In Geoguessr, street signs are a key factor in pinpointing your location. Colors, text, and shapes vary by country – Scandinavian signs tend to have distinct typography and colors, the US and Canada have English language signs with regional variations, Eastern European countries often have Cyrillic text, and Asian signs often include local scripts and unique color schemes. Recognizing these details, such as the presence of bilingual text or specific sign shapes like triangles or diamonds, can significantly narrow down the possible location.

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Some Romanian signs have a yellow edge such as this pedestrian sign.

🇷🇴 Romania

Romanian directional signs have white text on blue background. Major roads are indicated by these distinctive red shields.

🇷🇴 Romania

Singapore street signs are distinctive, featuring pale green color, spaced-out and bold font.

🇸🇬 Singapore

In New Zealand, speed signs are typically circular.

🇳🇿 New Zealand

In New Zealand, give-way signs have red text.

🇳🇿 New Zealand

Spanish pedestrian crossing signs have 8 stripes - the highest number in Europe!

🇪🇸 Spain

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

🇩🇰 Denmark

Russian Federal Highways have either an M, A or P/R prefixing the road number. M surrounds Moscow. Look for signs like this in Russia. This one says road M-7 in smallish writing.

🇷🇺 Russia

In Poland, a unique type of warning sign can be found, characterized by a thin red outline and a yellow background.

🇵🇱 Poland

In Spain, borders on red road signs extend to the edge of the sign - there is no outline. This is a great way to identify Spain as there are many of these signs.

🇪🇸 Spain

Ukraine uses white town entry signs.

🇺🇦 Ukraine

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.

🇺🇸 United States of America (USA)

Some warning signs in Serbia have a yellow background color.

🇷🇸 Serbia

This checkerboard black and yellow sign is unique to Canada.

🇨🇦 Canada

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’.

🇨🇦 Canada

Greek warning signs are yellow with a red border.

🇬🇷 Greece

Irish road signs will typically contain both English and Gaelic.

🇮🇪 Ireland

Albania's directional signs have white text on blue background with an arrow forming the side of the sign.

🇦🇱 Albania

Ireland stands out as it is the only place in Europe with yellow, diamond shaped warning signs.

🇮🇪 Ireland

Minor roads in France are known as ‘D’ roads (departmental roads). They are denoted by the letter ‘D’ and a number inside a yellow rectangle.

🇫🇷 France

In the Netherlands, it is common to see these blue arrow signs with white lettering. They point to the nearest town or city and make pinpointing much easier.

🇳🇱 Netherlands

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

🇩🇰 Denmark

Norway uses yellow directional signs.

🇳🇴 Norway

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

🇫🇮 Finland

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

🇮🇸 Iceland

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

🇩🇰 Denmark

Swedish directional signs are blue with white writing

🇸🇪 Sweden

The French region of Brittany in north-western France has bilingual road signs featuring both French and Breton.

🇫🇷 France

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

🇮🇸 Iceland

In major Austrian cities, the word ‘EINBAHN’ is written on these blue signs everywhere.

🇦🇹 Austria

Poland has green coloured directional signs with white lettering.

🇵🇱 Poland

Town name signs in Slovakia have a thinner black outline around them compared to Czechia’s signs.

🇸🇰 Slovakia

In Croatia, direction signs are characterized by a yellow background and black outline, often featuring a pencil-shaped tip.

🇭🇷 Croatia

Directional arrows that point to Italian towns are blue with a white end. These arrows look relatively similar to the Czechia town directional arrows however they are distinct.

🇮🇹 Italy

Directional signs in Luxembourg are yellow with black, all-caps text. The sign is completely surrounded by a frame.

🇱🇺 Luxembourg

In Czechia, unique blue signs with white arrows indicate directions to the nearest towns.

🇨🇿 Czech Republic

Many Slovenian signs have a white or yellow sticker on the back of them.

🇸🇮 Slovenia

Mexican stop signs use the word "ALTO".

🇲🇽 Mexico

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.

🇳🇴 Norway

Estonian warning signs have a thin red border without any additional outline.

🇪🇪 Estonia

Warning signs in Latvia have a much thicker red border than those found in Estonia and Lithuania.

🇱🇻 Latvia

Most Brazilian road signs have the backs painted black.

