@I don’t want subscribers it wasn't that bad, considering how different our language is to almost all other european ones, and that he has never studied it.
When the coronavirus has been banished from the world, would you consider walking across the length of the Netherlands? Maybe in a straight line, maybe with some other limitation! I would love to see that. The south has hills(Not as much as Wales) and the north it flat
Absolutely loved the video! The combination of semi bad pronounciation and getting the places right was nice to see! Glad TH-cam decided to recommend this to me
@@mwickholm There are some smaller places in the mainland as well that only have Swedish signage as well. Like Nykarleby. Essentially anything where over 80% of people speak Swedish, expect to not see Finnish anywhere
@@Doomin-c2m In Nykarleby I found only bilingual street signs on street view, but in Larsmo, Korsnäs and Närpes I found only Swedish. Those three were the last Swedish-only municipalities on the mainland, but now they are also bilingual and the street view is quite a lot older than the change to being bilingual. I guess that means they'll have to put up bilingual street signs, or maybe they'll just have to make the Swedish name of every street the official name also in Finnish? I remember when Karis, Ekenäs and Pojo became Raseborg, then the signs in Pojo which had a Finnish majority had to be changed when new signs were made so that the Swedish name came first since it was now a street in a Swedish majority municipality.
”I think all the finns are laughing at me” Yeah sure I’m the one laughing when you get perfect scores in my country when I’m struggling to get 10k points
The streetview photos in Finland are really old in most places, from 2011 or older. So that's why the maps don't match with the photos (like in your first round).
4:20 Those Google street view photos seem really old (the Posti van had their old logos on it), so I think they’ll have built a roundabout there later and just updated the maps I would guess🤔 but I’m no GeoGuessr expert lol. Loved the video!
"Paljonko" means "how much", that sign was just an advert for a quickie loan company :D For future, if you see road signs in both Finnish and Swedish, you're very likely somewhere near the coastline, either the southern coast between Turku and Helsinki, or in Ostrobothnia around Vaasa and Kokkola. Anyway that was a lot of fun to watch you butcher Finnish place names!
@@vseve9397 You're right, my comment was more meant to be a rough approximation, cause people are way more likely to know Helsinki than Loviisa. Indeed there are also good chunk of bilingual areas South of Vaasa, but most of them are quite obscure for even Finns.
That fourth one was so painful when Otaniemi just didnt appear on the map even though he was zoomed right on it. Also him not remembering Kuusisaari. Living in Otaniemi made it even worse lol
Btw those kind of signs at 11:55 and the one with "paljonko" are advert signs, not anything about the place, except if the company in the ad is called a certain cities something for example NY could have ads for New York Times etc.
The first place nowadays has a roundabout at that point, been there for like 7 years. The streetview must be like 8 years old. I am local to that city :D
And they are quite slow with updating when they have taken new images. A Street View car passed me last summer outside a store, but the most recent street view is still from 2011.
7 Years ago really? I used to live in that place like 5 years ago and it still was 4-way intersection (which suck btw. Great if they get turned to roundabouts) It's much likely that I could be the one who's wrong here. Should go back to check my hoods :D
Meidän vanha Toyota Corolla on vieläkin parkissa parkkipaikalla. Sen jälkeen on ollu ainakin kolme vai neljä autoa. Corolla oli jokin 90 luvun malli ja meni osiks. Hauskaa kattella kun oon TRE populaa ja kun osaan kaupungin ulkoo.
When it read "Metsäkylä" and he was writing it down I bursted laughing. There's propably dozens of living areas called that. I could tell right away that wasn't the one closest to me.
My reaction was exactly same, especially when he wrote down metsäk... and said that was enough 😂 Metsäkuja, metsäkatu and so on.. He would never find the right place by name only
I was thinking Metsäkylä in Ylöjärvi, just next to Tampere. But right at the intersection I immediately knew where he is. I was born in Tampere and my mother lives just 1-2 km away from that very spot.
4:18 Well the google streetview for most of Finland is from like 2009/2011 aka ancient so they've most likely added a roundabout there in the decade since.
I came here Sairaan nopeasti. (Really fast) At 12:37 i got a massive nostalgia vibes. I used to live in Espoo as a child. And haven't been in Espoo in years since i moved away 13- years ago.
