It changed back to Astana (the old name) from Nur-Sultan in September. It holds the Guinness World Record for the city with the most name changes.

I always say this and I will keep saying it, this is by far my favourite mode on geoguessr, something unique and different, can't use meta, just guess by the vibes, like the old geoguessr days

Tip for the Mozambique round: one of the street signs said "Avenida 24 de julho." That spelling - julho - is Portuguese. In Spanish, it would be "julio."

This is by far one of my favourite maps, no meta guessing, just purely feel guessing and architecture and stuff. It's refreshing to have something else besides pure meta guessing.

Hey Zig, Astana was renamed Nur-Sultan in honour of the previous dictator, Nursultan Nazarbayev, however scandals have been erupting recently and they changed the name back to Astana (just two months ago).

in Georgia you see both 3 and 5 stripe pedestrian signs, new ones are 5 stripes and old ones are 3 ones, probably because country is trying to adapt more European style than Russian

That Kingstown guess was insane.

Wonderful content as always! Keep it up!

love your content!! this map is always fun

This is really interesting, I haven't seen many guesses like these, so it lives up to its name! Nice video.

The thumbnail reminded me of about 2 months ago when I had a nightmare on a Mali round in a random desert town

On 3:40, an old french taxi car with a yellow plate should always mean Iran. They also use the French style waffle poles, and combined with the cold climate Iran is actually very easy to recognize.

Same here on that mozambique one, za traffic lights or similar. The portuguese "Julho" gave it away for me, had to be mozambique or angola

Love to see these alternate countries see some action!

make a video about animals on Google Maps (the birds in Midway Atoll, the red crabs in Christmas Island, the Antarctica penguins, big fish in Bali..)

I'm IMMENSELY happy that you struggled as well with the mozambique round, I must say 12:20

Got lucky on the Mozambique round only because I know July is 'Julio' in Spanish and 'Julho' in Portuguese (24 de Julho was on the road sign) so nowhere in South America or Caribbean fit. Didn't feel like Luanda so I gambled on Maputo. Currency being MT could have made sense for Mozambique too

it was astana, they changed it to nur-sultan and then changed it back again

Cyprus round I got 4995, just under 900m.. blew my own mind lol.

love this map. Seems like you should go more with your gut, both the Egypt and last Kazakh guess would've been a lot better guess if you went with your initial instinct ;)

I don't think I would have ever gotten that St Vincent and the Grenadines guess.

Astana keeps being renamed, was called Astana before then re-named to Nur-Sultan then became Astana again in October-ish

Thanks for saying Reykjavík right in the last video, so cool you remembered

I got the right city five times (very proud). Maputo, Alexandria, Vinh and twice in Georgia. But missed the country much more often than you.

Maputo was easy to guess, quite a bad performance there. Street names were in Portuguese and refer to African independence leaders. Not confusing Portuguese and Spanish is a good start.

This mode is so fun bro!

1st seed: I got 3 countries out of 5. thought Vietnam was Venezuela and Burkina Faso was Algeria. That's partly your fault cause you mentioned Algeria so many times it got stuck in my head, haha!

Language Metas like the street sign said JULHO and any time you see LH it's Portuguese over Spanish.

The steering wheel is on the left side of the road here. mmm kay

TCOV/ПТШО stands for TengizChevrOil/ТенгизШеврОйл, basically it is a village built for/by an oil company.

I was hoping you'd notice the "Julho". the "lh" is one of the ways I tell apart Spanish from Portuguese.

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I guessed Kingston on that Caribbean round. You thought of it so im actually proud although I missed :)

wow Maputo looks like a city worth visiting, very modern

This is a fun map

i didn't play because it's 6am but i did think of where it might be each time although i have the edge on you on language you're a much more experienced player and almost always got it while i did not do well... at all 😅

I didn't do too bad on the third round, got closer than you in Cyprus and Egypt but failed to get Kazakhstan on #5 😞

I love this

for that mozambique round, portuguese frequently has h's after consonants. ex: "nh" sounds like "ñ" in spanish

On the first seed I got 12,742 points. I guessed Myanmar on the Vietnam, I got Kazakhstan but went more north than it was, on the Georgia one i got 4,999 points due to the fact that I've been to Telavi and I immeadiately got it (glad to see you got it correct with Georgia). And for the las two I guessed Lebanon on Iran and Morocco on Burkina Faso. For the second seed I got 9,753 points. Obviously the first round was skipped, on the second one I somehow guessed in the right region of Paraguay (as it was obvious what country it was) and I got 4,700 points, which I was really impressed by. For the St Vincent, I was about to guess in the caribbean when I changed my mind and went with Reunion because I wasn't sure if it was on this map (which I don't think it is), so that wasn't great. Then I guessed Nicaragua thinking that it was spanish I was seeing, and I was shocked to see Mozambique. And for the final one I knew straight away it was Georgia, but I had never been there. I saw the restaurant called Ushba and knew that we'd be in Mestia, a toursity town by Mt Ushba. I guessed where the name marker was, and I got 4,800 points. For the third seed I got 14,153 points. I started off guessing Cyprus as I thought it looked a lot like southern Italy and I had no other option. Then I guessed Baghdad on Alexandria, which I followed up on by guessing north Paraguay when it was southern, then I saw the Vietnamese script and I saw Hanoi so I immeadiately guessed Hanoi but it was a smalled city. Then for the final round I immeadiately knew it would be a former soviet state, and I thought it would most likely be Kazakhstan, so I went in between Astana and the Russain border, and while it was Kazakhstan, it was the complete opposite part of Kazakhstan, and I only got 800 points. Also they renamed Kazakhstans capital to Nur-Sultan after their dicatator but then when the dictator died it was changed back.

great vid but, why is Mali so close to the coast in the thumbail??? that leaves no room for mauritania

Persia and France apparently have had close relations dating as far as the 17th century, so even though it's not as distinctly obvious as Francophone Africa, you'll find **some** subtle French influences in Iran. Don't know if French cars count as the same, though.

they changed the capital name back to astana

Love it

I was yelling Mozambique at my phone for 2 minutes straight

09:28 Nyerere was an ex president of Tanzania so went there instead of Mozambique and fell for the bait

Algo. Classic Australian.

why are all 3 of my favorite youtubers australian lmao

Doesn't Vietnam have some Google coverage?

Tbilisi is pronounced like Bilisi

Well THAT ruined my country streak... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Isn’t Vietnam on GeoGuessr? At least it was, right?

yeah kazakhstan changed astana to nur-sultan, it still shows up as astana though

Please invest a small amount of time to learn spanish vs. portuguese it kills me every time. there are a few simple rules that make it easy to recognize!

wHy iS nIgEriA in tHumBnaiL