Yamaguchi huh okay okay definitely not a good score there Japan is definitely a country where I could uh have some room for improvement but I would say those were just particularly difficult Japan rounds um normally I do do better anyway next one here we got wooden poles we've got yellow outside lines we've got a sign set up for left-hand drive with the uh triangle instead of the diamond so yeah with this diamond sign come over the yellow outside lines should just be somewhere with the triangle sorry it should be somewhere in South Africa we've got generation four camera as well so South Africa is uh yeah immediately the country of choice at this point in time the other three do not have our generation 4 coverage uh and so this this sign is also a very common sign to see in South Africa and South African countries you can also see that one in like Romania Bulgaria turkey and maybe something Middle East as well but yeah in South Africa definitely South Africa um and so what we say here about the landscape a lot of like corn or something being grown here um it's quite like it's quite industrialized we have clumps of trees it was quite nice I would say this is somewhere near hauteng like around here probably in mumpumulanga state um but yeah I could also see you could also see just in Hao Tang itself here so that's why I'll click right there um yeah that's about it to say here kind of rolling landscape um dryish that definitely fits to this region of the country we'll be right yes we were

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indeed so if only we've got Japan right we'd still be on a massive score but unfortunately that's not to be okay next one here and we appear to be somewhere in Thailand or something like that here based on this language right uh we have this like kind of like double lane concrete road that I was telling you guys is more common in Philippines but of course to that language this should just be somewhere in Thailand uh we do have what appears to be a type hole here oh this is interesting yeah we have one of these like bulb things now do we do we have oh unfortunately we don't have any pole close to us because that could actually really have helped us out getting a close guess but as for that yeah yeah this kind of bulb can help you get a close guess if you can see it clearly but unfortunately we can't count the number of ribs on it so we cannot get that kind of uh perfectly closed guess that we'd like to uh yeah these fences are quite Thai particularly with this kind of like Motif going on inside here um and apart from that the main thing to get here is the language really um I don't think I would have gone Philippines though I just think something about it is more tired with these fences this kind of architecture of these kind of stilts houses we got going on here like this particularly like with the stairs going up to the family room like that um so for this one I could see kind of anything from north to south this is very generic it is Hillier so maybe I don't really know I'll probably just click somewhere like that because I can see South here still is a lack of there isn't like a Palms I would say that we don't see a single Palm so to speak we do see a banana plants everywhere but no no actual palm trees from what I can see uh yeah so maybe I will click further north here not really sure lumpung seems possible so I think I'll just go over it but uh yes we'll find out where this actually is should be Thailand indeed but whereabouts and it is another nice

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right hand side of the car and that is obviously strange because we're driving right hand side of the road so the steering wheel should be on the left so this is actually an illegally imported car from japan what is going on guys zigzag here welcome back to another geographer video and this one is the third installment of teaching series where i show you guys in-depth round breakdowns and challenge you guys in the description so yeah find the challenge links for the description inside today's videos you play the rounds before i play them and then hopefully i will be able to if you're a weaker player than i am i'll be able to show you where you went wrong and that kind of thing also in today's episode we're going to be playing without the car um so yeah without the google car and that will actually um yeah make things a little bit more difficult but it's also a better way to learn because then you don't get reliant on the um you know the google car meta so this is challenge link one go ahead and hit that one and uh let's see how we go in the first round here okay so this one is going to be in generation 2 camera it's a little bit of an older camera um work here and it feels very tropical look at these banana plants over here um so let's take a look at everything we can see um we have some trucks over here is this the same truck three times in a row is this a camo glitch i think it literally is just three of the same truck parked in a row but yeah definitely an interesting one um so for me there's only really two options here it's either gotta be south africa or mexico because of the generation two um and and the fact that it's quite tropical so either way all the way up here or i think what's more likely is that we're gonna be somewhere in mexico but the the houses here don't strike me as particularly mexican to be honest um so maybe it will have to be south africa um yeah i think it actually is going to be south africa here now that i'm looking at it kind of almost looks a bit australian which is not really something you don't really see too many mexican rounds that look australian still a a weird round to be sure um but yeah i think we should go somewhere over here and pretty far north um but also quite green so maybe richards bay i wouldn't mind that we'll see

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and yeah this was 115 kilometers away so a really good start um i was actually kind of unsure with that guess um it was to be like this is really bad i won't restart the video but no there we go it's a it's a good it's a good start and uh yeah near durban there okay so this one is curious and that was what that was a very difficult round so no worries if you didn't get it it was kind of a vibe one um the architecture was the biggest clue because a lot of the times in mexico you have the paint in front of the houses you know the south american style architecture anyway so here we are um in what appears to be a european scene so first off noticing this white colored dirt it's very flat it's very flat all around uh we have some a-frame poles over here which is probably going to be a clue and the biggest clue of them all is this bollard which has a number on it and it's painted pure or it's not painted but it's got a pure a red section over here and it's white otherwise um so even before turning around here um we know that this one's going to be a polish boullard uh this is also a polish sign not only does it kind of look like polish language i mean if you know you know um but it's also green and those kind of green signs kind of like uh poland and hungary quite common in those two countries uh but this uh particular font as well is the polish one so i know with beyond reasonable doubt with those three clues that this one's going to be poland and honestly the flat landscape and everything fits that quite nicely as well so i think we're going to be somewhere you know fairly central here actually so i'm just going to go here a bit north of warsaw

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and yeah this is right on the border with the ukraine actually before 1400 is a good score so on to the next one uh this one is looking asian off the bat we can see that um this kind of spire here and these kind of like a pointed rooves are quite asian looking to me uh what's interesting is we have like these crisscross bricks which is going to be interesting this one's an asian van as well if you know your car makes uh you know that the asian ones are obviously quite common in asia um whereas like in south america or something you'd be getting more european cars in as well as asian ones uh and look at these roofs here so definitely super asian so now it's time to look at the power poles to see if they're going to give any clues because one thought i did have um was that this might be thailand thailand tends to use square poles though so even though i thought these might look thai they are they are not i don't think because we don't see any of the square poles and they're much more common over there so now my thoughts are turning to indonesia it's quite dry obviously thailand has a large section of dry area out here where i've just drawn this um this triangle also these islands out here get quite dry from from kind of the uh eastern point in java all the way over to timor-leste it's very dry um in indonesia so also this uh number plate appears to be black as well so i'm feeling fairly confident with that um for that reason i i think it could be bali um i might go in this city over here on the next city over um but i do think we're gonna be somewhere in this section here so let's see if i'm right about that and yeah this actually was in the um eastern part of java like i said it might be um and uh yeah i may easily have gone over there um but uh we still pull 4000 which is pretty

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good for indonesia i'd say next round okay so here we go and we immediately are greeted with some very european looking architecture don't really think we'd see houses like this anywhere else in the world so let's take a look around but we have a yellow sign here which is very um indicative of former balkan countries um these yellow signs i think slovenia croatia i think serbia has them too uh maybe north macedonia too i think maybe those four have them um so that's what i'm thinking off the bat um there's probably others that do as well i just can't remember this car is lacking a blue strip which is curious that could uh be a hint for later on as well um do we have just looking around at what the architecture is like here so we also have a like kind of a peak over the sea and a um and a dash over this sea and i see suffix i do definitely associate with croatia i have a bunch of croatian viewers said no doubt they'll be in the comment section but um yeah i think that i see ending especially on like a last name or something it's very croatian at least to me uh also we don't have any holy poles so that kind of uh excludes uh hungary as well but this language wasn't hungarian so it wasn't really an option to begin with um and also the lack of a blue strip i know is something is a bit more common in croatia so yeah the architecture fits for me as well i wouldn't be surprised if we were somewhere around zagreb here um it almost looks a bit serbian as well but we don't have the google car but we'd probably also have some cyrillic in serbia so that's probably why i won't go there also actually i'm i'm actually quite confident that this is uh croatia because a lot of the time they have the blue fire extinguishers so or fire hydrants so there you go i think that is going to be the clue that tips me over here and yeah it kind of has a bit of a hungry vibe so i'm thinking of going actually even closer to hungary here maybe in this town here let's see