Ajattelin ensin, että on Ylöjärvellä, koska sieltä löytyy Metsäkylä. No, Epilä/Tesoma-kyltin jälkeen tiesinkin sitten tarkan paikan, koska äiti asuu tuosta max 2 km päässä. 😂
You're experienced in this. I'd tip my hat, if I was wearing. Deserving me lifting my lazy butt and go get a hat, but - laziness won. Helsinki - 10% of the country; Suur-Helsinki (Greater Helsinki): Helsniki, Espoo, Vantaa (+Kauniainen) - 20% Suur-Helsinki+Tampere+Turku & what's in that 'Triangle of Finland', covers more than a half of Finns - especially if we make the triangle a bit more like the rotor inside a Wankel engine; buffing the sides of the triangle, and we get Lahti and Pori inside the triangle: then it's past 70% if not closing to 80. Only 1 of the big 6 (100k or more in case of Finland) is missing from that triangle: Oulu - capital of the North (competed with Espoo for the title of Nokia center). It gathers population from half of Finland geographically, but not ethnographically. Finland is a bit like UK: south is where the population centers, the further north you go, the more scarcely it's populated, and the mountains are mainly in the north. Well, you have the west a bit wild too, for us it's then the east, only it's just hill country in Northern Karjala, not mountainous like in Wales. Then regional centers are Jyväskylä, Kuopio, Vaasa, Joensuu... Kotka (or Kouvola?) & Rovaniemi (smaller but locally important in Lapland, the Finnish tourist province, Santa Clause country and Wild North).
@@Sandels77 I know Kotka & Kouvola are different cities... I just don't know what's the capital of the province. I think Kouvola is bigger anyway,(didn't care enough to check the Wiki :) Plus there are some other cities close by, so there's almost like a 'Mega-Kouvola' there.
It depend more on road with street view density (what is quite related to pop. density) GeoGuessr tends to drop on some random lappland road quite often.
The second last one was place where I have been cyckling multiple times, while still dont live that close to that place. I just wished he went up that road where the big houses where, so he would see how close Töölöö he was and didnt he regonize the tram railway that means his somewhere close to Helsinki.
That first place captured my eye immediately. I worked nearby some years ago. There was a meat processing factory that is now closed. Nokia is a town near Tampere and Tesoma is a district of Tampere. There is a junction to a highway that takes you to Nokia town. You were kind of right about Louhelankatu named after poem. Louhela means a place named after Louhi, kind off Louhi's place. Louhi is a old hag matriarch and a powerful witch living in Finland, she is mentioned in Kalevala which is written in poem form. Kalevala is is Finlands national epic, kind of mythological stories like Norse mythology. Here you can see here flying to a battle against men from Kaleva who stole a magical thing from her. The other road is named after Kaleva :-) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louhi#/media/File%3AGallen-Kallela_The_defence_of_the_Sampo.png One hint in the third place was that the names were both in finnish and swedish. Ususally it means you are in capitol area. The road you were in was Kehä III. There are these ring roads that go around the capitol area. That road connects many districts, it is kind of main road you take when you travel anywhere in capitol cities (Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa).
Hi Tom! Great video as always :-) I'm not sure if you know this, but in the Nordic countries we have "Freedom to roam" (Jokamiehenoikeudet) which basically means that you are allowed to go to private own lands and eat berries, fish, row, sleep etc there freely. I guess you guys have same thing in Scotland. So if you ever plan to do one of your crazy missions in Finland, you wouldn't have to worry about angry landowners. I myself have been pondering to do straight line mission across Kainuu province, but we'll see. I'll be sure to document it in someway if I ever decide to do that. Welcome to Finland if you ever decide to come, I'll buy you a beer if we happen to meet (not Lapin Kulta though!)
That first location is 5 ish minutes from my house, no joke. I started watching and went wait that looks familiar, wait I can see the place I used to take piano lessons. Also the reason the map show a roundabout and the streetview shows a four way intersection is because the streetview is prolly around 10 years old and the roundabout is pretty new.
In Finland if sing is with dotted Border it means this road is route to road mentioned in sign and if it's solid border it means if you turn here you are turning exact route mentioned in sign. And other tip is that only Helsinki have tramcars and metro. Tampere will have tramcars soon.
Otaniemi, is actually a small place in Espoo, you didn't quite zoom in enough to see the name, although you could see Aalto University (which is in Otaniemi) T: a proud Otaniemeläinen
In that 2nd round he started right next to my old apartment building I used to live in.. Kinda crazy, out of all the places in Finland I didn't think I'd see that in this video. Also the fact he said it looks like countryside cracks me up because that's pretty much in the center of the town.
@[ Karhu ] There were two Kalevankatus on this video, both Joensuu and Helsinki. Interestingly he didn't spot that the name of the street came around second time in less than 20 minutes or so...
Weird, I study near the first location, so I recognized it immediately, but also my parents live near the second location, and I could tell the corner from the trees!
Funny enough, the two places that were not Helsinki are (approximately) all the places I've lived in. But yeah, he got lucky, imagine the game putting him on some gravel road called Kuusniementie or something, he'd just have to wander aimlessly until ending up in some small village and trying to figure that out.
