He can actually speak quite decent German, though he sells himself short. He went on a German TV/stream channel and played a round with the boys in German and it was actually quite impressive
as a german city person i never realised until now how much goddamn agriculture there is here in germany, as soon as you leave a city its just fields and crops
@@4nc3st0r Man sollte schon wissen, was im Umkreis auf dem Land ist und wie es dort in etwa aussieht. Für viele Stadtmenschen scheint es selbstverständlich zu sein, dass das Essen immer pünktlich im Supermarkt ist, aber was dahintersteckt, sollte zumindest bekannt sein.
@@patrickseidel218 Ich wohne in Essen, um mich herum sind andere Städte, in jeder Himmelsrichtung 😅 wir haben Landwirtschaft im Stadtgebiet, muss wirklich nicht ins CDU Land fahren dafür :)
Phone codes and zip codes (the first one or two numbers) are easily learnable in Germany and they have come in clutch for me a couple times today already. I definitely recommend looking them up. :)
Phone numbers / area codes can be valuable clues. The first two digits give you the region: 01: mobile numbers (and some special services) 02: Rhein/Ruhr 03: Berlin and all of former East Germany 04: Hamburg 05: Hannover 06: Frankfurt 07: Stuttgart 08: München 09: Nürnberg In one of the rounds you had a sign with the area code 02353. As I knew that 0234 is Essen, this couldn't be too far away from there.
@@Smites100 Of course. By "former East Germany" I meant the territory that used to be the GDR. And "Mitteldeutschland" ("middle Germany", which is the area around Leipzig and Halle) is a part of that territory.
12:24 There is actually a good Architecture Meta for Churches: If the roof of the tower is kind of rounded, could be almost onion-looking, then its very likely eastern Ba-Wü or Bavaria. Churchtower almost looks Austrian a bit Orthodox. It is in the heavy Catholic regions.
I feel bad that I play Geoguessr a lot, grew up in Poland and still have no idea how people recognize 'Polish trees'. Apparently they are needed to distinguish rural east from rural west Germany now.
What's definitely worth looking into are GDR remnants. There are old signs, train crossings, buildings, etc from the GDR time that are easily recognizable. And that will immediately tell you when you happen to be in the eastern part of Germany.
There are "Military Load Classification" signs left from Cold War NATO - you find them only in the West German states: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Load_Classification
My hometown in Hesse also has an onion dome church, but it's on the border to Bavaria tbf. It was built very recently though around 1900. That building style is Neobarock apparently
Little tip: try to get the vibes of the former GDR architecture. There were several shots were I immediately thought "EAST" and you were like "yeah, maybe in the centre or something" so if it is GDR+bricks it's closer to the baltic sea and if it is GDR without bricks it is closer to Czechia lol
The houses at 16:33 are an extremely common GDR house design. This standardized kit was built half a million times only in East Germany, one of few options if you wanted your own house. There were variations depending on resource availability and taste of the builder/owner, but features like the two second story windows below the gable, or the angled eaves, are immediately noticeable if you know what to look for. Try google image search for "DDR EW58"
4:18 The yellow roads are Bundesstraßen and there is no system to how they're set up sadly. Btw, your german pronounciation is really really good. I guess I've never heard a foreigner pronounce Chemnitz correctly
It's so funny: in many of the rounds you were struggling I could pinpoint them a lot better, but in other rounds I had absolutely no clue where to put them and you immediately jumped to the correct region... Greetings from Germany!
German highways ("Autobahn", blue shields on the map) are somewhat sorted. Odd numbers are North-South oriented (like A1) and even numbers (like A2) are East-West oriented.
A2 is in the north, A8 is in the south. Higher number means further south. A1 is in the west, A9 is in the east. Higher number means further east. When you get a two- or three-digit number, just look at the first digit. For example, A49 is a branch of A4, which must be somewhere near the centre of the country. (The 2nd and 3rd digit doesn't immediately tell you much about the location along the main autobahn, but those higher numbered routes are usually short.)
@@anti-troll-software6151 It's not really about directions on a compass; it's about finding those highways when looking at the map (or even knowing where they are without looking).
