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Here's another export from my notes, a collection of clues I found worth learning for region-guessing in GeoGuessr.

2 months in (on and off), I still insist on using real-world clues only.
You won't find any car, camera generation, or copyright meta here.

Table of Contents#

Resources#

Guides
Curated Collections of Hints
- GeoHints
  - Hints by type and continent
- Geomastr
  - Outdated but very comprehensive
Other Resources
- r/geoguessr – Search for "starter pack"
- Super Duper
- GeoGuessr Wiki on Reddit
- Seterra (Geography quizzes)

Keyboard Shortcuts#

⇧-click: Remove guess from map
⌘-double-click: Zoom in
⇧C: New checkpoint

World#

Image source: Maximilian Dörrbecker, Country calling codes map, CC BY-SA 2.0

Phone Codes
- Africa
  - 🇿🇦 South Africa: +27
- Europe
  - 🇬🇧 UK
    - Northern Ireland: +44 028
    - London: +44 020
    - Birmingham: +44 121
- Latin America
  - 🇦🇷 Argentina: +54
  - 🇧🇷 Brazil: +55
  - 🇨🇱 Chile: +56
  - 🇲🇽 Mexico: +52
  - 🇵🇪 Peru: +51
- Oceania
  - 🇦🇺 Australia: +61

Europe#

🇦🇱 Albania #

Licence Plates
- Long
- Similar to 🇮🇹 Italian
- Red strip on older cars

🇦🇩 Andorra #

Buildings
- Beige/grey bricks

🇦🇹 Austria #

Signs
- EINBAHN (blue sign)

🇧🇾 Belarus #

TLD: .by

🇧🇪 Belgium #

Licence Plates
- Red text
Roads
- Concrete ditches
  - Rounded
  - Shallow

🇧🇬 Bulgaria #

Roads
- Pale roads with black spots

🇭🇷 Croatia #

Language
- Latin only
- -ije
  - 🇷🇸 Serbia uses -e
- Ć and Đ
Regions
- Zagreb and Osijek
  - Trams
- Zagreb
  - Big city feel
- Southern tip
  - Cypress trees

🇨🇿 Czechia #

Roads

🇩🇰 Denmark #

Roads
- Bollards with bright orange rings
Signs
- Red outlines
- Street Signs
  - Vej
  - Gade

🇪🇪 Estonia #

Roads
- Short-dashed outer lines
  - Also in 🇸🇪 Sweden and 🇫🇮 Åland

🇫🇷 France #

Poles
- Blue stickers
  - Unique to France
Roads
- D-roads
  - Unique to France

🇩🇪 Germany #

Signs
- Einbahnstraße

🇬🇷 Greece #

Poles
- Tall
- Wooden

🇮🇪 Ireland #

Phone Code: +353
Regions
- East
  - Rugged
  - Hilly
Roads
- Yellow outer dashes
- Rural roads
  - Middle strip of grass
Signs
- ⛛ YIELD
- Yellow diamond-shaped warning signs

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan #

Language
- Uses і
- Letters with strokes
- Umlauts
- ї unique to 🇺🇦 Ukraine
Signs
- Street Signs
  - Ornate
Roads
- Yellow and black chevrons

🇱🇻 Latvia #

🇱🇹 Lithuania #

🇳🇴 Norway #

Buildings
- Grass covered roofs
Licence Plates
- Commercial
  - Green
Roads
- Large roads
  - Long yellow middle lines
  - Solid white outer lines
- Small roads
  - Long outer dashes
    - 🇫🇮 Finland: dashes only in Åland
Regions
- Far south
  - Oaks and maples
  - White wooden houses
    - Entire villages of them.
    - More common here.
- Oslo area
  - Flat farmlands
- Trondheim area
  - Farmlands surrounded by hills
- Lofoten Archipelago (NW)
  - Sharp rocky mountains
    - Few trees
- NE
  - Rolling landscape
  - Small birches
Signs
- No edges
- Sone
- Street Signs
  - Vei, -veien
  - Gate, -gata

