Geoguessr - 10 (US) State Challenge. Be kind, I'm British.
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You've asked for it in your thousands, so here it is. The 10 state challenge. How many US States can i correctly identify without moving??
Be sure to hit the like button and subscribe to watch me do this again, and much more.
/ @geowizard - เกม
For someone who has a TH-cam channel based around Geography, I sure could brush up on my east and west.
No moving or scrolling?
As an American, this was hard to watch.
As a swede, this was totally understandable! Haha I wouldn’t know any either!
GeoguessrWizard With a few exceptions, any state east of the Mississippi River will be very difficult to determine. I think the easiest ones will be desert ones, mountainous ones, and maybe Florida
The way you started, I thought you wouldnt notice it for the whole episode
“Montana is flatter. I’m gonna go for Montana” *clicks in the middle of a mountain range*
Isn't Montana really mountainous actually, hence why it's called Montana 😂
@@leob4403 The Wast half is very mountainous, the East half is very flat
I mean it doesnt matter where he’d click, just needs to get the state
Wizard: i think we're on the west coast
Me: nOOOO
Wizard: *zooms in on east coast*
Me: oh alrighty then
West coast of Atlantic Ocean :-D
@@ottolehikoinen6193 He's British. He doesn't recognize those traitors to the crown over there as actually part of this world. Alternative facts: Only the ocean is real, the territory isn't!
@@Fs3i fuck off
@@aleckushmerek1757 This guy is still pissed off over the Revolutionary War lol
@@Fs3i bro y’all lost get over it
I think we’re on the west coast...
*Scrolls into West Virginia*
And then a couple of minutes later refers to Washington state as being in the east. My boi mad confused
Per Mortensen and Pennsylvania as in the West.. lol
well it's WEST Virginia :)
South Dakota is in the South of the country :)
Haha it's very common with British people, I make that mistake all the time as well. It's because the East Coast is to our West and vice versa with the West Coast being to our East
@@PerMortensen noo be easy think if you had to learn other parts of the world then america cause at least in sweden we are not looking in to america we know geography better then 98% americans i would say
"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
I thought the same. lol
well he did say “may,” if you’ve traveled around there are a ton that are region specific
Right! Thanks suburbia.
The buttons on the road were what gave it away for that one. That’s a fairly California specific thing
Ya sometimes tho. Like if you saw a white castle vs a whataburger those things give regional sorta info to those who know
"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.
My mom is from wisconsin and I thought to myself half of the time “oh this could be wisconsin” lmao
My thought was either Michigan or Georgia for most of them since I have lived both of those.... At least I was right once
i really thought Iowa was it
So many of these pictures were definitely Texas until they turned out to be the Carolinas, speaking as a former Texan. Should have been able to tell based on the lack of obvious drought, though.
same
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!
totally
Hear, hear!
Cory from Pittsburgh... lmao that’s me literally! I felt called out there and looked up from my phone... lol
Had a feeling you'd be listening in..
NowThatsAKneeSlapper • you look like a Sal from New York to me lol
Okay then Zach C
1-800 Thot Stoppers correct
@@ZCoxxy Okay Zach Cox
My logic: Clear sky can't be in Washington state
Poor logic, the eastern half of the state is a desert!
@@lhaviland8602 if it's really a desert than there won't be any trees.
As a washingtonioan can confirm no sun in sight
My logic: It rains, must be Washington
Spokane Rn:😭😭
The gulf stream makes Europe much warmer than N. America, so latitude matching is a BAD idea.
Beaches in Oregon can be warmer than in California
This is the reason Norway isn't very cold, even though the latitude is nearly identical to Alaska.
Good factoid that I was unaware of,. Thanks
@@zondaboy6493 the craziest fact is that Maine and Spain are the same latitude
@@jirobatt8793 Or that Maine is the closest state to Africa.
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
Agree. I have been to all fifty states and it seems impossible to get the right state. There is no real difference between many bordering states. Or even further states.
He should definitely try it with moving and a few minutes.
@@choreomaniac Well the problem I am seeing being from Texas is you can take certain states and literally fit almost all of these pics in 1 state. Texas for example, pretty much flat except up north. Desert to the west towards El Paso. Lots of trees everywhere here in the south of Texas. Lots of fields etc.... there aren't many distinctive factors to limit states to. Pine trees could be the whole north of the US for the most part including Cali....
