Okay, here's the deal with central road lines in the Nordics: Norway - always yellow. Sweden - always white. Finland - dashed lines are white, solid lines are yellow.
Also there was a speed limit sign in the background.. (Hard to see though) Sweden: Yellow Background Norway: White Background (Works for some other road signs - but not all of them. Safe with speed limits)
Does it put you in easier locations? Because when I did it I got the Pyramids of Egypt, and I don't know if I was lucky, or if it puts you on an easier map.
@@codrinn9999 Excuse me. I'm afraid that you aren't aware that we've stepped into the 21st year of the 21st century. 'Gay' isn't a bad thing here anymore. It's also not associated with stereotypes and therefore it comes across a little weird to use it as you did. Please remember that during your stay in these modern times. Ofcourse, you are welcome to time travel back to the past if you feel outdated here. Thank you and have a pleasant day.
12:08 - these white and red posts are standard for Polish roads, placed every 100m and have a kilometer number you're at right now (also road number every 1km). Top number is kilometer, for example 120 (120th kilometer on that road) and bottom meters. Road number is always on top of these both, every full kilometer. These are useful for road accidents and calling for help, etc. Hope this helps you one day.
Also, I know some of the other countries have the signage in the same colors but to easily remember - Polish flag is white and red. A lot of signs such as these posts, chevron signs on curves and barriers separating sidewalks from roads are white and red.
Having a road number every kilometre is a really impressive feat, Poland isn't a small country. Where I live you can easily go hundreds of kilometres without any good signs for where you are.
As a norwegian, the norwegian guess was excruciation to watch! So glad you got it in the end. The thing about the green licence plate on cars in Norway, means you have it registered as a company car.
Drinking Game Correct Guess - Take a drink Tom changes his mind to a different continent - Take a drink Tom attempts local accent to see if it fits with a sign - Take a drink Colour of that post should tell me but I have no idea - Take a drink "Squiggles" - Take a drink Fiat - Take a drink "Am I recording?" - Down your drink Insane Guess - Down you drink
@@ConkerVonZap I can tell the difference if it's spoken or even longer written sentences. But with just two words, especially those, it could be down to a dialect difference as far as i can tell.
Mexico é uma cilada, Bino. I think that any brazilian already knew that right away, but it is probably very hard to distinguish between spanish and portuguese for foreigners
Sweden does not have yellow markings on the roads, only white ones. Norway and Finland have yellow ones. Also, while Sweden does have blue road signs with place names, they will always be written in capital letters. Just a tip for the future, Tom. :)
And there is no green license plates (usually, only car dealerships have them on temporarily when customers test drive cars but then you should be able to see a white one too)
You could always speed up a video and upload an unlisted video of the uncut version, and put the link in the description for those who want to witchhunt
Green license plates are always Norway. They're used for not only big cars, but automobiles registered as a 2- or 3 seater van with a boot of a certain volume, and less allowed total weight of 3500 kgs. They can be the obvious vans such as VW Transporter, Ford Transit, Merc Sprinter, but also larger estates or minivans such as some Volvos, the VW Touran, Ford S-max, and also pizza carriers such as Peugeot Partner/Citr Berlingo, Renault Kangoo etc.
Hilarious how this guy has the instinct to recognise the most absurd things can't remember green license plates, extended yellow lines and mountains much more common in Norway. Mad respect for going much further than I ever could do.
it's odd how one's own country looks immediately familiar without really being able to explain why. I knew instantly, as soon as the image came up, that the Norway one was Norway, before you even turned around or anything. And I dont really know why, it's just the side of a rock, it shouldnt be so distinctly Norwegian, but for some reason it is. Some pro tips for distinguishing between Norway and Sweden if youve narrowed it down to those two: Norway has yellow center stripes, Sweden has white. Those green license plates are uniquely Norwegian; it's a certain class of cars that can get those (they then pay lower fees etc). Signs with place names are usually all caps in Sweden, while in Norway it is usually capped initial letter with rest lower case.
