For someone who has a KZfaq channel based around Geography, I sure could brush up on my east and west.

“Montana is flatter. I’m gonna go for Montana” *clicks in the middle of a mountain range*

I think we’re on the west coast... *Scrolls into West Virginia*

"Many of you will be able to use these businesses as clues." Lol there are so many CVS's next to an AutoZone in the US, the businesses don't remotely narrow it down

Wizard: i think we're on the west coast Me: nOOOO Wizard: *zooms in on east coast* Me: oh alrighty then

"You all might recognize the state from the stores." The stores: AutoZone, CVS, Home Depot Lolz

As an American... me every round: “has to be Wisconsin” (my home state). Wrong every time though.

I cannot express enough how much I genuinely enjoy these videos, from the serious thought processing and analysing to the actual just proper nonsense. Keep doing what you’re doing my man!

Cory from Pittsburgh... lmao that’s me literally! I felt called out there and looked up from my phone... lol

My logic: Clear sky can't be in Washington state

The gulf stream makes Europe much warmer than N. America, so latitude matching is a BAD idea.

Geowizard: *Sees trees* "I think we're in washington state"

It's probably about impossible to get a decent score in the USA like this, you might be better off moving around with a minute and a half timer or something like that

“Greenville Handyman Services” when there is a Greenville in about every state

Me: * Sees redwoods * Thomas: "I'm gonna go for Montana" Me: "NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"

"Xing" such as in Payne Xing stands for "crossing" in the United States. It's just a synonym for street or avenue

Couple of quick tips for houses and landscapes: If you see several houses that are primarily red brick and single-storied, you have a high chance of being in one of the southeastern states. You'll end up in California and Texas A LOT, mostly because of how many more roads there are there compared to other western states. Also, for future vids, there is also a ton of corn production in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin (which probably doesn't help you much lol)

A helpful tip: Colorado and Vermont are the only states with solid green licence plates. (But be careful, people travel across state lines fairly frequently.)

As someone from Michigan it killed me to hear it pronounced “MITCH”-Igan lol

Really enjoyed that. Definetly want some sequels for this.

I'm American and after a few attempts the best I could manage was 4. (with a SICK Maine guess)

Wizard: I’ve seen these trees in places like Washington. Me: on the right track buddy Wizard: like on the east coast Me: 🤔

US States seem impossible to tell apart sometimes... maybe you could give yourself 0.5 points for bordering states? I think that would be fair.

tom: “i think it’s towards the west coast” also tom: “it may be pennsylvania”

Everything is so similar over here it’s pretty much impossible. I live here and I got 0/10 lol

The tough part of the US for me is that some individual states are sooo diverse they could look like any. Oregon and Washington have such insane climate change over a 200 mile region west to east, you could mistake one part for East Maine and another for New Mexico.

"I OH A" I screamed

Fun fact, as you noticed when you compared southern France to the US, Rome is at roughly the same latitude as New York city but their climates are vastly different. Europe in general is much more Northern than other places in the world.

I’ve literally been within 2 miles of some of these locations and still couldn’t have told you what state they were in

The highway sign was indeed 101, which runs mostly along the coast from Washington to Southern California.

State highway signs often have the shape of the state on them, but you never spawned near any, so it couldn't help. As far as evergreen trees go, they're everywhere. There are different varieties that you could try to learn if you really care, but a quick glance is unlikely to reveal much. Pines could be in the northwest or they could be as far south as ArkLaTex.

Good format! Looking forward to more of this. I'm clueless in this challange though, only one I got was the pine tree- California one.

I am a "storm chaser" and have traveled much of the US and live/travel extensively on the east coast. That Iowa one near Ames was CLASSIC Iowa. It is much more lush green but more important very rolling. Nebraska has corn but on the east and is more yellow and dry looking even when you get a few miles in. The Maryland one was utter crap...not representative of the state, the eastern shore near Delaware is farming but near that locale there should have been better hints of the Ceaspeake Bay... your guess of Indiana given the soybean crop was a very good guess

10 states challenge is awesome, but very difficult. Even for me, who lives in the USA. I can usually get close to the general area, but not always the right state.

You will quickly learn to be able to distinguish different regions of the US to narrow down your guesses but this is still a very tough challenge for anyone.

I love this country I really wish I could visit all the states, please keep the vids coming!!

