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As an Indian, there was a lesson for me: "If you're in the middle of nowhere, it's impossible to tell where you are"

Man I'm really surprised by your observation skills. Being a foreigner, you were able to associate really vague observations to a region. For example, observation of South Indian houses being more colorful than North Indian ones is really insane. You were also able to recognize different scripts. Good job!

The fact that you read 'pest control' as 'fest cantan or something' made my day.

Just an info: The 'tuktuks' in India are called autorickshaws or simply autos! Also the multiple couloured 'tuktuks' that you saw in 1 round were actually e-rickshaws. In 19:44, the other language you saw was Bengali. The poster was for a Bengali festival called Durga Puja which I guess would cater by Bengali people living in Chennai.

Gotta say......round 2 looked a lot like Indonesia or other parts of SE Asia. This is gonna kill some players/teams if they can't see any language.

I'm from India and if not for the languages i was completely stumped. Holy shit we are wayy more similar than we think.

This is great! We were definitely overdue for an update to the game. As you started to notice from the beginning of the vid, knowing what the writing systems of the various languages look like and where they're located is going to be extremely important.

Fun fact : urdu was actually crafted in the norther plains of India, near delhi, the language in reality is not really a different language. It's just hindi written in the persian script, with some more persian vocabulary mixed in. If you put a hindi and a urdu speaker in a room together they wouldn't be able to tell they're speaking different languages.

Even though map shows Bengaluru/Banglore as a dry area it really isn't dry it's actually one of the greener areas

a small tip for the houses, the houses which has no windows on the sides and are built with common walls, only has front windows and entrance. like in 8:16 u are most likely looking at central north india especially UP, New Delhi, Haryana, Punjab etc

man this is huge. especially with such a big country

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Hey zigzag ,love ur videos from india. I have some tips for you 1)All the number plates on vehicles have their first 2 alphabets based on state name,so that will be helpful. 2)Mostly all the shop names have the entire location/address on their banners. 3)There is no colour codes for tuk tuks. In my area(Jharkhand) we have them randomly coloured. I wish you a lot of success on KZfaq. Your content is great!! Hoping for more indian content :) Edit: Okay I realised it late that most of the number plates are blurred.

Don't trust the street sign too much. A lot of places follow a 3 language policy, so traffic signs maybe in English, Hindi and the state's first language. But if you don't see any language other than hindi and English then it must definitely somewhere North- central India. Also, North India does not have Coconut Palms. Eventhough there are date palms and other desert palms all over India, you'll only see Coconut palms among them in South India.

New countries make the game feel as fun as when I first started playing, cause i get that it's great to know every meta and every single tip about all the countries, but it is most fun when you explore a new place for the very first time. Hope more countries get added someday. Great video

A tip when you're guessing places here in India - Most local shops have their address printed right below the name board, you can use that to guess the city ;)

The Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution lists 22 languages, which have been referred to as scheduled languages and given recognition, status and official encouragement. 1) Assamese, (2) Bengali, (3) Gujarati, (4) Hindi, (5) Kannada, (6) Kashmiri, (7) Konkani, (8) Malayalam, (9) Manipuri, (10) Marathi, (11) Nepali, (12) Oriya, (13) Punjabi, (14) Sanskrit, (15) Sindhi, (16) Tamil, (17) Telugu, (18) Urdu (19) Bodo, (20) Santhali, (21) Maithili and (22) Dogri.

you don't have to pronounce the H so hard in "Ahmedabad", as in Indian we don't pronounce the H like they do in the Middle East, its more just pronounced "Amedabad" without enunciating the H so much. Also Ahmedabad is the largest city in Gujarat, but Gandhinagar is the capital

As an Indian I am so happy to see this. I can instantly recognise most places

southern india, areas near Mumbai and east coast has dark red soil the deccan plateau and majority of central India has black agricultural soil with rocky terrain the entire northern belt from Bengal to Rajasthan below Uttrakhand and Punjab has sandy soil. Generally it is extremely dry and pretty flat. The northern tip of India near the Himalayas will be extremely hilly and green in general almost like the Bhutan coverage

Man you really learnt everything I mentioned . Good job.

bro this guy's intuitive skills are worth noticing

Currently these images seem to very random and insanely hard to guess as most of them are in the middle of nowhere really but Google street view has finally been authorised by the govt of India a few days back and will be available for 50 cities by the end of the year so a lot more more recognisable and navigable routes should be avialable on Geoguesser very soon.

