Country-guessing South-East Asia

Poles in Thailand have small holes in them running up the pole vertically.

Street light poles in Thailand have black-and-red or black-and-white paintings on the bottom.

In mainland Malaysia, utility poles often have black rectangles with white lettering.

Poles in Indonesia sometimes feature the Indonesian red-white flag as stripes on the lower section.

Sri Lanka has two common types of poles: one has small holes in the top part (left image); the other is a holey pole in the lower part (right).

Cambodia has two common types of poles. one is a round pole with small holes on the side (left image); the other is a ladder-type pole (right).

Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines can have yellow or white street markings.

Malaysia is the only country that never has yellow street markings.

In Thailand, commercial vehicles have yellow license plates. In Sri Lanka, rear license plates are yellow. No other country in South-East Asia has yellow license plates.

Malaysian license plates typically feature black areas dividing the plate into TWO white sections (left image); Indonesian plates have THREE white sections (right).

Some license plates in the Philippines have green and blue shades. Others are mostly white.

The Thai language can easily be identified by its abundance of small circles on the ends of many letters.

Khmer, the language in Cambodia, can be identified by the small hooks on the top of almost every symbol, which point to the right.

The Indonesian language is very similar to Malaysian. Indonesian is influenced by Dutch and Malaysian by English. It's often hard to distinguish the two though.

Sinhala, the primary language in Sri Lanka, has many letters that look like a "C" forwards, backwards, or upside down. It appears quite "curvy".

TV satellite dishes are commonly seen in Indonesia.

Malaysia occasionally features a unique road characteristic: thick, yellow lines that run perpendicular to the road.

Stop signs in Malaysia display the word 'BERHENTI'.

The Philippines have many of these distinct rickshaw bikes with side cars.

Many roads in the Philippines are built with rectangular concrete blocks.

These brightly colored mini buses are common in the Philippines.

Sri Lanka’s Google car in Generation 3 coverage has blue, white and red stripes, resembling the French flag.

Sri Lanka's Gen 4 coverage uses low-cam, meaning that (1) objects around you are seen from a lower vantage point, (2) roads look wider, (3) the Google car generally looks bigger and has a wide circular blur.

Sri Lanka has a very tropical feel with many palm trees. It also can have distinct reddish soil. Generally, if you see palm trees with few other clues, Sri Lanka can be a reasonable guess.

Cambodia has lots of advertisements for beer brands. Angkor and Ganzberg are two common ones, both featuring red signs.

In Cambodia, wooden houses on stilts are common, often with multiple roof sections and featuring red-brown, light-blue, or orange wall colors.