"how do you decipher these states" ya can't. Even I can't. The country is so vast and has damn near every type of trees and every kind of architecture in every state. Even Arizona has snow and pine trees in the northern part of the state.

If you’re in corn land and it’s fairly hilly, it’s more than likely Iowa. Nebraska is comparatively flat. Also, if it looks cold but there aren’t too many evergreens and it’s hilly, it’s probably Arkansas. Missouri is also pretty hilly but doesn’t show up too often. So if it looks souther but it’s hilly, your best bet is to go Arkansas. Definitely tough but I think you’ll get there in the end

I've always heard it pronounced Mish-igan rather than Mitch-igan?

When geowizard gets a round in your neighborhood and didn’t realize it until a year after the video came out

Not just mixing up trees but also east and west :D

I have really gotten into Geogussr lately, partly because of a friend and partly because of your channel. I've learned a lot from your channel and am slowly getting better. Thank you for all these amazing videos!

10:04 ** looks at truck in America with Red, White, and Blue stripes** “looks like a Dutch flag”

That first one I was 100% convinced it was either Arizona or New Mexico, I have no idea how you do it, amazing really

You say "be kind, I'm British" when you probably know much more about American geography than most American people

Some tips based on your comments: Good job on round 1. The western U.S. is so much more varied than the Midwest and East haha, there's a lot more distinction between areas. For the second round, almost everywhere in Pennsylvania is quite hilly. If it's flat, it's probably not Pennsylvania. The area you clicked in Washington for the 3rd round is very mountainous. You don't get a lot of hilly areas that look like that in the western U.S. (low hills but no mountains visible). You get big mountains. Some areas are flat with no mountains visible, but those areas are typically either very dry and deserty (such as southeastern California/southwestern Arizona) or you're in the Central Valley of California. Of course, that 4th round shows that the immediate west coast has lower mountains, but the trees on the western and eastern coasts are different. Btw, they have pine trees because they get a TON of rain in that area. Also, those shops give no clues, since AutoZone and CVS are both all over the country. For the 5th round, those kinds of heavily wooded hilly areas are a pretty solid giveaway that you're in New England. On the 6th round, the trees won't be that dense in Missouri. If it's that wooded, but also flat, it's almost definitely the Deep South (or Minnesota, but you hopefully won't mix up Minnesota and the South, lol). Distinguishing southern foliage can take some practice but you'll get it. But...then of course you get something like the 7th round, which is in a mountainous area in the West, but in a flat plateau so it's not obvious that you're in the mountains. Hey, none of these tips are absolute truths, lol Those last 3 rounds...honestly, I'm not sure even an avid and experienced traveler of the U.S. could really get these. So your question, is it possible to distinguish a field in Indiana from a field in Maryland? I honestly have no idea lol. Nebraska from Iowa? No chance, unless you end up next to a clue. Tennessee from South Carolina? Probably the same. So many landscapes are so similar throughout the U.S. For some of them, it will definitely just take luck. Learning the different state highway signs will help too, but obviously you still have to be lucky enough to be placed next to one. Really enjoyed this video, hope to see more!

Dude I love this channel and you are cool

I'm looking forward to all the o-ray-gons this series is going to deliver

As an American living in Washington for 32 years this video was extremely amusing to me. TBF it's really hard to tell states apart sometimes but I can almost always tell West from East from Midwest really easily. Just started on this series so I'm sure you've picked up on those differences by now.

Awesome video Tom! Love the content bro! Well done

The problem with that latitude trick is that cities like New York can be snowy at sea level but countries like Portugal or Spain not so much. It depends on other things aswell like the gulf stream

Hey Tom, I'd recommend that you try to memorize which states require front license plates (it's not actually too hard if you look at a map, many non front-plate states border each other and vice versa). It would definitely have helped you in round 1, as you could've ruled out NM and AZ. Also helps with states like Pennsylvania and Kansas. Awesome content as per usual!

