Clues that help you narrow down middle east in GeoGuessr — from signage and road surfaces to regional plant life and architecture.
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Script: Hebrew (Abjad)
Name: Hebrew (עברית — Ivrit)
Style: Consonant-based script written right to left
Final-form letters (used only at the end of a word): ך ם ן ף ץ
Examples: ישראל (Israel), שלום (peace / hello), בית (house), רחוב (street), חנות (shop), מים (water)
Quick visual giveaway: Right-to-left text with square, disconnected letters (א ב מ ש ת) and no cursive connections = Hebrew.
Camera: Shitcam
Lebanon is unique in the Middle East region for having low-resolution dash-camera - “shitcam”
Additional details: Sometimes front of the black car can be visible (Israel has black car with visible front too) but it is still shitcam
Camera: Generation 3
Street view coverage was shot from a black car that lacks both:
No other Middle-Eastern country uses this exact car. In Israel you can find generation 3 black car with antenna. And generation 4 without it
Look for a white pickup truck used for GeoGuessr coverage in Qatar.
Antenna: A left-side antenna with circle on the top is visible, along with rusty clips on the roof bar.
Visibility: The car is often blurred.
Type: Private
Shape: Long or Short
Background: Yellow
Text: Black
Additional details: Vertical blue band on the left or blue dot n the center
Shape: Cylinder
Material: Concrete
Color: Black-and-white stripes
Painted in black-and-white stripes. Cylindrical with a rounded top
Rectangular reflector is yellow both sides
Shape: Cylinder
Material: Wood
Top: Attached horizontal metallic bar with 3 insulators
Unique: A horizontal bar attached to the pole above the wooden post
The flag of Israel features a white field with two horizontal dark sky-blue stripes at the top and bottom, representing a tallit (Jewish prayer shawl).
Centered between the stripes is a blue Star of David
Color: Blue background with white triangle
Zebra: Dashed dark line without zebra crossing
Person: Black figure wearing a traditional thobe
Three horizontal stripes:
On the left side there is a red triangle pointing toward the center.
Inside the triangle is a small unique white seven-pointed star.
The flag of the United Arab Emirates has four colors: red, green, white, and black.
A vertical red band sits on the left, while the rest of the flag is divided into three horizontal stripes—green on top, white in the middle, and black on the bottom
Many concrete utility poles carry small white ID plates with black numbers.
These labels show the pole’s unique code or location reference and are usually fixed at eye level.
Sometimes concrete guardrails have white marks
Background: Yellow
Arrows: Thin black
Additional details: Lots of arrows
The flag of Oman has three horizontal stripes—white, red, and green—with a vertical red band on the left.
At the top of this red band sits the national emblem: a pair of crossed swords beneath a traditional Omani dagger (khanjar)
Type: Commercial, taxi, public transport
Shape: Long or short
Background: White
Text: Black
Additional details: Vertical green band on the left
Camera: Generation 3
Car: Regular sedan
Color: Mostly Black, extremely rare silver
Additional details (unique): Mostly with long or short antenna on the back. Extremely rare without antenna
In Qatar orange highway shield shaped like the country map, with white route number inside.
Material: Plastic or metal
Color: Black or grey
Text: 3-leaf logo and the word ‘be’ah’ (only 1 e)
The falcon emblem, officially the Hawk of Quraish, appears on UAE highway signs because it represents the national symbol.
Using this emblem on highways flags these routes as inter-emirate or national, helping drivers quickly identify major strategic roads.
White plastic thin bollard with yellow rectangle on the front side and red on the back side
Shape: White block edged by a thick coloured border
Color: Red, green or blue border and number with white background
Additional details: Along highways on a metal cylinder pole
Local stop signs display a stylised red hand inside the octagon
Regular stop signs without spelling the word ‘STOP’ are also common
Type: Commercial
Shape: Long
Background: Red
Text: White
Additional details: In Street view blur the left side is heavily whitened, while the right side stays clean and red.
Type: Commercial
Shape: Long
Background: Green
Text: White
Additional details: A white blur in the center-bottom of the license plate
A unique falcon emblem can be found on utility poles
Qatar’s flag is maroon with a broad white band on the hoist side, separated by a serrated edge of nine white triangles
Nearly all Generation 3 in the UAE was filmed from a white or silver/grey car (sometimes with visible black roof racks)
Sometimes car is not visible
vs Oman and Qatar: No Generation 3 at all
UAE license plates vary by emirate in their numbering, lettering, and sometimes colour, featuring distinct designs for each of the seven emirates.
Private vehicle plates are typically white
Type: Private
Shape: Long or short
Background: White
Text: Black
Additional details: Sometimes with a vertical red band on the left
On standard highways in Oman, you’ll see a yellow edge stripe alongside white centre lines
Type: Private
Shape: Long
Background: Yellow
Text: Black
Additional details: In Street view blur the left side is heavily darkened, while the right side stays clean and yellow.
