So quick and so precise from a seemingly random piece of land in a random ass country. How??
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Experience and learning the metas.
You can break down any given location by “metas”. I.e, you’re dropped into a scene, what do you see? Bollards, signs, road lines, soil. Can be anything. There will be a meta for it. From there, you can reduce the amount of countries it can possibly be, until you land on the only country it can be.
Starting at a high level, learn what countries are covered in GeoGuessr. You can be fairly sure you’re never in Belarus, or Kazakhstan, or Egypt because there is no coverage. Great, so let’s keep narrowing down, get lower and lower level.
Next, what side of the road you’re driving on. Doesn’t take much to learn which countries drive on what side. So that’s another bunch of countries counted out.
Next, language. Scripts are fairly easy to suss out. Japanese, Korean are distinct enough to instantly tell them apart. There are certain characters only used in certain languages. And certain words used on signs only used in certain countries. Again, all learnable.
You get the picture… You’re basically playing “Guess who” but for countries.
There are all sorts of things you can “meta”. From soil colour (red soil + Portuguese = Brazil), architecture (dicks on buildings = Bhutan), licence plates (Blue EU strip on either side = Italy), vegetation (skinny birch trees = northern hemisphere, but coupled with lots of small white flowers by the road you’re most likely in Estonia), weather (winter coverage + EU plate = usually Hungary), scenery (if it looks Russian with massive mountains everywhere, it’s probably Kyrgyzstan), utility poles (if there is a black and yellow striped pattern at the bottom it’s Taiwan UNLESS it’s not touching the ground then it’s Japan)
There is quite literally a list of metas to learn [here](https://geohints.com/). A good player will know most of the stuff.
For the players who narrow it down to the very *street* they’re on. Either they know their meta’s, and get lucky, or they’re just mega-geniuses… That sort of skill is beyond me…
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