@@renerphoDas funktioniert leider nicht immer. Die A352 verbindet zum Beispiel A2 und A7, die A255 befindet sich in Hamburg an der A1 und die A281 ist in Bremen in der Nähe der A1.
If a town name ends in -itz you can be pretty certain that it is in east Germany as it is a common slavic ending. There exist maps with town name endings distributions in Germany, many of them are very regional, like -weiler in south west Germany and -ow in north east Germany.
Great video. Little tip from a german for 17:56: If you see a name (or place name) ending with -siepen it is most likely to be in the "Bergisch" area (Wuppertal, Bergisch Gladbach, Remscheid, Solingen). Added to that, in this region most likely you will see a lot of slate roofs and slate walls. Added to that there is a little "hillyness". If you have a place ending with -hoven or -broich it is most likely in the area between the NL border, cologne and the Ruhbrgebiet. Keep it up!
The street corner at 10:42 - Prozessionsweg/Bockumer Heide looks quite familiar for me. Although I can't remember to have passed the exactly spot, I have driven many times through the next bigger streets. The street corner shows some evolution in building "history" and is very typical for this area: The smaller red bricked houses were built in the 50s to early 60s, the two family homes with the more brownish-red bricks were built late 60s to early 70s and the yellow bricked terraced housed on the other side of the street are from the late 70s up to the early 80s.
At 24:20 you forgot to pay attention to the numbers. If you had you would have instantly seen that you are on the A6 1 km from the intersection of the A6 with the A61
When you're near a village or small town, look at the churches! They look very distinct in the predominately catholic regions in the south, especially Bavaria. 12:25 had to be either Bavaria or Baden-Württemberg, just from the church.
17:55 German phone codes are very regular, and can help you find the correct location. First, ignore the initial 0. Check if the remaining number starts with a 1. If it does, it's a mobile phone, which won't help you. If it's something else, take the first two digits, and have a look at a map of the phone codes. Memorizing the basic pattern (at least the first digit) isn't too hard. The map you need is called "Karte Telefonvorwahlen Deutschland". The region code is usually separated from the rest by a /. The region code has between three and five digits. If you get a code with three digits, you're in one of the biggest cities (030 is Berlin, 069 is Frankfurt, 089 is Munich). Four digit codes are other big cities. For example, a code like 02353/..., as in your video, must be somewhere in a rural area of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 023 is the code for the region near Dortmund. You can't be in Dortmund itself (it's a big city, and has a four-digit code 0231).
26:25 The wayside shrine gives instant "catholic region" vibes. Which includes the Ruhr area. I guess it wouldn't have helped with that particular guess, because you chose another "catholic" region. But still, there are parts of the country where you find these quite often, so it may be good to know.
31:29 On smaller roads in germany wooden bollards are quite common. I believe the main thing about a bollard being german is just the pattern of the reflectors (a rectangle on the front and two dots on the back, all white (or yellow if its the last bollard before an intersection)). Sometimes you also see the same "bollard" pattern on wooden poles.
18:23 - the 02 starting phone number means it is in the west. see the wikipedia article "List of dialling codes in Germany" for reference. It has a map.
btw for your pronounciation (it is really good, just a few tips): the names of the states and some cities are in English. An example would be Rhineland-Palatinate. This you have to pronounce in English. German would be Rheinland-Pfalz. Heres a list of German states and their English names: Schleswig Holstein - Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - Berlin - Brandenburg - Hamburg - Bremen - Baden-Württemberg - Saarland - Niedersachsen - Lower Saxony Sachsen-Anhalt - Saxony Anhalt Sachsen - Saxony Nordrhein-Westfalen - North-Rhine-Westphalia Rheinland-Pfalz - Rhineland-Palatinate Hessen - Hesse Bayern - Bavaria
Wow this is so exciting. I've actually already discovered some car meta's for myself within the first minute of looking around in google maps! Definitely one of my new favorite countries to guess in.
@@jonathangroth8525 Sure but keep in mind I didn't check these too much but they appeared to be consistent. Generally, you'll just see the Gen 4 car without an antenna, but in the north you can find some antenna coverage as well as in the southeast. Down all the way south you'll usually not see the blue car that you usually see in gen 4.
the old houses are often painted in dull, sludgey colours - like sludge green, sludge yellow, sludge orange. I could tell it was a village not a million miles away from Berlin, but still far enough that it was dead and not really been touched much by modernity.