Okay so in Sweden you actually never, ever get yellow road lines unless it's a road work. The font and design of the Norwegian sign is also different compared to Sweden. Tricky for you to get but very obvious when you live in one of the countries. The Norwegian sign has a taller, skinnier font sort of and the sign is larger overall I think
Tip for Italy: They usually have a second blue dashon the side. But be careful there are a couple others who have it too: France (if its a new plate), Albania; Portugal has a yellow dash on the right
I think your luck had enough after the Norway guess 😁 As a Swede I can tell you for future rounds: The green number plate thing on bigger vehicles is only in Norway, not Sweden. I don't think they have it in any other Scandinavian country either, but I may be wrong. Also, to my knowledge, all road lines in Sweden are white. No yellow in the middle. Great content as always! 👍
I watched like 90% of your videos, keep hoping for Lithuania to appear here, and when it does... it all dark in a photo :D Love the content anyway! Keep it up :)
About half of Britain is quite hilly to be fair, north and west of the imaginary Tees-Exe line ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tees-Exe_line ). No huge mountains though, true.
you can always tell australia by gum trees. they are pretty unique to here, and, a dead giveaway. when european settlers first came here, they had never seen anything similar, and the old paintings by colonial artists just had european trees painted in there place.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodluck_Jonathan You did good with Galtland. Tips - Norway has green car signs for "working vans" or small lorries, when you have room for tools/cargo and max 2 passengers. They also use small letters for blue roadsigns, whereas Sweden always use big letters for blue signs. So - Galteland is in Norway (also green sign visible on the van), if it was GALTELAND it could be Sweden. Yellow stripes on the road is usually not used a all in Sweden, unless you have a temporary lane due to roadworks.
Yellow lines do exist in Sweden, but only during temporary construction to mark where you should be driving, and that you shouldn't pay attention to the white markings. Lines are also generally dashed, except on segments of the road where it's illegal to overtake other vehicles. /Swede with a driver's licence
18:49: Green plates means the car was registered as a work vehicle, which means a lot less tax. The main criterias are a sizable trunk and only one row of seats. So you could register a Hummer on green plates, but not a Ferrari. In reality 9/10 cars with green plates will be vans, while some will be bigger off-road cars. I'm not sure if there are green plates in any other countries in Northern Europe, but I can't think of any. You may also like to know that Denmark has almost exactly the same system - but with yellow plates with red borders. (someone has already mentioned the yellow road markings, which is the most obvious tell)
In Norway some company cars have green license plate. Normal license plate will have no eu symbol in the blue area but a Norwegian flag or no blue area at all, just white, if it's older. Just some tips if you didn't already know. Anyway I really enjoy your channel. Keep it up.
Green license plates in Norway means that the car is under a company so often electrician, plumbers cars have those. Also cars with 2/3 seats and no back seats got green plates.
13:05. All of the cars you described can be found on roads in Australia. Granted, maybe not the norm to have all brands in a group, but yeah. Anyway ,I dabbled in geocaching and the Munzee thing. I'm intrigued by this Gmap searching game but the site is a bit strict. One game every 24 hours? I understand the server load but hey, that's cruel. However, I see a great educational value in this type of game. Oh, I subbed, because I'm a map geek. I reread my comment and realized that my comment about the cars may have appeared as a slight against your sleuthing skills. No, I know we drive on a different side of the road. It was more a comment on the globalisation of the car industry LOL.
fuck it was so insane seeing a street from dubbo, where my family comes from. i was scoffing at the screen like lmao looks like lakeland drive in dubbo and it FUCKNG WAS. i nearly shat myself
To be honest, as a Norwegian I thought the name sounded more Swedish but obviously the yellow road line, the white speed limit sign, the green number plate on the van and the sign not being in capital letters made it clear that it's in Norway.
I know I briefly mentioned this in a comment on the last one, but it’d be great to see you do a perfect score in Ireland video/series. I’ve been trying it myself in the last few days and it’s quite tricky because a lot of the locations are very rural. When you’ve been doing the England, Scotland and Wales perfect scores, they seem to generally be more urban so I think this would be a nice challenge. Anyway, just a suggestion.
My logic for the Poland one went - northernish part of Europe based on cars, EU based on license plate, former Eastern bloc based on concrete poles above railway, road markers are unusually red/white so maybe Poland or Latvia's flag colors? And I don't think Latvia has those markers.