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and uh yeah that's a super good guess 27 kilometers away very very pleased with that 4927 you already know this is this is going very nice sometimes you gotta sit and wait a while before you make your guess and you may end up making a better one because of it so uh this one is good um let's take a look at these double your whites in the center um the fact that they are double white lines is uh very useful because obviously this is a very dry country and um there are parts of south america for example that would look similar to this but we can pretty much count out argentina and and well chile is also using white lines but this is not a particularly clean looking um outback and maybe uh by the fact that i've said it out back here you can guess that i i do think this is australia we've got some australian bullards here um with a red reflector and a silver reflector on the right hand side of the road uh we have these double um white lines this is a a thing that indicates how likely a fire is um so that's curious but this is i assume is actually the name of the town um i actually don't know where it is but um but it is the cradle of bulk handling maybe maybe this town is that um i think this is in western australia and the big reason for that is that we have this very kind of ready orangey brownie dirt like i would i would describe it as more brown but a bit orange and that's super typical of western australia also we know it's not south australia because we don't have stoby poles that are concrete here this is a wooden pole um what else is there to say um these ballads are you can't you can't really see it too well but these bollards in the distance have a black base and that's also more common uh in western australia so yeah feeling fairly confident so we could and i imagine some of you who are playing the challenge will actually go and find this but i think we're gonna be somewhere around here so i will give a quick scan um just in case um but i i don't think i want to um waste you guys time too much here um but i can see some similar looking names out of this direction so i wouldn't be surprised if we were somewhere out here so i think that is probably what we'll go for and this landscape is quite green so maybe even closer to perth um let's just go here and see how close we are

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and uh yeah there we are so that was actually a really nice guess again and we have ended up with 22 700 and if i have listened to myself a little bit more of that indonesia it could have been even higher so that was a really nice first seat and i hope you learnt a little bit there but the dirk paula was the main decider there for western australia so that is really good to keep in mind and it can save you from some bad guesses on the other side of australia i say let's get into the second link here also if you want this script i'll probably remember to put that in the description if i don't just uh comment but here is number two and uh yeah let's head straight into the game here okay so this one is looking rather japanese um well let's explain that because it's not entirely obvious off the bat here so this square car is probably the main one that's making me think japan off the bat um they just love square cars in japan and so if you haven't picked that up yet it's very common over there also it's like a short and thick plate that's also quite japanese oh this is like a i guess it's a japanese stop sign i've actually never considered but i think because it's red it must be a stop sign obviously quite different to a normal one in europe or elsewhere um this car is also driving on the left-hand side of the road which japan drives on and here again we have a square car and not to mention this one is square as well so it's funny japan like sends out all these different looking cars all around the world but back home they love the square ones and yeah we've got some yellow uh front plates here that is also consistent with japan um and so what else do we need to say here it's fairly flat it is fairly flat and i'm i'm i'm not actually sure if i think this is going to be north or south um i do see a pine here often the pines might be an indication of more northern but um yeah i don't think that's any guarantee at this stage um i think i'll just have to pick someone flat a little bit north so i'm thinking maybe somewhere over here um i'm really not sure let's go in this small town here but yeah not really too confident here we'll just have to see how close we are and uh yeah that's not a bad guess 170

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kilometers away we were over on this side um and uh yeah not not bad not much to say about japan it's a tough country to guess inside of um here is a good little round we are using all white road lines here so that is good um obviously this one already felt quite european but if you were confused about it being canada or the us well we can already rule those out because of the um white road lands we've got a bunch of thin birch trees here which is good to know we have a snow pole here as well now i remember the getting a bit screwed up by my snow poles last time but i think this might be a finished snow pole um and and it goes orange all the way up and then a little white band and then orange again so i think that's also the case also this is a generation three camera um so it's not generation four and obviously in um or maybe not obviously if you're new but a lot of norwegian rounds is generation four so yeah um there's also yellowstone here which is furious i hope this isn't um sweden or anything but with this bollard i think the spotlight might be the uh finnish one so yeah i'm not all that confident but it should be fairly far north here i would not be surprised if we're about halfway up finland here and obviously we see some lakes as well so yeah i think that is pretty consistent with that area of the country and yeah it's a little further south but uh 4500 again very good effort i would say next one okay this one is a nice little one here plenty of clues to get it but uh if you don't know them obviously it's going to be a difficult one so let's take a look around i just figured out you can do this on the keyboard check it out oh you can't do it yeah there we go look look you can use a and d too look around anyhow so we have plenty of clues here let's observe it so we have an arrow here saying that we're driving left hand side of the road so already we are exiting out a lot of europe all continental europe is out of the picture here apart from malta the uk and ireland okay so you we also have this yellow line in the center though which is quite uncommon uh for left-hand drive countries i have to say most left-hand drive countries using all white road lines this one apparently not okay we also have an english sign here so that's very good clue as well we have white poles and a bollard with a red reflector even on the right hand side of the road using a red reflector so that is what we're working with here um and uh yeah here are some of the more of the upper odds there like split down the middle um and so what are we thinking guys well this one is going to be new zealand so we can already tell that by the bullets they're similar to the polish ones that we had earlier except thinner what's more we have these white poles that is very common in new zealand as opposed to australia they almost never paint the poles white in australia so that's a really good clue um it's hilly so obviously that is definitely consistent with new zealand and yeah sometimes in new zealand they do this white yellow line with the whites uh dotted next to it and you'll also see that in argentina in uruguay and in philippines sometimes and maybe some others as well but that's the main countries you'll see and uh that's basically all that all she wrote so i think somewhere in north island here although this could be easily be the north of the south island as well and uh yeah i don't know where that is so let's just go here

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and uh yeah this is another good guess it's on the north island and we have been pretty consistent here just getting about 150 kilometers away each time and uh just as i was talking about malta this one is looking like it's going to be malta and the biggest clue for multi is these rock walls they have rocklers everywhere and obviously there are other countries like that where they have rock walls as well like ireland and sometimes france as well but this one's more dry you can see we even have some cacti over here which you definitely see in malta as well so this one looking like a pretty surefire motor before we even look around it's kind of got like an australian style climate where it's very dry but also you do get some green grass as well and uh yeah i would be very surprised if this isn't malta although perhaps um sometimes you will get a similar type of round in um in sardinia or in sicily as well yet feeling pretty confident this is just going to be somewhere in rural malta not that there's much of it but uh yeah i don't know and also i'm not actually sure if this is going to be the north or the south island um but i'm just going to go south because there's more uh rural land there and yeah we are super close 4.2 kilometers away very nice and uh yeah we are on track for another good score here

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if we uh get this one right so here is this round uh this one has a number of good clues that we can get it from first off let's look at the pole it is actually all concrete so that is going to be a good clue it's not holy and it doesn't have any like um like uh doesn't have any like ladder um element to it you can't climb up it so that's good to know we have white outside road lines here uh here are some more of those poles over there it's quite a temperate looking climate not particularly uh would you say not particularly um tropical it's also hilly over here and the biggest clue is that we are here driving right and we have these plates with blue on both sides now see blue on both sides plates in france in italy and albania but you will only see these short ones these these uh normal european plates are about that long but these ones are a bit shorter but the blue on both sides definitely means we're in italy um so even albania which uses a very very similar color scheme um they would have the longer place on the front so yep has to be italy whereabouts is the question this actually is looking to be a bit of a difficult round if we check down for this valley not entirely obvious to me i think i'm just going to have to guess halfway up the country here um yeah maybe a little bit further south here don't mind that right there a bit a bit further south of rome could be up north i'm i'm not really sure here um let's just rip it in and see if i wrap and uh yeah this actually was a bit further north unfortunately first bad guess of the

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unfortunately first bad guess of the video really i would say um but uh there we go 22 220 so hopefully i'm still beating you guys um but if you're beating me good job um hopefully you're still learning a little something maybe on the australian runs and whatnot but uh yeah let's go into the next one i like to play about five here so let's uh we'll be you'll be able to see in the description how many there are but uh let's jump in to the next one put this right here and uh go in i'm enjoying this i hope you guys are too these ones tend to be like nice slow burners they uh they get a lot of views as as the time passes so yeah i hope maybe you're watching this a bit after it comes out and i hope you are enjoying so this one says motel um and we appear to be in russia that is cyrillic of course this is the l in cyrillic um so yeah russia is feeling most likely to me right here because we don't have to google card i suppose this could be um ukraine um but uh one sad thing or maybe depending on what you look at it as um is that ukraine tends to have very poor road quality like i mean really poor like i would say like 70 of the runs you have in ukraine they have just cracked roads everywhere this one is nice quality so thinking more of russia here um taking a look at these poles i have seen these these are black and white stripes sometimes around belarus in russia so i'm wondering about that right now uh we have these very long white plates with no strips so yeah that is definitely russian looking i can pretty much exclude every other country apart from russia and ukraine here and definitely reminding me more of russia out of the two in fact i think when you have these this letter instead of an eye um that is going to be in russia more likely and uh yeah the signs and everything like that definitely appear to be russian to me so yeah it could be ukraine seems unlikely to me uh so that is pretty much all we have to go off here we have like kind of this white dirt it's very flat so very very generic rush around i would say here and i just kind of want to test out this theory of going near belarus um because i think i have seen that kind of thing before um the the as i said these these little markings here but i could be wrong let's see about that theory

