Hello! I'm the one who created the map. It's so exciting to watch a pro player give it a go, thank you! It's replayable, just so you know, I spent quite some time selecting places haha
When playing another time, I got a round that I'm certain was a 3D render, it was not a real place! It claims to be in the Palm Jumeirah in Dubai, but it's totally fake.
@@piteoswaldo Was it a white and silver banquet hall with reflective surfaces everywhere but no reflection of a person or camera, and a black void for a ceiling?
@@howdyhamster yeah, exactly that "place". Mirrors in every surface, all illuminated but not one light bulb in sight, no camera reflection, it looks like a very amateur videogame scene.
Omg the San Fran one is the first time I’ve ever had a better guess than Tom. I mean to be fair I’ve lived in the Bay Area for the past 12 years but still let me have this lol
Also the fact that the eastern United States does not tend to have chinatowns, especially dc which is mostly just capital,political, law related stuff.
@@BeepasGarage You can't call China town China towns that aren't official for example the China town in NY isn't as big as the 8th ave Chinese population and size but the one in 8th ave isn't a China town. Even though non Chinese people call it a China town as far as I can tell we Chinese don't think it is a China town.
One thing! Just one thing! Please tell IT to me: WHY tf do I have so many fans even though no TH-camr is unprettier than I am? WORLDWIDE!!!! WHY??? Tell me, dear jon
The law actually has nothing to do with the height of the capitol. It's along the lines of "A building can't be more than 20 feet taller than the width of the street it faces".
I feel like that’s not true. Maybe I’m wrong, but I’ve been to DC, and I’m pretty sure there are quite a few buildings taller than the Capitol. The Capitol is rather small
@@annie420xx wow unbelievable 😠 jk love every island but aeroplane's so much better to me. Anyways it was pretty nice to see mbv on a geowizard vid, you could say it was "out of place"
I love that he can instantly tell what country sometimes out of learning the license plates alone, but has still yet to learn the difference between chinese/japanese/korean text which could help a ton in challenges such as these. Can spot a Ghana license plate from nearly orbit, but "A bit asian I think, definitely oriental" when met with a so-Japanese-it-hurts looking temple.
@@horizon3064 Yeah if you're not sure about the specifics chinese and japanese can be hard to tell apart. Korean is way different tho, it's more shapey (compared to the other east asian languages)
Yeah, I know for sure that he knows at least the difference between Korean and the other two, he’s mentioned “more circles” before, I think it’s just Chinese and Japanese that’s been struggled with in the past. Then again, China doesn’t have street view, but still.
@@r3alityrjectna452 Yeah that's pretty much the dead giveaway for Korean: it's somewhat square and blocky like Chinese but it has TONS of ovals which the others don't have. But the others aren't that hard either, like I said Chinese is very square and blocky whereas Japanese looks more "free-form". I don't speak any of the languages or have any major exposure to them irl, I feel like if you spend a bunch of time on the internet you encounter them enough that you can learn the difference.
8:30 the map makes that place look like it's in a weird spot because google maps's coverage in China is distorted and the roads on the maps do not corrispond with the real ones
The map can be off by about 1/4 mile in seemingly random directions in China. Maps in china are by law considered top national secrets and "cryptographically" distorted, and creating/possessing maps themselves can be illegal. And you thought Germany's blurriness was annoying. Read more at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_data_in_China
Yeah, satellite photos are not shifted, so here it is, by the lake to the east of where it shows on Tom's map. There are four photos spheres there, atm. goo.gl/maps/djhyinQbGJyauGeo9
Oh my god, I never would've guessed to see my uncle's glasses storefront in Geoguessr!! Probably the first (and last time) I've beat GeoWizard's guess haha
One night, my friend and I were playing Geoguessr. It was our first ever round after discovering the game on youtube. Literally, the first location was right next to our house. Spooked us quite a bit that night lmfao
I knew it was Goa the moment I saw the church Goa's a former Portuguese colony, they were Portuguese from the 1500s to annexation by India in 1961 so the Portuguese influence is quite strong
That was the first time i had a better guess than Tom. I'm brazilian, so i can spot a portuguese-like church from miles hahahahah. That + indian looking people would give me a near 5k
Yeah, as soon as I saw the Chinese text and obvious alpine looking buildings I knew it had to be one of those weird Chinese recreations of a European town. Honestly kind of surprised that Tom hadn't heard of them before, there's quite a lot of them
Coming into this map a year later, that round was annoying. The location was incorrect in Tom's map (the photo location is right next to that small lake visible near the marker) and is even MORE incorrect now! In fairness, it's only off by maybe a few hundred metres, but it's more than enough that a perfect score seems unlikely without cheating.
The reason the Theme Park in China probably didn’t add up to the map is because China has banned google from accurately mapping its roads, lakes, mountains, and most other features. So I’m sure the actual lake on the google maps in real life correlates to the shape of the lake on the billboard
Well, the boards and so on all used simplified characters (as far as I can tell) so that it has to be China. But what made me think it is Taiwan were the blue "construction signs" (or rather propaganda / motivation signs, whatever it is called) in the background. You'll see a lot of them in China, not only on construction sites, also at Universities, bridges etc., and they're usually red (obviously). So that was confusing
It seemed pretty accurately mapped to me. It's a newly budding lakeside residential area (according to the Chinese banner), and there was indeed a lake closeby on Google Maps.
i guessed somewhere in Kerala where I thought the 'original Indian christian' reside in. So fixated, forgot to account the architecture of the church. Kerala's church should be more Indian I presume?