*looks at a car a billion miles away*
"That's a Fiat panda"
*Stares at a huge Fiat Panda right on the screen*
"I don't even know what that is"
hahahaha
He works in mysterious ways
Okay, here's the deal with central road lines in the Nordics:
Norway - always yellow.
Sweden - always white.
Finland - dashed lines are white, solid lines are yellow.
Also the asphalt in sweeden often has a red-ish colour
Lithuania - black, like everything else around
They are changing the solid lines in Finland. All are going to be white. Won't show on street view for a while though.
Also there was a speed limit sign in the background.. (Hard to see though)
Sweden: Yellow Background
Norway: White Background
(Works for some other road signs - but not all of them. Safe with speed limits)
You have the most norhtern name that exists
Goodluck Jonathan was the president of Nigeria.
I thought this comment was a joke, till i searched on Google.
was laughing so much!
@@BobRoss-bp2yv he wasn't that bad aside from all the corruption
I was about to say that
@@neonwired4978 Aside from him being that bad, he wasn't that bad
Yeah - I thought that was a giveaway. So well done to the guy for getting the country from the place name
Come on Tom, that Lithuania one was obvious!
I'm Lithuanian and I can confirm that we just live in a pitch black void of nothing 👍
@@mod3no first time i've seen a reply getting more likes than the comment,
Reject Sun
Embrace monke
The void fields of Lithuania are in all the tourism brochures
czcams.com/video/ZLbEz2sQkwc/video.html
*Mountains and a road*
"It's gotta be Bhutan"
“Oo hold on a minute, look at these, are they Bhutan buildings”
Mountains with coniferous forests that is not Europe and exists in Google street view. Then Bhutan is a good guess.
Vast mountains with this lush temperate vegetation always seems to end up being Bhutan. It's quite characteristic really.
Distant car: hmm..that could be a Fiat Panda.
Next, Fiat Panda right in front of him; I don't know what that is lads
You can actually do country streaks on geoguessr now. It's a separate game mode, and you can set it to not allow moving.
it’s kinda easy though, way too easy for our wizard
Yeah, he tried it out on stream a couple days ago.
he probably will not change, since he tried it on the diverse world map, so he will stick to it.
@@ainetero4452 good to know, I have missed has last couple of streams because I have been busy.
Does it put you in easier locations? Because when I did it I got the Pyramids of Egypt, and I don't know if I was lucky, or if it puts you on an easier map.
GeoWizard has got me saying "GET IN" all the time now
That's a very gay thing to say
@@codrinn9999 Excuse me. I'm afraid that you aren't aware that we've stepped into the 21st year of the 21st century. 'Gay' isn't a bad thing here anymore. It's also not associated with stereotypes and therefore it comes across a little weird to use it as you did. Please remember that during your stay in these modern times. Ofcourse, you are welcome to time travel back to the past if you feel outdated here. Thank you and have a pleasant day.
@@Mar10la why are you gay?
@@codrinn9999 🤦🏻♀️
I played some Countries Battle Royale and when I came up 1st place I literally screamed GET IN!!!
12:08 - these white and red posts are standard for Polish roads, placed every 100m and have a kilometer number you're at right now (also road number every 1km).
Top number is kilometer, for example 120 (120th kilometer on that road) and bottom meters. Road number is always on top of these both, every full kilometer. These are useful for road accidents and calling for help, etc.
Hope this helps you one day.
Also, I know some of the other countries have the signage in the same colors but to easily remember - Polish flag is white and red. A lot of signs such as these posts, chevron signs on curves and barriers separating sidewalks from roads are white and red.
@@badAim2 Yeah, I would have guessed Poland just because the post was red and white like its flag, lol.
Very similar scenario on bigger roads here in Ireland
Those are also common in Ukraine
Having a road number every kilometre is a really impressive feat, Poland isn't a small country. Where I live you can easily go hundreds of kilometres without any good signs for where you are.
You didn't even ask 'Are we recording?' 😐
He did
As a norwegian, the norwegian guess was excruciation to watch! So glad you got it in the end.
The thing about the green licence plate on cars in Norway, means you have it registered as a company car.
I need a GeoWizard shirt or hat that says, "Get In!"
Ive been binge watching ur channel recently and i love how classically british u are
4:35 I think the “pampas grass” is sugar cane. Which is another clue that it’s not Europe.