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and uh yeah this is actually near moscow so 4 000 points is actually a pretty good effort for russia but if you just went to moscow you would have had a really nice score uh unfortunate but as for a rush around that is actually pretty good and let's check out this round it's looking quite similar this time we have a really poor road quality but it doesn't necessarily strike me as ukraine either so let's check out what we got going on it's very um like it's very rural yeah i would say um this sign at the very bottom has a bit of black and uh that's something you definitely see a lot of the time in russia um let's check out this one so this car has a steering wheel on the right hand side of the car and that is obviously strange because we're driving right hand side of the road so the steering wheel should be on the left so this is actually an illegally imported car from japan presumably from a left-hand side drive country um because to avoid fees or import fees or something like that um and so we have a cafe in busco so i have a feeling that we're going to be somewhere near japan here and a lot of the time that will be in succulent and so i want to see if there's any place called oscar um because it's possible and then we could get a really crazy score here the coverage covers about half the island i think and i just want to see if there is any oscar uh it doesn't seem like there is but it was worth a little check here so it doesn't seem to be any oscar so let's take a look around for any other clues um the the disrepair of the road could certainly uh line up with um suckling here um as for the rest over here i do actually just want to see if there's any oscars because you know could that would actually make for a crazy crazy guess but i don't think we're going to be able to find it and of course you do actually get some of those um illegally imported cars over this side as well on um um kamchat kamchatsuki um peninsula over here but the the uh soil tends to be a bit darker over there in my experience so i'm thinking just of suckling here and maybe about halfway up the island um that's the petrol station it's very interesting these blue buildings so so interesting but yeah that's going to be the main clue here i think so yeah i'm just going to go somewhere over here i actually wouldn't mind finding a petrol station at least to go off of here um that one doesn't seem to be it just i just want any petrol station you know um because you don't want to waste you don't want to waste the opportunity for a good guess here so let's go right here um i don't think we're going to be right there but it's possible

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a thousand points only so quite likely that you may have been able to get a higher score than me there but that's just how geogaster goes sometimes huh okay so here is the next round this one is definitely looking interesting one thing that i'm noticing off the bat is there there are quite a few trees here i mean there's a few here but we can see this massive uh like expanse out here that has hardly any trees on it so i dare say that will be a clue um these arrows are pointing so that the car will drive up this way and they'll wait here so that appears to be a right-hand drive so that would definitely check out with what it looks like so far these crossings are interesting the fact that they're using um a yellow and blue kind of like swedish colors but i don't think sweden you would get this mountainous so at the moment what are you guys thinking i think because of this little accent over the year and just because of the general lack of trees that this is most likely to be somewhere in iceland so let's zoom in on some of these number plates and see if they have a blue strip because in iceland you're lacking the blue strip so this one appears to be missing it this one the sun has kind of washed it out so we couldn't really draw any good clues from it um and this one's a bit too far away as well also the single story houses whatever reason i do think they are more common in iceland also we have an a and an e stuck together here so we know it's not um sweden because they would use the umlaut instead and there's a church over there as well it's interesting not really a massive clue but it's just nice placement and look at those mountains so beautiful um so this will be another time to use the compass we can see that we've got a big bay to our south um and so i'm definitely thinking of this kind of area here although we have to be close to the mountains so what is this i think this might actually have a good shot of working so to our north we can see big mountains um so maybe even someone over here um i actually think this is not quite uh working out as a proper location unless we were like yeah hmm not entirely convinced not entirely convinced that we're right there so maybe somewhere over here instead i don't know you can really take a long time um iceland is a great country because you can really get those 5ks using the geography um but yeah essentially we've got like a fjord going along here and it kind of runs along a decent way so i don't know it's so doable but i also can't really be bothered so we're just going to go somewhere in here i think um this one doesn't really work we're just looking for something with the mountains to the north oh this one could work i don't want this um no it really doesn't unfortunately we have to have like a fjord um to our south so i don't know i don't know i just want something that vaguely works let's go for this one here this one at least somewhat has a chance of being correct and let's see okay so it was actually over the other side of the country and unfortunately if we could see a little bit further out here we would have gone a much better

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score but that is four thousand points so i'm sure some of you actually got a guest on the right side there my brain wasn't quite working at full capacity unfortunately that's okay so the next one uh we appear to be in generation two camera so one of the older camera generations and if you tuned in for the first two episodes of the series you remember i said the older camera generations tend to be in more wealthy countries the countries that got first priority when it came to street view um anyhow we have a straight edged o on the 30 zone here so that is definitely going to be interesting and definitely definitely a clue um pill knits is one of the towns here with this yellow sign are the plates do they have blue strips on them this one does certainly this one appears to as well so i have some thoughts here just i want to see here this says kunst um so that would be german for art potentially we could be in a german speaking country here this one says swiss collection or something like that so that is also curious so we've got a number of clues here we can probably just do this um based on the um language i think photo studio so i think i think or start dutch um yeah i'm actually not entirely sure it says stutton fart or something i don't know it's gonna be some tour bus and they appear to be speaking german here so these straight sided o's i think you often see them in austria i just can't remember at the moment whether we'd have this kind of sign in austria or not so let's get into the map here um can we find pill nits uh which is the name of this town apparently um i would like to be able to find that before i guess here um so pierna it could also be in switzerland now that i think of it in the german speaking side of it so i'm just trying to think this one is actually giving me a little bit of trouble i have to say the blue strips on the plates really mean that we're in austria but yeah not sure why are we speaking german could it be in belgium too now we'd see a bit of red on the normal place then obviously is a bit hilly so i think this is in austria i just don't think austria has that much gen too so yeah i just don't no it's not lints well uh my patience is starting to run thin so i think i will just go for i guess here somewhere over in lintz and uh we'll find out if we are incorrect or not and this one was in germany so i don't know why that gave me such a austria vibe um but yeah it was generation two i don't think they have any in uh in austria so that might have been a bit of a walking mistake there i don't know anyhow uh this was i guess it just like the the language part of it sounded a bit austrian i don't know why i just went for austria

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not a good guess there um but uh yeah i guess it was the hilliness as well that threw me off on the uh long side of the o but uh anyhow we are on to the next round here and uh this one is very dry super dry and we have like some eucalyptus type trees here so often when i'm seeing that with dry mountains i'm thinking of peru area in fact i do think like brew is definitely the main contender here without seeing the google car if we could see the guru car here if you were playing it you would see either a black or a white car i assume um other possibilities it's got to be something in the andes so i i guess like argentina and bolivia are also possible here it would be a very strange uh chili if we were there but i guess that is also possible this is enough light water definitely reminds me of peru as well so if i was saying peru i would say somewhere around where i put my marker here obviously we are following a river along a mountain range so something like this is well possible the mountains are pretty tall but maybe not as tall as what i've clicked in here so something more like this may be possible um yeah you do like to find one that is at least somewhat fitting so that could certainly work and yeah very dry so don't don't don't be confused um peru does get certainly dry on on this side of the again of this side of the andes so let's click and guess and a little bit further south here right basically right on the center of peru so 3770

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and this one was a bit of a disaster we had the bad russia and we had i mean this one i didn't lose many points but i'm this is one of the worst guesses on the teaching series so far i think in fact probably the worst anyhow it is what it is um and uh i say we get back into another yeah so definitely going well i might leave it at four today i think we'll make this one the last one i'm starting to get a little bit uh mentally picked i think i mean that austria guess not so good okay so this is the next one we have white outside lines oh we have a blue barn a lot of things painted blue here that certainly acts as a clue for me i think um and actually you can see just on the edge of the nocar script they're here that we have a wide blur and that is often indicative of japan and sometimes taiwan and always switzerland so always japan and switzerland have um lokam and we have another one these squarish cars here so i'm thinking japan here also these because they have like quite tight roads in japan that often have these kind of orange mirrors you see a lot of them in europe as well but something that japan and taiwan particularly like to use i think um this one is fairly like poor i would say fairly rural and poor for japan although there are still some nice houses around uh so the question is where to go where to go um i can see it actually being further south here i'm not really sure why i think that when it comes to japan you have to play quite a lot and get a bit of a hunch for it um but we don't see the same pines that we did last time when it was a bit further north in fact we even see a um we even see a palm here so yeah that is why i think i really have to go somewhere on this island here and whereabouts i might go on issa yeah so let's see let's see if i'm right about that this one was actually in tokyo so i feel a little unlucky because of that palm tree but of course this is