34:12 "These are Polish trees as well" ... pointing at some Colorado blue spruce, state tree of Colorado, USA.... but you can find them in front of the Kremlin Wall, next to Lenin's Mausoleum too. 🙂
8:04 The black slate stone walls are a good indicator - they are very common for central germany (south thuringia) especially if there are medium sized mountain ranges nearby
after playing for a bit i got a round filled with birches just north of nuremberg, so i guess it should be noted that its not always exclusive to the north.
I took a few months off due to work and university, but is there a better way to start the grind again than with finally decent footage of your own country? I'm excited
Starting with some Metas: Really big US-style fields? Ironically: very likely in ex GDR, as western farmers were not forced into collectives. Vinyards? Western Germany between south of Mannheim and Koblenz, Mosel, Ahr or Rhine. Slate? Bergisches Land. Reet roofs? northern tip, likely even an island. Onion shapes church towers? Bavaria. Bricks? Münster Sadness? Comes in two flavours: Duisburg or Zwickau. Horses? Oldenburg. Enough for now.
Northern Germany has some slight hills from moving ice shields and stuff during the last ice age. Sometimes there are hills without a mountain range in otherwise flat terrain.
Tip for guessing bavaria: The former minister of traffick in germany put alot of money into streets in bavaria so they usually have a good quality. Germany in itself isnt poor tho so good road quality obviously doesnt equal bavaria, just something to keep in mind :)
Correct. But on the picture with the sign about protestant services there was also another one showing a yellow church with the line "Heilige Messe", which shows that the place also has a Catholic church. This is the case in most of Germany.
saw the video a bit late but hope i can help with a few small tips, although i have to say i learned way more. Eletrical poles like the one at 17:26 or 32:03 often are in poorer regions, the eastern part. These houses which look a bit odd are often also eastern germany. road network there is fine cause much is payed from the government, but the houses definetly look poorer. if you have rusty houses and old streets duisburg is the right guess as u already saw. :D greetings
The first thing I realized about the coverage was that Hamburg sometimes has this curve shape arc looking white car. I'm not sure if it's exclusive to Hamburg but nevertheless a nice meta.
16:13 Most towns have plates for church times. The North will mostly show "Evangelischer Gottestdienst" (protestant) and the South mostly shows "Heilige Messe" (catholic). Same goes for catholic shrines like at 26:24, they are quite regional. There is a noticeable split in confession because of the 30 years war.
so a small metha, in Niedersaksen a lot of buildings are brick. Meaning that if you see a proper brick building (like in most of Netherlands) + it is fairly flat. You can strip off 80% of Germany. Do note that close to Niedersaksen it could also be like this.
An quick tip about place names: If it has a "z" in it, it is very likely to be in eastern Germany. Also can be a good start for meta. Quite often the endings of place names are clumped together. You have areas with more "-bach" and areas with more "-brück" for example. There should be some maps on the internet. And post and dialling codes will be very useful
on the czeck/polish border you need to remember street quality, the west of germany often has way better streets then the east(BRD/DDR Bavaria excluded)
im surprised how often locations near my home come up, didn't expected to see any 23:11, 27:53 And i also never expexted you would say the name of my home town out lol
One thing worth keeping an eye our is the BRD-DDR (Wessie-Ossie) distinction. The former Soviet areas look markedly different, in my eyes (though I am Hungarian, so I haven't travelled too far and wide, but I have lived in both Bavaria and NRW for 9 months in succession).
Some hints for town names: if it ends in -ingen, it's almost certainly very much west. If it ends in -rode, just clicking straight at the Harz mountain range should get you close enough. If it sounds weirldy polish, that's probably because you are in Prussia and it actually used to be polish.
@@hannah-wj9ot South West, actually. Mostly Alemannic, but then there is also Solingen, which is uncharacteristically far North and to my knowledge got nothing to do with the Alemanni. But yes, the hotspot for towns ending in -ingen is in Südbaden. If we were to draw parallels to my -rode advice, just click on the black forest and you are likely to be in the right ballpark.
