphabet: first, the letter "Ў" (pronounced like "w" or Polish "ł"), second, simultaneous presence of letters "Ы", "І" and "Й" with absence (!) of "И". Also their alphabet lacks "Щ", they always spell it with "ШЧ".
Thanks for sharing the tips! Belarus has very limited coverage in Minsk and most of the maps don't feature it. :)
this helped me so much thank you!
Glad it helped! :)
In the Netherlands there is also a bike path
Not the only one so don't rely on that
12:16 It should be mentioned that Prague in Czech is "Praha", so you will see that, not "Prague".
Good point!
Thanks for the tips, they help as always :)
Happy to help! Thanks for watching and commenting! :)
Great vid man I'm eternal from geoguessr I faced u like 2 or 3 times and you are so good man also the info is so useful great vid 👍
Thanks for watching and commenting! I'm sure we'll meet in more games in the future! ^^
Once I didnt know that CH means "Confoederatio Helvetica" so I thought it may be "Czechia" even though everything else was Switz like low cam. Ended a good streak right there. Example how country sticker on a car can fool you.
Yeah, that is true! CH is also the top level domain for Switzerland. :)
It's worth learning ISO 3166-1 country codes (or top-level country domains, which are the same, just lowercase): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes (Note: There might be better sources to learn this from rather than Wikipedia because Wikipedia also has countries that are never on Geoguessr)
tip: in france if u see a blue small sticker on a wooden poll its also france
That's a good tip!
this is so helpful thank you!! :D
Thanks! Happy to help! :)
the italy tip was different, i hit italy every single time now
nice videos, they r helpful and relaxing
Thanks for watching! Glad you like them!
very helpful tips, thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Amazing video! There's nothing I can add about the tips but I will say that in spanish the double l is pronounced as a y so it's ca-ye xd
Ahh, thanks for the info! :D
8:19 that is probably because Brazil was colonised by Portugal