🇧🇷 Brazil

Directional signs in Slovakia are rectangular with small white arrows. This contrasts directional signs in Czechia which have a large arrow that forms the shape of the sign.

🇸🇰 Slovakia

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.

🇸🇪 Sweden

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

🇸🇪 Sweden

Montenegro also has many brown signs with white lettering.

🇲🇪 Montenegro

Polish pedestrian signs are the only ones in Europe to have just one horizontal line behind the person.

🇵🇱 Poland

Slovenian directional signs have black text on yellow background.

🇸🇮 Slovenia

Town name signs in Czechia have a thick black outline around them. This contrasts town name signs in Slovakia that have a thinner black outline around them.

🇨🇿 Czech Republic

Greek directional signs are blue and have Greek written in yellow and English in white. They are a very distinct Greece feature.

🇬🇷 Greece

In New Zealand many give-way intersections also have a white give-way triangle painted on the street.

🇳🇿 New Zealand

Directional signs in North Macedonia are yellow with black lettering, featuring the Cyrillic town name on top and its Latin translation beneath.

🇲🇰 North Macedonia

Bulgarian signs are written in both Cyrillic and Latin scripts, and they are typically colored blue or green.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria

Directional signs in Ukraine are blue with white lettering They typically feature Cyrillic on top and its Latin equivalent below, or just Cyrillic.

🇺🇦 Ukraine

Russian directional signs are blue with white lettering, most commonly displaying only Cyrillic words, though sometimes they include both Latin and Cyrillic.

🇷🇺 Russia

Serbian signs are often yellow with black lettering. They can feature Latin lettering, Cyrillic, or both.

🇷🇸 Serbia

'C' roads are designated in the Australian states of Tasmania and Victoria.

🇦🇺 Australia

Australian give-way signs are written in black writing.

🇦🇺 Australia

Montenegro’s directional road signs are often yellow with black lettering.

🇲🇪 Montenegro

New Zealand has green direction signs with unique red highway number shields.

🇳🇿 New Zealand

Australian speed limit signs appear on a white rectangle. This contrasts New Zealand speed limit signs which appear as a circular cut-out.

🇦🇺 Australia

This image shows three signs that are visible in the Northern Mariana Islands. Depicted are: the leftmost stop sign (they have English as their language), the highway shield sign (we are on route 308) and the US Speed Limit sign (the US own this territory). Also note the US style metal poles with small holes holding up these signs.

🇲🇵 Northern Mariana Islands

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

🇧🇼 Botswana

Guam uses these blue highway shields that helpfully say ‘Guam’.

🇬🇺 Guam

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

🇿🇦 South Africa

Roundabouts are common at Tunisian intersections. They often have directional signs around them, providing useful information.

🇹🇳 Tunisia

The official language of Tunisia is Arabic however French is also widely spoken and appears on signs alongside Arabic.

🇹🇳 Tunisia

The red and white striped arrow pointing downwards indicates that you are in Japan, most likely on the northern island of Hokkaido or possibly on the main island of Honshu, near mountains.

🇯🇵 Japan

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

🇫🇮 Finland

Japan uses the yellow coloured, diamond-shaped warning signs that are common in North and South America as well as Australia and New Zealand.

🇯🇵 Japan

Japanese directional signs are blue with white lettering.

🇯🇵 Japan

Hong Kong’s signs often feature both English and Traditional Chinese.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong

A scene from bustling Hong Kong. The major Hong Kong roads are denoted by a yellow shield enclosing a number.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong

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.

🇫🇮 Finland

South Korea and Vietnam are the only Asian countries to use warning signs featuring a triangle with a red border and yellow fill.

🇰🇷 South Korea

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

🇰🇭 Cambodia

Cambodia's yellow warning signs often have a white outline.

🇰🇭 Cambodia

Green signs with white lettering provide highway information in South Korea. The expressway shields used by South Korea look similar to US Interstate shields. Expressway numbers are shown on the map in South Korea however you need to zoom in significantly to see them.

🇰🇷 South Korea

Directional signs in Taiwan are green with white lettering. The major National Freeways are numbered in a white shape that resembles a flower. Taiwanese signs either feature Mandarin and English or just Mandarin.