@@andorpetrei663 true. I doubt anyone thought that was Egypt, but it should’ve been pretty obvious what part of the round was supposed to be the “misleading” bit
Actually, going for the very centre of Rome when you are clearly looking at a city gate... 🤪😂😷 ... and the pyramid could be a hint that the gate will be found to the south?
I feel like this is probably something you see more in really big cities that order a LOT of manhole covers and have huge tax budgets to get them personalized? Most of the ones I'm familiar with from working in municipal sewer and water will have, at the most, a designation for if they are "Storm" or "Sanitary" and perhaps the name and location of the foundry that made them but not the locale in which they end up.
probably going to be hard to read manhole covers unless your directly over top of them due to camera angles. And as last person said this is likely going to mostly be in larger cities that are customized like this.
18:24 - Well, "quite British" in the sense that that's where the British got their cooks (because it was one of the places in India where people ate the most meat). Goa was (for a very long time) a Portuguese colony / enclave. Which is why a lot of "curries" served in the UK are actually Portuguese / Goan dishes, practically unknown in the rest of India.
I laughed my ass off on that Huizhou, China one. Btw, there's an art school constructed like a Hogwarts castle near my hometown in Xinle county, Shijiazhuang, China, in the middle of nowhere. That one for sure would have thrown you off.
The problem is, yeah there's almost no street view pictures in mainland. So what i thought is: the possibility that this photo is taken there is low. But yeah I can tell from the advertisement that it's in mainland but still have no idea where the exact location is lol.
China is very well known for recreating worldwide monuments/landmarks within mainland China. Probably because most cities can't afford or aren't allowed to leave. Plus they like to pump their chest over being "the center of the world"
Fun fact, buildings in Washington DC tend to be short due to building codes that restrict the building height relative to the width of the streets. That's why you don't see skyscrapers like in NYC there.
@@aadhisenthivel I thought Kerala too, turned out to be my grandfather's birthplace... born Indian in a christian family with some Portuguese ancestry, moved to french-speaking India, and eventually to France, to marry his WWII pen pal.
GeoWizard: can guess any country out of blurred out license plates also GeoWizard: can't tell chinese and japanese writing apart and just calls everything "oriental"
@@arto1245 that is what is so frustrating about it. he takes all this time to learn so many things, small details about places all over the world. he clearly knows it's the wrong word to use, but he just doesn't care. i really enjoy his videos, but each time he does that... it's just a bummer.
For someone who spent the entire childhood playing GTA SA, the Chinatown in San Francisco (Fierro) was such a eureka moment (the tall building and the gradient on the street was a massive giveaway). For once I was correct about something that Tom wasn’t.
"Cesta Časem" and "Utazas Az Időben" in the China one are Czech and Hungarian, respectively In English, they mean something along the lines of travel in time/journey through time. It is modelled and named after Hallstatt in Austria
That India round you actually were in Goa like you suspected, which has a rich history with the Portuguese, hence all the Catholic churches. side note, this video is a goldmine of hilarious bits that Tom says 😂
Just for futures reference remember that there are no tall buildings in Washington D.C. so that the monuments and capital are visible through the whole city. A little like how London used to be.
I'm okay with the word usage, but less happy that tom says he's not taking suggestions. if it is offensive, you _should_ want to be cognizant and open to change
I was so happy when i got that Hawaii guess! First time participating long time watching... Looks like some of your skill has rubbed off :) Even beat your score! Can die a happy man now. Thx for the content man
Hungarian, Chinese, Czech, Russian ... that really thrown me off, what a strange combination. It is even spelled correctly, so weird :) ... Czech here.
Yeah, first is hungarian, last is russian, and all of them mean a travel through time. Kinda weird combo, never expected to see hungarian outside of hungary lol.
The last place is the Byodo-In Temple in Oahu, I visited there about 8 months ago. I'm typing this before the video has ended; that's a place I will never forget. Truly one of the most serene places I've ever been to.
For the China Town one there was 415 area codes (San Fran) all over the place! Learning those codes would really help to locate cities in North America
its also a (very) general rule of thumb that the more important/historical a city is the lower their numbers will be. ex: NYC is 212 which is very easy to dial with an old-school rotary phone. contract with (I just googled this) Las Vegas which is 702, which didn't really blow up in expansion until mid-60s ish
@@rich-tp2dx x0x were originallyassigned to whole states. 702 covered the whole of Nevada until 1998, when everything outside the Las Vegas metro area was reassigned to 775.
Just got my first ever perfect score (UK Better Map) thanks to watching you for the last couple of years, picking up tips and advice! Took me 1hr19min mind you, but we got there slowly. Keep up the incredible work, you never cease to amaze me with all the games you play!
Yes it was clearly a Portuguese colonial style church, I knew that Goa used to be a Portuguese colony, so I got almost perfect score on that one. But to give Tom some credit, Colombo was owned (about 100 years) by the Portuguese as well.
The street sign is very San Francisco style. So much so that I said SF and didn't waver even when he looked at the word Washington. I thought he was going to go Seattle, DC was just a dreadful guess.
The China one you can tell because of the construction with the blue banner. It's someone pretty unique to China. It's not HK, Macao, or Taiwan because there was no traditional script, but that might be harder for people to notice.
Through the whole video I was always thinking back of a round my girlfriend and I played in which we were so sure it was somewhere in Bulgaria. There were Bulgarian flags, a gym with a poster of very Eastern European-looking people in tracksuits, a website ending with the ".bg" domain... and just such a general Eastern European vibe too! Where was it? The Hague, in the Netherlands. Must have been their Bulgarian town!
I once had a round where i was dropped on a cobblestone path, super european looking, with a european looking like, shop next to me, with austrian flags hung up outside. super convinced i was in austria. where was i? brazil.
