🌍 GeoGuessr Steam Edition A Complete Country Identification Guide With Chapters, Key Clues & Practical Tips 📖 Chapter 1: GeoGuessr Steam Edition – How the Game Works GeoGuessr (Steam Edition) drops you somewhere in the world using Google Street View. Your goal is to figure out where you are using visual clues. You must rely on: Roads Signs Language Nature Architecture Cars Poles License plates Road markings Camera quality & meta clues Unlike browser versions, Steam Edition often: Uses competitive modes Has time limits Requires faster recognition Rewards pattern knowledge 🧭 Chapter 2: Core Skills Every Player Must Learn Before countries, you need fundamental skills: 🔎 Always Look For (in this order) Side of the road (left or right driving) Language / alphabet Road lines Landscape & climate Poles, signs, bollards Cars & plates Google car meta Mastering these turns guessing into deduction. 🌎 CONTINENT & COUNTRY CHAPTERS 🇺🇸 Chapter 3: United States Key Indicators Yellow center lines White outer lines Large roads & highways Wooden utility poles Big cars English language Landscape Clues Desert → Southwest (Arizona, Nevada) Green hills → East Coast Flat farmland → Midwest Mountains & pine trees → Northwest Street View Meta Older camera quality Car visible sometimes 🇨🇦 Chapter 4: Canada Key Indicators Similar to USA but: French + English signs Red/white signs Speed in km/h Snow poles in rural areas Province Clues French only → Quebec Flat prairie → Saskatchewan / Manitoba Mountains → British Columbia 🇲🇽 Chapter 5: Mexico Key Indicators Spanish language Concrete poles with holes Speed bumps everywhere Colorful buildings Dry or tropical climate Meta Google car antenna visible Sun often high 🇧🇷 Chapter 6: Brazil Key Indicators Portuguese (not Spanish!) Blacl-and-white poles Red dirt roads Tropical vegetation Concrete houses with flat roofs Road Clues Yellow outer lines White center lines (often) 🇦🇷 Chapter 7: Argentina & Uruguay Shared Clues Spanish language European-style cities Flat grasslands Differences Argentina: Vast empty roads Long distances Uruguay: Smaller roads More greenery 🇬🇧 Chapter 8: United Kingdom & Ireland UK Driving on the left Yellow rear plates White front plates Brick houses Hedge-lined roads Ireland English + Irish (Gaelic) Narrow roads Rural feel Speed signs in km/h 🇫🇷 Chapter 9: France Key Indicators French language White road signs European architecture Blue town signs Meta Black tape on poles sometimes Rural areas very distinct 🇩🇪 Chapter 10: Germany Key Indicators German language Yellow town signs Clean infrastructure Red roof houses Autobahn signs 🇪🇸 Chapter 11: Spain Key Indicators Spanish language Dry climate White buildings Red/orange soil Black bull signs sometimes Bollards White with black top 🇮🇹 Chapter 12: Italy Key Indicators Italian language Stone houses Narrow streets Curved mirrors Blue road signs 🇸🇪 🇳🇴 🇫🇮 Chapter 13: Scandinavia Shared Clues Yellow center lines White road edges Pine forests Reflective bollards Differences Sweden: red houses, flat Norway: mountains, fjords Finland: very flat, birch trees 🇵🇱 🇨🇿 🇸🇰 Chapter 14: Eastern Europe Poland Polish language (ł, ą, ę) Flat roads Red brick buildings Czech Republic Diacritics (č, š, ž) Forested hills Slovakia Similar to Czech but more mountainous 🇷🇺 Chapter 15: Russia Key Indicators Cyrillic alphabet Rough roads Soviet-style buildings Birch trees Long straight roads Meta Old camera quality Car hood sometimes visible 🇯🇵 Chapter 16: Japan Key Indicators Driving on the left Japanese characters Yellow/black poles Narrow roads Dense wiring 🇰🇷 Chapter 17: South Korea Key Indicators Korean Hangul Blue road signs Clean streets Urban density 🇦🇺 Chapter 18: Australia Key Indicators Driving left Dry climate Red soil Long empty roads White guide posts 🇿🇦 Chapter 19: South Africa Key Indicators Driving left English + Afrikaans Yellow road edges Mountains or savannah Metal guardrails 🌍 Chapter 20: Africa (General) Kenya Snorkel Google car Red soil Acacia trees Ghana Black tape on poles Tropical greenery Tunisia Arabic + French Dry Mediterranean climate 🧠 Chapter 21: Meta Clues (Advanced) Google Car Snorkel → Kenya White hood → Nigeria Blurred roof rack → Senegal Camera Quality Old → Russia, Mongolia New → Western Europe 🏁 Chapter 22: Final Tips for Steam Ranked Play ✔ Learn patterns, not countries ✔ Move less, observe more ✔ Practice continent guessing first ✔ Use elimination logic ✔ Don’t panic — clues repeat