🇵🇱 Poland #

Poles
- Holes almost never reach the bottom

🇵🇹 Portugal #

Licence Plates
- Yellow strip on the right
  - Discontinued in 2020

🇷🇸 Serbia #

Regions
- North of Beograd
  - Extremely flat
- South
  - Lush mountains

🇸🇮 Slovenia #

Roads
- Long-dashed outer lines
Language
- No Ć, Đ

🇪🇸 Spain #

Regions
- Catalan
  - ç, à, è, ò unique within Spain.
- Basque Country
  - Bilbao to Donostia along the coast.
  - North of the Ebro river
  - Spills over to 🇫🇷 France (Bayonne)
  - Basque language
    - Z and K very common
    - Signs often bilingual
- Galicia
  - Western peninsula
  - Town names start with articles: A, O, As, Os.
- Pyrenees (France/Spain border)
  - Big mountains
  - Greenery = north
  - Light grey rock
- Canary Islands
  - Black volcanic rock
Roads
- Dashed outer lines in places
  - Unique in Southern Europe
- Light orange reflectors
Signs
- Signs with no edges

🇸🇪 Sweden #

Roads
- All-white lines
- Short-dashed outer lines
  - Also in 🇪🇪 Estonia
  - 🇫🇮 Finland: dashes only in Åland
- Mildly red-tinted roads
Signs
- Väg, vägen
- Gata

🇨🇭 Switzerland #

Roads
- Yellow markings for pedestrians and cyclists

🇹🇷 Turkey #

Regions
- NE
  - Grasslands
Roads
- Salt and pepper
- Mostly white markings
- Divided highways

🇺🇦 Ukraine #

Language
- ї unique to Ukraine
- і also found in 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
Signs
- Street Signs
  - вулиця

🇬🇧 United Kingdom #

Regions
- 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland
  - Twenty’s plenty
Roads
- Urban A-roads in the map
  - Don't shy away from them.
  - They might look like regular streets.

Asia#

🇧🇩 Bangladesh #

Language
- Triangular characters
Licence Plates
- Short
- White, black or turquoise

🇧🇹 Bhutan #

Language
Licence Plates
- Short
- Almost always red
  - 🇳🇵 Nepal: commercial only

🇰🇭 Cambodia #

Roads
- Driving side: right
TLD: .kh (Khmer)

🇮🇳 India #

Licence Plates
- Long
- White
- Sometimes yellow or green
Regions
- Rajasthan
  - Canola

🇮🇩 Indonesia #

Currency
- Rp (Rupiah), IDR
- 1 USD = thousands of IDR
Landscape
- Tropical savannah
  - Not in 🇲🇾 Malaysia
- Volcanoes
Language
- Former 🇳🇱 Dutch colony
Licence Plates
- Front plates on bikes
  - 🇲🇾 Malaysia: not mandatory
- White on black
  - 3 sections (🇲🇾 Malaysia: 2)
Look and Feel
- Small shops
  - Abundance of cigarette adverts
Roads
- Bike taxis
  - Green clothing
- Abundance of motorbikes
Signs
- No edges

🇯🇵 Japan #

Phone Codes
- 011-099
  - Roughly north to south
Regions
- Tokyo
  - 5 petal flower manholes

🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan #

Licence Plates
- Red stripe on the left

🇲🇾 Malaysia #

Currency
- Rm (Ringgit), MYR
- Closer to USD exchange rate
Language
- Former British colony
  - More likely to use English
- Latin + 🇨🇳 Chinese characters
Licence Plates
- White on black
- 2 sections (🇮🇩 Indonesia: 3)
Poles
- Black rectangular stickers (mainland only)
Roads
- White lines
  - Unique in Southeast Asia
- Double white centre lines
- Generally in better shape than 🇮🇩 Indonesia
Signs
- 🛑 BERHENTI
- ⛛ BERI LALUAN
- Signs with edges

🇳🇵 Nepal #

🇵🇭 Philippines #

Currency
- ₱ (Philippine Peso), PHP
Licence Plates
- White and green tinted

🇸🇬 Singapore #

Look and Feel
- Clean and orderly
- Highly developed
Roads
- Black and white kerbs
- Double yellow outside lines
- HUMP AHEAD / HUMPS AHEAD
Signs
- Street Signs
  - Green
  - Rounded edges

🇹🇼 Taiwan #

Regions
- East coast
  - Roads
    - White speckles
Roads
- Red outer lines (no parking)