Definitely sugar cane.
8:28. You're welcome
made my day
Half speed lol
8:29
@@rando-ou2cv .25 speed
Drinking Game
Correct Guess - Take a drink
Tom changes his mind to a different continent - Take a drink
Tom attempts local accent to see if it fits with a sign - Take a drink
Colour of that post should tell me but I have no idea - Take a drink
"Squiggles" - Take a drink
Fiat - Take a drink
"Am I recording?" - Down your drink
Insane Guess - Down you drink
0:50
Tom: "Carga Pesada..."
Me: "It's Mexico."
Tom: "Well, it's not Mexico."
*sad lost panda noises*
you guys really don't know distinguish portuguese from spanish ._. it's like not knowing the difference between Danish, Swedish and Norwegian
@@ConkerVonZap Tbf "Carga Pesada" is written in the same way in both languages
@@ConkerVonZap I can tell the difference if it's spoken or even longer written sentences. But with just two words, especially those, it could be down to a dialect difference as far as i can tell.
It obviously cannot be Mexico because the Sun was in the North, which means you are in the Southern Hemisphere.
Mexico é uma cilada, Bino.
I think that any brazilian already knew that right away, but it is probably very hard to distinguish between spanish and portuguese for foreigners
You play this map for so long but never clicked “Like map”.
Sweden does not have yellow markings on the roads, only white ones. Norway and Finland have yellow ones. Also, while Sweden does have blue road signs with place names, they will always be written in capital letters. Just a tip for the future, Tom. :)
And there is no green license plates (usually, only car dealerships have them on temporarily when customers test drive cars but then you should be able to see a white one too)
@@kooorv69 what about diplomats?
@@mikahina3909 they have blue plates!
0:33 ”Big long straight long road” - geowizard 2020
You could always speed up a video and upload an unlisted video of the uncut version, and put the link in the description for those who want to witchhunt
3:50 no wrong mark you are zoomin in
I love these videos so much I would pay a monthly subscription to see you play this everyday
0:51 "É uma cilada, Bino!"
MANO eu pensei a mesma coisa! hahahaha
Tava torcendo pra ele não ir no Equador
Damn, that Cardiff one looked incredibly familiar, turns out that's the specific building I study in at uni.
Literally just a few seconds ago I thought to myself
Damn I’m really up for another GeoWizard video
Should've went with your first thought of Thailand. Wow you were close. But don't give up! Never give up, never surrender
8:28 best part
Italy is very easy once you spot the license plate. A EU marking on one side, and another blue marking on the other side.
8:27 wow
Green license plates are always Norway. They're used for not only big cars, but automobiles registered as a 2- or 3 seater van with a boot of a certain volume, and less allowed total weight of 3500 kgs. They can be the obvious vans such as VW Transporter, Ford Transit, Merc Sprinter, but also larger estates or minivans such as some Volvos, the VW Touran, Ford S-max, and also pizza carriers such as Peugeot Partner/Citr Berlingo, Renault Kangoo etc.
Nice record of 13 man!
Love this series it's been my favorite recently
Hilarious how this guy has the instinct to recognise the most absurd things can't remember green license plates, extended yellow lines and mountains much more common in Norway. Mad respect for going much further than I ever could do.
i recognised the second one in Cardiff straight away as its about 2 miles from where i live :)
it's odd how one's own country looks immediately familiar without really being able to explain why. I knew instantly, as soon as the image came up, that the Norway one was Norway, before you even turned around or anything. And I dont really know why, it's just the side of a rock, it shouldnt be so distinctly Norwegian, but for some reason it is.
Some pro tips for distinguishing between Norway and Sweden if youve narrowed it down to those two: Norway has yellow center stripes, Sweden has white. Those green license plates are uniquely Norwegian; it's a certain class of cars that can get those (they then pay lower fees etc). Signs with place names are usually all caps in Sweden, while in Norway it is usually capped initial letter with rest lower case.
Okay so in Sweden you actually never, ever get yellow road lines unless it's a road work. The font and design of the Norwegian sign is also different compared to Sweden. Tricky for you to get but very obvious when you live in one of the countries. The Norwegian sign has a taller, skinnier font sort of and the sign is larger overall I think
When I'm not watching your videos I almost forget you exist. But when I see a new upload I'm always very pleased
Nigeria tip - Yellow VW kombi vans are everywhere!
