General Norwegian tips for geoguessr: Almost every place is named after a prominent geographical feature as a suffix to a name or noun. Sometimes a definite article signiifer is appended. Those are: -a, -en and -et. - Vik = bay/inlet/cove - Dal = Valley - Strand = Beach - Vei = Road - Gate = Street - Sti = Path - Øy = Isle / Island - Anger = Fjord (norse term for it, used along the west coast) - Fjell = Mountain, or large hill - Hei = Hill - Ås = Hill, usually cresting over a valley - Bre = Glacier - Foss = Waterfall - Elv = River - Bekk = Stream - Skog = Forest - Tun = Flattened clearing Edit: Examples. Storelvdal = Valley with a great river flowing through it Lakselv = Salmon River Jostedalsbreen = Glacier in a valley
Magnus Hanserud hell no, man. I’m proud of my nationalist self. I love Norway, and I definitely would not call it narcissism. Just plain curiosity, the love of hearing others’ opinions of us and seeing people try to understand us.
@@artemkatelnytskyi same origin, mostly the same meaning. In norwegian, "butikk" is used as a general word as any building where you go in to purchase things. The word is usually prefixed with what the place sells. For example "matbutikk" meaning "food-shop", or to use the common term, a grocery store.
@Frida Gylterud True enough, but I never actually say that. But yes, I will concede that "butikk" just means shop or store in general, although in the instance in the video, I'm pretty sure it meant a grocery store. ^^
Yeah, that's the big problem trying that project in Norway. Probably doable but not easy. On the other hand you wouldn't have to worry too much about crossing fields, hedges, barbed wire fences and such. But finding a route that is possible without climbing gear or a cayak is basically impossible as far as I can see.
@@dr4c077 Hvordan jeg tror at det er kun tusen mennesker i Norge: Jeg tror ikke det er kun 1000 mennesker i Norge. Men jeg har tro på en litt tørr spøk. Kanskje ikke alles form for humor, men jeg syns det er morsomt.
Found myself screaming at the screen when at 10:45 zoomed right onto Vangsvik, then went on to pick the wrong intersection. Entertaining stuff, and well done with the 25k! Cheers
The three 'extra' letters in the Norwegian alphabet: Æ: like the a in cat, ash and fat Ø: like the u in trust Å: like the a in ball, or au in Paul Also double consonant means the vowel before is short, and singular consonant means a longer vowel sound, like the difference between the words: Hat, hatt. Same, samme. Bake, bakke. Lete, lette. Pen, penn. In all these cases, the words have completely different meanings, and dont even sound close to each other
Thats why I laughed so hard in the previus episode when he saw a sign with "barn leker(children are playing)" and pronounced it as "barn lekker (children are leaking)."
When I saw the BUTIKK sign I knew you were in the middle of nowhere. It means shop or store, often a grocery-store. We don't put up signs for those unless they are rare in the area. SAVNET means missing, so no clues here.
Well played sir! Just a couple of helpful tips for your next game in Norway. In the first round there were multiple signs with various roads. The road you're actually on will be solid around the edges, but if it's leading to another road (E18, E6) the name of the other road will be dotted along the edges. White signs (like "Butikk") will point to a place of public interest, like a store, a church, a sports stadium, a school etc. Almost every kommune in Norway have a Vik. Some have several Viks. It literally means Bay, as villages were often built in the end of a bay. And as we're being a major fjord country, there's a loooot of Viks. And of course we drive on the correct side of the road, anything else would be silly, really 😎
I've been watching you for some time now. Your videos are my comfort videos, help me deal with depression, i fall asleep to them. I am also a huge geography geek and you got me even more addicted. And here i hear you singing Radiohead's The Bends, honestly didn't think I could appreciate and like you more. Keep doing what you love and have a nice day Tom 😊
@@k0ppit you kinda make your own rules on these games, but learning cyrillic letters can be done easily. Why not just learn something new? You never know when it can be actually useful. I actually learnt the alphabet myself a couple of days ago, to play geoguessr. Today I used that knowledge to write a letter to a Russian monastery about a church music CD I want to buy, using google translate. And yes, google translate could probably have done an ok job anyway, but it helped a lot just to be able to see what's what on a russian webpage, to be able to interpret and formulate what I wanted. Also I modified the google translate version of my Norwegian name to a better Russian version.