Awesome video! I'm as helpless as you when it comes to determining what state I'm in in terms of vegetation. Like that NorCal one. Absolutely baffling. I was mentally in upstate NY or Vermont on that one. Also, bruh, it's Mish-ee-g'n, not Mitch-ee-g'n :) Paine Xing means Paine Crossing. Crossing is a typical nomenclature of American small towns that are located where 2 major roads crossed. And Iowa's pronounced EYE-oh-wa, not Eye-OH-wa. And you can't read climate dependent latitudes and compare them to Europe because the gulf stream as well as atmospheric air circulations make the Atlantic North/East shores a whopping 6° C warmer than it's western shores. Like you saw on the map, Iberia is on the latitude of New England and Canada's East coast.

When you say “east” do you mean “east from the international date line”? I’ve never heard of anyone refer to Washington state as east, and Pennsylvania as west.

Hi Wizard! When it's a cornfield with rolling (hilly) plains, guess iowa. If it's pretty flat, i would guess nebraska. This isnt 100% but I'm from iowa and was screaming IOWA at you on that round 😂😂 that was only one of two that i got right though so you did great 😂

10:42 just to help you out to distinguish northern and southern states, look at the road and most warmer states have reflectors on the road. northern states don’t have these because of the amount of snow we get. hope that helps, love the video!

When you went to Washington I was screaming NONONONONO haha! The kind of trees we have here in Washington look much different, and the western half is very mountainous.

Love this new series alreadY!

Well at least you can't get a worse score in the future (unless you get everything wrong, of course). Excited for more of these

I love these vid, so relaxing

Hey wizard, when you said on the Crescent City round that you can tell where you are based on the shops, Auto Zone and CVS are all over, i live on the other coast of the country and have those same stores.

You should probably make it the 5 state challenge

Been to most of these states and I don't know if I'd have gotten any right. Problem with just going on climates is they bleed so much into other states. Also a round in California or Washington with varied climates could be in one or the other, or halfway across the country. Making this 3 minutes + moving or just urban areas might make it a bit more doable.

Hell yeah I was waiting for this

The pine trees made me laugh. They are everywhere Tom!

This is a tough challenge for sure. I'm from southern California, I went to university in Oregon. From northern California, through most of Oregon and Washington, up into British Columbia, Canada it looks quite similar. It's quite difficult to distinguish between desert locations as well. So good job on the Utah guess!

7:45 that dull colored St. Augustine grass is often a dead giveaway that you're in the south in winter.

Omg, I've always wondered in my head if this would ever happen, I didn't know other people had the same idea. YAY!

This video was so good man, I didn't know you could get such diverse vegetation in California. I'm waiting for your US viewers to give out tips so u can do better next time!

honesty, I'm impressed that you have the knowledge you have. I would LOVE to see this again, but maybe you could do a Canadian province? or English County?

Here's a tip: The light red brick house at 14:20 with the carport on the left (the covered area where people park their cars) is a dead giveaway that you're somewhere in the southeast.

Hint: New Mexico does not have a front license plate. If you are in Colorado the mountains are most of the time to the west. If you have large mountains to the West and nothing to the east you are most of the time in Colorado.

Top tip: Look at the roads and learn the curb types. The rolling hills and patchy road was a clear giveaway for New Hampshire (or Vermont, southern Maine, or western Massachusetts). Concrete roads and curbs are relatively rare north of Pennsylvania on the east coast.

Dude, you did better as a Brit than I could’ve done as a yank. Good job honestly

For a little bit of help, asphalt will crack at regular intervals perpendicular to the road where there is very cold weather because of shrinkage. Where there is hot weather you are more likely to get tire ruts, a few cracks parallel to the road, or nothing because the asphalt stays soft. Several of your guesses here had fairly old roads that didn't show cold weather cracking, but you put them in cold areas. 8:50 No cold weather cracks, this means south or coasts. 17:26 These are classic cold weather cracks you can expect the in upper Midwest. 14:13 Again, an older road without perpendicular cracks. Probably south. 13:33 cracks all the way across the road, probably up north. 18:17 No cold weather cracks. Not fool proof by any means as sometimes a crack is just a crack, but if you're seeing regular, big cracks every 20m or so go up north.

“These businesses will be a clue” the two business that are literally everywhere lmao

Tom, if it makes you feel any better I'm a rather geographically inclined American who went Nevada, Wisconsin, Alabama, Idaho, West Virginia, Tennessee, Oregon, Kansas, Kentucky, and Georgia for a solid 0/10. So much topographical diversity here in the US, and not to mention 50 states to choose from that getting just half would be challenging for even the most experienced of Geoguessrs

Arkansas is what I was thinking! It sure did look like home. Hot springs is a beautiful part of the state. Thanks for pronouncing it correctly, by the way, mate.

