Recognizing Nordic locations in GeoGuessr hinges on details like language characters, road signage, and landscape. Finnish signs have unique bollards and blue directional signage, while Danish indications include special character plates and white-with-metal-border direction signs. Norway's distinctive features include yellow directional signs and a hilly terrain, contrasted with Sweden's unique chevrons and road markings, and Iceland's stark landscapes with yellow-black signs and lack of the blue stripe on license plates.

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Norway's landscape is predominantly undulating, hilly, or mountainous, setting it apart from other Nordic countries, which are generally flat.

Flora 🇳🇴 Norway

Directional signs in Denmark are unique with their white background and red writing. This color scheme is a clear indicator of being in Denmark.

Street Sign 🇩🇰 Denmark

In Iceland, the Street View car often has an aerial visible, and sometimes a section of the car painted in white, red, and blue can also be seen.

Google Car 🇮🇸 Iceland

Iceland has these yellow and black directional signs. Some signs, especially in cities, can have a white background instead.

Street Sign 🇮🇸 Iceland

In Norway, roads often feature yellow center lines and white side lines.

Street Markings 🇳🇴 Norway

In Denmark, commercial vehicles feature yellow license plates on the front and back, while regular vehicles have standard European white plates with a blue stripe on the left.

License Plate 🇩🇰 Denmark

The Faroe Islands have a unique jagged green mountain landscape without trees.

Google Car 🇫🇴 Faroe Islands

The Danish language uses the special characters å, æ, and ø.

Language 🇩🇰 Denmark

When you see a dirt or gravel road in a Nordic country without other meaningful clues, Finland typically is the best option.

Coverage 🇫🇮 Finland

In Finland, road lines usually consist of solid white side lines (when present) and a center line that can be white or yellow, sometimes accompanied by a secondary line or stripes.

Street Markings 🇫🇮 Finland

Norway uses yellow directional signs.

Street Sign 🇳🇴 Norway

Swedish chevrons use yellow and blue colors, making them distinctive in the Nordics.

Chevrons 🇸🇪 Sweden

Finnish bollards appear cylindrical from the front, a shape not shared with bollards in other Nordic countries.

Bollards 🇫🇮 Finland

Danish settlement signs are black on white with a little village illustration on it.

Street Sign 🇩🇰 Denmark

The Norwegian language uses the special characters å, æ, and ø.

Language 🇳🇴 Norway

Swedish directional signs are blue with white writing

Street Sign 🇸🇪 Sweden

Warning signs in Norway feature a triangular shape with a red border and white background. Give-way signs specifically have an additional outline outside the red border.

Street Sign 🇳🇴 Norway

Finnish directional signs on highways can be blue or green colored.

Street Sign 🇫🇮 Finland

The Icelandic language is fairly unique and uses the unique characters Þ and ð, amongst other special characters.

Language 🇮🇸 Iceland

In Finland, minor directional signs have white text on blue background with a bold arrow on the sides.

Street Sign 🇫🇮 Finland

Finnish street names typically end in "...katu" or "…ntie".

Street Name 🇫🇮 Finland

In Sweden, bollards are typically black-and-white, often featuring a grey reflector. Near intersections, reflectors can be orange. These bollards come in various shapes, including wedge-shaped, round, or thin and curved.

Bollards 🇸🇪 Sweden

Swedish directional signs are white on blue background with a thin arrow on the sides.

Street Sign 🇸🇪 Sweden

In Sweden, roads typically have white dashed side lines and a white center line, with the gaps between the side dashes being longer than the dashes themselves.

Street Markings 🇸🇪 Sweden

In the Faroe Islands you will see the Google Car with plain grey roof racks and side mirrors.

Google Car 🇫🇴 Faroe Islands

Iceland stands out as one of the few European countries where license plates lack the blue vertical strip on the left side. Icelandic license plates are elongated and white.

License Plate 🇮🇸 Iceland

Warning signs in Sweden feature a triangular shape with a red border and yellow background. Give-way signs specifically have NO outline outside the red border.

Street Sign 🇸🇪 Sweden

Iceland is the only European country to have a yellow background behind its pedestrian signs.

Street Sign 🇮🇸 Iceland

Greenland tends to have a range of colourfully painted houses.

Buildings 🇬🇱 Greenland

Warning signs in Denmark feature a triangular shape with a red border and white background. Give-way signs specifically have NO outline outside the red border.

Street Sign 🇩🇰 Denmark

The Swedish language uses the special characters å, ä, and ö.

Language 🇸🇪 Sweden

Iceland's warning signs, such as give-way signs, have yellow background with a red border with no outline around the red border.

Street Sign 🇮🇸 Iceland

In Sweden, street names often end with the suffixes '...gatan' or '...vägen'.

Street Name 🇸🇪 Sweden

Danish directional signs are often blue and white and in the same style as the red and white directional signs.

Street Sign 🇩🇰 Denmark

Danish direction signs are typically white with a metal border around them.

Street Sign 🇩🇰 Denmark

In Denmark, bollards have a distinctive appearance and are abundant throughout the country. The front of these bollards features a yellow section, which is absent on the rear.

Bollards 🇩🇰 Denmark

In Iceland, bollards are recognizable for their distinct yellow color and top edge.

Bollards 🇮🇸 Iceland

Danish street names tend to have the suffixes ‘…vej’ and ‘…gade’.

Street Name 🇩🇰 Denmark

In Iceland, some roads feature white, dashed edge markings, with grass often extending right up to the edge of the road. Additionally, roads in Iceland often have a distinctive dark color.

Street Markings 🇮🇸 Iceland

In Norway, commercial vehicles use green license plates.

License Plate 🇳🇴 Norway

The Icelandic landscape is characterized by an absence of vegetation other than grass. Roads are usually flat, with hills and mountains visible in the distance and undulating terrain surrounding the roads.

Flora 🇮🇸 Iceland

In Denmark, main roads often feature distinct short-dashed edge markings.

Street Markings 🇩🇰 Denmark

Norway often has dashed white lines on the side of the road.

Street Markings 🇳🇴 Norway

Warning signs in Finland feature a triangular shape with a red border and yellow background. Give-way signs specifically have an additional outline outside the red border.

Street Sign 🇫🇮 Finland

The Finnish language uses the special characters ä and ö. It often has double vowels and many long words.

Language 🇫🇮 Finland

In Norway, street signs often end with "...vei" / "...veien" or "...gate" / "...gata".

Street Name 🇳🇴 Norway