Japan shouldn't be too much of an problem as it has a lot of English signs, but Russia.. If you don't speak the language it's really hard to get the places you are. Also Russia has a lot of long roads so in case you got the M4, it's huge and for foreigner it looks the same in every place. So it would be really tricky and to find the word in the signs that says the place name and not like 'grocery store' or something else is going to be hard. The video would be probably 2h long but he'd be a real madman if he'd do it.
That start is not easy. The map is updated with the new E134 extension through the tunnel while treetview is not. This is going to happen a lot in the future as a lot of roads got new numbers in late 2019 and onward in 2020.
This was personally a really fun round to follow along with. I was in the military next to one of the guesses. I have been working in the area close to two of the guesses. My family is from one of the guesses. (One was a dud though).
I discovered you about two weeks ago and have watched all of your Wales and England videos. Love all the videos and love the geoguessers as well. Just wanna say thanks for the Entertainment m8 keep up the great work!!!!
So surreal seeing my hometown on the first one, and you're right; RV23 was renamed to E134 a couple of years ago so that was impressive! We want more Norwegian content even tho you finally got your perfect score!
The reason Vik sounded familiar is because alot of places are either called Vik or has the word "vik" in it. This includes Norvic, which was the name the Vikings refered to the settlement that over time became to be spelled as Norwich.
Bro your videos are so good but your fuckin voice is so relaxing that I can’t make it through a video without falling asleep so I have to watch the videos multiple times haha
Amusing: my great-great-grandfather moved from very close to the last location to very close to the third location in 1873. (and here we are, one-and-a-half centuries later, watching some dude on youtube trying to connect the dots...)
Did you ever made something similar for Germany. Would love to see it but on the other hand we don't have that much spots where Google earth is available.
Hello, Just a tip : Tunnels in Norway In this map, you're in a tunnel, find out where you are. I would recommend playing the game with the opportunity to move. The pinpoints are at the ends of the tunnels or at a recognizable point inside the tunnel.
The second one that came up, I drive past that every time I visit my family. Was pretty funny seeing it, the odds were not good for me to see a place so close to where I grew up.
Norwegian here, just wanted to say that SAVNET means missing, so people put up a bunch of signs with that for their pets, and yes it is hilarious to see you struggle to say different names and all that stuff, but I’m impressed
"Øy" means "Island", where 'Ø' is pronounced almost like the 'u' in "trust". So the place called 'Nesøya' tells you its an island. Also 'Savnet' means 'missing' as in a missing person, or a missing pet
5:54 - No, you weren´t! I couldn´t hear a thing! I was at work, minding my own business, and I work at this secret place that you can´t get into! So there!
2:49 - just to the left of your pointer, is Svelvik - one of the most famous ferry connections in Norway, as it is the shortest one. Whatyou need to pay attention to, is the dotted lines around those road numbers. Solid ones are the ones you´re on, or what you´re going on to. The other ones are "leading to".
"Savnet" means "missing" "butikk" means "store" or "shop" or some such. "Øy" means "island". "Vik" basically means something along the line of "bay" I think (might be a nuance difference)
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GeoWizard dammit man
cant wait
Are you on socials geowizard?
how did u know haha
riot
when he looked after the town "butikk" all norwegians laughed
And also Swedes😂👍
Johan Öhgren 🤣🤣🤣
And the danes
veldig morsomt!
Why ?
General Norwegian tips for geoguessr:
Almost every place is named after a prominent geographical feature as a suffix to a name or noun. Sometimes a definite article signiifer is appended. Those are: -a, -en and -et.
- Vik = bay/inlet/cove
- Dal = Valley
- Strand = Beach
- Vei = Road
- Gate = Street
- Sti = Path
- Øy = Isle / Island
- Anger = Fjord (norse term for it, used along the west coast)
- Fjell = Mountain, or large hill
- Hei = Hill
- Ås = Hill, usually cresting over a valley
- Bre = Glacier
- Foss = Waterfall
- Elv = River
- Bekk = Stream
- Skog = Forest
- Tun = Flattened clearing
Edit: Examples.