I’ve been watching your channel for ages and was here since before the ‘crossing Wales in a straight line’ video, which was incredible and so was the other straight line challenges. I just want to say thank you for making these amazing videos. Keep up the great work
Reads the word "Partition" as "Partheon," proceeds to call the Parthenon "Partheon," which this place very blatantly isn't. The mapmaker was trying to get you to guess a swiss/gothic country, definitely not greece lmao
Idk if this map has it, but there’s a town in Sicily where all of the signs are in Albanian due to the local Albanian community, would be great to see it
I think I’ve been there before in a Battle Royale game lol! Iirc, I don’t think anyone got Italy because Albanian writing is so distinctive (rrs and such), so it kinda caught me out by surprise.
Woah this was trippy, at 7:59 he clicks on an island in Hong Kong that I've physically been to. The place he clicked is a big residential block, but to the left of it there's a place called Ma Wan which is an abandoned village. Good guess.
i guessed somewhere in Kerala where I thought the 'original Indian christian' reside in. So fixated, forgot to account the architecture of the church. Kerala's church should be more Indian I presume?
The China round was a funny one. This place is modelled after the small town of Hallstatt in Austria! They just rebuild it there :D and the whole story lead to lots of media reports here in Austria a couple of years ago.
it's been a trend for the last 10 years now, China's real estate moguls love to recreate european towns and cities in the middle of nowhere as a way to offer real estate invesment opportunity for the middle class and a way to get a taste of europe without leaving the country
I even knew about the place when I played it, but didn't know where in China it was so I just guessed Beijing cause it's the biggest city. And Tom wasn't even sure which country he was in and got twice as many points as me. Life can be unfair
Living in the Bay Area, my 1st guess on that last one was also the Japanese garden in San Francisco. But then I saw those tall unique looking pine trees which I had only seen in Hawaii. So in the end, I correctly guessed on Oahu (Honolulu though...)!
The town in the second round is part of the recreation of Hallstatt in Austria which is very famous by chinese people, it gets flooded with chinese tourists every year, except last year of course
"Путешествие во Времени" is in russian, means "journey through time" as well. Cant imagine any russian or slavic people in Guangzhou. Czech and Russian - what a strange choice of languages
This is one of those Chinese real estate developer trying to create a western style housing community. The Chinese character on the ads talks about real estate selling.
awesome videos. you've inspired me to get back into geoguessr. I'm quite slow, but meticulous. just got a 23,506 score on World! blows away any of my other attempts
Re: the second location. China has weird fake monuments/towns/etc. Think fake Venice in Vegas. It’s like theme park versions of different places/cities/etc.
Exactly, I believe the fake town in question here is Austrian Halstatt, which is on a lake, so that's why geowiz thought it was coastal from that bilboard
I'm beating myself up right now. I initially thought of San Francisco Chinatown in the third round, and I even zoomed in to try and find Wentworth, but I went against my gut and chose Seattle instead because of the "Washington" on the sign. Turns out that if I had been zoomed in one more tick, I would have just barely seen Wentworth and gotten a perfect score.
I got 15.211 on that map! First time I ever beat you in any play-along :) Curious side note for that China guess: Being an Austrian I know that the Chinese built a duplicate of our town "Hallstadt" somewhere in China. I went for something further south, somewhere outside of Hongkong and landed reeeeally close
Can't beleive I beat you, only started geoguessr today after binge watching your vids haha. Got 14,493 after fluking the Hawaii one with 4,958 pts.. thanks for the vids and challenges making my night more interesting.
that chessboard map is from Hallstatt town in Huizhou, china. Took me a while to find the exact place. Its urban core is modelled after the small town of Hallstatt in Austria, part of a trend in China to mimic or rebuild other parts of the world. So yeah it fits the misleading thing in a sense. And apparently it's not worth visiting now or something.
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Hello! I'm the one who created the map. It's so exciting to watch a pro player give it a go, thank you! It's replayable, just so you know, I spent quite some time selecting places haha
thanks! it was fun! and the first time i've ever beaten Tom at one of these! probably mostly by chance though :P
When playing another time, I got a round that I'm certain was a 3D render, it was not a real place! It claims to be in the Palm Jumeirah in Dubai, but it's totally fake.
yay!!! thank you for the system!!
@@piteoswaldo Was it a white and silver banquet hall with reflective surfaces everywhere but no reflection of a person or camera, and a black void for a ceiling?
@@howdyhamster yeah, exactly that "place". Mirrors in every surface, all illuminated but not one light bulb in sight, no camera reflection, it looks like a very amateur videogame scene.
GeoWizard sees a man on a roof: “I would not be standing in that position”
Also GeoWizard: *crosses the Norwegian wilderness alone*
walks into a bog
I was scrolling through comments, and read this just as he said it
Almost dies in a bog
The bog
Well that isn’t something he would do compared to something he would. Be more dumb’nt
"Crucifixion... good" Quite a revolutionary idea you suddenly got Tom.
That's what I thought too haha!
The full quote is “crucifixion good one cross each line on the left “ . Life of Brian
Always look on the bright side of life.
The PFJ will be after you....
@@robrophside3691 whistle*
Omg the San Fran one is the first time I’ve ever had a better guess than Tom. I mean to be fair I’ve lived in the Bay Area for the past 12 years but still let me have this lol
I saw that and said to myself oh, looks like San Francisco. Never been there in my life live on the east coast
Yo Quadeca, I didn't know you were a GeoWizard fan. I can't wait for your album bro!
what a video to find quadeca on lmao
QUAD??
QUADECA???
On the Chinatown one, you'll never find tall buildings in Washington DC. There is a height restriction to preserve the views of the monuments.
That’s cool.