While on a coast to coast road trip I bought a drawing of a rose in the parking lot of that CVS in Crescent City you got there from a guy trying to get some money for food. That's wild, I did not expect to catch a forgotten memory from a Geoguessr video. I hope he's doing well.

I’m always flabbergasted by your ability to identify locations in the UK, but for several of these I had a weird sense of where you were and turned out to be right. Only for states I’ve been to, though. The problem with America is many states are very similar. It’s easy to be 1 or 2 off.

8:32 Another fun clue for U.S. states are things like that big boulder you see stood on the corner intersection. "Alluvial" lowland states like Louisiana and Mississippi are nearly devoid of them, while higher-latitude "Glacial" areas nearer to rocky terrain, like the upper Midwest and New England have them everywhere.

"I feel like Washington probably has more pine trees and less deciduous trees." One might even call it "The Evergreen State." :P

I love your pronunciation of certain states. I-OH-a and Merry-land

The tall skinny trees with few branches and some leaves at the very top are generally in the south and mid eastern coasts

Lmfaoo “Cory from Pittsburgh” 😂😂 I think I know that dude

If you're going to do the latitude trick, draw your lines diagonally from Europe to the US. Due to the gulf stream and wind patterns, Europe's temperature patterns seem shifted upwards in comparison to the US. You thought South Carolina looked a lot like the south of France, so use that line as a reference if you want to continue to use this trick. Keep up the videos btw, really enjoy seeing you struggle.

10 county challenge in the UK?

Great job Tom. Much of USA resembles multiple regions. Success on this mode relies on signs, buildings and registration plates.

The 12 provinces of the Netherlands are going to be easier than this.

Finally, how about a Siberia challenge? I dare u (50€ if u get a perfect score) XD

The way you pronounce Michigan and Missouri cracks me up 😂😂

I’m American and couldn’t have done any better. I think you’d need to be pretty lucky if you play without moving around, but I’d love to see some US speedruns where you can move to get clues. I think you were onto somehting in that trees are probably your best clues. Also, the Ozarks are a mountain range in Arkansas and Missouri, so that’s another potential area in hilly rounds besides Appalachia and the Rockies.

@14:41 It seems to me that if you see the roadside drainage ditches and those types of pines, you are probably in the coastal south (Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South & North Carolina). These are all areas prone to tropical systems and flooding, so the ditches are common in rural/suburban neighborhoods.

I was born and have lived just west of Chicago my whole life, and I have had the opportunity to travel across the entire midwest, most of the south, and most of the east. That being said, even I wouldn’t have done any better than you did. Fact of the matter is that I personally believe the majority of our states are very diverse environmentally, so Northern Texas might look like Central Missouri for example. South-Central Texas however, can look like Arizona or New Mexico, this is where the difficulty is. A prime example happened to me in this video, when you got that Michigan round, being from west of Chicago, that neighborhood looked alot like something you would find around here in late November/Early December up here in Illinois, so I thought I recognized it as such. Ironically, I have actually been to St. Joseph Michigan many times, so that could also be why it looked so familiar.

That's a hard one to do, without moving. A lot of the US can look the same, and also, a lot of states can be diverse and surprise you (Maryland looking like Indiana, California looking like....*everything*). (California is a huge state that spans a lot of different types of geography...but even small states like Maryland can be diverse enough to trick you.) As an American, I probably wouldn't have done any better. haha. Also, when you said "these different shops will be giving you guys hints"....nope. Auto Zone and CVS are all over the US, AFAIK.

In upstate New York, the common recycling bins are labeled with the brand “casella”. Also note the fast food restaurants you see. There are many you don’t find in the east that you do in the west and vice versa

The important thing is you got the latitudes mostly correct. This is about as good as anyone could do. Places in central California can look like places from North Carolina... you did great

“Hah, this guy thought Michigan was Pennsylvania” - me who thought it was northern Florida

The way you say Michigan gets me everytime

Hey Tom, if you look at that neighborhood that was in Michigan, there’s like thousands of neighborhoods in the state that look just like that. Small houses (built in 1930s-60s), small front yards, big maple trees, fenced in yards… To me it stuck out immediately