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near san marino so that's right actually about exactly the same latitude as croatia here glad i didn't go near montenegro and we end up that's that's a very respectable score i'll stay say so here is the penultimate round of the video and we have a blue and yellow flag here so perhaps letting us know that this might be sweden taking a look around um we have a sign here that says gatan and yes gathan means road in or something like that street in swedish so we should be in sweden here also um this like kind of red house is very scandinavian so if we didn't have the clues to get sweden here these kind of red this is like this is actually a brick house but this like red painted house over here is very very scandinavian looking oh this one feels fairly northern to me although i have been known to be quite wrong about those kind of things in the past or one other clue we've got over here is that these signs are filled in yellow and yes that is definitely a swedish thing to do also finnish also polish north macedonia greece a bunch of countries fill in their speed and give way signs in yellow but yeah that's certainly something they do a lot in sweden also this car and this car from i can tell these two cars these both hatchbacks are volvos and volvo's also manufactured in um sweden as well this is a volvo here as well so definitely they're driving a lot of their national car here so yeah this is beyond reasonable doubt in sweden and uh i don't know i'm feeling i'm feeling more north than stockholm but we'll find out this could even be even further north to be honest we'll see

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um and no it's actually further south so i'm glad i didn't go too far north um but we're in tibral uh a small town a respectable town i like the look of that i'd like to go there uh and so this is the final round of the video still reeling still reeling from that uh from that austria i guess can't believe i did that but uh yeah let's take a look around here uh this one we have a lot of red roofs we have some white uh actually the walls are painted white which is curious um it's kind of a little bit more tropical looking even though this should be european architecture so that's definitely something to take into consideration we have an a-frame poll here um but i'm not sure if this is a country that would normally use them to be honest so my my feelings at this stage is that this could be like either albania or greece the fact that it's so green makes me think of albania here quite honestly albania is like quite a poor and mountainous country and uh yeah i can definitely see like this kind of big mountain over here um being the kind of thing you'd see around maybe even tirana um tirana so maybe we could be up here on this hill or in in this hill over here looking down i mean the city would be to the north then um and we'd have a big mountain to the north so yeah that big mountain is direct north we can probably readjust i guess because of that um maybe in this part of town here then we could be over here looking at this mountain over here that's certainly possible um so i think that's probably what we'll go for here albania doesn't have a whole lot of coverage but we're gonna use the geography here um to get this guess also just the fact that it looks quite poor like this house kind of looks unfinished or abandoned or something like that and even though the architecture is really nice um yeah that is my thought at this stage it could still be like a portugal or something with how hilly it is and with the red roofs it could be spain could be greece um off chance of italy as well but i'm happy most with albania here and this was italy so yeah i was not um expecting it to be italy that but yeah

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so today's video will be a play along in which i'll be playing diverse world games and explaining my entire thought process meanwhile you guys will play along and hopefully by that you'll learn some tips and specific hints to try and get a lot better at the game and uh yeah it should be a fun one i i think these ones always have a positive reception so we're just gonna head straight into it i'm gonna make this a challenge and yeah hopefully i just make a really nice and full explanation of everything that goes into uh each of these guesses that i'm making so here's the first link hit that up in the description and let's head into the first round here i'm also going to be playing without the google car so hopefully that um provides some more sustainable hints for you than just relying on the car meta the first round here one thing that i'm noticing is we have a little bit of english here so that would probably lean me towards some countries and not others you wouldn't see so much english in latin america i would say so another thing to notice here is that we're driving right hand side of the road and most importantly perhaps is that this road is made of all concrete so normally you'd have bitumen but concrete roads are quite common for example in ecuador colombia philippines um sometimes thailand and sometimes chile as well so several countries using concrete birds like this but now if we zoom in over here we can also see that we've got a yellow line with white dashed between and next to it and so if we add all those clues together as well as all these palms in the quiet tropical climate this has to be on philippines so philippines one of the only countries i think it's the only country in asia that would do these road markings also the only country in asia that would have wide highways made of concrete as well in thailand you'll normally see thinner roads made of concrete so yep all adds up plus we're driving right hand side of the road so so many clues on this first round to be able to get there and to me this feels southern although i'm i'm always wrong so let's go on bohol here not really sure where it's going to be

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ends up being not too far away in penne so a decent score for the first round there mostly i'm trying to get the right country here but you know there will also be there will also be hopefully good some good scores as well okay so next one here we've got these kind of ones here are like these concrete poles they're definitely soviet style poles so they'll often be in a-frames or just stand alone like this one and they'll always be like a square shaped and sometimes they'll be a bit darker sometimes they'll be lighter like this one and then at the top you'll have like a kind of metal bar like that so countries where you can see that baltics ukraine russia kyrgyzstan um that's about all the ones i can think of where you'd have such poles like this uh so now we when now we continue to look at this so this one it feels like a decently full climate but also um quite foresty so i was thinking like russia near the baltics or maybe latvia or lithuania for this one um so i'm just trying to think so the houses kind of seem more western european like these ones don't really look typical russia that's probably the thing that makes me like baltics the most here um unfortunately so in a run like this what i'd really be trying to see if is if there are any blue strips on the plates this this plate here doesn't appear to have any blue strips um so that may indicate that we're actually in russia um that's a really good one if you don't have any car meta presumably for you guys you probably saw a long antenna or a short antenna um but because i can't rely on that then it makes it a little bit more difficult but um as for this speed sign i feel like with the um kind of lollipop design with the smaller text that's might be a russian thing but that's kind of something you have to learn by vibes so um basically in conclusion i do think we're probably going to be near the baltics in russia here so maybe this kind of direction it could always be out here as well and who knows it could be in asia as well i i'm not really sure but um yeah it feels a little bit too cold and like too like green um if you if you know what i mean like it's kind of this like colder climate i'm looking vegetation it feels too cold to be somewhere in ukraine i think um so yeah let's go for this and see how close we

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are and yes it was in russia so the number plate helps us over the edge there we're nice and petersburg so all the way near estonia there but a good effort nonetheless okay next one here we have some bollards so here's where bollard knowledge comes in handy but let's just pretend we didn't know what well ours these were and take a look around shall we okay so here here is another country that uses this uh single yellow line with the white dash so not many countries so let me tell you all the countries where you can see that so argentina doesn't sometimes uruguay does it sometimes um as we said philippines new zealand i'm just trying to think of any other country that does that i think you may be able to see it occasionally in south africa possibly although i can't quite remember i know i think they'd have another yellow on the outside so um or next to the white dashes so i think that is pretty much the four countries where you can see it at a good like frequency um if we look at this car here it's definitely parked as if it was driving on the left-hand side of the road um because like obviously if he's pulling out here um it's easier for him to get on the left now he could have done a u-turn like that so it's always possible but yeah just something to keep in mind hopefully he wasn't behind the webcam there but that's the one i was talking about um okay and then uh yeah so we've got the bollards um we've also got english writing on the road and crucially if you don't near bollards this this uh this uh sign post is painted white and there is nowhere in australia i think you might see where i'm going with this there's nowhere in australia that paints them white so we have to be in new zealand here and also these are the new zealand bollards they'll have the thick red on one side and then the red strip that's a better example here uh the red the white strip on the right hand side um or on the left hand side sorry okay so uh we're gonna be somewhere in new zealand here i think maybe north of the south island or somewhere in the north island i kind of like this kind of area here just because it is quite hilly and quite cold looking but yeah it could easily be north island i could even see it being quite far north but yeah new zealand not really my strong point in all honesty so i'm just

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going to go here ends up being south island indeed actually on this section so probably quite distinctive if you're good at new zealand but unfortunately i'm not that good uh anyway we get away with that one quite nicely okay so next one is one where we're really going to want to rely on architecture look at all these white buildings everywhere so um that is definitely the biggest clue here once you're an experienced geographer you won't notice these white buildings so let's zoom in on this sign here we have some arabic here that's for sure and then it's kind of hard to read this language i think it looks like some kind of romance language of course i think i do know what language it is but i'm just trying to like uh say say i didn't know i think i would have trouble reading that okay so taking a look around here um there's definitely a combination of like blue and white in the architecture very typical of this country also the center line in the road is white and also the outside lines are white as well which is super useful because a lot of the countries look similar similar to this we'll use some form of yellow lines and then zooming in over here and we have a follow car with the red on the on the registration plate um which is a government vehicle inside tunisia this is the tunisian follow car and this is also very tunisian architecture there's nowhere else where you'll really see anything quite like this i think um so then we get to picking a town here um when it comes to tunisia i like to this one's a little bit more difficult i would say because i think we're right near the ocean so um i could see us being here or something like that i'm not really sure if that town has coverage but it's probably going to be somewhere near the beach which is making it harder for me to judge the climate regardless it's definitely tunisia driving my hands out of the road all my road lines got the follow car got the houses so let's