“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
I’ve never seen it in my life. I’ve driven extensively in NY, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ohio and Illinois, a little bit in Indiana and Michigan and not too much in several others. I’m not saying you’re wrong, just that I’ve never seen it.
@@KitchenerLeslie2 it must be more of a west coast thing then
@@tylerbuckles6134 it’s an appalachian thing too lol.
@@tylerbuckles6134 I live on east coast and there's a couple of those streets in my town. I don't see them that often tho.
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)
Dean Lederer corn is grown in Long Island as well
Corn is grown everywhere east of Colorado tbh
Nebraska... Cornhuskers
Even michigan
I thought that about the corn but the further east you go the more densely populated it becomes. By the time you hit indiana you really don't have those long straight line roads like you do further west.
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.)
Many states also offer vanity plates supporting various universities, charities, etc, with their own unique design and colors. Taking those into consideration there are literally thousands of license plate designs in the US. I’ve found it more valuable to know which states require tags on the front and back of vehicles vs back only, to help narrow it down.
Front or back license plates?
@@BlackSpiderPro Some states require the ugly front plate, the ones that don't are: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico. North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
So glad I don't have to use one! :D
ZackTheMuffinMan Same.
Florida state plates you can also see the orange in the middle
As someone from Michigan it killed me to hear it pronounced “MITCH”-Igan lol
Same, it hurt my ears a little every time he said it lol
Do you know how much shit we don't pronounce right for other countries/continents? Come on now....
I think he does this on purpose. Surely he does it when he says oh-Reagan, even corrects himself after saying Oregon, says sry, oh-Reagan. Even on non US related videos he finds a way to throw in the word Mitchigan :D. But hey, he gets Kansas and Arkansas correctly ^^
Hang on, how is it pronounced if it isn't MITCH-igan? I've always said it that way my whole damn British life. How should I say it?
@@kingboy76 MISH-igan
Wizard: I’ve seen these trees in places like Washington.
Me: on the right track buddy
Wizard: like on the east coast
Me: 🤔
I think he might be getting his East and West confused because he said Pennsylvania was on the West Coast lol0
I'm American and after a few attempts the best I could manage was 4. (with a SICK Maine guess)
4 in a row or 4/10
@@kallemaki-hokkonen4850 4/10
I played along with him and I only got 1/10 and im from the US lol
I'm American too, and I only got 2 out of ten lol. I even got my own state wrong, though I was only about 2 states off lol
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.
@FRIENDLY JAPANESE BUSINESSMAN what state do you live in? I've traveled all over the country, and it always amazes me how similar a lot of states look.
@FRIENDLY JAPANESE BUSINESSMAN
I see sights here in Arizona that look like Arkansas. It is not easy at all.
@FRIENDLY JAPANESE BUSINESSMAN nah, all of the northeast, midwest and southeast look the same if it's just a suburb or random street.
@FRIENDLY JAPANESE BUSINESSMAN heck no it's not easy. He blew me away with his very first guess being Utah because I can drive 10 minutes out of town it it would look just like that first picture and I live in southern Arizona.
@FRIENDLY JAPANESE BUSINESSMAN ive lived in the US my entire life and I can’t for the life of me figure out how to tell some of these states apart. Certain ones like Texas and Florida are easy but others Are super hard to tell
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.
Wrong. Climate change is fake.
Really enjoyed that. Definetly want some sequels for this.
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
He would have to do famous places to have a chance. If you only have a bunch of trees to go on it's pretty much impossible
I mean I can tell DC bc that’s where I live but anywhere else I basically have to look up the highways 😂
I live in cali and literally thought every single one could be cali lmao
@@professortusk I thought the first one was either Arizona because it’s flat/ a desert ish or California. I didn’t think about Utah.
I’ve literally been within 2 miles of some of these locations and still couldn’t have told you what state they were in
"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.
Thanks to the gulf stream, we europeans have a pretty warm climate :)
Actually the climate of Rome isn't even that different of New York's 😯 Mainly summers are a lot drier and winters a lot warmer in Rome, but for the rest it's quite comparable.
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.
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
"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.
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 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!
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 don't know if other states have those adopt-a-highway signs but living in cali I immediately thought it's gotta be there
@@professortusk iowa has adoptahighway too but i got the cali one and the iowa one
The only one I got was the same as him, Utah. And he's like "There's only a 5% chance it was right" No....lol...much higher than that. It was a great guess. I was surprised it was so close to Colorado, didn't realize Colorado had desert on its far west side I guess but yeah.
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!
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.
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.