Also the fact that the eastern United States does not tend to have chinatowns, especially dc which is mostly just capital,political, law related stuff.
@@TayG-y9q there is a small China town in DC.
@@BeepasGarage You can't call China town China towns that aren't official for example the China town in NY isn't as big as the 8th ave Chinese population and size but the one in 8th ave isn't a China town. Even though non Chinese people call it a China town as far as I can tell we Chinese don't think it is a China town.
@@cczsus6513 it’s pretty official. It even has its own metro stop. Look it up.
That intro is world class 😂😂
One thing! Just one thing! Please tell IT to me: WHY tf do I have so many fans even though no TH-camr is unprettier than I am? WORLDWIDE!!!! WHY??? Tell me, dear jon
👍😂
@@AxxLAfriku BEGONE SELF-PROMOTER!!! WE DONT LIKE YOUR KIND HERE
Yeah....
that will do
@@AxxLAfriku i respect how many crap personal comments you make
Tip: Washington D.C. has no tall buildings. Law states the Capitol must be the tallest building in the district
Actually, the law is that buildings can only be a certain amount taller than the width of the street they are on.
Really? That sounds very nice. Must be a nice city. Assuming "the capitol" is a small-ish building.
The law actually has nothing to do with the height of the capitol. It's along the lines of "A building can't be more than 20 feet taller than the width of the street it faces".
I feel like that’s not true. Maybe I’m wrong, but I’ve been to DC, and I’m pretty sure there are quite a few buildings taller than the Capitol. The Capitol is rather small
@@ImUppish im from dc, the washington monument is the tallest, and everything else is short. im not sure what the actual rule is
"maybe we're in stoke-on-trent"
"no, sun shining,...nice...no"
lmao
nice pfp
@@tinytimtam you too! love neutral milk hotel, although i prefer on avery island to in the aeroplane over the sea
@@annie420xx wow unbelievable 😠
jk love every island but aeroplane's so much better to me. Anyways it was pretty nice to see mbv on a geowizard vid, you could say it was "out of place"
@@tinytimtam you got a lastfm or rateyourmusic? ill follow you
@@annie420xx TinyTimTam for both
I love that he can instantly tell what country sometimes out of learning the license plates alone, but has still yet to learn the difference between chinese/japanese/korean text which could help a ton in challenges such as these. Can spot a Ghana license plate from nearly orbit, but "A bit asian I think, definitely oriental" when met with a so-Japanese-it-hurts looking temple.
Yea, it isn't terribly difficult to tell the written languages apart, I was surprised he couldn't given everything else he seems to know.
@@SLDimarco He definitely is able to tell a lot of not most Asian languages apart
@@horizon3064 Yeah if you're not sure about the specifics chinese and japanese can be hard to tell apart. Korean is way different tho, it's more shapey (compared to the other east asian languages)
Yeah, I know for sure that he knows at least the difference between Korean and the other two, he’s mentioned “more circles” before, I think it’s just Chinese and Japanese that’s been struggled with in the past. Then again, China doesn’t have street view, but still.
@@r3alityrjectna452 Yeah that's pretty much the dead giveaway for Korean: it's somewhat square and blocky like Chinese but it has TONS of ovals which the others don't have. But the others aren't that hard either, like I said Chinese is very square and blocky whereas Japanese looks more "free-form". I don't speak any of the languages or have any major exposure to them irl, I feel like if you spend a bunch of time on the internet you encounter them enough that you can learn the difference.
**cross**
Tom: “Crucifix... crucifixion”
**the Virgin Mary**
Tom: The Lord Our Savior
Made me laugh
Even as a non-Christian, that part made me go "????" as well lmao
@@YoshiSupremacy123 ikr lol
“There’s all the tall buildings,” he says, pointing at the center of DC
Yeah, I’m guessing he doesn’t know the whole “nothing can be taller than the Washington monument” thing, but if he did he would never have gone DC
@@calebwitt4207 Nah the height limit actually has to do with the width of the street its on
Americans are so smarmy it’s cringe
‘I’m not sure what about this is supposed to throw me off.’
Uh, it’s a pyramid in Italy...
The first place is italian as hell the only thing is that pyramid but they are not inly in egypt 🤣
🤣
With obviously Roman letters and everything being so clearly not Egyptian or whatever. So yeah...
@@BlackLotusVisualArchive Lol no. Its just a tomb for a Roman guy (his name is on there).
Tom overthinking things as usual lol
8:30 the map makes that place look like it's in a weird spot because google maps's coverage in China is distorted and the roads on the maps do not corrispond with the real ones
The map can be off by about 1/4 mile in seemingly random directions in China. Maps in china are by law considered top national secrets and "cryptographically" distorted, and creating/possessing maps themselves can be illegal. And you thought Germany's blurriness was annoying. Read more at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_data_in_China
@@DeronMeranda thanks bro
I mean, I was convinced it's near the sea too.
Google maps actually accurate in Hong Kong tho. It’s only in mainland China that’s distorted.
Yeah, satellite photos are not shifted, so here it is, by the lake to the east of where it shows on Tom's map. There are four photos spheres there, atm.
goo.gl/maps/djhyinQbGJyauGeo9
Oh my god, I never would've guessed to see my uncle's glasses storefront in Geoguessr!! Probably the first (and last time) I've beat GeoWizard's guess haha
Omg that’s crazy!
One night, my friend and I were playing Geoguessr. It was our first ever round after discovering the game on youtube. Literally, the first location was right next to our house. Spooked us quite a bit that night lmfao
@@JTheMelon the odds of that are ridiculous that’s awesome
that is so cool.