🇹🇼 Taiwan

Signs in Qatar are typically written in both Arabic and English. This includes street signs, stop signs and directional signs.

🇶🇦 Qatar

Jordan’s directional signs are blue with white lettering. They sometimes contain just Arabic but on other occasions feature both Arabic and English. Standard highways in Jordan are denoted by a green rectangle and a number in yellow lettering.

🇯🇴 Jordan

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.

🇩🇰 Denmark

This Israeli directional signs features Hebrew, Arabic and Latin lettering. Israeli roads are broken into four main categories- each logo denoted by a colour. Blue = national roads, red = inner city roads, green = regional roads, and black = local roads. In this image, the green denotes regional roads and the road number is 352.

🇮🇱 Israel

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

🇮🇸 Iceland

Ecuador frequently uses road signs that are square with white background.

🇪🇨 Ecuador

Lithuanian warning signs have a thin red border with a thin white outline.

🇱🇹 Lithuania

The Philippines uses these European-style warning signs with thin red borders.

🇵🇭 Philippines

In Malaysia, road numbers are indicated by distinctive yellow, irregular hexagon shapes. The sign background can be green or blue.

🇲🇾 Malaysia

Stop signs in Laos feature the Laos script plus the English word ‘STOP’.

🇱🇦 Laos

Stop signs in Malaysia display the word 'BERHENTI'.

🇲🇾 Malaysia

Singaporean warning signs look like standard European signs however the shape of the actual white sign is square, not triangular. This is unique in the world.

🇸🇬 Singapore

In Malaysia, the acronym 'AWAS' is commonly seen on road warning signs, signifying their road safety system.

🇲🇾 Malaysia

Turkey uses either blue or green coloured directional signs.

🇹🇷 Turkey

There are two useful tips to help you pinpoint in Singapore. Firstly, three letter highway names (such as TPE, SLE and CTE above) are generally easy to find on the map. Secondly, other highways in Singapore are commonly named after the district they are located in. In the above example, Upper Changi Road East is located in Changi, a district whose name is clearly visible on the map.

🇸🇬 Singapore

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

🇩🇰 Denmark

The pedestrian crossing sign in Latvia has 5 stripes.

🇱🇻 Latvia

In Uruguayan cities, it's common to see black and white arrows affixed to walls and poles.

🇺🇾 Uruguay

The font of Albanian street signs is uniquely bold with short, rounded corners.

🇦🇱 Albania

Bus stop signs in Latvia have 5 windows.

🇱🇻 Latvia

Slovakian road signs typically feature borders directly on the edge of the sign. In contrast, Czech signs more commonly have borders set apart from the edge by a strip matching the sign's background color.

🇸🇰 Slovakia

In Hungary, directional signs are mostly green with a white inner border and a green outer border. On M-numbered highways, these signs are blue with a white inner border and a blue outer border.

🇭🇺 Hungary

Direction signs in Latvia are blue with white text. The arrow has a diagonal side edge and looks slightly more stylized than in Lithuana and Estonia.

🇱🇻 Latvia

In Estonia, pedestrian crossing signs have 3 stripes. The person's head is attached and rather detailed, for instance with visible shoes.

🇪🇪 Estonia

In Hungary, signs are typically attached to posts using four bolts, arranged in a tall rectangular shape, passing through the sign.

🇭🇺 Hungary

Czech road signs typically have borders set apart from the edge by a strip matching the sign's background color. In contrast, Slovakian signs more commonly feature borders directly on the edge of the sign.

🇨🇿 Czech Republic

The Russian term for street is улица.

🇷🇺 Russia

Bulgarian settlement signs often feature names in both Latin and Cyrillic scripts, but sometimes they display only the Cyrillic name.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria

North Macedonia have some warning signs with yellow coloring.

🇲🇰 North Macedonia

Pedestrian crossing signs in Lithuania have 3 stripes. The person has a detached head.

🇱🇹 Lithuania

In Romania, the most common type of town entry sign features a yellow section displaying a speed limit and a city skyline, with a white sign below showing the town name. The upper part of the sign can also be white or completely absent.

🇷🇴 Romania

Slovenian settlement signs have black text on yellow background.

🇸🇮 Slovenia