Storelvdal = Valley with a great river flowing through it
Lakselv = Salmon River
Jostedalsbreen = Glacier in a valley
Or -i, and others.
Also, tun means an enclosed area (usually with buildings), or the buildings that make up the enclosure
@@se6369 true
Same in sweden
Great comment! And to supplement on that (not so much for Geoguessr), but this also applies for Norwegian last names.
I think hei should be meadow or moor
Norwegians;
*Watches every YT video about Norway in existence*
GeoWizard;
"I can milk this."
We loooooooove hearing what other people think of us and our country. We're horribly narcissistic that way. It can be downright embarrassing at times.
@@Maghan98 don't worry, it's the same here in Finland and also in lots of other places (from what I can tell).
Magnus Hanserud hell no, man. I’m proud of my nationalist self. I love Norway, and I definitely would not call it narcissism. Just plain curiosity, the love of hearing others’ opinions of us and seeing people try to understand us.
Every norwegian in a video about norway: "IM SO PROUD TO BE FROM NORWAY", I always cringe when it read it
I'm American and I watch Norway shit. The place is beautiful.
Good thing you didn't spend too much time looking for "Butikk", as that is the Norwegian word for Grocery Store. "Savnet" means missing.
Oh, it's similar to boutique, pretty neat.
"Savnet, I feel like I've seen that before. Some of you are probably laughing at me" yes very true lol
and barnehage!
@@artemkatelnytskyi
same origin, mostly the same meaning.
In norwegian, "butikk" is used as a general word as any building where you go in to purchase things.
The word is usually prefixed with what the place sells. For example "matbutikk" meaning "food-shop", or to use the common term, a grocery store.
@Frida Gylterud True enough, but I never actually say that. But yes, I will concede that "butikk" just means shop or store in general, although in the instance in the video, I'm pretty sure it meant a grocery store. ^^
so surreal seeing a road you travel frequently on one of these
I know, I have driven through the one in Nesøya several times.. such a weird but starstrucked feeling
The Nesøya one or? Yeah I’ve gone past there many times.
Weird seeing the church in which we held my father’s funeral on this.
@@N0rwegianGreenDayFan The first one actually. I drove there pretty much bi-weekly for 7 years. Both to see my father and friends.
Yep, the first one I drive on every day.
15:31 'savnet' means Missing. probably a cat gone missing or somthin.
Rip cat
Well he´s out looking for missing cats now xD
Now do straight line across Northern Norway, you're gonna need mountain climbing equipment and a kayak
He has thought of it and is maybe going to do it
I presume a straight line going from east to west. North south would be a bit mad...
Yeah, that's the big problem trying that project in Norway. Probably doable but not easy. On the other hand you wouldn't have to worry too much about crossing fields, hedges, barbed wire fences and such. But finding a route that is possible without climbing gear or a cayak is basically impossible as far as I can see.
@@egilsandnes9637 Starting in Trondheim and going east provides many doable routes as its one of the flattest areas west-east
A straight line from the bottom to the top of mainland Norway is going to be mostly traversing uninhabited swedish forest.
The man knows every Norwegian guys address by this point
That's at least 10 addresses
@@Isaac-np2xp Don't be silly. We are at least 1000 people in Norway, so there must be at least 250 adresses. Probably there a several hundred!
@@egilsandnes9637 1000 people? More like 5.3m people.
Egil Sandnes hvordan tror du det er kun et tusen mennesker i Norge
@@dr4c077 Hvordan jeg tror at det er kun tusen mennesker i Norge:
Jeg tror ikke det er kun 1000 mennesker i Norge.
Men jeg har tro på en litt tørr spøk. Kanskje ikke alles form for humor, men jeg syns det er morsomt.
Found myself screaming at the screen when at 10:45 zoomed right onto Vangsvik, then went on to pick the wrong intersection. Entertaining stuff, and well done with the 25k! Cheers
Same 😁
Ble overraska når eg såg skiltan og bære oi her e jo eg ifra
Skrike er vel litt rart da🤔
lmao same! Got a lot of family on Senja and was screaming; you are so close!!!!! Got a cabin/summerplace at Stonglandseidet
Yes, the old 23 (Oslofjordforbindelsen) has been gobbled up by E143.