I was thinking Ylöjärvi since they have Metsäkylä but right when I saw the sign, I knew where he was. My mum lives just 1-2 km from that point and I've driven through that intersection probably hundreds of times.
That first one i was like... wait a minute that house looks familiar... no way it cant be... it was a house i've only driven once past a few days ago... then when i saw the first area signs blew my mind, what a coinsidence😁
This man be finding places in Finland better than I could, also Paljonko isn't a place, it means "how much" in finnish Edit: this man really passed my childhood home
Finnish street signs are a pretty good indication of the local language situation. Usually, if more than 5% of the people of a given town speak Finnish, Swedish, or Sámi, the language will be found on all signs with the majority language coming first. In Raseborg and Närpes, for example, street signs show Swedish above Finnish.
Map is old. On The first scene where The player goes to intersection saying: Tesoma, Epilä, Nokia and keskusta signs, nowadays there is a roundabout in that location
Well that was impressive, you were probably quicker and more accurate than I would have been.. And that's with the home field advantage ^^ Pronunciation aside, great work! Our j's are a bit softer than you're saying, more like the first y in "yay" :D
I had the video running on my second monitor as background noise and when I had a quick look to see what was happening, the view was aimed straight at my house where I'm in currently. I got cold shivers for sure even though it's not that unlikely in a small country like this.
GeoWizard, the swedish names are because of Finland is by constitution a bilingual country, with official languages finnish and swedish. So the swedish street names are not for our western siblings, but for finnish citizens with swedish as mother tongue :)
Is there any chance that you would try these challenge in asian country? It is perfect if you could do Japan(bcz im japanese) but perfect score challenge in any country where there are no sign you can read is kinda interesting, i think.
I dunno, doesn't feel quite right to claim perfect score in Finland without at least one "bakom takana" location smack-dab in the middle of nowhere, kilometers from the nearest main road.
The way he says kuusisaari is funny. kusisaari = pissisland kuusisaari = spruceisland Also it was cool to see him explore the streets i live around. Edit: grammar error
@GeoWizard I noticed on the back of your notepad the words "Vargata, Hummelvik and Vårdö kyrka" - that must be in the junction five minutes from my summer house on Åland. Any chance you could upload the video where you play that round, would be fun to see you figure out where you were! :)
google maps street view is terribly out of date in finland especially in the tampere area where i live. that big intersection with the nokia sign in your first location has been a roundabout for the past maybe 5+ years
The street view in Joensuu is so old and taken in a bad time of the year. I'm a local and I can tell you that it's not as soviet-ish here anymore. Most of the stores that you see don't even exist anymore.
I know I know. It's a j o k e about how the architecture used in the town I've lived for my entire life resembled the stereotypical soviet style in the google-street view from pre 2010...
Loved seeing places I've been to many times. Some of these Google streetviews are horribly outdated though, I don't see those old green bus stops anywhere anymore :)
You were struggling with the fourth one quite a bit. Just to let you know if you see tram tracks in Finland you know that you are in Helsinki (or Tampere they are building the system right now)
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@I don’t want subscribers it wasn't that bad, considering how different our language is to almost all other european ones, and that he has never studied it.
Could you do Sweden aswell? I’ll give you an ice cream🤞
When the coronavirus has been banished from the world, would you consider walking across the length of the Netherlands?
Maybe in a straight line, maybe with some other limitation!
I would love to see that. The south has hills(Not as much as Wales) and the north it flat
Absolutely loved the video! The combination of semi bad pronounciation and getting the places right was nice to see! Glad TH-cam decided to recommend this to me
Mate, you really don't have to ask for likes, this content gets it automatically!
All my homies live in Paljonko
Akseli underrated comment.
How much of them?
this deserves way more likes
🤣
:DD
"Is paljonko a place?" It was in an advert and means "how much" :D
The Rrandomm Yep and yep
Just näi.
Kerro niille
Juurikin näin
Joo o maistuu maistuu
Ah, Kattomittari, my family has a summer cottage there, wonderful little town
My cousin lives in Paljonko Pannaan?
@@zntei2374 mine lives in Hätämittari
Mine cousin lives at Kikkeli
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 vittu ootte Jumalia
I actually live in Perseenreikä, very peaceful village
"There's Turku, but where is åbo? 🤔🤔"
Probably in Helsingfors
@@_nurmi06 and helsingfors is at tammerfors
@@_nurmi06 but isnt helsingfors near helsinki
The Videogamer0MG no, you are thinking of esbo
@@leevi8966 then haapajärvi is very close to åbo
Lol when you say "kusta means the centre" rather than "keskusta" and kusta means piss.