Tip for Italy: They usually have a second blue dashon the side. But be careful there are a couple others who have it too: France (if its a new plate), Albania; Portugal has a yellow dash on the right
I think your luck had enough after the Norway guess 😁 As a Swede I can tell you for future rounds: The green number plate thing on bigger vehicles is only in Norway, not Sweden. I don't think they have it in any other Scandinavian country either, but I may be wrong. Also, to my knowledge, all road lines in Sweden are white. No yellow in the middle. Great content as always! 👍
Me: I think I'm good at geography.
This guy: Based on that cow sign and the redness of the highway markers I'm going for Romania.
You look like the main actor of Elementary, physically and mentally and I love it :D
I watched like 90% of your videos, keep hoping for Lithuania to appear here, and when it does... it all dark in a photo :D
Love the content anyway! Keep it up :)
I can't wait for the Norway vids!
I can
@@Meltaholics I can also
When r they coming?
I live in Romania and i recognised imediately the type of road/asphalt :)) Very good man!
Our asphalt is unique ngl xd
9:33 Bless him... sees a small hill and calls it "mountainous"... British people, gotta love them and their flat country.
About half of Britain is quite hilly to be fair, north and west of the imaginary Tees-Exe line ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tees-Exe_line ). No huge mountains though, true.
I have no idea why I enjoy this so much lol. Keep doing your thing lad.
22:20 ofc that counts, i heard the nights in lithuania are pretty dark
All other things aside, how he guesses cars is just beyond me lol!! 15:22 - WTF! I refuse to believe there isn't some dark magic involved
The first car on Game 3 1/5 is a Fiat Panda. Also, alot of the cars you said you don't recognize were Opel (I think it was a Mokka and a Zafira).
Great run, really enjoyed it!
4:05 Dude I've gotten that exact location before. And yes, I did guess Mexico but I was pretty far away.
in brazil the small crucifix on the side of the road means that someone died there in a car accident. probably is the same in Mexico.
You got extremely lucky with all the tricky rounds here, especially the Romania guess tbh
Woooo my favorite series!
you can always tell australia by gum trees. they are pretty unique to here, and, a dead giveaway.
when european settlers first came here, they had never seen anything similar, and the old paintings by colonial artists just had european trees painted in there place.
11:55 From the start i was 99% sure this is Poland. I mean, just look at the reflectors
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodluck_Jonathan
You did good with Galtland. Tips - Norway has green car signs for "working vans" or small lorries, when you have room for tools/cargo and max 2 passengers. They also use small letters for blue roadsigns, whereas Sweden always use big letters for blue signs. So - Galteland is in Norway (also green sign visible on the van), if it was GALTELAND it could be Sweden.
Yellow stripes on the road is usually not used a all in Sweden, unless you have a temporary lane due to roadworks.
This game never ceases to exhillarate
The best format. Good score man.
That Abeokuta round you actually checked your own guess instead of the correct location, which was more south near Lagos. 😅
I was screaming Poland as soon as I saw those red poles at the side of the road - they're everywhere here.
I lived on that Cardiff road a few years ago! Finally!
Dont think Ive seen the yellow lines in Sweden, and I'm Swedish. So if they even exist, it is not common at all
We switched from yellow to white lines when we switched from left-hand to right-hand traffic.
Also, aren't the roadside lines dashed everywhere?
Yellow lines do exist in Sweden, but only during temporary construction to mark where you should be driving, and that you shouldn't pay attention to the white markings. Lines are also generally dashed, except on segments of the road where it's illegal to overtake other vehicles. /Swede with a driver's licence
if i'm not mistaken the "land" suffix would more likely be "lünd"?
@@vharmi. oh yeah I don't have a driver's license to be fair haha
As a french I can confirm your accent is perfect
18:49: Green plates means the car was registered as a work vehicle, which means a lot less tax. The main criterias are a sizable trunk and only one row of seats. So you could register a Hummer on green plates, but not a Ferrari. In reality 9/10 cars with green plates will be vans, while some will be bigger off-road cars.