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see if i close ends up being on this island okay that actually kind of makes sense i did consider it so yeah that's kind of the southernmost extent of the coverage in tunisia there's not really too much south of that and it goes all the way up to tunis but all this uh all these towns out here in the west of the country are not covered at all okay so we've gone decently so far nothing too insane but also good okay so here we have all white road lines once again that's a great thing to consider um let's check out these signs so this sign is set up for right hand drive you can tell that because as someone pulls up here they're going to be you know more so to the right because they're driving on the right side of the road going to left let people in driving right here and we know that because this sign is here on the right hand side so yeah just just a good thing to always keep in mind when you aren't quite sure you can't see any cars like this guy's a bit too far in the distance this guy yeah you could get fooled so it's it's good to rely on signs because they're almost always telling the truth okay so we got what white road lines here fairly flat which is interesting and we do have some hills in the distance um one of the big ones for this round particularly is that we're using a lot of metal um power lines here um we do we see some non-metal ones in the background but definitely a predominance of metal one metal one all the way through into the background over here and that's definitely a distinctive feature of this country another distinctive feature of this country is that we have like a pepperish road salt and pepper kind of road is what people like to call it and there are certain places in the world where you ha where you see this more for whatever reason um one of them we're not in texas right now but you do see it in kind of texas and oklahoma i think quite a bit for whatever reason seems to be a bit of a help for over there but clearly with these red roofs and everything we should be somewhere in asia and uh we got white soil as well and so uh let me let me get to uh telling you what it is so i do believe that this one is going to be turkey the all-white road lines this kind of texture in the road as well as these metal power lines which are very common in turkey you see them often decently off decently often enough in like serbia and bulgaria i want to say um and then also in some of the middle eastern countries as well but yeah israel definitely uses them a lot as well but i do think this one is going to be turkey because of all the all white road lines as well which you can only barely see really but yeah you can see that these are white on the outside uh whereas that would not be in israel for example so we've got to pick a flat part of turkey here so let's zoom in and find a part that kind of fits i can imagine this being somewhere over here it's fairly green so if we zoom out we can see how green the area we've picked is and uh not particularly green there so maybe we are actually just really close we could even be in european turkey here i think in fact i think that's what i like just because it's so flat and green and it kind of reminds me of bulgaria especially this house over here kind of gives me a bit of a bulgarian vibe but i could be totally wrong here

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and we end up being in bulgaria wow i uh was not expecting that the the the road itself looked very turkish to me so there you go but i did mention bulgaria also has quite a lot of those uh metal poles as well so uh definitely a tough round and so close to romania there but um yeah so i did say the house look bulgarian at least we guessed close to bulgaria so 21.2 uh is a decent score especially with the russia i think that was that was a very uh commendable effort but uh of course i i can only assume that some of you guys did better than me all right let's head into the next challenge here and uh hopefully uh we go well i like to make these ones a bit longer just so that you can chill out even if you're not playing along and just have a good time watching uh so here's the next one uh this one again has a number of clues so let's get straight into it so looking at this play over here unfortunately the sun is a bit too is a bit exposed on here but looking a lot of these plates they don't seem to have blue strips this one doesn't this one does okay so we've got kind of a combination of blue strips and no blue strips which uh you know there are some countries in which blue strips which which currently in 2022 use blue strips uh but which previously didn't and so it kind of seeps into the older google coverage because i can imagine this looks like gen 3 coverage so it was probably taken somewhere around 2015 around that kind of time so maybe they weren't fully transitioned at that point or something like that okay you got me uh so fairly hilly here so that that is definitely something to take into consideration as for the architecture kind of an interesting uh mix of signage here and and brick buildings as well as like kind of concreted buildings as well looking over here we have a a giveaway sign that's filled in yellow i think that is going to be a quite a a useful hint when we think about that later on because most countries use white give way signs okay climate feeling fairly cold one one thing that's a little concerning to me is that we have almost no language here and a lot of times for a round like this we would want some language we have a lot of birch trees though so that kind of gives it a colder vibe as well okay so let me let me tell you what my thoughts are here with a yellow fielding giveaway sign i think our our two real options here for this kind of round are poland and finland obviously they're quite far from one another but i'm still not entirely sure which country i want to go with just yet i think i was i was leaning finland as soon as i saw it um because we got like a volvo over here um and it just feels more finnish i would say but could easily be poland as well um so yeah i was thinking over here um so yeah they're two countries that use these yellow field in science as for countries that do that finland sweden poland sometimes north macedonia and greece that's the ones for europe um you've also got like uh i think south korea um iceland sometimes do it does it as well i mean we could be in iceland here but you don't see blue strips so shouldn't be iceland also too many trees so yeah it was never really going to be iceland actually so then i'm just trying to figure out which one i actually prefer here um obviously um neither finland nor poland are particularly mountainous but you can get hills in both finland's more flat than poland for example poland gets a lot of mountains in the south and then kind of just hilly in in different areas other than that but as for me i do think this is finland i could be wrong um if we were closer to this giveaway sign i'm sure we could work it out better but finland's another one of these countries as i said at the start of the round we sometimes don't have blue strips on some of the cars so that's why i'm going to go for it let's see if i'm right ends up being correct

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there so pretty happy with that i mean it was actually not all things considered not a particularly easy round i i did consider poland as a possibility there so but the trees in the end kind of felt more northern which is yeah just a vibes thing you kind of have to learn okay so even even though we have google car meta turned off here i can still say this is generation two by the peaking out of the blur here and that means we've got old coverage which is actually quite helpful for determining the country often now this one um i feel like i've had this round before and i thought it was either mexican well so let let's take it more slowly here so the sun appears to be to the south so we should be somewhere in the northern hemisphere um so that pretty much well a lot of the countries in the southern hemisphere have no generation 2 coverage anyway so we can rule out south africa and australia but not that they were particularly strong options anyway so these cars appear to be approaching us on the right hand side of the road so that um means we're somewhere up driving on the right here we have this yellow painted um bridge here which is really interesting and i remember last time i had this round that kind of fooled me a little bit so but let's let's continue looking here white in a line so the white inner lines should suggest that we're not in the americas chile uses white center lines but that's southern hemisphere and the sun doesn't fit that but the rest of these countries all through the americas tend to use yellow center lines um so that is probably going to rule those out now in basically every latin american country you can find exceptions um but in north america tends to be almost no exceptions at all um and looking here we have quite decent hills it feels like a mediterranean climate or at least a um somewhat of a temperate climate here fairly dry and these hills are quite distinctive i would say uh and so um i actually i'm pretty sure i had this round like a few weeks ago and i'm pretty sure it was greece and i was really annoyed at myself for guessing mexico but the reason i guess mexico is because of this painted bright painted bridge but i'm pretty sure that was just like a kind of out of place thing that they had in greece and you should trust the white center line don't be like me um so but i don't think i was concentrating particularly hard and it's not recalling i think this is fairly far north um of course repeat rounds can be a curse um but i'm pretty sure i'm right about that and so here you can see this sign this is another example of signs set up for right hand drive and another thing that people told me about uh greece is that the poles are often really tall and you can see that this pole is actually quite remarkably tall uh compared to your average pole i would say at least so i think that would also fit here so i'm pretty sure we are correct and so it's almost time to guess generation two um obviously uh greece being one of the only southern european countries to have gen two greece italy spain portugal they're the only ones really so let's

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guess see if i was right about that it ends up just being central greece that couldn't quite remember but that's fine okay so next one here uh we have some good language tips here but let's let's kind of run through everything else first so we have blue strips on the plates so blue strips on the plates don't get too confused because blue strips on the plate doesn't mean it has to be a country in the eu it just has to be kind of eu adjacent for example um iran actually has blue strips on their plates as well not the direct not they get that ngo guessing but um you can see it on the other maps as well um and uh so bearing that in mind so we're not in an eu country here's is kind of what i was trying to say um and we have we have a flag here so let's continue the round as if we hadn't seen that flag and we don't know what it is um so we've got concrete poles here which is interesting i i do think we would typically see more um more uh like as i said earlier in the video we would see more metal poles in turkey than concrete ones but looking around here we have ac with a hook on the bottom so the only countries i can think of that do that are turkey and romania i believe romania and romania has it with the s i think romania might has it would have it with the sea as well if they don't have it with a c then i think um i think uh portuguese does yes i'm pretty sure portuguese has it with the c maybe it's just with the s in romanian uh but regardless um you do see that in turkish as well obviously because we are in turkey here but good to remember that c um as for this kind of uh pavement quite common to see this kind of like brick pavement um in towns almost like a yeah yeah just kind of like a what you've got tiled road um and uh we have lots of like apartment buildings and definitely some countries do apartment buildings more than others and it just tends to be the way in turkey that most people live in apartment buildings and so you tend to see these big kind of three-story buildings at every corner really throughout the country so this is definitely useful what else is there to say here driving right hand side of the road um yeah i don't think there's really too much else to say here we have hills in the background but it feels fairly flat otherwise so it's kind of typical typical turkey i kind of want to guess somewhere like kanye or something like that kind of feels something to me but really not too sure here let's go in esparta uh ends up being a decent gas here we're

