In Africa, distinctive meta clues include Nigeria's yellow and black striped Street View bars, Uganda's red soil and visible security detail, and Botswana's striped sign poles and green highway signs with yellow numbers. Lesotho stands out with traditional round huts, blanket-wearing locals, and treeless mountains, while Senegal features faded road lines and blue license plates. Madagascar offers unique trekker and boat coverage, Rwanda has faded but quality road markings, and South Africa boasts diverse landscapes along with green highway signs.

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Africa Metas

South Africa has Gen 2 camera coverage. You will often see the halo in the sky and/or the circular blur beneath the Street View car.

Google Car 🇿🇦 South Africa

Botswana’s sign poles have black and yellow stripes.

Sign Posts 🇧🇼 Botswana

License plates in Uganda are white in the front and yellow in the back. The back license plate can be square, as pictured, or long.

License Plate 🇺🇬 Uganda

Botswana also uses these red and white chevrons, but they are much more common in South Africa.

Poles 🇧🇼 Botswana

In Madagascar, Streetview includes boat coverage. This coverage is particularly common on the Geoguessr World map.

Google Car 🇲🇬 Madagascar

Nigerian license plates have a green/blue tinge.

License Plate 🇳🇬 Nigeria

The paved road quality in Rwanda is high. Roads typically feature a yellow center line and white sidelines. Black-and-white curbs are common.

Street Markings 🇷🇼 Rwanda

These narrow, red and white chevrons are very common in South Africa.

Bollards 🇿🇦 South Africa

In Lesotho, you will often see these traditional round huts with thatched roofs.

Buildings 🇱🇸 Lesotho

Commercial vehicles in Ghana have yellow license plates and are pretty common.

License Plate 🇬🇭 Ghana

Many properties in Rwanda have high walls around them.

Buildings 🇷🇼 Rwanda

In Senegal a silver or white truck cab is visible in the Generation 4 coverage. This is the silver truck.

Google Car 🇸🇳 Senegal

Ghana's Google car has a visible roof rack with a black tape on the right end of the front bar.

Google Car 🇬🇭 Ghana

Botswana’s highway signage are green with white text and yellow highway numbers. Botswana uses the letter A for all of their national roads.

Street Sign 🇧🇼 Botswana

Senegal's official language is French.

Language 🇸🇳 Senegal

Reunion has large hills, has a tropical feel and is French speaking.

Flora 🇷🇪 Réunion

In Uganda's national parks, the Google car has a black bar on the front of the car.

Google Car 🇺🇬 Uganda

Ugandan soil is typically very red.

Flora 🇺🇬 Uganda

The Google car in Uganda is a boxy white SUV with square side mirrors.

Google Car 🇺🇬 Uganda

A portion of the Madagascar’s limited coverage includes the beach. This is mainly found along small parts of the east coast.

Flora 🇲🇬 Madagascar

Lesotho steeet signs have green background with white text and yellow highway numbers. National road numbers start with A, but are often not printed on the sign.

Street Name 🇱🇸 Lesotho

A key identifier of Lesotho is its characteristic 'Lesotho mountains', which are bare and treeless, often showcasing tabletop-like shapes and distinct horizontal rocky ridgelines. Grass tends to be short in Lesotho.

Flora 🇱🇸 Lesotho

As a former French colony, Senegal has the same ladder-style poles as parts of France.

Poles 🇸🇳 Senegal

Kenya has a snorkel on the front of the Google Streetview car.

Google Car 🇰🇪 Kenya

In Senegal's generation 3 coverage, you can see the Google car's roof rack.

Google Car 🇸🇳 Senegal

Botswana’s main roads are typically of high quality and the landscape across the country is dry and flat.

Other 🇧🇼 Botswana

Nigeria has many of these ladder-style poles.

Poles 🇳🇬 Nigeria

Madagascar has a small area of trekker coverage in the middle of the country that's fairly common on the Geoguessr "World" map.

Coverage 🇲🇬 Madagascar

Senegal uses license plates with blue background.

License Plate 🇸🇳 Senegal

This is the Rwandan Google car. It can be white, black, or grey/brown. It's almost always visible, including its camera mount.

Google Car 🇷🇼 Rwanda

Part of Madagascar’s coverage includes a person walking, carrying the Street View camera around an elevated part of the capital, Antananarivo, with the city visible below.

Google Car 🇲🇬 Madagascar

In Rwanda, motorcyclists have to wear a red vest and helmet.

Cars 🇷🇼 Rwanda

Rwanda license plates are yellow in the back and white in the front.

License Plate 🇷🇼 Rwanda

Kenya has yellow, square rear license plates. Front license plates are long & white.

License Plate 🇰🇪 Kenya

New Kenya coverage (since 2022) has a different Google Streetview car than before. The truck can appear with a snorkel, antenna, both, or neither.

Google Car 🇰🇪 Kenya

Eswatini street signs, same as the other South African countries, has white text and yellow road numbers on green background. Road numbers in Eswatini start with MR.

Street Name 🇸🇿 Eswatini

South Africa's landscape is quite diverse. You can find anything from rocky, treeless mountains to dry landscape with red soil to vineyards and sugarcane plantations.

Flora 🇿🇦 South Africa

In Nigera's generation 3 coverage, you can sometimes see the Google car's roof rack. It sometimes shows the yellow-and-black rack pattern, which is unique to Nigeria.

Google Car 🇳🇬 Nigeria

Most of the time in the older Nigerian coverage, a white police car will be following you.

Coverage 🇳🇬 Nigeria

The Nigerian Google car is a large pickup truck with the cab and bed often visible. It can be white or red.

Google Car 🇳🇬 Nigeria

Eswatini is green, very hilly, and typically has trees visible.

Flora 🇸🇿 Eswatini

In Uganda you may see this man holding a gun whilst following the Street View car.

Other 🇺🇬 Uganda

In Senegal a silver or white truck cab is visible in the Generation 4 coverage. This is the white truck.

Google Car 🇸🇳 Senegal

The most common Eswatini pole is wooden with three insulators on the side and has an overall simple design.

Poles 🇸🇿 Eswatini

South African highway signs are green with white lettering and yellow highway numbers. Highways start with the letters R, M, or N.

Street Sign 🇿🇦 South Africa

In Lesotho, you can find many people wearing blankets - the traditional "Basotho blanket".

Other 🇱🇸 Lesotho

If you spawn on the island of Reunion, in the Indian Ocean, the Street View car’s bars will be visible as will the side view mirrors and sides of the car. There is also black tape on the back, right bar of the Street View car.

Google Car 🇷🇪 Réunion

In the area inland from Andavadoaka, the Street View coverage was captured on ox.

Google Car 🇲🇬 Madagascar