I was so excited about the new India coverage and at school I’m just trying to express how huge this is, and everyone just looking at me going, what’s up with this kid 😂

A small tip: There is not much uniformity in the architecture in different areas of India. You'll see houses of all shapes and sizes and colour throughout the country, because there is no rule that you have to conform your house to a predecided design. So that's a pretty useless metric. Unless you're looking at specific architectural sites in India. There, architecture is a huge key.

@20:19 the language is not hindi its punjabi, spoken commonly in the state of punjab, there are many Indian languages which have a line on top, you should look at the different types of alphabets written in different top lined Indian languages and which states are they spoken to guess better from next time

couple notes- Urdu and Hindi are arguably the same language it's just that urdu/pakistan uses a different script than hindi/india (no end of arguments about this tho). The indian script is usually Devanagari (the script with a line on top), while urdu's is more of a arabic-influenced one. There's also probably a lot of ways to narrow it down with more regional languages- one obvious candidate is that Bengali script is only going to be found in the east. Religiously, Hinduism is the predominant religion in most of the country, but there's substantial amounts of Christians and Muslims in for instance the east IIRC. Also, it's worth noting that Devanagari being present is very possibly not an india lock, due to some places like Fiji using it as well (indians were brought to fiji as indentured servants and as such the language is a creole known as Fiji Hindi). Rajasthan is also very dry and deserty so that might be useful

9:50 if this was world map nobody in world could guess it's India in first go

This is cool. Identifying languages is going to be even more important. You should make a video on that because I struggle with it a lot

19:06 is the Air Force Station Tambaram ( Chennai's ) entrance, and it's a place where people from around the country reside as they transfer based on assignments. Hence they have multiple languages. I studied in a school inside the campus ✨

was seeing you play this loads on the friend list earlier, so I expected this video! rather exciting that another country has been added to geo, definitely going to be important to memorise which areas have been added!

Man actually knows his geography & general knowledge. I can't imagine an American doing this challenge

Literally nobody calls those vehicles as 'tuktuks' in india, instead they are called Autos.

Indian is added to geoguessr just because google got permission for street view in India, which was not allowed previously by Indian Government. All the photos in geoguessr are from google maps street view.

Well there goes all my Bangladesh and Sri Lanka strategy

Dafaq!! I got chills with some of your guesses with languages. I have lived here all my life and still didn't know lot of stuff you said. Great job mate.

tip: look at the adverts and shop banners as they usually mention the city/town, gives the answer easy if you know where the place is also english addresses are seen in the middle of the city and local language is used rarely but in city outskirts

Bro knows more about India than an Indian Respect ++

7:53 quick tip: if you see red soil, its going to be almost always the state of Karnataka or southern Telangana

I've felt that the relative lack of decent India coverage has been a miss for Geoguessr, so I'm really looking forward to having a go at this map.

Indian gov rejected this kind of stuff until june 2022 because of national security reasons and now they added like 11 cities, and they are gonna expand more very soon ig

According to a law in India for normal use, private companies are allowed only a certain limit for resolution and its 1 meter spatial or 1 meter GSD (ground spatial distance). Which means that the image shown by a satellite will have its smallest pixel, sizes 1x1 meter in ground or surface of the earth. And this is the maximum permitted resolution they can do. Some places have even more restrictions. Hence the low quality of maps

One hint for rural to semi rural areas... If you see a cylindrical water tank on top of houses. Check the colour. If it's yellow, you are in the south. If it's black or white you are in the north.

Important tip: If you don't see hills around you, it can still be from North India just as Jalandhar City was. You can find hills around most of the places in the states of Uttrakhand and Himachal Pradesh. But there are plain areas in the North too like the States of Punjab (where Jalandhar also was), Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. Your game is also kinda tricking you, cuz they show you a backward area in a big city tricking you into thinking that its a small town or a village area or something.

places in india differ based on building, just take a closer look at how gates of each houses look like, or how well the streets look like. As an indian, i can almost tell the places based on the architecture of the city/buildings. Also population density in india varies a lot, for eg: where im from (kerala), it would be so hard to find isolated area cauz the there is always someone but if you take our neighbouring state, Tamil nadu, they might have fields spanning km just for farming. In kerala we import most of our goods from other states. Like that, there is a lot to learn even when u look at an empty land.