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over closer to the mediterranean sea but still decent 4.3 is good to me okay so here we have generation four lovely saturated coverage there's a number of clues here that are going to give us the country so let's run through them so we are driving right hand side of the road we can tell that by the car here now i we can see a number of bollards lining the side of the road now despite the fact that we do have yellow center lines here you would almost never see so many bollards in the u.s or canada they just tend to be two countries that don't use botlars nearly as much now you will see kind of similar looking bullards in the us but one two three four five in a row i don't really think you'd ever see that in us or at least it's quite rare to see it whereas in europe and australia and countries like that you see it all the time okay so these bollards have like a white reflector with black on it so these are unique to the country i believe or at least uh only unique to a few countries i'm pretty sure these ones are unique to this country turning around here we can see a car with a green registration plate that's a government vehicle it's got the blue strip and then the green plate if you can make that out over youtube we have hills here it feels fairly cold you have to say it's a fairly cold climate um we've got like kind of a lake here of some kind i think we can see that peeking through the trees and some kind of lakeside houses here okay and then yeah just a really good condition road that there's definitely something to be said about learning where the poor conditioned roads are like if you if you see a really poor condition road there's a really good chance you're in ukraine you know ukraine it's a country with a troubled past and not to mention the present and uh you know that that for that reason a lot of the infrastructure is quite poor so you often see poor quality roads in ukraine especially if we're talking about europe obviously africa has a lot of poor quality roads as well but when you see really high quality roads you might be thinking of a country like norway very very uh very very strong public you know um services and roads i don't think i've ever seen a bad quality road in in norway maybe once or twice but suffice to say it should be annoying here this is the only country in europe that uses any green plates for service vehicles like that they're normally going to be like bigger kind of mercedes or something like that bigger bigger truck kind of vehicles like this but not that kind of size if you know what i'm saying um and yeah so it's hilly fairly green i kind of like this area of the country could be all the way north as well i could easily imagine that but yeah i'm going to think like maybe we're near a lake but i don't feel like it's massive like i'm going to go somewhere like this it doesn't feel too far from oslo for my money so let's give that a go here and see but the yellow

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the yellow dash is there oh man i think that's about where i clicked unfortunately but um that's fine 4.6 is still great but yeah um um norway is one of the only countries in europe that uses yellow dashes on the center you have yellow dashes on the outside for um ireland and then double yellows occasionally in finland and finland is actually another one of those countries that uses a single yellow with white dashes as well next to it and like you likely saw in philippines so that's one i forgot to mention okay so here we go we have um this is this is an interesting one we've got a concrete pole here um generation two coverage we can see that from the wide blur again a bit of language here but we can ignore that for the moment because i'm i'm sure a lot of you guys have decent language grasp already this one is hilly uh so at this stage i would love to see some kind of a car number plate because that would really help me out um regardless it doesn't seem like we're gonna be able to get that this house is made of bricks so when you see exposed bricks in europe you could say like northern france luxembourg belgium netherlands and the uk are really where you're gonna see a lot of express bricks sometimes germany as well and denmark okay so that's kind of like the belt uh like kind of this v shape of where you're gonna find a lot of brick houses elsewhere in europe not all too common you do see them but not all too common okay so we have a concrete pole here this one's got like a lot of metal bands around it i feel like you see that a lot in like france belgium luxembourg area i don't really consider that the other european countries use these kind of metal bounds around around a concrete pole too much but that could be wrong not only too sure so this language kind of appears french however i do have some reservations looking down at these houses over here well they certainly could be french the kind of black slate roofs definitely also reminds me of luxembourg and we can see we've got rolling hills here so the fact that we see both of those may indicate that luxembourg is also a strong possibility here it's not to mention that it feels like a fairly affluent area and the north of france as far as i know here is not the richest area which is where i'd place it for france whereas luxembourg is a wealthy country so not really sure if that's actually a good line of logic but it's something i'm thinking about at the moment luxembourg tends to get uh helium in the north and and flatter in the south so i'm thinking north luxembourg here of course this could be like france near strasbourg or something like that or even just over here well possible okay so that's pretty much what we're working with here um i don't think there's any specific country hint here so we may actually lose that streak it's well possible um but uh that's kind of what i'm thinking here is here's a good example of that black slate roof that i was talking about which is common in luxembourg so i think we'll just go for the guess here it's going to be one of the two i assume uh but that's pretty much it there's not actually not too much going on here so let's see if i'm right ends up being 66 kilometers over the border in belgium not entirely surprised there to be honest um but at least we kind of picked up the vibe now that that house so this one would be like very typical of south belgium but not of the north in the north of belgium and basically the rest of the country kind of cutting off from the hilly part down here you would see much more red brick whereas in this one we saw a little white brick so i'm not

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entirely surprised that we're over the border here but still a decent score 22.5 actually that was all europe we played europe well it was asia here but we we almost got the full europe seed and we get 22.5 to show for it losing our country streak but guys i say we do for one more here um and uh hopefully i i beat some of you guys at that one i i'd like to think that that was a decent game especially for no kanji compass but yeah giving those country streaks is tough on this on this uh map and this mode okay so here is a good little round i like this one should be an interesting get see if we can get see if we can win a bit of a 50 50 yeah okay so here now we've got a bit more bollard guess so if you know your bars this round does become significantly easier but actually there's a number of things that i can tell you guys about this round okay so first off we've got a chevron here uh red and white red on white is the most common chevron type in europe there are so many countries especially in eastern europe that use this for example um like croatia romania turkey i believe hungary slovakia czechia um and then a lot of the kind of um ex-soviet countries in in kind of the more russian sphere of influence use a white on red as opposed to red and white um so you can distinguish them that way i'll flash up a map if not um someone remind me and i'll put it inside the description but yeah that is that's definitely worth learning these chevrons for example um there's there's also like you can also get yellow on black which is in portugal ireland uh norway and uh luxembourg i can't remember which the other one is that uses those but you know it's where it's supposed to say very useful to learn those but here we have the bollard with the two orange reflectors this is only in two countries and those are slovakia and czechia so we've already narrowed down mostly using this bollard but say we didn't have the blood we could also narrow it down to some kind of eastern european country most likely with this one here okay but now let's uh let's look at this guard rail which also had which also has like a flat edge and a wide gap between and i'm pretty sure this one if not exclusive is most commonly found in czechia and slovakia so czechoslovakia are cheeky because they they tend to use all the same things and it makes it very very difficult to uh tell the difference okay this is generation three coverage by the way uh which you would which you would see in both countries whereas generation four would only really be seen in czechia um by borrowing a few tiny examples so yeah we should be somewhere in either of the countries as we've established okay so then uh we um i guess we i guess we look a bit further around and see if there's anything else here this one is definitely hilly but not in a way that kind of tells me one or the other i guess as a rule like slovakia is more mountainous but you do get tons of hills in czechia as well i think at this point i do actually prefer slovakia but it's not it's just a vibe thing at this at this stage there's not anything that would really tell me one way or the other and i'm very prepared to say that it could easily be checkier also we've got a skoda here and scrotas are quite common in both countries made around there and also we have all white road lines obviously typical for europe if you if you didn't know that yet and blue strip on the plate so it'll it all checks out that's for sure um just trying to think of where i actually want to put this one but yeah as for me i think i think just somewhere well i might just click near the border as a bit of a hedge sometimes you've got sometimes you've just got a hedge in geoguessing i feel like that's that's kind of right now um road quality is very good here i don't really know if i could use that to swing my decision one way or the other might feel a bit more western european but you could certainly see it in either country there's no doubt about that i might actually go check you here i might um but yeah i'm still going to click near the border here just because i'm i'm pretty i'm pretty pretty hopeless when it comes to this 50 50. so let's find out shall we uh ends up being 32 kilometers away so a good switch a good switch there really nice score um