@@andymccoy8370 I think you just mistook his comment as an insult.
@@andymccoy8370 only one of us is whining about a clearly humorous comment, so who's the dumb one here?
@@andymccoy8370 Must feel great being roasted.
Laavatorakka C R I N G E
But he said Keskusta though (if you're talking about round 1)
"Finns probably laughing at me" just at the point where I laughed. Kattomittari = Roof meter = add for some roofing company.
ad eikä add
@@eeromakinen4222 se on koska ad oli kai mainos
@@tschapetin564 niin tää äijä halus sanoo "mainos(ad) kattofirmalle" mutta sano "lisäys kattofirmale"
Yes its ad sign next to motoway, so why he thinks it means city.😂
Oh, that's what it was! I was listening more than watching, and I kept hearing "hätämittari". 🤔
Note: If the signs have two names (Finnish and Swedish) it’s a bilangual city/town/municipality. That narows it down quite a bit.
Yep, Swedish signs = You're near the coast, and not further north than Kokkola
Haha, true, i live between kokkola and pietersaari (luoto or larsmo). As soon as you get to kokkola noone knows swedish lmao.
And if it's only in Swedish you're in Åland.
@@mwickholm There are some smaller places in the mainland as well that only have Swedish signage as well. Like Nykarleby. Essentially anything where over 80% of people speak Swedish, expect to not see Finnish anywhere
@@Doomin-c2m In Nykarleby I found only bilingual street signs on street view, but in Larsmo, Korsnäs and Närpes I found only Swedish. Those three were the last Swedish-only municipalities on the mainland, but now they are also bilingual and the street view is quite a lot older than the change to being bilingual. I guess that means they'll have to put up bilingual street signs, or maybe they'll just have to make the Swedish name of every street the official name also in Finnish? I remember when Karis, Ekenäs and Pojo became Raseborg, then the signs in Pojo which had a Finnish majority had to be changed when new signs were made so that the Swedish name came first since it was now a street in a Swedish majority municipality.
"I think we're around here" *zooms in directly at Kuusisaari but then scrolls away*
I completely understand it's easy to miss things like that sometimes, but that was painful to watch nonetheless
Timestamp?
@@muhilan8540 24:18, exact moment 24:22
Yep. Painful when you know exactly where he is.
all of my bois live in hätämittari and paljonko
Xd oon nähny näitä vitsejä jo 17
I am a simple Estonian. When I see Finland, I'll click
SK1 im a simple rally fan, i see finland or estonia, i click
And I'm a simple Finn When I see Finland or Estonia I click
😂😂😂
Im a simple Finn, when I see Estonia, I go and buy all the cheap vodka
simp
”I think all the finns are laughing at me”
Yeah sure I’m the one laughing when you get perfect scores in my country when I’m struggling to get 10k points
I don't think he would have ever gotten Paljonko though
I get usually perfect score but it requires a lot of scanning of the area. But I was laughing at that point, though.
The streetview photos in Finland are really old in most places, from 2011 or older. So that's why the maps don't match with the photos (like in your first round).
I don't know why Google doesn't update them, even though they took new pics in 2019...
@@lutsi1477 it will take time
Yeah and there's a lot of road construction and new roundabouts all the time.
@@sony6708 Yes, it will, but many other European countries already has Street View from 2019
@@lutsi1477 Also for example Lahti was photographed in 2017 and still hasn't been updated.
4:20 Those Google street view photos seem really old (the Posti van had their old logos on it), so I think they’ll have built a roundabout there later and just updated the maps I would guess🤔 but I’m no GeoGuessr expert lol. Loved the video!
That place had roundabout for like 7 years now. The streetview is minimal 8 years old lol :D
@@hevimetallimias Probably 2009 or 2011 as are most places in Finland
You wouldn't recognize half of Espoo from the streetview, it's been built up so much in the last 10 years
That first round is 5 ish minutes from my house and I can confirm that the street view is old and the roundabout has been there for a while.
And fyi if you see tram tracks in Finland, you are in Helsinki, only city with trams. There was tracks at 20:40
tampereel on spåra myös
Not for long tho. Tampere is getting trams. Although it takes forever for google maps to update that I think.
@@kallemaki-hokkonen4850 Mutta suurin osa Google mapsin kuvista, ainakin Suomesta, on vuosilta 2009, 2011 ja 2013, joten ratikkaa ei Tampereella näy.