Savnet = Missing. Probably a picture of a cat.
E134*
The three 'extra' letters in the Norwegian alphabet:
Æ: like the a in cat, ash and fat
Ø: like the u in trust
Å: like the a in ball, or au in Paul
Also double consonant means the vowel before is short, and singular consonant means a longer vowel sound, like the difference between the words:
Hat, hatt. Same, samme. Bake, bakke. Lete, lette. Pen, penn.
In all these cases, the words have completely different meanings, and dont even sound close to each other
Swedish lessons here
Å: like oh
Ä: like eh
Ö: like uh
Thats why I laughed so hard in the previus episode when he saw a sign with "barn leker(children are playing)" and pronounced it as "barn lekker (children are leaking)."
When I saw the BUTIKK sign I knew you were in the middle of nowhere. It means shop or store, often a grocery-store. We don't put up signs for those unless they are rare in the area.
SAVNET means missing, so no clues here.
Probably just a missing cat
Det kunne ha vært en plass med navnet «butikk»
@@Bias2310 Ikke med hvitt skilt nei
ᗷIᗩᔕ ikke med hvitt skilt idiot
Okei okei, kanskje det var et skilt for en butikk
Tom is one of the most entertaining people to watch on youtube even if you arent into geography. Love the vids tom❤️
Well played sir!
Just a couple of helpful tips for your next game in Norway. In the first round there were multiple signs with various roads. The road you're actually on will be solid around the edges, but if it's leading to another road (E18, E6) the name of the other road will be dotted along the edges.
White signs (like "Butikk") will point to a place of public interest, like a store, a church, a sports stadium, a school etc.
Almost every kommune in Norway have a Vik. Some have several Viks. It literally means Bay, as villages were often built in the end of a bay. And as we're being a major fjord country, there's a loooot of Viks.
And of course we drive on the correct side of the road, anything else would be silly, really 😎
Congratulations on finally getting this in the bag after the ultra-frustrating 24999 one!
the amount of hoovering over Drøbak hurts so much ^^
yyessss
ive spent a lot of summer vacations in drøbak and i was so extremly frustrated at that point
Norway looks absolutey class - would love to live there for a few months
Graeme Lashley and u should but it’s quite expensive
Quite quite quite
You are very welcome to, but not right now though. Were quite scared of the good old Rona
It can get a bit cold, but you might be used to that, pardon the pun
I'll hook you up for the expensiveness, such as food ect. Im rich so
The last one; I felt like screaming "Bus stops"
The 23 has been renamed to the E134, by the way you got two rounds in my municipality.
I'm very impressed that he guessed that. I might've been confused myself about that and I've driven that road at least five times.
Asker folk rise up
But can you do two perfect scores in Norway in a row?
I've been watching you for some time now. Your videos are my comfort videos, help me deal with depression, i fall asleep to them. I am also a huge geography geek and you got me even more addicted. And here i hear you singing Radiohead's The Bends, honestly didn't think I could appreciate and like you more. Keep doing what you love and have a nice day Tom 😊
When is the fourth time? Haven't seen anywhere I know personally yet, so you just have to keep doing Norway.
Sotra & Bergen this time, so I got lucky with mine :)
@@cornstalks4122 same
Still waiting for Kristiansand...
can you do perfect score in iceland next?
No
Yes!
All the Nordic countries imo have to be done, also Estonia cuz we are wannabe Nordic so basically.. yes?
I've tried Iceland. think I got 4k points in total, lol! Very difficult country, but also a very beautiful country!
No, norway only
Try a perfect score in russia😬
He would need to learn the Cyrillic alphabet first
@@Arcycesarz Is it cheating to use Google Lens on the phone to translete?
k0ppit even if he did that it’s would take ages to find it
@Vladimir Putin haha
@@k0ppit you kinda make your own rules on these games, but learning cyrillic letters can be done easily. Why not just learn something new? You never know when it can be actually useful.
I actually learnt the alphabet myself a couple of days ago, to play geoguessr. Today I used that knowledge to write a letter to a Russian monastery about a church music CD I want to buy, using google translate. And yes, google translate could probably have done an ok job anyway, but it helped a lot just to be able to see what's what on a russian webpage, to be able to interpret and formulate what I wanted. Also I modified the google translate version of my Norwegian name to a better Russian version.
