To distinguish locations in the Middle East on Geoguessr, look for language cues: Arabic and English in Qatar, Hebrew in Israel, and Turkish with unique characters in Turkey. Note vehicle details, like the white Street View car in the UAE, and pay attention to road signage styles, such as Israel's color-coded system or Turkey's red and white road arrows. Identify regional architecture, like Tunisia's Mediterranean fusion, and geographical features, including the prevalence of palm trees.

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The generation 4 coverage in UEA was taken with this truck. It can only be found in Dubai and Sharjah.

Google Car 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Qatari roads are mainly surrounded by these black and white curbs that look like they have been freshly painted.

Street Markings 🇶🇦 Qatar

Due to the majority of the UAE coverage being centred around greater Dubai, there is often the possibility of seeing the world’s tallest skyscrapers in the background.

Buildings 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE)

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.

Street Sign 🇯🇴 Jordan

Turkey has these fairly unique red and white road arrows indicating corners.

Chevrons 🇹🇷 Turkey

The UAE is one of only a few countries in the world to have some black and white striped poles. Although Jordan sometimes has these too however they are much rarer in Jordan.

Sign Posts 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE)

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

Street Sign 🇹🇳 Tunisia

This lighter green Toyota follows the Street View car in Tunis and indeed everywhere in the northern part of Tunisia- north of Hammamet.

Google Car 🇹🇳 Tunisia

Turkish kilometre markers are pictured above. The number (sometimes a letter) in the top left corner indicates what road you are on. If you see the letter ‘o’ followed by a number you are on that road, e.g. the o-5 road in this example. If you see just a number in the top left corner, you are on a D road. For example, 360 indicates the road D360.

Milestone Markers 🇹🇷 Turkey

If you look carefully, Qatari plates have a narrow band of maroon on their left. The plates are long and elongated.

License Plate 🇶🇦 Qatar

Turkey uses either blue or green coloured directional signs.

Street Sign 🇹🇷 Turkey

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.

Street Sign 🇮🇱 Israel

Israeli street lights often feature these black and white stripes on their base.

Poles 🇮🇱 Israel

Palm trees are common in Tunisia. The architecture is normally white and has Mediterranean elements fused with Middle-Eastern elements. The sky is normally blue in Tunisia.

Flora 🇹🇳 Tunisia

This is Arabic, a language is largely spoken across the middle-east and northern Africa. You can recognise this written language due to its similarity to calligraphy and many of the words having a line underneath them.

Language 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE)

These bollards are a common sight throughout Turkey and resemble the Australian and Netherlands bollards however they have a slightly fatter rectangle in Turkey.

Bollards 🇹🇷 Turkey

This dark green Mazda follows the Street View car in central and southern Tunisia- anywhere south of Hammamet. Also note the red and black license plate.

Google Car 🇹🇳 Tunisia

Seeing the letter ‘ş’ or the letter ‘c’ with a hook underneath in a useful way to confirm that you are in Turkey.

Language 🇹🇷 Turkey

Turkey uses a wide range of utility poles. Some of the more recognisable poles have large holes in them. These poles are different to the poles in Romania, Hungary and Poland as they are made out of metal and have larger holes.

Poles 🇹🇷 Turkey

Qatar features a white truck beneath you, similar to the UAE and Senegal.

Google Car 🇶🇦 Qatar

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

Street Name 🇹🇷 Turkey

Tunisia’s landscape has a real Middle-Eastern vibe.

Flora 🇹🇳 Tunisia

The Jordan car is black if you pan down. This contrasts the white car of the UAE.

Google Car 🇯🇴 Jordan

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

Street Sign 🇶🇦 Qatar

Turkey typically has wide roads with undulating land throughout most of the country, including urban areas.

Other 🇹🇷 Turkey

Tunisia has black plates that are narrow and long.

License Plate 🇹🇳 Tunisia

If you pan down in the UAE, you will almost always see a white Street View car. This can be an easy way to tell the country apart from Jordan which has a black Street View car.

Google Car 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Tunisia most commonly uses these metallic wire-style poles as utility poles.

Poles 🇹🇳 Tunisia

Palestine has Arabic as its dominant language. Arabic looks similar to calligraphy and many letters have horizontal lines underneath them. This language contrasts Hebrew which is predominant in Israel.

Language 🇵🇸 Palestine

Palestine has elongated white plates that help distinguish it from Israel.

License Plate 🇵🇸 Palestine

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

Street Sign 🇹🇳 Tunisia

This is Hebrew, a language is spoken in Israel.

Language 🇮🇱 Israel

Israel has yellow license plates, both front and back. They have a blue vertical stripe on the left of their yellow plates.

License Plate 🇮🇱 Israel