Adding onto this, Pennsylvania also does not have a front plate :)
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
That first one I was 100% convinced it was either Arizona or New Mexico, I have no idea how you do it, amazing really
I love this country I really wish I could visit all the states, please keep the vids coming!!
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.
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 😂
Kaelen Whitlow hilly corn fields could also be the very south of Minnesota, but better off guessing Iowa in those situations
lmao eye-o-uh
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!
You say "be kind, I'm British" when you probably know much more about American geography than most American people
Honestly
Who doesn't know more about American geography than most Americans anyways
It's a funny stereotype for sure. Truth is though that most Americans are fairly familiar with at least the general direction of relative states from their own location. I think it is mostly the loud obnoxious types who don't know their ass from their elbow. In fact in my own experience it has largely been that, and teenagers.
@@cookieskoon2028 californians
@@morgan3625 Californian here, i'm actually not that bad at geography
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
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.
exactly
When geowizard gets a round in your neighborhood and didn’t realize it until a year after the video came out
10:04 ** looks at truck in America with Red, White, and Blue stripes** “looks like a Dutch flag”
Mate, you aren't funny
Yeah because America is the only state with red, white, and blue in the flag *rollseyes*
Ninja Tony yes, there are many countries named “US” that have red, white, and blue colors.
It does look like a Dutch flag though, but upside down xD
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!
I've always heard it pronounced Mish-igan rather than Mitch-igan?
Yep it's mish-igan
He just likes pronouncing things slightly wrong.
and "why-oh-ming" instead of "wyaming" like he said.. LOL
And o-ray-gon instead of or-i-gen, he does it on purpose lol
Not to speak of i-OH-wah.
I'm looking forward to all the o-ray-gons this series is going to deliver
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.
The pronunciations are on purpose
@@User-mg9xt At least oh-Reagan is (for Oregon)
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
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.
me n'either and i'm from europe myself
Washington and Pennsylvania states both do look eastern on the map, so I always thought that they are in Eastern US. You could also say "North-Eastern"
@@mar754 washington state is one of the most western states on the map bro
@@AXELVISSERS Oh, I was thinking of Washington D.C but that's not a state. My bad
He misspoke, he corrects himself laterr in the video that he may have been saying east when he meant west.
Dude I love this channel and you are cool
Awesome video Tom! Love the content bro! Well done
Not just mixing up trees but also east and west :D
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!
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.
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.
Dude, you did better as a Brit than I could’ve done as a yank. Good job honestly
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.
YEP! A few good ones are:
Hannaford's supermarkets in the northeast.
Piggly Wiggly and Food Lion (supermarkets) in the mid-atlantic and southeast.
In-n-out burger (fast food) in southern California.
Hardee's and Carl Jr's (fast food) in the southeast.
Whataburger (fast food) in Texas.
Kum and Go (yes that's really it's name), a convenience store chain in the rocky mountain states, especially Colorado.
Wawa (convenience store) around D.C. and Philadelphia.
Also: Chick-fil-a = NOT in New England.
Safeway (supermarket) = NOT in the northeast.
@@lhaviland8602 piggly wiggly is only really in DC, not the entire mid Atlantic, wawa is the opposite tho they're sprawled out across the Penn. And DMV area
@@lhaviland8602 Kum & Go and Hardees are all over the midwest. Kum & Go's corporate hq is in Iowa.
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.
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!
If you think it's Appalachian, look at the embankments on the side of the roads, if it's soft and deep ditches youre to the east of the fall line, if sandier or harder soil to the west of the fall line. Look up fall line, it runs through Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia's, the Appalachians
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?
I just played a canada game, it's pretty tough as well, except for a sign for the Pas where I got 4997 I had no clue.
Hell yeah I was waiting for this
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
Love this new series alreadY!
My guesses(I live in us)
1. Nevada
2. Pennsylvania
3. Maine
4. Indiana
5. Mississippi
6. Oklahoma
7. Oregon
8. Idaho
9. New York
10. Arkansas
Welp he did better than me I got 0
I only got California and Iowa from the second half of the go. I also live in the us lol
Omg, I've always wondered in my head if this would ever happen, I didn't know other people had the same idea. YAY!
A lot of these places could be literally anywhere in the USA
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
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.
Finally, how about a Siberia challenge? I dare u (50€ if u get a perfect score) XD
They use (£) pounds in the UK, not (€) euros
@@mar754 they also can't leave the EU
@@sqgarcane think you'll find we are mate sorry
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.
