Street name signs are regional clues in Geoguessr: green with white text in the Dominican Republic, 'CALLE' in Spain/LatAm, 'weg'/'straat' in Dutch areas, 'rue' in French-speaking regions, and color-specific signs like blue in Vienna and unique shapes in Ankara, Turkey. Scandinavian countries use specific suffixes like '...vei'/'...gate' in Norway, and '...gatan'/'...vägen' in Sweden. Look for language indicators such as 'utca' in Hungary, 'Ulica' in Croatia, and regional codes like 'KG' in Kigali, Rwanda on street signs.

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In Dutch, the ‘weg’ suffix means ‘road’ and the ‘straat’ suffix means ‘street’.

🇳🇱 Netherlands

The word ‘CALLE’ means ‘STREET’ in Spanish and often appears throughout Spain and Latin America.

🇪🇸 Spain

The word ‘rue’ translates from French to English as ‘street’. On metropolitan street corners, it’s standard to see the word ‘rue’ on signs.

🇫🇷 France

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

🇳🇴 Norway

These distinctive, green street signs with a white border and white lettering are common throughout the Dominican Republic.

🇩🇴 Dominican Republic

In Belgium cities, it is common to have the city’s name on street signs. In the above example, the city name ‘Liege’ is written on the street sign.

🇧🇪 Belgium

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

🇫🇮 Finland

In Italian towns and cities, the street signs often have the word ‘VIA’ on them. This translates to English as ‘street’.

🇮🇹 Italy

‘Triq’ means ‘street’ in Maltese and this word appears all over Malta on signs.

🇲🇹 Malta

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

🇩🇰 Denmark

Vienna in Austria can be distinguished by its blue coloured street name signs.

🇦🇹 Austria

The Croatian word for street is Ulica. Croatian street signs are blue with white lettering.

🇭🇷 Croatia

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

🇸🇪 Sweden

The Hungarian word for street is "utca".

🇭🇺 Hungary

Australia typically has white street signs.

🇦🇺 Australia

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.

🇱🇸 Lesotho

New Zealand street signs are blue or green.

🇳🇿 New Zealand

Ankara is the only city in Turkey to have these unique-looking street signs that feature a curved top-middle section of the sign.

🇹🇷 Turkey

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.

🇸🇿 Eswatini

The Albanian word for street is rruga.

🇦🇱 Albania

The Bulgarian term for street is "улица".

🇧🇬 Bulgaria

The Ukrainian word for street is вулиця (vulytsya), abbreviated as вул. (vul.).

🇺🇦 Ukraine