Recognizing North American locations in GeoGuessr involves observing details like driving on the left and distinctive white-roofed houses in Bermuda; bilingual signs in New Brunswick, Canada; the use of wooden road sign poles in Canada versus metal in the US; and varying license plate practices across the southeastern US.

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North America Metas

In Canada, road signs are typically held up by wooden poles that are sometimes painted white. This contrasts poles from the US which are metal.

Sign Posts 🇨🇦 Canada

Houses in Bermuda are rather unique looking. They are typically painted a semi-faded shade of a bright colour. In addition, the roofs are almost always completely white. The roofs look like they are newly painted and they are so white, they blend in with the sky. The houses’ window frames are also painted with this same white colour.

Buildings 🇧🇲 Bermuda

Cars sometimes lack a front license plate in the southeastern US, extending up to Michigan and across southern states to Arizona.

License Plate 🇺🇸 United States of America (USA)

In Bermuda’s official Street View coverage, you will see either a black truck, a jagged blurred car or both, as pictured below. This is all the same vehicle taking the Street View imagery, just sometimes the black truck has been completely blurred out.

Google Car 🇧🇲 Bermuda

This checkerboard black and yellow sign is unique to Canada.

Street Sign 🇨🇦 Canada

In the USA, they write the words ‘SPEED LIMIT’ on their signs indicating the maximum speed in the area. This contrasts Canada which writes ‘MAXIMUM’ on their equivalent signs.

Street Sign 🇺🇸 United States of America (USA)

The Canadian province of New Brunswick has words on signs in both English and French. On this sign we can see the English word ‘West’ and the French equivalent ‘Ouest’.

Street Sign 🇨🇦 Canada

Vehicles drive on the left side of the road in Bermuda and there is most commonly a single, yellow centre line on the roads.

Driving direction 🇧🇲 Bermuda

There is some boat coverage in one of the eastern harbors of Bermuda.

Google Car 🇧🇲 Bermuda