I'm pretty sure the bollard is made of wood. Especially on small roads that lead through the forest, there are often still some made of wood in Germany. You can also recognise them by their shape. The usual plastic bollards are not quite round - but this one is.
Very seed dependent I found. Got 2500 or so on my first game (with a 2:00 time limit but moving allowed) and 20000 the next one - pretty much nothing to go on in the first try, road signs and town names abundant in comparison in the second.
zig is by far the best non german youtuber at pronouncing german place names
Yup, his actual German is also pretty decent.
i think he learned german at some point
He can actually speak quite decent German, though he sells himself short. He went on a German TV/stream channel and played a round with the boys in German and it was actually quite impressive
@@Kuchenblech_Mafiosolink?
@@Kuchenblech_Mafioso please link haha
A good tip for anyone guessing by town names: Most town names that end with "-ow" like "Güstrow" are in the north-eastern part of Germany.
yes, and in my experience a lot of towns ending on -da or just -a are in Thuringia (central part of Germany).
also, in Saxony there are many villages ending on -itz / -witz / -nitz etc., but I'm not 100 % sure this is an only-Saxony thing.
-ingen is very common around Stuttgart.
-ingen signals Celtic history and is indeed mostly based in south western Germany
And -ing is southern Bavaria, especially the area around Munich
as a german city person i never realised until now how much goddamn agriculture there is here in germany, as soon as you leave a city its just fields and crops
Schon schade, wenn sich Stadtmenschen nicht mit ihrer Umgebung beschäftigen. Vielleicht steigt dein Interesse nun.
@@patrickseidel218was ist schade daran?
@@4nc3st0r Man sollte schon wissen, was im Umkreis auf dem Land ist und wie es dort in etwa aussieht.
Für viele Stadtmenschen scheint es selbstverständlich zu sein, dass das Essen immer pünktlich im Supermarkt ist, aber was dahintersteckt, sollte zumindest bekannt sein.
@@patrickseidel218 Ich wohne in Essen, um mich herum sind andere Städte, in jeder Himmelsrichtung 😅 wir haben Landwirtschaft im Stadtgebiet, muss wirklich nicht ins CDU Land fahren dafür :)
@@4nc3st0r Ausflüge aufs Land lohnen sich trotzdem✌️
Funny how you scrolled around Magdeburg for like 1 minute and didn’t see it 😂
7:23 that kind of roof is pretty much exclusive to northern Germany
It was pretty funny seeing bud looks for Magdeburg for 9 hours and it was on his screen the whole time
I love that you managed to pronounce many place names right, but chose to go for Beirut instead of Bayreuth 😃
Can't wait to spawn next to rainbolt and Kodiak
Epic Rainbolt Germany meta
Phone codes and zip codes (the first one or two numbers) are easily learnable in Germany and they have come in clutch for me a couple times today already. I definitely recommend looking them up. :)
Phone numbers / area codes can be valuable clues. The first two digits give you the region:
01: mobile numbers (and some special services)
02: Rhein/Ruhr
03: Berlin and all of former East Germany
04: Hamburg
05: Hannover
06: Frankfurt
07: Stuttgart
08: München
09: Nürnberg
In one of the rounds you had a sign with the area code 02353. As I knew that 0234 is Essen, this couldn't be too far away from there.
0234 is Bochum, actually
@@GreenLava909 Thanks. I should have known...
Still close enough for the purpose of this game.
03 can bei middle Germany aswell
@@Smites100 Of course. By "former East Germany" I meant the territory that used to be the GDR. And "Mitteldeutschland" ("middle Germany", which is the area around Leipzig and Halle) is a part of that territory.
12:24 There is actually a good Architecture Meta for Churches: If the roof of the tower is kind of rounded, could be almost onion-looking, then its very likely eastern Ba-Wü or Bavaria. Churchtower almost looks Austrian a bit Orthodox. It is in the heavy Catholic regions.
30:37 is another example of that
Nicknamed Zwiebeltürme, literally oniontower
Funny to hear you mention Poland more than Germany on a Germany map.