0:57 that is telugu langauge which is popularly spoken in telangana and andhra pradesh states that the banner is of our regional festival bonalu

You did a great choice job trying to pronounce the words. Vadodra is a really hard city to pronounce I can't even say it. But yeah languages are gonna be the biggest help but we do have a lot. It was really fun to watch the video, can't wait to see you get better at it

If you can zoom in on vehivle registration then you can easily guess the states. For eg. If registration no. starts with MH(Maharashtra), KL(Kerala) etc.

I believe that the colour of tuk-tuk(called Autorickshaw or simply auto) is mainly based on the fuel which they use rather than region... Yellow with Black/green/blue... Although there is a potential for using the same along with other details as a meta... 😅

0:57 it reads "bathukamma Sambaralu" which is a local floral festival held for 9 days in telangana and andhra.

Just a tip, it’s Delhi area if the soil is alluvial and if the soil is red it’s most probably bengaluru and if it’s black it’s near the middle of India

The area around bangalore might look dry but city itself is one of the greenest (bangalore is one of cooler major cities with milder temperatures in summers mid to high 20s even cooler than the 30s and 40s experienced in north), it also as tropical forests right by in the south/ south-west

As an Indian geoguesser player, this is a huge news for me. Now I can finally get bested in daily challenges that land in my country and truly accept that Im horrible at this game.

Amazing man first time good content. You know a lot about India. Kudos to Geogussr as you can learn a lot you dont intent to learn

What a cool country to get coverage, exciting stuff. Let's see if i recognize India and can narrow it down to a region when i first get it in a game 😅

Being a non-indian u guessed them more accurately than me. ☹️

Soil is a great way of locating yourself. Red soil is definitely the south. Moist brown or dry sand like would likely be the north. The Delhi-NCR region has housing sectors that have a grid like structure with parks in the middle (like at 6:49). Chandigarh area has this too. (I'm not sure if this is found in other places in the country but since I'm from the north this is one observation)

Oh, I didn't even realise that we now have India coverage until this video was released! I'm really curious as to which country will be added next to street view, any thoughts?

Really interested for someone more experienced (and patient lol) than me to properly document this, but it seems to me like the poles are quite various between the states which could be a really interesting clue. I’ve had multiple poles in Uttar Pradesh with a yellow sticker on them, and there seems to different styles of concrete (seen both octagonal and square) and wooden poles. Also I’ve noticed some almost blocky black and yellow guard strips on the bottom of poles in the Delhi region and also kind of like a blueish pole top in a couple of cities in gujarat. Could make for some interesting guessing

whenever a new country starts to get coverage its so hype lets go!!!

13:33 green and yellow taxis with a huge road with a railing in middle is almost always Ahmedabad. It is a public bus lane. There was also a signboard that gave it away

5:14 Here's a small tip shop billboards in india have there location on the right bottom

While I know this will be tough, I think a challenge is good and exciting

10:44 thats near my grandfathers house......just 2 3 km away ....omgggggg.....i miss him ssoo much😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭☹☹☹☹☹☹☹☹

super fun watching you play this, looking forward to playing games myself

Auto/ Rickshaw colour code is actually based on fuel used. Black and yellow is petrol. Green and yellow is CNG. Cng has been used for a longtime in Delhi & Northern region.. and has started spreading in South fairly recent years. Yellow auto is from Tamil nadu, Telangana area. & The colourful narrow versions are electric!! Mostly seen in Uttar Pradesh. PS,Tuktuk is a bigger sized rickshaw. Welcome to the crazy streets of India!!🎉

3:04 Madhavaram, Manali, Koyambedu, hey that's my city!

A tip: The green+yellow or black+yellow those are called auto rikshaws Or just autos and the other ones you saw the funky colors tuktuks(e-rikshaws) can be green, blue, yellow, red or basically any are all over the country. Another thing: The map hasn't blured out a lot of city names if you wanna spend some time looking for them You did really well tho good job

First video of yours I've watched and you're really good at this!

