Laos Metas

In the few locations in Laos that are covered by Street View, you will see the bars and side view mirrors of the Street View car. These aren’t visible in Vientiane.

Google Car

This language is spoken in Laos. It is fairly similar visually to the Thai language as it contains small circles in some characters. You can distinguish it from Thai by looking for curved letters. The Lao written language has virtually every part of every character curved. This contrasts the Thai written language that contains a straight component to almost every character.

Language

Laos typically has yellow license plates.

License Plate

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

Street Sign

A common style of utility pole in Laos is this asymmetric type. Two ‘pine cones’ are on one side and one on the other. Many Laos utility poles also have small holes in them, much like the Thai utility poles.

Poles

Although Laos’ urban areas, where the Street View coverage exists, are flat, there are often visible hills or mountains in the background.

Flora