I knew it was Goa the moment I saw the church
Goa's a former Portuguese colony, they were Portuguese from the 1500s to annexation by India in 1961 so the Portuguese influence is quite strong
Ty for enlightening me Kim Jong-un. I'm happy you had time to educate the public in between war-crimes and genocide.
Foda-se Kim, gostei
Yeah portuguese churchs are pretty distinct
That was the first time i had a better guess than Tom. I'm brazilian, so i can spot a portuguese-like church from miles hahahahah. That + indian looking people would give me a near 5k
I thought Portuguese colony in India as well.
20:39 “Fran- San- Fran Sancisco” 😂
“Mr Franman. Bring me some fran. make it the frandiest san”
19:46 "Got a black couple here.......TRASHHH" i was reading the comments and just heard that i was shook lmao
lmao
same hahaha
haha that was unfortunate timing
Omg LMAOOAOAO
I WAS READING THIS COMMENT WHEN I HEARD IT
Love the content! You've become our regular breakfast entertainment, keep it up Tom!
He has very very good content ngl
Gets a little bit more than what you can say about the game but I can’t think of anything else that would help you out with the other games
Didn't expect to see you here,
Breakfast entertainment how? Like a clown?
Whoa 😳 it’s nerdforge here✨
The one in China is meant to look like Austrian town “Hallstatt“ kinda weird because they literally tried to rebuild it there
I thought it looked like Hallstatt!
Thank you man! I was so confused why a Chinese stairway had a Hungarian writing on it :)
Yeah, as soon as I saw the Chinese text and obvious alpine looking buildings I knew it had to be one of those weird Chinese recreations of a European town.
Honestly kind of surprised that Tom hadn't heard of them before, there's quite a lot of them
Also one of the lines on the stairwell is in Czech. Kinda weird
Coming into this map a year later, that round was annoying. The location was incorrect in Tom's map (the photo location is right next to that small lake visible near the marker) and is even MORE incorrect now! In fairness, it's only off by maybe a few hundred metres, but it's more than enough that a perfect score seems unlikely without cheating.
"All of the writing is either in English, or... Asian" GJ with the language recognition :D
The reason the Theme Park in China probably didn’t add up to the map is because China has banned google from accurately mapping its roads, lakes, mountains, and most other features. So I’m sure the actual lake on the google maps in real life correlates to the shape of the lake on the billboard
Cheers Phil
Well, the boards and so on all used simplified characters (as far as I can tell) so that it has to be China. But what made me think it is Taiwan were the blue "construction signs" (or rather propaganda / motivation signs, whatever it is called) in the background. You'll see a lot of them in China, not only on construction sites, also at Universities, bridges etc., and they're usually red (obviously). So that was confusing
It's required by the government that all mapping companies, even Chinese ones, randomly warp the map alignments.
It seemed pretty accurately mapped to me. It's a newly budding lakeside residential area (according to the Chinese banner), and there was indeed a lake closeby on Google Maps.
It’s not a theme park. It’s a residential neighborhood called Hallstatt, and it’s an exact replica of Hallstatt, Austria.
That church was in Goa, a place with heavy Portuguese colonial history and Christian missionaries.
Also home of Goodfellas, one of world's best pizzas
Shoutout to all youtubefrogs who understand the refference 👋🏻
Interesting! As I've seen this church I thought that it looks really portuguese... there is something unique about it's architecture.
@Het Modi It was Goa.
@@P3TARK yupp one of the restaurants from the chain goodfellas 👀
i guessed somewhere in Kerala where I thought the 'original Indian christian' reside in. So fixated, forgot to account the architecture of the church. Kerala's church should be more Indian I presume?
Genuinely thought it was Stoke-on-Trent...
bruh
I still believe it was
i guessed Glasgow, oh god
I couldn't get past half the chess pieces seem to have been stolen from the giant chess board, so could be Stoke-on-Trent.
@@mattc3581 yeah lol Stoke on Trent is a dump
9:41 What a historical moment of this TH-cam channel.
Lmaoooooo
And don't forget the new intro🤣
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The fact that you recognize the hungarian language makes me so happy. Mad respect for you brother
In Italy, staring at a pyramid: “what is it that’s supposed to be throwing me off here?”
I saw some latin on the side of it
@@andorpetrei663 true. I doubt anyone thought that was Egypt, but it should’ve been pretty obvious what part of the round was supposed to be the “misleading” bit
@@Chris.1812 Yup, it was quite misleading, but everything looked italian to me except that weird license plate
Actually, going for the very centre of Rome when you are clearly looking at a city gate... 🤪😂😷
... and the pyramid could be a hint that the gate will be found to the south?
@@Chris.1812 maybe that was an "out of place" one instead of "tricky" one
"Yohoho and a bottle of rum... plestiltskin's... foreskin." Amazing.
That will do.
Yohoho and a bottle of sake
Foreskin 🥵😍
“Maybe we’re in Stoke-On-Trent..” 🤣
Hey Ludwig viewers
"No, sun shining, nice... no."
@@Kaiji... whats it like living by eddie hall
@@Kaiji... it was a joke because there’s a waterworld in Stoke
@@WeirdSeagul whats ludwig got to do with stoke on trent? 🤣🤣
Tom, when you're in America you need to check around for manhole covers! The manhole covers often have a mark of the state and or city they're in
I feel like this is probably something you see more in really big cities that order a LOT of manhole covers and have huge tax budgets to get them personalized? Most of the ones I'm familiar with from working in municipal sewer and water will have, at the most, a designation for if they are "Storm" or "Sanitary" and perhaps the name and location of the foundry that made them but not the locale in which they end up.
probably going to be hard to read manhole covers unless your directly over top of them due to camera angles. And as last person said this is likely going to mostly be in larger cities that are customized like this.