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good switch there really nice score um plenty of clues to get that one off of but um we end up getting a nice guess as well which is fantastic okay here's the next one here um very dry round off the bat um will we see any cacti here i don't see any but i wouldn't have been surprised to have to be honest um we got a painted front of the house here quite typical for latin america you could say um taking a look at these houses a lot of them like kind of made of mud bricks as well also also decently typical for the area of the world as well we've got hills in the background here definitely worth paying attention to um so we can pretty much rule out a country like uruguay where you would not have any hills that size um so that's good now let's check the sun so sun it seems to be more so to the south however it is almost midday so it is quite hard to tell whether the sun is to the north or to the south i would say it's more so south uh looking just ahead of us here we have what what i would call an octagonal pole um you can see one two three sides here but i assume this one would actually be either hexagonal or octagonal probably octagonal it's also got some writing on the side of it as well and so countries that use octagonal poles mexico is the big one mexico you will see octagonal poles very uh very commonly um colombia also you occasionally see octagonal poles and i feel like i've seen them in ecuador too if not similar ones now this round could have been difficult by the by the fact that we have clear satellite dishes which are much more common in brazil however i'm thinking this one's mexico and i do think that you would kind of see that kind of thing in rural mexico as well so satellite dishes that are clear common in brazil i think you also get them quite a lot in indonesia and malaysia maybe thailand too i think that they're some of the other countries where you'll see such satellite dishes but the big one here is the the octagonal pole and the architecture as well i would say these kind of white buildings more common for mexico so it has to be fairly dry here but also i don't really feel like it is too far north either because of the kind of whitishness of the soil i feel like it would be a little more red up here so then i'm just kind of thinking like somewhere in the dryer zones out here would kind of make sense to me otherwise we could be a little bit further over this direction and that's kind of the two things i'm really thinking here um but yeah i think i think i think this would be a chill guess regardless we're going to be decently close sarakin we're 40 kilometers away so this has been an actual actual nut start to the seed very very very happy with these guesses um

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and so there we were oh this has been a really nice start see what we get on the next one especially for um no car no compass okay so next one here we are aided by a number of things we're driving our hands out of the road first thing to tick off the list um okay so we've got a bit of a donate domain name here so that will definitely help out um okay so let's just run through some of the things here this architecture i would say is very like typical of czechia slovakia and serbia um yeah definitely those three countries would come to mind when when i see uh around like this also we have these round poles round concrete poles are also very common in all three countries maybe particularly check your own slovakia they love to use them over there so no holy poles or anything anything in those three countries at all okay so then uh let's check out the kind of um what i want to say next i think this sign is quite common in eastern europe this one you also see a lot in turkey and south africa and the south african countries um okay so uh the houses are also going right to the um footpath here so like like these four houses in a row here that's something that is typical for all three countries as well very common in serbia but obviously with the sk domain name we are in slovakia this time so i may have been tempted to go serbia um had we not had that indeed i probably would have to be honest um so let's see if we see any hills that looks like it's probably just trees so we have to be in in a rather flat part of slovakia here i would say we're going to be far south i would say we're going to be far south in a town like that maybe um we might even have the town name here not that i'll try and find it but yeah don't don't really see it not to worry not to worry okay so yeah definitely feeling slovakia um there's not really too much else to say here just just a very like european breakdown of cars all the cars are european very it's just very eastern european vibes you kind of have to know it um a lot of single-story houses but then also apartments in the background i would say that this is just super typical um slovakia and so i think like a southern guest the only thing atypical about this round is the flatness but we can just guess in a flat region like near bratislava and we're going to be 98 kilometers away so

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it's still a decent gas here in malaki so right near the border there with austria interestingly and i did kind of think some of the houses looked a little austrian but um or more so western european but you know it's hard to get those fabs sometimes as well okay next one's interesting here so we're driving right hand side of the road with double yellows in the center here we also see them here yeah we do um so let's ignore the signs just for now so we have like uh interestingly we have some like eucalyptus trees here um which is not yeah and this one true this one too not not entirely typical of this country but certainly something you can see here um okay as for um what else can we say here we got like a lot of american cars here this is a very good way to tell this country apart from others so look pick up american pickup truck here here here um [Music] yeah we see three at least so yeah and that's pretty typical that one might be asian but yeah it is very typical to see these kind of american pickup trucks in mexico of course we are in mexico this time um and we got generation four coverage as well which you can see in mexico colombia argentina and brazil at time of recording uh we also have hills in the background and mexico is kind of it's very it's one it's a certain kind of country where it grows flat and then heals and then flat and then hills and that's kind of so so you you'll normally be in a flat area but be able to see hills in the background or something like that okay we're also near plucks flux carla which i have heard the name of i was thinking it's further over this direction but um maybe i'm wrong about that well because run such a good score i do actually want to find this of course um so flux color um that's probably what i was thinking of tukstla um but yeah this one should should not be too hot i've definitely heard of this place we're given that sohili we shouldn't be anywhere in yucatan yucatan and kampachi are pretty uh pretty flat areas so over this direction here then okay so let's see what number they were seems like it might say 130. so we're in 170s over here 125. so wouldn't be surprised if we were nearby here i don't see it okay so so here here's tox um here's here's the state we're in it's a very small state so we're guaranteed a good score for that reason okay we're on an overpass with a road underneath it that basically goes directly north to south so this one's certainly gettable oh it doesn't bend at all from what i saw no so we got a hill to the north as well so this is certainly certainly findable and that's why kind of why i just want to give it a quick look at least um yeah that's too built up we when we're kind of outside of a town here um and would that be a yellow road it's probably just a white road that's going to make things harder to see whereas this one would appear to be a yellow road on the map i imagine so yeah it might be a little too hard to find i don't really know if we're going to be able to but i mean regardless we're going to get good school i would not be surprised if we're just outside um down here maybe we can use the other the other town name to help us out puebla so where's puebla oh there it is so so we're probably between the two towns in fact there so so puebla is kind of kind of east of us and so maybe southeast and then so we're probably like somewhere between the two towns so play something like over here so do we see any road that runs north i don't know because it's a longer video i'm kind of comfortable with trying to get the 5k that almost looks similar but it has to be north to south you see i have to be running this direction i don't really see any good candidates to be honest also our road kind of is running more east to west than the one i clicked on so i don't know if we are actually going to find the one here okay well that's it for searching for me let's go right there and we end up being 14 kilometers away this was the one

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okay so there we go that's what that's what we're on it wasn't quite directly north to south but 14 kilometers away is still a great score and we can get 24.5 here looks like we actually will as well because we are in a small country here okay so here we go white center lines very faded yellow outlines this car would appear to be driving left at the top as well so that pretty much cuts out the other countries that use yellows on the outsides jordan israel and uae okay so we're looking down in this region here it's very green with a lot of hills so botswana is immediately out the only hilly region is around gabarone you see hills here but yeah it would be too dry there anyway so south africa lesotho s martini um lesotho would never have this many trees i'm quite confident in saying when you see proper forests like this like this one here never lusudu i want to say that at least very very rarely if so okay so then we're down to south africa and this martini um and well with these big pine forests you see these big pine plantations and these big hills when you see that combination it pretty much has to be on the s martini south africa border and uh as for this one because this kind of long yellowish grass i really like swatini better and so i think we're going to be somewhere on the mr19 somewhere around the border here near embabani so i think that's pretty much what we're what we're dealing with here now again because i'm on such a high school i could probably find like like a way that it you know that that fits this road i mean to be honest where i've clicked right now doesn't even seem too bad um if we're going there then it's going to bend away too yeah not not not correct but i i do strongly believe that yeah we're going to be one near one of these kind of green sections here in the west of s martini uh she also might be wearing traditional dress which would be more common in swatini um and uh these kind of straight wooden poles i i think also more common there i'm i'm quite confident also with this red soil that we are on there teens out of the border rather than south africa but regardless we're gonna be close uh and so guys i think i think we're gonna go for it here also the kind of vast hills this is also a very hilly area so you can just see the rolling hills way into the distance there to the north um which yeah would check out we can we see a lot of hills rolling over to the north there so let's go for this guess and we

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good to have you along on the channel today so today we're going to be playing some community world on a play along and the idea is that you're going to play these seeds first and then i'm going to teach you guys what i know about the different matters that we're going to see in these rounds and all the different tips and tricks that you can use to up your level of gameplay i hope by watching this video you'll at least learn some things hopefully in every location i'll be able to teach you at least two or three so let's get straight into this first link which is found in the description hopefully you've played it by now and uh let's see what we got going on i've also blurred out the car so that we are not using that to decide where we're going to go because a lot of people like to learn the actual tips rather than just the car meta here is the first one this architecture strikes me as quite southeast asian off the bat also we have a whole bunch of motorbikes motorbikes are fairly common in latin america as well but certainly the part of the world where you see them the most is southeast asia particularly you could say like indonesia malaysia thailand that kind of area there okay so we see plenty of those scooters and bikes right now so let's take a look around here we've got a mix of like what appears to be arabic and also what appears to be some kind of latin script language as well here which is interesting interesting indeed oh this girl is wearing a head scarf as well so that would definitely factor into our guess later down the track okay so just looking for anything let's have a flag here so that will probably help as well at some point okay so we're fairly built up here which is interesting um again we have the flag painted on um the pulse here so this will be indonesia and indonesia is a very patriotic country so you'll often see that around the spot here okay so let's take one more look okay here's here's a very uh important thing to know for indonesia is that oftentimes they'll have cigarette ads all around the place and the price is normally around 15 000 i think it's root rupees over there so i'm pretty sure that's what they use in uh it starts with an i i think it starts with an r anyway um and and it's normally going to be about 15 000 somewhere in that ballpark 16 000 is also pretty common for the price of cigarettes so you can often use that as a pretty good way to tell indonesia because that's the only country using that um uh currency so yeah um we also have this kind of very very indo slash malay looking language here so yeah obviously that is going to be pretty nice um the question is where it kind of reminded me of borneo a little bit it also kind of reminded me of sulawesi so i'm kind of tossing up between those two seeing if there's any i've learned i know the phone codes for indonesia but i don't think we're actually going to get any or offer here so yeah uh and then polls are also quite useful but i don't think we see any as well so then actually the longer i look at it the more i kind of like just going java here um i could easily see sulawesi or any any any uh island here but i think i will just go java so let's find out where it actually is and it ends up