🇹🇭 Thailand #

Language
- Small circles within most letters

🇻🇳 Vietnam #

Phone Codes
- Hanoi: 24x
- Ho Chi Minh City: 28x
Regions
- North
  - Landscape
    - Tea plantations
  - Buildings
    - Spires on roof
    - Traditional wooden houses (NW)
    - French influence
  - Poles
    - Large holes
    - Smooth round poles
  - Red River Delta
    - Flat agricultural fields
    - Tall slender boxy houses
- South
  - Landscape
    - Dragon fruit farms (coast)
    - Black pepper
  - Poles
    - Round poles with pinholes
  - Mekong Delta
    - Straight canals
    - Linear villages
    - Very tropical
    - Wetlands
Roads
- White bollards with a red top
Signs
- Yellow-orange background
  - Unique within Southeast Asia

North America#

Signs
- 🛑 ALTO, except:
  - 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic: 🛑 PARE
  - 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico: 🛑 PARE

🇨🇦 Canada #

Regions
- British Columbia
  - 🛑 Bilingual stop signs

🇨🇼 Curaçao (🇳🇱 Netherlands)#

TLD: .cw
Signs
- Striped traffic light posts

🇬🇹 Guatemala #

Buildings
- White exposed brick somewhat common
- Pastel colours
- Sheet metal roofs
Look and Feel
- Pink or green pastel colours
  - Buildings
  - Bottoms of poles
- Tigo telecom company
  - Down to 🇧🇴 Bolivia
Licence Plates
- Dark blue tint
- Some with a hint of green on the left
Regions
- North
  - Flat
- South
  - Mountainous
  - Flat coast

🇲🇽 Mexico #

Landscape
- Cacti
Language
- Many place names of Nahuatl origin
  - x
  - tl
  - -ec
  - -tlan
Look and Feel
- Circular electricity metres
Poles
- Octagonal
Regions
- Mexico City
  - Marshmallow taxis
Roads
- Yellow kerbs and barriers
- Oxxo and Pemex petrol stations
Signs
- Thick arrows

🇵🇷 Puerto Rico #

Licence Plates
- No front plate
Signs
- 🛑 PARE
- US-style speed limit
  - Velocidad maxima

🇺🇸 United States #

Regions
- Guam
  - Street Signs
    - Green
  - Language
    - East Asian languages are common

South America#

Signs
- 🛑 PARE

🇦🇷 Argentina #

Landscape
- Flat
Licence Plates
- Black dot in the middle
Roads
- Red on white chevrons
  - Unique within the Americas

🇧🇴 Bolivia #

Buildings
- Big red brick
- Unfinished look
Currency
- Bs (boliviano), BOB
Licence Plates
- Short white
Look and Feel
- Traditional clothing
  - Bowler hats
  - Colourful shawls
  - Overspill to 🇵🇪 Peru
- Tigo telecom company
  - Up to 🇬🇹 Guatemala
Roads
- Cobblestone paths with several parallel lines

🇧🇷 Brazil #

Buildings
- Orange tiled roofs
Currency
- R$ (Brazilian Real), BRL
Landscape
- Red dirt
Licence Plates
- Commercial
  - Red
Poles
- Concrete ladder poles
  - White bottom
Regions
- South
  - German architecture
    - Mainly Santa Catarina
Roads
- Black back of road signs
- Double yellow middle lines
  - Single yellow = not Brazil
Signs
- Street Signs
  - CEP (postcode)
    - Counter-clockwise
    - Starting in São Paulo
    - Ending in Rio Grande do Sul
    - NW: 69 (AM, Amazonas)
    - Dense along the coast
- Chevrons
  - Yellow on black
    - Mostly unique in South America

🇨🇱 Chile #

Licence Plates
- Commercial
  - Orange
Roads
- Road Lines
  - Either all white
  - Or all yellow
- A to Y

🇨🇴 Colombia #

Licence Plates
- Commonly yellow
Signs
- Cross on the back of road signs

🇨🇷 Costa Rica #

Licence Plates
- Blue on white

🇪🇨 Ecuador #

Buildings
- Grey bricks and metal roofs
Licence Plates
- Commercial
  - Orange
  - Newer with orange strip at the top
Roads
- Double guardrails
Signs
- Highway shields similar to 🇺🇸 US interstate
- Square
- White background