I've been living in a tramway construction hell in Tampere for so long, better be worth it when they're ready
Shit totally forgot about the new tram in Tampere, excuse me I'm from Savo
"Paljonko" means "how much", that sign was just an advert for a quickie loan company :D For future, if you see road signs in both Finnish and Swedish, you're very likely somewhere near the coastline, either the southern coast between Turku and Helsinki, or in Ostrobothnia around Vaasa and Kokkola. Anyway that was a lot of fun to watch you butcher Finnish place names!
you're going to have swedish signs a lot further east than helsinki, all the way to eastern loviisa
@@vseve9397 You're right, my comment was more meant to be a rough approximation, cause people are way more likely to know Helsinki than Loviisa. Indeed there are also good chunk of bilingual areas South of Vaasa, but most of them are quite obscure for even Finns.
i live in finland lol so i know already what it means
4:47 Only thing that can destroy Nokia phones, Nokianti
Everybody gansta till nokianti shows up
@@FungalTox And the Freezing Platform of doom
That fourth one was so painful when Otaniemi just didnt appear on the map even though he was zoomed right on it. Also him not remembering Kuusisaari. Living in Otaniemi made it even worse lol
Ha, exactly. He was painfully close at around 24:00 mark but then panned way out of town. 😂
Btw those kind of signs at 11:55 and the one with "paljonko" are advert signs, not anything about the place, except if the company in the ad is called a certain cities something for example NY could have ads for New York Times etc.
The feeling when the last 3 were places less than 30 minute drive away from where I live. Finland is a big place...
3 places were that close (Kalastajantorppa just maybe 30 min walk away) and first place was just 1-2 km from my mum's place. 😄
SUOMI MAINITTU!!! TORILLLLEEEEE, TORILLE🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮
moro kalle
Torille!
@@UninspiredAlterEgo Moi Lauri! Oot löytäny UK kovimman TH-camttajan nähtävästi. Oon kattonu tätä äijää 30k subist lähtie:D
NONI SE ON TORILLE SIT POJAT!!! Tuon viinat ja makkarat
Torille!
I probably speak for all the Finnish fans here, thank you
And thank you to having nuuskamuikkunen at your profil picture, 😏
Nuuuskamuikkunen
Nuuska muikkunen! Vanha juttu. Siis en tarkota että sun profiili olis vanha juttu. Sanoinpa vaan.
Confirmed
The first place nowadays has a roundabout at that point, been there for like 7 years. The streetview must be like 8 years old. I am local to that city :D
Kaikki streetview:t harvoja paikkoja lukuunottamatta Suomessa on jostain kymmenen vuoden takaa että ei ihme :D
@@shroomyesc juu, manuaalisestiha tuolt pystyy pyytää alueen päivitystä, mutta tiedä sitte kuinka usein he sellaisen tekevät tota kautta..
And they are quite slow with updating when they have taken new images. A Street View car passed me last summer outside a store, but the most recent street view is still from 2011.
7 Years ago really? I used to live in that place like 5 years ago and it still was 4-way intersection (which suck btw. Great if they get turned to roundabouts) It's much likely that I could be the one who's wrong here. Should go back to check my hoods :D
Meidän vanha Toyota Corolla on vieläkin parkissa parkkipaikalla. Sen jälkeen on ollu ainakin kolme vai neljä autoa. Corolla oli jokin 90 luvun malli ja meni osiks.
Hauskaa kattella kun oon TRE populaa ja kun osaan kaupungin ulkoo.
You find places faster than "local" taxidrivers here...
Lmao
wouldn't that be something, you get in a taxi and he starts looking for the place on google streetview.. "look at the houses, this looks like sweden"
When it read "Metsäkylä" and he was writing it down I bursted laughing. There's propably dozens of living areas called that. I could tell right away that wasn't the one closest to me.
ite asun metsäkyläs tampereen lähel
@@tommimakinen4782 kiitos tommi, laitan sulle vaikka postissa mitalin
My reaction was exactly same, especially when he wrote down metsäk... and said that was enough 😂 Metsäkuja, metsäkatu and so on.. He would never find the right place by name only
I was thinking Metsäkylä in Ylöjärvi, just next to Tampere. But right at the intersection I immediately knew where he is. I was born in Tampere and my mother lives just 1-2 km away from that very spot.
Perkele! Instant click!
😂Perkele is my new favorite Finnish word since i watched this video th-cam.com/video/z7_pVrIshxA/w-d-xo.html
4:18 Well the google streetview for most of Finland is from like 2009/2011 aka ancient so they've most likely added a roundabout there in the decade since.
I can confirm that. They build the roundabout some seven years ago.