Shape: Cylinder or rectangular long or short
Material: Metall
Color: Black-and-white or black-and-yellow stripes
Type: Private
Shape: Long and short
Background: White
Text: Black
Additional details: Blue band on the left or on the top
Camera: Generation 4
Car: Regular sedan
Color: Black or fully blurred
Additional details (unique): The black front part of the car is visible sometimes
Outer lines: Solid yellow both sides
Center line: White dashed
Outer lines: Yellow
Center line: White
Most common one
Type: Private
Shape: Long or short
Background: White
Text: Black
Additional details: Red strip on the left
Most of Oman is sparsely vegetated desert
Signs are mostly in Arabic, but tourist areas almost always include clear English
Background: White
Arrows: Bold red
Shape: Cylinder
Material: Metal
Color: Black-and-white stripes
Household and street bins are usually large plastic wheelie bins in light green, yellow or black, often with Arabic and English labels
Usually you can find words like "General Waste" or bee'ah (with double e vs Oman with single e!)
Camera: Generation 4
Car: Pickup truck
Color: White
Additional details (unique): Sometimes you can see a black antenna in the center at the front of the roof. The same applies in Oman
Shape: Rectangular, wheeled containers with flip lids
Color: Grey, green, blue or black
Text: Display a round emblem in Arabic and English that reads “Keep Your City Clean.” Sometimes with a person inside a circle
vs UAE: They usually use darker shades of green and black
It's a flat white plastic marker with a diagonal top.
A black stripe runs diagonally across the middle with a reflector on it. There is a white rectangle on the front and two white circles on the back, all on the black part
Shape: Rectangle or block arrow
Color: Blue
Text: White arabic. Sometimes with english
Shape: Cylinder
Material: Concrete
Top: A cross-bar with three insulators. The middle insulator is a bit higher. Two diagonal braces supporting the bar
Shape: Cylinder. Long or short
Material: Metal
Color: Black-and-white, no color possible
Color: Dark blue with white text
Text: In Arabic and English information about the street name, a street number, and a zone number (Z. No.) in the right corner
Background: Red
Arrows: Bold or thin white
Additional details: Usually with white border
Road signs often show numbers in two scripts:
Both appear together on speed limits, distances, and other traffic signs, making the signage bilingual in numbering.
Road direction signs use a consistent color system:
Text is always bilingual—Arabic and English
Green signs often carry the Dubai castle emblem, and blue signs display the falcon symbol
Some Gen 4 coverage in the UAE comes from a black car with a visible high brake light
Background: Blue
Arrows: Bold or thin white
Camera: Generation 4
Car: Pickup truck
Color: White
Additional details (unique): Sometimes you can see a black antenna in the center at the front of the roof. The same applies in the UAE
In Oman, Street View was filmed from a white pickup—sometimes clearly visible sometimes only white blur
Lotf of footage taken before the 2022 FIFA World Cup shows many roadside banners and signs promoting the tournament
Type: Commercial
Shape: Short
Background: Black
Text: White
Additional details: White blur is wide on the bottom, narrow on the top of the license plate
They are small upright posts with a black top plate showing a warning symbol, often used to mark underground utilities such as gas, oil, or water pipelines
Stop signs often feature the Arabic word ‘قف’ on a red octagon with a white border.
The standard stop sign version also appears
Background: Black
Arrows: Bold white
Color: Blue rectangle with white triangle
Num of zebra stripes: 5
Figure: Stick black figure above zebra
Text: Sometimes with white Arabic text below
Background:Blue
Arrows: Bold white
Yellow background with bold black numbers
Background: Red
Arrows: White path arrows
Color: Blue
Text: White in Arabic and English
Additional details: Highway variant has green rectangle with yellow numbers usually placed on top of the direction sign
You can sometimes find rifts in old-generation Google panoramas
Background: White
Arrows: Thin red (Bold variants are possible but rare)
Big and wide metal dumpsters are also common near construction sites or apartment blocks.
Sometimes they have chevrons with white background and red diagonal lines
Transformer islands are usually bare concrete platforms in the middle of sandy roadside areas, sometimes containing utility boxes, markers, or bollards.
The islands are not landscaped and just functional concrete or asphalt structures separating lanes, protecting signage, or covering underground service access
Fire hydrants are painted bright red and often installed above ground on sandy or paved roadsides.
They are usually surrounded by protective bollards—white or yellow posts—to prevent vehicle damage
Outer lines: Yellow
Center lines: Yellow
Rare (mostly white center) but possible. In Oman you can't find yellow center lines
Camera: Trekker
Car: No car — the camera is carried by a person
Additional details: Captured on foot with a Generation 3 backpack trekker
Background: Blue
Arrows: Bold yellow
Shape: Rectangle
Color: Red paint
Text: Latin letter is painted at the top of the attachment, followed by a horizontal dividing line, and below it numbers. White color
Utility poles connected with an X (double or triple) can be found in Oman but not in the UAE
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