His observations and detailing, O M G. Very very much appreciable

What, India didn’t have official coverage already? I’ve always thought they had 😅

they need to add german rural rounds, there are infinite nice locations there

Well a tip from me would be to look on the shop banners for addresses n maybe memorise some major cities of each state in India (some states have more major cities n some have less) n there's not much coverage it's mostly in Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad n Delhi cities. You can narrow down your guesses.

A good meta would be if you see a lots of study visa ads, it's a pretty good chance you're in the state of Punjab. if the ads aren't in English you can judge the ada if they have Canadian, Aussie or Kiwi flags

Is this coverage going to be added into maps like ADW soon? If so that would be very cool and would defintely be something to spice up the game.

India getting added to Street view and GeoGuessr makes me so happy!

13:10 Tip: next time you see those green and yellow railings just straight up select Ahmedabad coz that's a BRTS lane which are mostly in Ahmedabad (They are also in few more cities but I guess they look different than these distinctive railings)

14:06 that place is like right next to my house was surprised you guessed that accurately 😃

Protip: palm tress are also found in northern parts so don't conclude the location on the basis of palm If there are palms middle of the farm then it's in north

I hope they add the north east states too

Can you do a followup video in a couple months where you play this map again? Would be interesting to see how much experience you gained

This is really cool , great observations. India had stopped Google Street view surveys in 2011 allowing only a few local firms to do mapping. The National Geospatial Policy, 2021 lets Indian companies collect map data and license it to others. After this, Google has tied up with Tech Mahindra and Mumbai-based Genesys International to enable Street View for 10 Indian cities initially. This is the first time Google is working with partner data to enable this feature. In India, the data will be collected and owned by these partners.

as an indian im happy to see them add this to the game but im about to die laughing to the way he BUTCHERED the pronounciations 😭🤣

Really it's just the language which is making a difference to me. Everything else feels like just my town/city.

first time watching you and your general knowledge about india is BLOWING me away. im native and ur logic about the auto rickshaws (tuktuks) didnt even cross my mind at first

A tip to find southern countries in India is that most of the time the name of the place will be written on market signs or board

19:48 don't dox me but *that's where I fucking live*

14:44 The city of that Chandigarh I live there. Beautiful city you should come around sometime 🏆. Brilliant seeing Indian coverage being added to GeoGuessr as if will be fun because country is very diverse regionally, linguistically etc 🇮🇳

8:09 "East or Fest maybe? CANTAM?....cant really read that, unfortunately" literally written PEST CONTROL in english

I've learned to read Urdu, Hindi, and some other scripts, and I would say learning to read Devanagari is fairly straightforward but it can take a while to properly memorize. I think something like Cyrillic can be done in a day, and Arabic is more like a couple of weeks to be somewhat comfortable (but you'll still be reading very slowly). For Devanagari a week should be enough, but you will lose it very fast without upkeep, though after a while most of it should stick. Sporcle has some good quizzes on the Devanagari alphabet; try both sound to letter and letter to sound quizzes. This is a quick way to memorize the alphabet. There are a good number more letters than English, and some are odd and rarely used, etc, but for the most part it is incredibly regular and uncomplicated. It is an abugida so it has a different way of treating vowels from Latin, but this is also pretty simple. Also practice reading stuff of course, on Geoguessr or wherever else. I think it's even possible in a day to be passably literate, if someone is a bit of a masochist. Overall not exactly easy but not really a long-term commitment either, unlike learning to read Chinese, lol.

FINALLY!!!! Such a beautiful and diverse country finally gets proper coverage, very excited

Tuk tuks are originally a Pakistani term, in India we call them rickshaws

Hindi is spoken in both south and north India, southern states dose not really have much hindi posters or letters in walls, it can be seen in government properties!

Bruhh it's difficult even for the Indians, same language in Maharashtra, Delhi and a few other states + idk other languages. Tuk Tuk guesses are on point tho. And you are right about the trucks aswell, they are moving all over the country so can't consider those. And one last thing, farm lands are almost every where in the country and they look exactly the same, study about soil color might help.

Most comments: As an Indian...

Hope many ignored part of India like North-east India , Himachal-Kashmir or the islands also get cover in future.

Just some info, the yellow sign with the southern language at the end of the road on the right at 15:36 is only found in Bangalore.

Here's a tip, try to see the first two letters of the nameplates of any vehicles you see. That will tell which state you are probably in (probably, because big cities in a state can have vehicles of different states).

3:20 I'm from Tamil nadu brooo!