I can confirm. I live close to there and drive by a lot
I came here Sairaan nopeasti. (Really fast)
At 12:37 i got a massive nostalgia vibes. I used to live in Espoo as a child. And haven't been in Espoo in years since i moved away 13- years ago.
oki, bruh
mihin muutit
Who asked
"I came here sairaan nopeesti" päivän naurut
Sairaan nopee
"Toi on varmaan jostain hiton kalkussa tai tesomalla" ja menikö 5s, Epilä/Tesoma-kyltti :D
Tää on ihan hauskaa, yhessä vaiheessa kattelin, et mis hemmetis se on kunnes tajusin et meni just mun nuoruudenkodin ohi :)
Ajattelin ensin, että on Ylöjärvellä, koska sieltä löytyy Metsäkylä. No, Epilä/Tesoma-kyltin jälkeen tiesinkin sitten tarkan paikan, koska äiti asuu tuosta max 2 km päässä. 😂
Have been waiting for this for so long! Amazing that youve finally done it! Amazing job
I'm here for Perkele, I'm not dissapointed! XD
Paljonko means "how much".
That sign was payday loan conpanys add.
Video for us! For Finns. Thanks geowizard ;) Ootsä kyllä velho tässä pelissä!
Kaikki torille!
Jep
Is “paljonko” a place? LMAO
I live in hätämittari its wery peaceful and nice place
@@eelihonko Palovaroitin is also a nice town
Suomi antaa joillekkin kylille ja kaupungeille joskus hyvin oudot nimet.
You're experienced in this. I'd tip my hat, if I was wearing. Deserving me lifting my lazy butt and go get a hat, but - laziness won.
Helsinki - 10% of the country;
Suur-Helsinki (Greater Helsinki): Helsniki, Espoo, Vantaa (+Kauniainen) - 20%
Suur-Helsinki+Tampere+Turku & what's in that 'Triangle of Finland', covers more than a half of Finns - especially if we make the triangle a bit more like the rotor inside a Wankel engine; buffing the sides of the triangle, and we get Lahti and Pori inside the triangle: then it's past 70% if not closing to 80.
Only 1 of the big 6 (100k or more in case of Finland) is missing from that triangle: Oulu - capital of the North (competed with Espoo for the title of Nokia center). It gathers population from half of Finland geographically, but not ethnographically. Finland is a bit like UK: south is where the population centers, the further north you go, the more scarcely it's populated, and the mountains are mainly in the north. Well, you have the west a bit wild too, for us it's then the east, only it's just hill country in Northern Karjala, not mountainous like in Wales.
Then regional centers are Jyväskylä, Kuopio, Vaasa, Joensuu... Kotka (or Kouvola?) & Rovaniemi (smaller but locally important in Lapland, the Finnish tourist province, Santa Clause country and Wild North).
Kotka and Kouvola are diffrent citys and near Pori is Kokemäki. In Pori The Kokemäenjoki ends there.
@@Sandels77 I know Kotka & Kouvola are different cities... I just don't know what's the capital of the province. I think Kouvola is bigger anyway,(didn't care enough to check the Wiki :) Plus there are some other cities close by, so there's almost like a 'Mega-Kouvola' there.
It depend more on road with street view density (what is quite related to pop. density) GeoGuessr tends to drop on some random lappland road quite often.
"There is turku but don't know where Åbo is"
I was looking at number 3, thinking it might as well be from my town. Turns out it's less than half a mile from my apartment.
Hah! Less than a quarter mile from my house.
@@miksuko 100 meters from mine
Let's go! I have been waiting for this for a long time :)
i was amazed when the tampere location came about. i was in shock as i realized it was just in front where i used to live once
The second last one was place where I have been cyckling multiple times, while still dont live that close to that place. I just wished he went up that road where the big houses where, so he would see how close Töölöö he was and didnt he regonize the tram railway that means his somewhere close to Helsinki.
Jeee! Torille! Thank you for this video ❤️
LOISTAVA love these videos 🇫🇮 you always do so great!!!!! British guy living in Finland documenting in my videos.
Has it been hard learning our language?
10:10 Im Finnish and I still know that classic refrence and a great show "The Imbetweeners"
That first place captured my eye immediately. I worked nearby some years ago. There was a meat processing factory that is now closed. Nokia is a town near Tampere and Tesoma is a district of Tampere. There is a junction to a highway that takes you to Nokia town.
You were kind of right about Louhelankatu named after poem. Louhela means a place named after Louhi, kind off Louhi's place. Louhi is a old hag matriarch and a powerful witch living in Finland, she is mentioned in Kalevala which is written in poem form. Kalevala is is Finlands national epic, kind of mythological stories like Norse mythology.
Here you can see here flying to a battle against men from Kaleva who stole a magical thing from her. The other road is named after Kaleva :-)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louhi#/media/File%3AGallen-Kallela_The_defence_of_the_Sampo.png
One hint in the third place was that the names were both in finnish and swedish. Ususally it means you are in capitol area. The road you were in was Kehä III. There are these ring roads that go around the capitol area. That road connects many districts, it is kind of main road you take when you travel anywhere in capitol cities (Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa).