Third time's the charm! Congrats you finally did. Do a perfect score in Russia or Japan
Japan shouldn't be too much of an problem as it has a lot of English signs, but Russia.. If you don't speak the language it's really hard to get the places you are. Also Russia has a lot of long roads so in case you got the M4, it's huge and for foreigner it looks the same in every place. So it would be really tricky and to find the word in the signs that says the place name and not like 'grocery store' or something else is going to be hard. The video would be probably 2h long but he'd be a real madman if he'd do it.
Glad to see my hometown signposted in the thumbnail!
Drammen?
Drammen!!!
Yeah, Drammen, only legends are from there
TheElectricalGamer Glad to see him being put right next to my house😂 Hva faen er sjansen
TheElectricalGamer Yes Yes
"I dOn'T cArE iF tHaTs AcCuRaTe Or NoT"
Perfect score in Iceland next?
This man speaks like he’s talking to the queen
6:44 i was in a wedding ceremony there couple of weeks ago lol
edit: in the church more specifically
bruh, broren min giftet seg i den kirken xd
@@enb7625 tight community dette
Kirken eg ble døpt i. Small world
søsteren min giftet også seg der
That start is not easy. The map is updated with the new E134 extension through the tunnel while treetview is not.
This is going to happen a lot in the future as a lot of roads got new numbers in late 2019 and onward in 2020.
Wow im so early.
I believe that you can do it this time.
A trick to measure distance in scandinavia is to look at the white sticks by the road. They are spaced apart 50 meters on medium size roads.
Im sad that this Norwegian series is over, because I live in Norway :)
But happy that you completed your goal
I like how you just went past my house.
timestamp?
Tidspunkt?
Replies straight up asking for doxxings amazing
Do perfect score in Scandinavia! :> :) :')
This was personally a really fun round to follow along with.
I was in the military next to one of the guesses. I have been working in the area close to two of the guesses. My family is from one of the guesses. (One was a dud though).
Perfect score in Sweden 😁
I discovered you about two weeks ago and have watched all of your Wales and England videos. Love all the videos and love the geoguessers as well. Just wanna say thanks for the Entertainment m8 keep up the great work!!!!
Very well done! I'm Norwegian myself, and would've probably failed a lot of these. Impressive stuff :)
Fun fact, that exact Ikea you saw on round 4/5 is actually the first ever International Ikea store
Wow. I’m learning to drive, and my road of choice is the nesøya road you explored.
Savnet means Missing, its a missing person/pet poster
omg he put the cursor over my city during the 3rd round
Actually two places in one game that I am VERY familiar with, having been past them literally hundreds of times in my life. Good job.
LOL the first location is literally my drive to work, 5 mins from home, through the Oslofjordtunnel on the E134
So surreal seeing my hometown on the first one, and you're right; RV23 was renamed to E134 a couple of years ago so that was impressive! We want more Norwegian content even tho you finally got your perfect score!
Gratulerer med perfekt poengsum :)
Broooo, I was literally at your thumbnail an hour ago....what
Eyyyy
@@norgnt ayyyyyy
it'll be great if you do all european countries !
The reason Vik sounded familiar is because alot of places are either
called Vik or has the word "vik" in it. This includes Norvic, which was the name the Vikings refered to the settlement that over time became to be spelled as Norwich.
Omg, I knew instantly where number two was. I drive that road to my cabin! :D This was funny. Was a bit shocked when you turned around haha
Bro your videos are so good but your fuckin voice is so relaxing that I can’t make it through a video without falling asleep so I have to watch the videos multiple times haha
Can you do a perfect score in Switzerland. 🇨🇭 That would be amazing to watch.
I like how Ikea was bigger than Nesoya on the World map.
Amusing: my great-great-grandfather moved from very close to the last location to very close to the third location in 1873. (and here we are, one-and-a-half centuries later, watching some dude on youtube trying to connect the dots...)
Did you ever made something similar for Germany. Would love to see it but on the other hand we don't have that much spots where Google earth is available.