I feel bad that I play Geoguessr a lot, grew up in Poland and still have no idea how people recognize 'Polish trees'.
Apparently they are needed to distinguish rural east from rural west Germany now.
@@SuperPolentaman what they mean is scots pine or baltic pine. Very common in western Poland and eastern Germany.
What's definitely worth looking into are GDR remnants. There are old signs, train crossings, buildings, etc from the GDR time that are easily recognizable. And that will immediately tell you when you happen to be in the eastern part of Germany.
There are "Military Load Classification" signs left from Cold War NATO - you find them only in the West German states: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Load_Classification
12:18 I think you can find "onion domes" only in bavaria. Could be a tip for small villages in the south
Could you also find these in B-W?
@@jasperw.7664 you're right! Onion domes are also in B-W. But I would say they're more famous in the catholic parts of Bavaria.
My hometown in Hesse also has an onion dome church, but it's on the border to Bavaria tbf. It was built very recently though around 1900. That building style is Neobarock apparently
Little tip: try to get the vibes of the former GDR architecture. There were several shots were I immediately thought "EAST" and you were like "yeah, maybe in the centre or something" so if it is GDR+bricks it's closer to the baltic sea and if it is GDR without bricks it is closer to Czechia lol
The houses at 16:33 are an extremely common GDR house design. This standardized kit was built half a million times only in East Germany, one of few options if you wanted your own house. There were variations depending on resource availability and taste of the builder/owner, but features like the two second story windows below the gable, or the angled eaves, are immediately noticeable if you know what to look for. Try google image search for "DDR EW58"
you can also see it in the kind of road they are using in some cases
31:10 i love how he says "rheinland-palatinate" in accent-free german :D
4:18 The yellow roads are Bundesstraßen and there is no system to how they're set up sadly. Btw, your german pronounciation is really really good. I guess I've never heard a foreigner pronounce Chemnitz correctly
He can actually speak German. Made a full video in German a while back.
@@MrSharkFIN "Ich bin blind"
@@MrSharkFIN I know, just wanted to repeat it because it is really uncommon for a native english speaker to speak german this well
@@RAFlamingo3 True!
chemnitz? foreigners usually got "karl marx" down pretty well, and only struggle with "stadt", though. ;)
It's so funny: in many of the rounds you were struggling I could pinpoint them a lot better, but in other rounds I had absolutely no clue where to put them and you immediately jumped to the correct region... Greetings from Germany!
German highways ("Autobahn", blue shields on the map) are somewhat sorted. Odd numbers are North-South oriented (like A1) and even numbers (like A2) are East-West oriented.
A2 is in the north, A8 is in the south. Higher number means further south.
A1 is in the west, A9 is in the east. Higher number means further east.
When you get a two- or three-digit number, just look at the first digit. For example, A49 is a branch of A4, which must be somewhere near the centre of the country. (The 2nd and 3rd digit doesn't immediately tell you much about the location along the main autobahn, but those higher numbered routes are usually short.)
A661 is a branch of A66, which itself is a branch of A6.
This is not really useful as there is a compass anyway.
@@anti-troll-software6151 It's not really about directions on a compass; it's about finding those highways when looking at the map (or even knowing where they are without looking).
@@renerphoDas funktioniert leider nicht immer.
Die A352 verbindet zum Beispiel A2 und A7, die A255 befindet sich in Hamburg an der A1 und die A281 ist in Bremen in der Nähe der A1.
If a town name ends in -itz you can be pretty certain that it is in east Germany as it is a common slavic ending. There exist maps with town name endings distributions in Germany, many of them are very regional, like -weiler in south west Germany and -ow in north east Germany.
Finally new street view in Germany. Im from Münster and hope you enjoyed your Germany vacation. I like your videos very much.
Great video. Little tip from a german for 17:56: If you see a name (or place name) ending with -siepen it is most likely to be in the "Bergisch" area (Wuppertal, Bergisch Gladbach, Remscheid, Solingen). Added to that, in this region most likely you will see a lot of slate roofs and slate walls. Added to that there is a little "hillyness".