18:24 - Well, "quite British" in the sense that that's where the British got their cooks (because it was one of the places in India where people ate the most meat). Goa was (for a very long time) a Portuguese colony / enclave. Which is why a lot of "curries" served in the UK are actually Portuguese / Goan dishes, practically unknown in the rest of India.
Thank you, Mr. Map Maker, for this map. You are truly amazing. All the love to you and your family. God bless you.
Smooth intro
17:36 my grandad when i take him out of the house once a month for a walk in the town
19:45 as well lol
Racist...
@@jamesdettmann94 Oh my god that caught me by surprise. Totally didn't notice how bad that sounded when I watched the video.
@@benja1378 damn you must be a blast at social gatherings. Also, Hindu is not a race.
Lmaooo
I laughed my ass off on that Huizhou, China one. Btw, there's an art school constructed like a Hogwarts castle near my hometown in Xinle county, Shijiazhuang, China, in the middle of nowhere. That one for sure would have thrown you off.
The problem is, yeah there's almost no street view pictures in mainland. So what i thought is: the possibility that this photo is taken there is low. But yeah I can tell from the advertisement that it's in mainland but still have no idea where the exact location is lol.
China is very well known for recreating worldwide monuments/landmarks within mainland China. Probably because most cities can't afford or aren't allowed to leave. Plus they like to pump their chest over being "the center of the world"
Fun fact, buildings in Washington DC tend to be short due to building codes that restrict the building height relative to the width of the streets. That's why you don't see skyscrapers like in NYC there.
As an indian immediately knowing that the 4th round was Goa was such a nice feeling
i thought it could've been kerala cus i got konkan coast vibes
I guessed immediately too, was quite obvious considering the Christian influence from the Portugese.
I confirmed it was India with the dio scooty😂
As a Brazilian I just knew that the church must be portuguese, then the Indian people got me think it had to be Goa.
@@aadhisenthivel I thought Kerala too, turned out to be my grandfather's birthplace... born Indian in a christian family with some Portuguese ancestry, moved to french-speaking India, and eventually to France, to marry his WWII pen pal.
GeoWizard: can guess any country out of blurred out license plates
also GeoWizard: can't tell chinese and japanese writing apart and just calls everything "oriental"
yeaaaah its not great
he just acts like he couldn't possibly learn another word. what a dullard.
Are you Asian?
@@arto1245 that is what is so frustrating about it. he takes all this time to learn so many things, small details about places all over the world. he clearly knows it's the wrong word to use, but he just doesn't care. i really enjoy his videos, but each time he does that... it's just a bummer.
@@thewesternsky jesus christ stfu, oriental means eastern, stop acting offended on behalf of someone else
For someone who spent the entire childhood playing GTA SA, the Chinatown in San Francisco (Fierro) was such a eureka moment (the tall building and the gradient on the street was a massive giveaway). For once I was correct about something that Tom wasn’t.
Tom: “Chinese writing, Chinese people, sun shining”
Also Tom: “Stoke-on-Trent?”
Thought the same😂😂
"Cesta Časem" and "Utazas Az Időben" in the China one are Czech and Hungarian, respectively
In English, they mean something along the lines of travel in time/journey through time. It is modelled and named after Hallstatt in Austria
The last line is in Russian and can confirm it means journey through time. :)
This type of recreation shouldn't be allowed.
@@brvk9202 It's a replica of stairs to museum in Hallstatt, so it makes sense to have the czech language there.
@@Sparrow318 hallstatt is in austria though lol and there's no german
@@margaretkopretina It must have something to do with Austria-Hungary empire.
That India round you actually were in Goa like you suspected, which has a rich history with the Portuguese, hence all the Catholic churches.
side note, this video is a goldmine of hilarious bits that Tom says 😂
Just came over looking for a new video... 51 seconds after you posted :)
51 mins for me lol
noice
the second location was a fake build of the austrian city hallstatt. They rebuild the hole city in detail thats pretty insane
it's just loosely inspired by Hallstatt, very far from the real deal just in terms of how it looks and the arrangement of the buildings.
There's also a fake Paris somewhere in China. Including an Eiffel tower.
@@maha3431 it's near Hangzhou
I've been to hallstatt, didn't even remind me of it until I saw your comment
There is a nice panoramic view video from "the daily360" about both hallstatts. I've tried to post the link but yt won't let me.
Just for futures reference remember that there are no tall buildings in Washington D.C. so that the monuments and capital are visible through the whole city. A little like how London used to be.
Thank you random man who recommended this map
I'm really enjoying Tom forming an interesting sense of humor lately
Tom: Knows all the bloody countries in the world by sight and name.
Also Tom: "Oriental... No idea what other word to use!"
I'm okay with the word usage, but less happy that tom says he's not taking suggestions. if it is offensive, you _should_ want to be cognizant and open to change
@Santa Anna but it’s the sentiment that he’s unwilling to change if it were outdated language.
@@alanwu5012 thought that was sarcasm
@Santa Anna lol i said i was okay with the word usage
"there's a Sikh one" points to Hindu temple
Can I just say how wholesome this content is, it just makes me happy watching your videos
same here
I was so happy when i got that Hawaii guess! First time participating long time watching... Looks like some of your skill has rubbed off :) Even beat your score! Can die a happy man now. Thx for the content man
actually, "cesta časem" is in czech, the top one was definitely hungarian.
Hungarian, Chinese, Czech, Russian ... that really thrown me off, what a strange combination. It is even spelled correctly, so weird :) ... Czech here.
@@zedforfun7315 Why is that weird? :D The sign itself said (in Russian tho) "A Journey Through Time
". Still, that's a great combo of languages.