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.
It’s so difficult to distinguish between states. Like somebody else said, you can narrow down to a region but a state is much more difficult. Like the Michigan round, I would have said Indiana.
Some tips for regions:
I generally associate pine trees mixed with other trees to be the southeast. Like North or South Carolina, Georgia, or other states like that.
Concrete roads are popular in the Midwest.
Cotton is grown mainly in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi I believe.
Basically every state has farmland but flatness generally means the Midwest
The 12 provinces of the Netherlands are going to be easier than this.
I love these vid, so relaxing
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
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
Pine Tree: *exists*
GeoWizard: "Has to be Washington State, these trees are Western"
Me, being a Forestry Major: ....Great Smokey Mountains in Tennessee, Shawnee National Forest in Illinois, Paduca Kentucky, etc. SOO MANY places with pines. Alabama roads are pretty much lined with them for the majority of the state.
Being from the Shawnee area, yup! Then throw in something like Crabb Orchard in the Summer and you'd think you were in a Southern Georgia Swamp.
@@ulfbjorn14 I got to school at SIU and am in Forestry so I am a huge fan of the Shawnee, Crab Orchard, Little Grassy, Giant City, etc. Southern Illinois is a REALLY beautiful place!
Over in Marion, so right next door. Totally agree. SoIL is amazingly beautiful.
I love your pronunciation of certain states. I-OH-a and Merry-land
You should probably make it the 5 state challenge
most new buildings are all built similarly so you can only tell the region from old buildings. round 4 had no clues at all, everything in it was nationwide businesses.
also, Montana doesn't have trees or buildings or anything else.
In case it ever pops up in the future, "USF" stands for US Freightways. It's shipping company that operates nationwide, so the truck in #4 wouldn't have helped in any case.
Trucking companies are the bane of people playing using those lol
7:45 that dull colored St. Augustine grass is often a dead giveaway that you're in the south in winter.
That #2 could be just about anywhere in the US. There's streets that look exactly like that near me in Dallas, Texas. That's kind of the difficulty of a no-move challenge in the US.
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.
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.
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.
As someone who lives in Maryland, the way I could tell the place at 18:00 was Maryland was:
1). The trees, shorter and rounder
2). The fields with Forest around, md doesn’t have a lot of wide open plains, so a field surrounded by trees is common
3). The houses, in flat rural Maryland that style of house is very common
4). I could tell it was south eastern Maryland because the west is Appalachian, and central is urbanized
A few tips you can use for the us is the height if the curbs. Older areas, like in cities and out east will have shorter curbs than out west. Big license plates to look for are White with Red cursive lettering (California), and Bright Yellow (New York). Areas in the Midwest and in rural areas will tend to have american care brands like Ford or Chevy, while areas out west and in cities will see more Japanese cars like Toyoda and Honda. The Latest states to look for are Kansas and Nebraska, but most central states will have flat areas. If you see a Rebel Flag, there is a good chance you are in the south. A run down factory indicates you are in a rust belt state, like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, etc. When it comes to trees, the more north you go, especially in the Midwest. There will be hardly any trees in the great plains. Tall, massive trees, especially those with red bark will be in California, or less likely Oregon or Washington. When telling Appalachia from Cascades from The Rockies from the Sierras, there are a few factors. Appalachia will be worse off economically, and they will have a good amount of foliage but nothing crazy. The Cascades will be foggy and very green. The Rockies will be dry and the mountains will be absolutely massive. The Sierras and Mountains in California can vary a lot between North and South, but look for Desert. The Major Highway system in the US is the Interstate System, but you probably already know this. Odd Numbers run North/South, Even Numbers run East/West. Three Digit numbered highways will likely be going in/out/around a city. For North/South Highways, the lower numbers start in the south and go up the more north you get, and the East/West numbered highways start in the West. Hope I could help.
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.
Other things you can look out for are dirt, grass and weed types. For instance, in the southern states, the dirt is much more red due to clay content. In the northern states, the dirt tends to be a darker brown color. In southern states, they have different grass species which tend to be a lighter/ more lime-greenish color, compared to central and northern states, where the grass is a richer, darker green (which could be hard to tell depending on the season). The southeastern states also tend to have more of those weeds (like you saw in the South Carolina round), which can stretch up into states like Tennessee and the Virginia.
The tall skinny trees with few branches and some leaves at the very top are generally in the south and mid eastern coasts
The way you say Michigan gets me everytime