Capitol area or at least near the coast.
Hi Tom! Great video as always :-)
I'm not sure if you know this, but in the Nordic countries we have "Freedom to roam" (Jokamiehenoikeudet) which basically means that you are allowed to go to private own lands and eat berries, fish, row, sleep etc there freely. I guess you guys have same thing in Scotland. So if you ever plan to do one of your crazy missions in Finland, you wouldn't have to worry about angry landowners. I myself have been pondering to do straight line mission across Kainuu province, but we'll see. I'll be sure to document it in someway if I ever decide to do that.
Welcome to Finland if you ever decide to come, I'll buy you a beer if we happen to meet (not Lapin Kulta though!)
Adding to this that in Norway it is called "allemannsretten" :)
Maybe Finland has to much lakes for a straight line mission
Maybe walk across Finland from Oulu to the Russian border. It is about 200 km all forest so pretty boring but definitely doable
13:19 you were right on Muurala or Morby when you zoomed in :D
I travel through that exact "tunnel" every day in Espoo.
Just finished the How Not To Travel Europe series - one of the best things on this site hands down
That first location is 5 ish minutes from my house, no joke. I started watching and went wait that looks familiar, wait I can see the place I used to take piano lessons. Also the reason the map show a roundabout and the streetview shows a four way intersection is because the streetview is prolly around 10 years old and the roundabout is pretty new.
About the same distance from my mum's house. :-D And one near Kalastajantorppa is just few kms from Otaniemi where I live.
Tampere! My beautiful hometown! I knew it when he zoomed in at Metsäkylänkatu.
In Finland if sing is with dotted Border it means this road is route to road mentioned in sign and if it's solid border it means if you turn here you are turning exact route mentioned in sign. And other tip is that only Helsinki have tramcars and metro. Tampere will have tramcars soon.
0:33 Soviet union in 1939
Subscribed for the mission across Wales. Always wondered what these Geo videos were about. Notice you did one on Finland. This was fun as hell haha!
"looks at advertisement" hmm yes im onto something
Otaniemi, is actually a small place in Espoo, you didn't quite zoom in enough to see the name, although you could see Aalto University (which is in Otaniemi)
T: a proud Otaniemeläinen
Oijoi! What's up fellow finns?
Edit: wow, the first one was near my old place of work and now i have major nostalgia lmao
My mum lives just 1-2 km away.
2:50 I literally live on that place, where your cursor is .. :D
You okay, Patrick? *Finland*
You should try Slovenia next, it's a very small country but pretty diverse. Love your vids
Would love to see a perfect score of Ireland, or perhaps even more difficult, a perfect score on Co. Mayo!
In that 2nd round he started right next to my old apartment building I used to live in.. Kinda crazy, out of all the places in Finland I didn't think I'd see that in this video. Also the fact he said it looks like countryside cracks me up because that's pretty much in the center of the town.
I literally walked down Helsinki's Kalevankatu on my Finland visit three years ago
How’d you like Finland?
@[ Karhu ] There were two Kalevankatus on this video, both Joensuu and Helsinki. Interestingly he didn't spot that the name of the street came around second time in less than 20 minutes or so...
@@foobar1500 yea most bigger cities have one, refers to mythological stories where Karelian isthmus also gets it's name
I didn't know people do something like this for a hobby. Awesome
GeoWizard: Finland
Russia: flashbacks
You can do better, Kim.
It's REALLY weird when a place you visit quite often appears on a youtube video.
You got spawned right next to my house, in Espoo!
Same for me in joensuu
Weird, I study near the first location, so I recognized it immediately, but also my parents live near the second location, and I could tell the corner from the trees!
When he starts and you realise he's right next to your friends house 💀💀
Joensuu 💪🏼💪🏼 aka. Paljonko (pannaan) :D
btw. Very well played, dude!
Cmon like 3 of those were in the Helsinki region and all in southern Finland. All of us Finns who don't live in Helsinki demand a part 2.
Id like to see one inbetween like kajaani and oulu, it'd take him 2 hours to figure it out
Funny enough, the two places that were not Helsinki are (approximately) all the places I've lived in.
But yeah, he got lucky, imagine the game putting him on some gravel road called Kuusniementie or something, he'd just have to wander aimlessly until ending up in some small village and trying to figure that out.
@@wombat4191 Imagine the game putting him 30 km north of Enare on some abandoned road deep into the woods
I live in Espoo and it was pretty cool recognizing a place in 4 seconds.