Its the chinese copy of the Austrian village of Hallstatt
Yeah, first is hungarian, last is russian, and all of them mean a travel through time. Kinda weird combo, never expected to see hungarian outside of hungary lol.
@@Oberkommando Chinese are known to make replicas of western/european cities. They have built their own Eiffel tower and Big Ben
The symbols you were referring to as Sikh were actually Hindu symbols representing temples
And weren't also the one's he was referring as Hindu actually Buddhist?
And the ones he called Hindu were Buddhist
Yeah the one with the wheel is Buddhism and the one that has the 3 looking symbol is Hindu.
Wow that intro made me feel something
felt like your foreskin was pulled back?
The last place is the Byodo-In Temple in Oahu, I visited there about 8 months ago.
I'm typing this before the video has ended; that's a place I will never forget. Truly one of the most serene places I've ever been to.
For the China Town one there was 415 area codes (San Fran) all over the place! Learning those codes would really help to locate cities in North America
Easy to say when you already know. Rude
its also a (very) general rule of thumb that the more important/historical a city is the lower their numbers will be. ex: NYC is 212 which is very easy to dial with an old-school rotary phone. contract with (I just googled this) Las Vegas which is 702, which didn't really blow up in expansion until mid-60s ish
@@rich-tp2dx x0x were originallyassigned to whole states. 702 covered the whole of Nevada until 1998, when everything outside the Las Vegas metro area was reassigned to 775.
"Yo ho ho and a bottle of rumplestillskin's foreskin"
*w h a t*
Yo ho ho, and a bottle of rum (Pirates of the Caribbean) then segue’d into rumplestiltskin hah
Foreskin 🥵😍
@@jonahs92 Shalom, Rabbi
Yeah that'll do
Thatll do
That Yawn was like a demon leaving your soul
"Sees Trees"
Oh its the UK
Just got my first ever perfect score (UK Better Map) thanks to watching you for the last couple of years, picking up tips and advice! Took me 1hr19min mind you, but we got there slowly. Keep up the incredible work, you never cease to amaze me with all the games you play!
The second one the billboard said the city (Huizhou) and also indicated the development is next to a lake. Sadly for Tom it was in Chinese
The one in India has lots of portuguese influences, as you cal see by the "ão" in some words, goa used to be a trade port for Portugal
yeah its portuguese , not english .
Yeah I thought the church looked very Spanish/Portuguese so I guessed Goa.
Yes it was clearly a Portuguese colonial style church, I knew that Goa used to be a Portuguese colony, so I got almost perfect score on that one.
But to give Tom some credit, Colombo was owned (about 100 years) by the Portuguese as well.
Wasn't just a trade port, the entire region was under portuguese rule for centuries. Surprised he didn't get it tbh
I have never been to San Francisco, but I instantly got it for some reason.
I live near San Francisco but I didn’t get it, lol
The street sign is very San Francisco style. So much so that I said SF and didn't waver even when he looked at the word Washington. I thought he was going to go Seattle, DC was just a dreadful guess.
the inclined roads did it for me. reminded me of san fierro from GTA lol.
@@rdmz135 😂 the slanted road also did it for me but just bc im from the bay area, i dont even play gta
its that wentworth sign that did it for me
His intros don’t miss. Best on yt keep it up baby
The China one you can tell because of the construction with the blue banner. It's someone pretty unique to China. It's not HK, Macao, or Taiwan because there was no traditional script, but that might be harder for people to notice.
Thank you random person who suggested this map 😁my personal gratitude
'Maybe we're in Stoke-On-Trent' Lmao
You have to make a video called „ Hints on How to identify a country“ at some point; I would love that!! Great video as always of course
id like something like this too!
He doesn’t want added competition. Tips for no one
Go with architecture, cars, people in this order.
The second round was an example of a Chinese Replica Town. There are replicas of famous cities and architectural styles all across China.
Through the whole video I was always thinking back of a round my girlfriend and I played in which we were so sure it was somewhere in Bulgaria. There were Bulgarian flags, a gym with a poster of very Eastern European-looking people in tracksuits, a website ending with the ".bg" domain... and just such a general Eastern European vibe too! Where was it? The Hague, in the Netherlands. Must have been their Bulgarian town!
I once had a round where i was dropped on a cobblestone path, super european looking, with a european looking like, shop next to me, with austrian flags hung up outside. super convinced i was in austria. where was i? brazil.
I’ve been watching your channel for ages and was here since before the ‘crossing Wales in a straight line’ video, which was incredible and so was the other straight line challenges. I just want to say thank you for making these amazing videos. Keep up the great work
Weird fact #1836: The annual number of worldwide shark bites is 10 times less than the number of people bitten by other people in New York
Reads the word "Partition" as "Partheon," proceeds to call the Parthenon "Partheon," which this place very blatantly isn't. The mapmaker was trying to get you to guess a swiss/gothic country, definitely not greece lmao
I don't know if the mapmaker underestimated or overestimated Tom.
This is why Tom is so great. He's the WILDCARD!
I believe he also read "Heritage" and "Heridge" from "Bridge." Somebody get this man some glasses!
Anyone else have an advert at 9:41 just to be greeted to a yawn afterwards? I've got my headphones in and I F**king shat myself🤣
Same lmao
lmao
Idk if this map has it, but there’s a town in Sicily where all of the signs are in Albanian due to the local Albanian community, would be great to see it
Name of town?
I think I’ve been there before in a Battle Royale game lol! Iirc, I don’t think anyone got Italy because Albanian writing is so distinctive (rrs and such), so it kinda caught me out by surprise.