If you have a place ending with -hoven or -broich it is most likely in the area between the NL border, cologne and the Ruhbrgebiet.
Keep it up!
The street corner at 10:42 - Prozessionsweg/Bockumer Heide looks quite familiar for me. Although I can't remember to have passed the exactly spot, I have driven many times through the next bigger streets.
The street corner shows some evolution in building "history" and is very typical for this area: The smaller red bricked houses were built in the 50s to early 60s, the two family homes with the more brownish-red bricks were built late 60s to early 70s and the yellow bricked terraced housed on the other side of the street are from the late 70s up to the early 80s.
At 24:20 you forgot to pay attention to the numbers. If you had you would have instantly seen that you are on the A6 1 km from the intersection of the A6 with the A61
When you're near a village or small town, look at the churches! They look very distinct in the predominately catholic regions in the south, especially Bavaria. 12:25 had to be either Bavaria or Baden-Württemberg, just from the church.
17:55 German phone codes are very regular, and can help you find the correct location. First, ignore the initial 0. Check if the remaining number starts with a 1. If it does, it's a mobile phone, which won't help you. If it's something else, take the first two digits, and have a look at a map of the phone codes. Memorizing the basic pattern (at least the first digit) isn't too hard. The map you need is called "Karte Telefonvorwahlen Deutschland".
The region code is usually separated from the rest by a /. The region code has between three and five digits. If you get a code with three digits, you're in one of the biggest cities (030 is Berlin, 069 is Frankfurt, 089 is Munich). Four digit codes are other big cities.
For example, a code like 02353/..., as in your video, must be somewhere in a rural area of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 023 is the code for the region near Dortmund. You can't be in Dortmund itself (it's a big city, and has a four-digit code 0231).
26:25 The wayside shrine gives instant "catholic region" vibes. Which includes the Ruhr area. I guess it wouldn't have helped with that particular guess, because you chose another "catholic" region. But still, there are parts of the country where you find these quite often, so it may be good to know.
As someone living in Germany this is entertaining - more would be appreciated.
31:29 On smaller roads in germany wooden bollards are quite common. I believe the main thing about a bollard being german is just the pattern of the reflectors (a rectangle on the front and two dots on the back, all white (or yellow if its the last bollard before an intersection)). Sometimes you also see the same "bollard" pattern on wooden poles.
Your pronunciation is 😙👌 chefs kiss
18:23 - the 02 starting phone number means it is in the west. see the wikipedia article "List of dialling codes in Germany" for reference. It has a map.
btw for your pronounciation (it is really good, just a few tips):
the names of the states and some cities are in English. An example would be Rhineland-Palatinate. This you have to pronounce in English. German would be Rheinland-Pfalz.
Heres a list of German states and their English names:
Schleswig Holstein -
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern -
Berlin -
Brandenburg -
Hamburg -
Bremen -
Baden-Württemberg -
Saarland -
Niedersachsen - Lower Saxony
Sachsen-Anhalt - Saxony Anhalt
Sachsen - Saxony
Nordrhein-Westfalen - North-Rhine-Westphalia
Rheinland-Pfalz - Rhineland-Palatinate
Hessen - Hesse
Bayern - Bavaria
Mic is sounding much better, also thanks for this vid. Timing is on point.
Wow this is so exciting. I've actually already discovered some car meta's for myself within the first minute of looking around in google maps! Definitely one of my new favorite countries to guess in.
Care to share?
@@jonathangroth8525 Sure but keep in mind I didn't check these too much but they appeared to be consistent. Generally, you'll just see the Gen 4 car without an antenna, but in the north you can find some antenna coverage as well as in the southeast. Down all the way south you'll usually not see the blue car that you usually see in gen 4.
On 33:50 "rode" suffix and the "a" in Berga is most common West of Leipzig.
Yeah, if it ends in "rode" you can be 95 % sure to be in or near the Harz mountain range
@@jonathangroth8525 and -roda is a bit more southern towards Vogtland region, Zeulenroda and Friedrichsroda for example
@@verstrickt.und.ausgerechnet Eichsfeld region in Thuringia also has them .