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being all the way up here so well done if you are able to get sumatra unfortunately because it was so urban um i couldn't get it although i'm sure if you're an indonesian expert you could have so starting off with a low score but hopefully you learned some stuff about indonesia and uh here we are and uh this one would appear to be in a similar type of region of the world let's say okay so let's take a look at what we see on this one we see all white road lines it's going to be very significant for helping us decide where to go we also have a black and white signposts which will also help factor in for the country here um it's quite apparent that we are driving left-hand side of the road here even though this this whole like pulling over section over here this car is driving on the left-hand side of the road and you can see this sign is set up for left-hand drive this is the back of the sign the cars for their headlights facing us here we'll drive down the road and they'll be able to see this sign facing towards them okay so that's pretty useful um vegetation wise we also have a whole bunch of oil palms here oil palms very common in indonesia particularly borneo and likewise maybe even more common in malaysia um also common in southern thailand as well i'm pretty sure that's the extent of where they're very commonly found so good to keep that in mind okay and then we also have a black number plate which is divided in two here we have one set of text here one set of text here wide black number plate if this were in indonesia which it's not then we would have three sets of text as it stands we only have two and so that would that would indicate that we are in malaysia okay so yeah all white road lines as well very malaysian and oftentimes you'll have a double white line um in the center double white line but we don't have that here if you do have that and you're in asia i'm pretty sure malaysia's the only country in asia that uses double whites at least the only country that commonly does it so um yeah we should be on borneo here and the reason i say that is because we're in generation three camera which is more common in borneo and we also have all these oil palms which are also more common in borneo and it's very flat as well whereas peninsula malaysia tends to be quite hilly all the way through so i would say we're somewhere around here maybe i'm just trying to think actually how far up i want to go here maybe it could be somewhere around here it's probably going to be somewhere between here and over here and so i'm just going to go for that and it ends up being 200

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kilometers away other side of bintulu so not a bad effort there although no doubt as well some of you guys got better scores okay on to the next round here let's check out what we've got going on uh okay so we have some language here we'll return to that at some point soon okay so we have holy poles over here that's definitely going to factor into our decision later on you'd call this one a wide holy pole um and there are three countries in europe that tend to use holy poles very often and there's a hungry romania and poland you can also find holy polls of some description in france and belgium and then also occasionally in portugal although portuguese one's a bit different and then elsewhere in eastern europe as well okay so that's kind of what we're working with here okay we are fairly hilly but not all too hilly um one also one also thing to mention about this holy pool here is that it's painted white at the bottom which will also factor into our decision later on as well okay so we have some bollards here these are in the australian style this is an australian style bowl a little bit shorter so you'd find this kind of a board in in the netherlands as well although of course we're not there because with mountains like this these would easily exceed the highest point in the netherlands okay and then uh we also have some architecture here which will come in useful architecture kind of the thing you need to get like your own feel for by playing a lot but i would definitely say that that's useful here and also the white center lines should guarantee that we're in europe as opposed to elsewhere okay so i'm coming to my decision here given the fact that a lot of the trees are painted right at the bottom as well as this wide holy pole here i think this should be in romania so let's uh take a look at this sign here to confirm that we're speaking some kind of romance language and we are we can see the de uh kind of word here that would that would definitely remind me of a romance language such as like italian or french or something like that but of course we're in eastern europe so this one will be romania this architecture here kind of reminded me more of like hungary or slovakia or serbia so i was thinking of guessing this side of the country uh who knows if that's going to be correct or not that's kind of my own thinking on the round though and uh yeah that's about it i mean these bars these are not typical for romania although you can find them there so i think that's about all we need to mention here let's guess

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it and it ends up being 155 kilometers away so a pretty nice effort there okay next one here uh seems that we are continuing on with the theme of the first two rounds from this video so here we are using a concrete road this is probably the biggest clue on around like this concrete roads around the world fairly common in philippines in thailand um you can find concrete roads fairly often in like peru ecuador and colombia as well uh bolivia i believe every now and again uses some concrete roads as well i'm just trying to think of other countries where where concrete reds are fairly prevalent but yeah these ones in southeast asia are particularly where you'll see a lot of them and now in thailand you wouldn't see so many concrete roads that are indonesia i forgot to mention as well uh thailand you wouldn't see so many concrete roads that are double land uh whereas in philippines you would see them quite often so philippines immediately coming to mind here okay so we have some like banana plants here very common all over southeast asia that's for sure we also have these red and white chevrons here now i can't claim to know my chevrons of asia that well i know them pretty much all in europe but as for these chevrons you can definitely see red and white in philippines and it's quite useful i think you'll also see red and white in sri lanka um and probably some others as well although i think all the ones in all the other like proper possibilities would not be a factor with red and white i believe also clearly we're driving right hand side of the road and so that cuts out uh thailand cambodia japan malaysia indonesia i'm not cambridge sir but you know um and so yeah plenty of countries that drive left-hand side of the road okay so all that having been said we seem to be quite high up here and so the tallest mountains in malaysia i mean in philippines i would say somewhere up here so that's really what i'm thinking of guessing although it could just be a really wet day and that's why it looks so elevated and so is there anything else to say here um we also have a bit of english which is very typical to see in the philippines and uh we do probably have the location of where we are here but i can't be bothered actually pinpointing on a teaching video well all white road lines is interesting as well um because sometimes you would

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see yellows in in philippines unfortunately this was all the way far south um it's interesting because i seem to be able to get the middle of the country quite well but then i often confuse north and south with one another so unfortunate result there but we do fine okay so the next one here we are on full country streak let's see if we can continue on that theme this one we're immediately going to look at the road lines obviously i'm always harping on about road lines in this series but i really do think it's so important that you learn where we'll have yellow in the center and when we'll have white in the center and so we appear to have double yellow lines in the center here which would mean somewhere in the americas is immediately much much more likely so the only country that where you would never see like double yellow lines like this is like chile where you'd have double white lines and then some of these countries like peru ecuador colombia mexico are more likely to use a single yellow line in the center but still most you'll be able to find double yellows as well okay let's take a look at the poles next these poles are sectioned they have three sections in them they have dots towards the top and they're completely made of concrete so perhaps that rings a bell for you if it does then um then you should know the country if it doesn't then keep keep the image of this pole in your mind because it is one of the more useful polls to know in the whole geography i would say and so we have red roofs on a lot of the buildings as well this would probably indicate some european influence i think it's fair to say we also have a lot of motorbikes as i said motorbikes can be found quite often in south america this one does not really feel like southeast asia in fact the only countries you'd see double yellows in southeast asia would be like taiwan just trying to think i think maybe in some times in cambodia you'd see or maybe sometimes in thailand as well but yeah not particularly common thing to see in southeast asia okay so i am thinking with these uh concrete section poles that we should be somewhere in brazil now brazil uses these poles all around the country you can see fairly similar ones with shorter sections in them in ecuador and then brazil is a pretty good good uh a good call when you see a pole like this in south america also to mention we have these clear satellite dishes very common for roofs of brazilian houses and so the question is where and um with these hills i am kind of liking north a lot of red roofs and kind of dis-shaped hills in the north of the country um i could as easily see it being somewhere like much further out here i could also see it being you know somewhere in goyas or tokantins as well but yeah i mean um i uh i think we should be correct here and so i'm just trying to see if there's anything else that's particularly useful a lot of motorbikes and i think that may indicate that we're in a poorer area and this is kind of a poor area as opposed to the deep south which is quite more or quite a bit more wealthy in brazil um but i think that's about all i can see the double yellows in the center those concrete poles here and kind of this just general landscape and feel is quite brazilian indeed so let's see if i'm right about where it is it ends up being a nice guess in uh

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