I'm not sure if there are green plates in any other countries in Northern Europe, but I can't think of any. You may also like to know that Denmark has almost exactly the same system - but with yellow plates with red borders.
(someone has already mentioned the yellow road markings, which is the most obvious tell)
14:40 - Thats a Fiat Panda ;)
I'm early for once. Love your channel, mate. I would love if you would do more geoguessr in Sweden specifically!
In Norway some company cars have green license plate. Normal license plate will have no eu symbol in the blue area but a Norwegian flag or no blue area at all, just white, if it's older. Just some tips if you didn't already know.
Anyway I really enjoy your channel. Keep it up.
i instantly recognised that cardiff one, right round the corner from my house.
8:28 Sound we all make when frightened!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There's a new country streak gamemode
Green license plates in Norway means that the car is under a company so often electrician, plumbers cars have those. Also cars with 2/3 seats and no back seats got green plates.
Petition for GeoGuessr DPRK
13:05. All of the cars you described can be found on roads in Australia. Granted, maybe not the norm to have all brands in a group, but yeah. Anyway ,I dabbled in geocaching and the Munzee thing. I'm intrigued by this Gmap searching game but the site is a bit strict. One game every 24 hours? I understand the server load but hey, that's cruel. However, I see a great educational value in this type of game. Oh, I subbed, because I'm a map geek. I reread my comment and realized that my comment about the cars may have appeared as a slight against your sleuthing skills. No, I know we drive on a different side of the road. It was more a comment on the globalisation of the car industry LOL.
GeoGuessr has been shit these last years unless you pay for their service. It used to be great.
As a Lithuanian, i must say that i am absolutely offended that you didn’t get that, it was very obvious
What did you meaaan when you said “i wish they’d do more important stuff” 6:19
Because same
CARANAGATANGTANG! 16:43
you missed the thai flag at the end :D outch
Where? I can't see it.
@@ainetero4452 it's on that thing hanged in the tree
22:47
@@noobita4983 Oh. The first stripe looks yellow-ish to me but now that you point it out, I can see that's the Thai flag. Thanks!!
the house in the distance screamed norway as soon as i saw it lol
Here's a trick: the font used on Swedish road signs has a single-storey lowercase a (ɑ).
Green grass + weird trees = New Zealand, the golden rule
Exellent as always Tom
"Good old JC' 😂
You effortlessly rip higher scores in diverse world not moving than I do in my home country exploring 20 some kilometers per round
You are crazy. 😂 Bhutan just out of nowhere! 🇧🇹
fuck it was so insane seeing a street from dubbo, where my family comes from. i was scoffing at the screen like lmao looks like lakeland drive in dubbo and it FUCKNG WAS. i nearly shat myself
At 5:00 i swear ive driven on that road before haha instantly recognised it after i saw the mountains in the back. Right next to my dads town
Did you study geography in university and what is/was your job?
To a Swede, 'Galteland' screams NORWAY!!!
To be honest, as a Norwegian I thought the name sounded more Swedish but obviously the yellow road line, the white speed limit sign, the green number plate on the van and the sign not being in capital letters made it clear that it's in Norway.
I know I briefly mentioned this in a comment on the last one, but it’d be great to see you do a perfect score in Ireland video/series.
I’ve been trying it myself in the last few days and it’s quite tricky because a lot of the locations are very rural.
When you’ve been doing the England, Scotland and Wales perfect scores, they seem to generally be more urban so I think this would be a nice challenge.
Anyway, just a suggestion.
My logic for the Poland one went - northernish part of Europe based on cars, EU based on license plate, former Eastern bloc based on concrete poles above railway, road markers are unusually red/white so maybe Poland or Latvia's flag colors? And I don't think Latvia has those markers.
20:53 wow! I could've sworn that said "Galteland" instead of "Gartland" on the map! I thought you had it haha!
Got a country streak of 18 last week while trying to hit 20 before landing in an endless field in Mongolia, tears were almost shed
In Norway; a vehicle with green carsigns means 2 or 3 seats. So they are usually "workcars" and transporters ish
As Dr. House likes to say: "It's never Thies".
Pretty sure the green car in the 10th (Poland) is a Daewoo Tico
Love this content, also you're Sherlock Holmes!
Is the 'mission across wales' soundtrack being released this month Tom?