11:40 this is a very typical eastern German village. I don't really know how to describe it, I guess it just looks kinda shitty and dead lol
it's the buildings close to the street with large courtyard gates for me .
@@hannah-wj9ot Right, that's a good point!
the old houses are often painted in dull, sludgey colours - like sludge green, sludge yellow, sludge orange. I could tell it was a village not a million miles away from Berlin, but still far enough that it was dead and not really been touched much by modernity.
Specifically Brandenburg has a lot of villages that look like this.
Your region vibes are already on point 😎, so no doubt you will be a germany location beeeeast!
Würzburg represent! Lower Franconia is also in the driest area in Bavaria.
34:12 "These are Polish trees as well" ... pointing at some Colorado blue spruce, state tree of Colorado, USA.... but you can find them in front of the Kremlin Wall, next to Lenin's Mausoleum too. 🙂
8:04 The black slate stone walls are a good indicator - they are very common for central germany (south thuringia) especially if there are medium sized mountain ranges nearby
after playing for a bit i got a round filled with birches just north of nuremberg, so i guess it should be noted that its not always exclusive to the north.
"Germany just dropped" sounds so funny to me
finally some Germany. great video!
I took a few months off due to work and university, but is there a better way to start the grind again than with finally decent footage of your own country? I'm excited
I've just received gold in Germany explorer mode before the map got updated so it was much easier haha
I purposefully took people’s advice and got Gold in Germany before the update too XD
Starting with some Metas:
Really big US-style fields? Ironically: very likely in ex GDR, as western farmers were not forced into collectives.
Vinyards? Western Germany between south of Mannheim and Koblenz, Mosel, Ahr or Rhine.
Slate? Bergisches Land.
Reet roofs? northern tip, likely even an island.
Onion shapes church towers? Bavaria.
Bricks? Münster
Sadness? Comes in two flavours: Duisburg or Zwickau.
Horses? Oldenburg.
Enough for now.
Autobahn with even number: east - west leading, Autobahn with odd number: north- south leading.
16:58 You have almost no windturbines in bavaria and Baden Württemberg due to politics. So this is a good indication that you have to be north
2:17 Wow, that was close to my home town Bückeburg
19:06 Minden as well😂
31:10 thats the english name, its Rheinland-Pfalz haha
Northern Germany has some slight hills from moving ice shields and stuff during the last ice age. Sometimes there are hills without a mountain range in otherwise flat terrain.
31:20 bro is just like me fr “here we have a Google car of some kind”
Summer 2022 was exceptionally hot and dry, you see this several times. Summer 2021 would have been much greener.
You rarely find this kind of pylons 22:27 on a high voltage line in western parts of Germany. They are more typical for the former GDR.
Tip for guessing bavaria: The former minister of traffick in germany put alot of money into streets in bavaria so they usually have a good quality. Germany in itself isnt poor tho so good road quality obviously doesnt equal bavaria, just something to keep in mind :)
andi scheuer der goat für bayern
Love your videos!
sooo excited about this!!
I think that rural 50/50 germany poland map would be extremly hard to play
You are right about religion. About everything north of Kassel is Protestant, whereas the south and west is more Catholic.
Correct. But on the picture with the sign about protestant services there was also another one showing a yellow church with the line "Heilige Messe", which shows that the place also has a Catholic church. This is the case in most of Germany.
saw the video a bit late but hope i can help with a few small tips, although i have to say i learned way more.
Eletrical poles like the one at 17:26 or 32:03 often are in poorer regions, the eastern part.
These houses which look a bit odd are often also eastern germany. road network there is fine cause much is payed from the government, but the houses definetly look poorer.
if you have rusty houses and old streets duisburg is the right guess as u already saw. :D
greetings
The first thing I realized about the coverage was that Hamburg sometimes has this curve shape arc looking white car. I'm not sure if it's exclusive to Hamburg but nevertheless a nice meta.
16:13 Most towns have plates for church times. The North will mostly show "Evangelischer Gottestdienst" (protestant) and the South mostly shows "Heilige Messe" (catholic). Same goes for catholic shrines like at 26:24, they are quite regional. There is a noticeable split in confession because of the 30 years war.