🇵🇦 Panama #

Licence Plates
- Turquoise strip on the top
- Front plate not required

🇵🇪 Peru #

Currency
- S/‎ (Sol), PEN
Roads
- Black and yellow markings and sign poles

🇺🇾 Uruguay #

Buildings
- Cube-shaped
- Flat roofs
Currency
- $U (Uruguayan peso), UYU
Landscape
- Hilly
Poles
- Trident
Roads
- Thick white sign poles
- Messy yellow/white road markings
- Yellow chevrons

Africa#

🇧🇼 Botswana #

Language
- Afrikaans very rare.
Roads
- Yellow outer lines
- A-roads (not present in 🇿🇦 ZA)

🇸🇿 Eswatini #

Landscape
- Green, wooded hills
- Tall golden grass
Roads
- MR-roads

🇬🇭 Ghana #

Roads
- Multi-coloured taxis

🇱🇸 Lesotho #

Landscape
- Lesotho mountains
  - Rocky horizontal ridges
  - Tabletop-like shapes
- Agave plants
- Short grass
- Free-roaming livestock
Licence Plates
- Light blue text

🇳🇬 Nigeria #

Buildings
- Steep roofs
- Single storey
Licence Plates
- Short
- Green tint
Regions
- South
  - Christian
- North
  - Muslim

🇷🇼 Rwanda #

Landscape
- Red soil
- Banana plants
Look and Feel
- Clean streets
Roads
- NR-roads
- Driving side: right
- Kerbs with black and white stripes

🇸🇳 Senegal #

Licence Plates
- Either fully blue
  - Unique in Africa
- Or similar to European
Regions
- Dakar
  - Modern tall buildings
  - Mosque with 5 minarets
Roads
- Driving side: right
- 🇫🇷 French infrastructure
- Kilometre markers with a red top
  - Nearest towns

🇿🇦 South Africa #

Roads
- Yellow outer lines
- Red and white chevrons
  - Also in:
    - 🇧🇼 Botswana
    - 🇸🇿 Eswatini
    - 🇱🇸 Lesotho
  - Not in Australia
Signs
- N-roads displayed as blue pentagons on Google Maps
  - "N" not shown
- Triangular warning signs
  - Unlike in 🇦🇺 Australia

Oceania#

🇦🇺 Australia #

Regions
- Brisbane
  - BNE
- Perth
  - Flat green bus stop signs
- Tasmania
  - Lush greenery
  - Dense undergrowth
- Western Australia
  - Yellow sign posts
  - Red soil
Roads
- All-white road lines (almost exclusively)
Signs
- Speed limit sign
  - Red circle on a white rectangle
- Yellow diamond-shaped warning signs

🇳🇿 New Zealand #

Signs
- ⛛ GIVE WAY
  - Red text
- Circular speed limit sign
- Yellow diamond-shaped warning signs
- Street Signs
  - Blue
    - By far the most common
    - Almost never in 🇦🇺 Australia
Regions
- Wellington
  - Hilly
  - Street Signs
    - Green on white

Published: 14 Apr 2026
Last updated: 5 May 2026
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Table of Contents#

Resources#

See Also#

Keyboard Shortcuts#

World#

Europe#

🇦🇱 Albania#

🇦🇩 Andorra#

🇦🇹 Austria#

🇧🇾 Belarus#

🇧🇪 Belgium#

🇧🇬 Bulgaria#

🇭🇷 Croatia#

🇨🇿 Czechia#

🇩🇰 Denmark#

🇪🇪 Estonia#

🇫🇷 France#

🇩🇪 Germany#

🇬🇷 Greece#

🇮🇪 Ireland#

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan#

🇱🇻 Latvia#

🇱🇹 Lithuania#

🇳🇴 Norway#

🇵🇱 Poland#

🇵🇹 Portugal#

🇷🇸 Serbia#

🇸🇮 Slovenia#

🇪🇸 Spain#

🇸🇪 Sweden#

🇨🇭 Switzerland#

🇹🇷 Turkey#

🇺🇦 Ukraine#

🇬🇧 United Kingdom#

Asia#

🇧🇩 Bangladesh#

🇧🇹 Bhutan#

🇰🇭 Cambodia#

🇮🇳 India#

🇮🇩 Indonesia#

🇯🇵 Japan#

🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan#

🇲🇾 Malaysia#

🇳🇵 Nepal#

🇵🇭 Philippines#

🇸🇬 Singapore#

🇹🇼 Taiwan#

🇹🇭 Thailand#

🇻🇳 Vietnam#