Piana degli albanesi gang
Woah this was trippy, at 7:59 he clicks on an island in Hong Kong that I've physically been to. The place he clicked is a big residential block, but to the left of it there's a place called Ma Wan which is an abandoned village. Good guess.
FYI Tom, Goa was a Portuguese colony and has a rich Christian influence, including the ashes of Francis Xavier.
I believe it's where the word 'vindaloo' comes from - carne de vinha d'alhos
Is also the setting of the film Singham
I noticed the Portuguese heritage, but placed my guess at Timor Leste, which is unfortunately very far away.
i guessed somewhere in Kerala where I thought the 'original Indian christian' reside in. So fixated, forgot to account the architecture of the church. Kerala's church should be more Indian I presume?
"What's with all the Hindus??"
- GeoWizard, 2021
and the betchelor parties...
crucifixion... Good.
-Geowizard, 2021
@@benjamindecosta6885 LMFAO
@@redbetta2191 and scrolling sri lanka, neighbouring the most hindu country in the world
17:37
I believe the word was "partition" on that sign.
The China round was a funny one. This place is modelled after the small town of Hallstatt in Austria! They just rebuild it there :D and the whole story lead to lots of media reports here in Austria a couple of years ago.
it's been a trend for the last 10 years now, China's real estate moguls love to recreate european towns and cities in the middle of nowhere as a way to offer real estate invesment opportunity for the middle class and a way to get a taste of europe without leaving the country
I even knew about the place when I played it, but didn't know where in China it was so I just guessed Beijing cause it's the biggest city. And Tom wasn't even sure which country he was in and got twice as many points as me.
Life can be unfair
Living in the Bay Area, my 1st guess on that last one was also the Japanese garden in San Francisco. But then I saw those tall unique looking pine trees which I had only seen in Hawaii. So in the end, I correctly guessed on Oahu (Honolulu though...)!
5:05 The top one is Hungarian, it means "traveling in time"!
The town in the second round is part of the recreation of Hallstatt in Austria which is very famous by chinese people, it gets flooded with chinese tourists every year, except last year of course
5:12 "CESTA ČASEM" is in Czech, roughly translated as "journey through time"
Why it's there no idea...
"Путешествие во Времени" is in russian, means "journey through time" as well. Cant imagine any russian or slavic people in Guangzhou. Czech and Russian - what a strange choice of languages
And the first one is hungarian, which makes it even weirder combo
This is one of those Chinese real estate developer trying to create a western style housing community. The Chinese character on the ads talks about real estate selling.
They are talking about the future, after a very very long long journey through time when China is part of the CzechoHungarianRussian Empire.
@@Amghannam i imagine they'd think of it more in terms of the chinese empire stretching out that far. ;)
I'd like to see another of these! This was so much fun watching you try to work them out 😊
awesome videos. you've inspired me to get back into geoguessr. I'm quite slow, but meticulous. just got a 23,506 score on World! blows away any of my other attempts
When in Rome you picked the exact spot where I used to hang out with my friends before covid
Re: the second location. China has weird fake monuments/towns/etc. Think fake Venice in Vegas. It’s like theme park versions of different places/cities/etc.
Yeah they’ve built a mini Paris with an Eiffel Tower
Exactly, I believe the fake town in question here is Austrian Halstatt, which is on a lake, so that's why geowiz thought it was coastal from that bilboard
@@genjermaine can confirm that. It's Hallstatt
@@genjermaine it is the fake hallstatt you are correct
Honestly I thought maybe it was in Qingdao's historic district but it all looked so new and I read "lakeside" and was deeply confused.
I'm beating myself up right now. I initially thought of San Francisco Chinatown in the third round, and I even zoomed in to try and find Wentworth, but I went against my gut and chose Seattle instead because of the "Washington" on the sign. Turns out that if I had been zoomed in one more tick, I would have just barely seen Wentworth and gotten a perfect score.
a ton of shit in US is named after Washington for obvious reasons. I wouldn't read too much into it if you're still playing this game lol
Love this map. Hopefully a second video. I’m split on whether or not no scrolling or full freedom would be better.
Can't wait for Ludwig to play along with this.
"I don't think I know enough to be thrown off" hahaha
"Yo ho ho and a bottle of Rumpelstiltskin's foreskin."
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17,574 points. That last round really was tricky with no clues whatsoever... Great map!
I suspect the author expected you to go "oh look, a pyramid, this must be Egypt then, innit"
ye tbh that one was pretty cringe, the place was literally screaming Rome so hard
@@pa9030 cRiNgE
It's like showing a big ass clock tower to make someone think it MUST be London, lol.
I got 15.211 on that map! First time I ever beat you in any play-along :)
Curious side note for that China guess: Being an Austrian I know that the Chinese built a duplicate of our town "Hallstadt" somewhere in China. I went for something further south, somewhere outside of Hongkong and landed reeeeally close
The guy who threw himself across Norway: You'd never catch me *checks notes*... standing on a roof.
Thigh high in a PEAT BOG!! 😳😳
"The Partheon"... Guess he was thinking of the Parthenon maybe? Jokes aside, great video and great map too. Tom is the goat
Can't beleive I beat you, only started geoguessr today after binge watching your vids haha. Got 14,493 after fluking the Hawaii one with 4,958 pts.. thanks for the vids and challenges making my night more interesting.
that chessboard map is from Hallstatt town in Huizhou, china. Took me a while to find the exact place. Its urban core is modelled after the small town of Hallstatt in Austria, part of a trend in China to mimic or rebuild other parts of the world. So yeah it fits the misleading thing in a sense.
And apparently it's not worth visiting now or something.
random worldwide produced car: existst
this dude: *OOOOH ITALY*
You can tell by the license plate