Yo no joke this isn't far from where I live
BTW I'm norwegian
Kåte faen
21:46 "Barnehage" means kindergarten, haha.
impressive! I almost lost my cool on the second location as i live pretty close to there, and drive that stretch of road almost evey day.
Hello, Just a tip :
Tunnels in Norway
In this map, you're in a tunnel, find out where you are. I would recommend playing the game with the opportunity to move. The pinpoints are at the ends of the tunnels or at a recognizable point inside the tunnel.
useless
norway my country
what bout you guys
↓
Ye S
I AM ALSO NORWAY!!🇳🇴🤭🙌
I love how this is still trending in Norway lol
15:33 «Savnet» means lost, so it probably was just a poster of a lost and wanted cat
9:01 butikk means shop
The second one that came up, I drive past that every time I visit my family. Was pretty funny seeing it, the odds were not good for me to see a place so close to where I grew up.
Er vel bare norske i kommentarfeltet her, så kan like greit skrive norsk. Kjente igjen Fjell Kirke med det samme. Hvor vokste du opp?
1:13 lmao Drøbak is where i'm from
GeoWisard: Where is the town Butikk??? Hmmm...
Norwegians: Hehe...
3km to the town Butikk. Says on the sign.
17:29 omg i’ve driven past that intersection so many times when we’re driving to oslo/ikea
I know EXACTLY where the second location was! Been to that church a couple of times, and had a burger at the CircleK station once. Damn
Norwegian here, just wanted to say that SAVNET means missing, so people put up a bunch of signs with that for their pets, and yes it is hilarious to see you struggle to say different names and all that stuff, but I’m impressed
YES YES! FINALLY SOMEWHERE THAT I KNOW
"Øy" means "Island", where 'Ø' is pronounced almost like the 'u' in "trust". So the place called 'Nesøya' tells you its an island.
Also 'Savnet' means 'missing' as in a missing person, or a missing pet
16:52 I live there haha
you rich ting
lillemeg power Ok
Austria perfect score would be awesome!
Road 23 Drammen-Drøbak-Vassum was included in E134 late 2018
This is so peaceful to watch before i fall asleep 👍😴
My nickname is Vik, quite funny every time you say it!
“Vik” means bay. Many towns have ...vik since Norway has many bays because of the fjords. The town of Vik literally means “Bay”
Or cove ;) But yeah..
Literally 1 % people who are reading...........May you parents live happily healthily for more then 💯 years😇❤️💙❤️🙏😇
Only you could make me scream Vangsvik at my monitor.
I am from the area around the first location.
My grandparents live around the last round
Do Sweden please!!
17:00 I have been to that IKEA at least 20 times :D
I've been driving past that Ikea probably 100 times. And I've been to Nesøya several times, as a friends family had a hytte at Brønnøya.
Also I've been to that Ikea a couple of times when I moved to Oslo
@@krisberntzen :)
NORGEEEEEE
Of course you've heard of Vik. There's prolly like a thousand places called Vik, Viken or Vika in Norway. xD
Literally just means "bay".
did you have to get all of them right!! love the series and I'm heartbroken to see it go
Out of these three videos in norway you been at the place i was born and at the place i live! Great fun, entertaining vids! :)
closed I ever got was 204 miles
Try perfect score in sweden
5:05 - colour me impressed!!! That´s more than just luck, and on a country road like that, I´d struggle if it was at my doorstep. Well done, Tom!
5:54 - No, you weren´t! I couldn´t hear a thing! I was at work, minding my own business, and I work at this secret place that you can´t get into! So there!
2:49 - just to the left of your pointer, is Svelvik - one of the most famous ferry connections in Norway, as it is the shortest one. Whatyou need to pay attention to, is the dotted lines around those road numbers. Solid ones are the ones you´re on, or what you´re going on to. The other ones are "leading to".
You are the fucking best mate
"Savnet" means "missing" "butikk" means "store" or "shop" or some such.
"Øy" means "island".
"Vik" basically means something along the line of "bay" I think (might be a nuance difference)
Nesoya looks like a nice spot honestly.. I’d live there
It is one of the more wealthy areas of Norway.
knew exactly where you the first place is. 4 min away from home xD
I’ve been at that first intersection numerous times, as I in fact live in Drøbak