@@parkerrobbins8992 You mean Inari? I mean theres nothing there
this was so funny that when you first entered the place near metsäkyläntie .. I was like .. wait a minute I know exactly where this is :D .. so random
My address is in this video and I don't like it very much.
:D
Have you considered moving if you don't like the place?
I lived in Tampere for 34 years and i had never noticed Metsäkyläntie, so i was just as lost as you before you discovered those big signs.
I was thinking Ylöjärvi since they have Metsäkylä but right when I saw the sign, I knew where he was. My mum lives just 1-2 km from that point and I've driven through that intersection probably hundreds of times.
Remember to like the video everyone!
That first one i was like... wait a minute that house looks familiar... no way it cant be... it was a house i've only driven once past a few days ago... then when i saw the first area signs blew my mind, what a coinsidence😁
New Zealand or Switzerland some time soon?
I‘m waiting on a switzerland one
New Zealand, yes please!
This man be finding places in Finland better than I could, also Paljonko isn't a place, it means "how much" in finnish
Edit: this man really passed my childhood home
13:38 I was literally in this area today! I used to take this route daily!
''I don't think they have road names.'' Literally every sing: kehä 3
11:32 everybody: Kiuastie.
nobody: Basturösvägen 😶
thats not how the meme works
Takaröörinpolku
18:01 I was thinking there’s no way you will get close to where i live .Well the next road to the right is where my home is🤣😅😅😅 no joke
Fun fact there’s a Sweden speaking part of Finland, that’s why there was two names on the signs at the third guess.
Finnish street signs are a pretty good indication of the local language situation. Usually, if more than 5% of the people of a given town speak Finnish, Swedish, or Sámi, the language will be found on all signs with the majority language coming first. In Raseborg and Närpes, for example, street signs show Swedish above Finnish.
@@weetikissa Sami in Lapland only.
Map is old. On The first scene where The player goes to intersection saying: Tesoma, Epilä, Nokia and keskusta signs, nowadays there is a roundabout in that location
Well that was impressive, you were probably quicker and more accurate than I would have been.. And that's with the home field advantage ^^
Pronunciation aside, great work! Our j's are a bit softer than you're saying, more like the first y in "yay" :D
I had the video running on my second monitor as background noise and when I had a quick look to see what was happening, the view was aimed straight at my house where I'm in currently. I got cold shivers for sure even though it's not that unlikely in a small country like this.
torille
GeoWizard, the swedish names are because of Finland is by constitution a bilingual country, with official languages finnish and swedish. So the swedish street names are not for our western siblings, but for finnish citizens with swedish as mother tongue :)
11:57 "Finns probably laughing at me"
Me: *laughing in finnish*
Is there any chance that you would try these challenge in asian country? It is perfect if you could do Japan(bcz im japanese) but perfect score challenge in any country where there are no sign you can read is kinda interesting, i think.
I dunno, doesn't feel quite right to claim perfect score in Finland without at least one "bakom takana" location smack-dab in the middle of nowhere, kilometers from the nearest main road.
The way he says kuusisaari is funny. kusisaari = pissisland
kuusisaari = spruceisland
Also it was cool to see him explore the streets i live around.
Edit: grammar error
Got to say very well done! Greetings from Finland!❤
Geowizard getting confused by the Muurala - Morby signs in Espoo, meaning the same thing in two languages :)
@GeoWizard I noticed on the back of your notepad the words "Vargata, Hummelvik and Vårdö kyrka" - that must be in the junction five minutes from my summer house on Åland. Any chance you could upload the video where you play that round, would be fun to see you figure out where you were! :)
google maps street view is terribly out of date in finland especially in the tampere area where i live. that big intersection with the nokia sign in your first location has been a roundabout for the past maybe 5+ years
The street view in Joensuu is so old and taken in a bad time of the year. I'm a local and I can tell you that it's not as soviet-ish here anymore. Most of the stores that you see don't even exist anymore.
Finland was never part of soviet union.
I know I know. It's a j o k e about how the architecture used in the town I've lived for my entire life resembled the stereotypical soviet style in the google-street view from pre 2010...
Oh yes. The traditional Kattomittari Festival. Sadly they had to skip this year because of the current situation. :(
Heyo, I’m from Joensuu and almost choked when you asked if ”paljonko” is a place. It means how much
I don't live in Tampere but knew that first one right a way because i was searching missing person 2011 there.
Loved seeing places I've been to many times. Some of these Google streetviews are horribly outdated though, I don't see those old green bus stops anywhere anymore :)
You were struggling with the fourth one quite a bit. Just to let you know if you see tram tracks in Finland you know that you are in Helsinki (or Tampere they are building the system right now)
Or Espoo but they are only building that one as well. The streetview certainly hasn't been updated for either of those, though.