Though many towns, including the one in the video. have both :)
@@Rhangaun Yeah. It's a weak meta like the sun.
17:02 please don't pronounce Bayreuth like the Lebanese capital 😂. I guess in English you could write it Bye-royt
so a small metha, in Niedersaksen a lot of buildings are brick. Meaning that if you see a proper brick building (like in most of Netherlands) + it is fairly flat. You can strip off 80% of Germany. Do note that close to Niedersaksen it could also be like this.
An quick tip about place names: If it has a "z" in it, it is very likely to be in eastern Germany. Also can be a good start for meta. Quite often the endings of place names are clumped together. You have areas with more "-bach" and areas with more "-brück" for example. There should be some maps on the internet. And post and dialling codes will be very useful
Bayern is pretty fond of a "z" too.
@@mosmarb How about "x"? Thinking Alxing, in particular.
on the czeck/polish border you need to remember street quality, the west of germany often has way better streets then the east(BRD/DDR Bavaria excluded)
I didn't know that Germany has so many trees and houses from other countries 😬
I mean, it is right in the middle of everything, makes sense to be a big mix
im surprised how often locations near my home come up, didn't expected to see any
23:11, 27:53
And i also never expexted you would say the name of my home town out lol
One thing worth keeping an eye our is the BRD-DDR (Wessie-Ossie) distinction. The former Soviet areas look markedly different, in my eyes (though I am Hungarian, so I haven't travelled too far and wide, but I have lived in both Bavaria and NRW for 9 months in succession).
Also Bayreuth is pronounced closer to buy-roight.
Also also, the Palatinate is the English name for Pfalz.
In Gaggenau you'd always see higher mountains around.
17:54 Look up maps for (landline) phone numbers in Germany; they’re really regular.
At least German post codes are well ordered :D
wow ... the conclusion that the evangelic christmess means it gotta be more northern impressed the shit out of me. Respect
So funny to watch as a german!!
@2:18 Bielefeld doesn't exist.
Minute 12:47 Mann muss schon nen 9er im Garten haben 😂
Excellent!
You were in Rheine ? yooo i live there. Finally i can see my hometown haha
Brandenburg is just called Poland now XD
Germany will be fun to learn
glad I grinded out that Germany gold medal a few weeks ago
I am from Würzburg, how did you like it there
loved it there
@@geoguessr_explained nice, ty for replying
Keep this guess vibe going in other videos. For example guessing Philippines/Columbia wrong and saying “ah just over in Columbia, that’s okay though”
Already a great job at region guessing 💪
excited to learn germany
southern germany still feels a bit underrepresented, i hope they keep driving around and expand the coverage
why are all the rounds countryside?
At least you got the right country every time.
Some hints for town names: if it ends in -ingen, it's almost certainly very much west. If it ends in -rode, just clicking straight at the Harz mountain range should get you close enough. If it sounds weirldy polish, that's probably because you are in Prussia and it actually used to be polish.
I'd put -ingen more in the southern parts
@@hannah-wj9ot South West, actually. Mostly Alemannic, but then there is also Solingen, which is uncharacteristically far North and to my knowledge got nothing to do with the Alemanni. But yes, the hotspot for towns ending in -ingen is in Südbaden. If we were to draw parallels to my -rode advice, just click on the black forest and you are likely to be in the right ballpark.
And the first plonk is in KELHEIM ... ahahhahahahahaha
zigzag gertac
Achim is my hometown
The Polish Trees invaded Germany!!
payback
31:30 I don't think it's a wooden bollard, it's just extremely dirty 😅
I'm pretty sure the bollard is made of wood. Especially on small roads that lead through the forest, there are often still some made of wood in Germany.
You can also recognise them by their shape. The usual plastic bollards are not quite round - but this one is.
Very nice
Luxembourg already has gen 4
So Scots Pine is the polish tree, huh?
wow there was my mothers home town
oh boy, i'd have to relearn germany but definetly worth it for this new generation!!!
Very seed dependent I found. Got 2500 or so on my first game (with a 2:00 time limit but moving allowed) and 20000 the next one - pretty much nothing to go on in the first try, road signs and town names abundant in comparison in the second.
Saarland is now French 😂
Nice