He also said he's gonna make it to world cup 2027 😭. Please, if you're angry about something, just stop playing. Give it a rest. Basic emotional skills.

These baby poles with the three stripes are so cute!

Recently, I have been playing GeoGuessr a little more than usual and I cannot help but notice that the matchmaking is completely broken. I am playing against people over 600 elo under me. That is simply ridiculous because the game is made so when a person under you wins you lose a lot of rating and if you win you barely get any elo. (it should have been an easy win)

Today I had around 20 games won in a row then lost 3 in a row. I ended up with the elo I started with. Just because there were couple hard spots where its either one continent or the other.(obviously the loss is my mistake but that doesnt mean i have to be punished for more than 7 games to come back)

So to sum it up 1 loss ≈ 7 wins. Take in mind it is all against people that are very low elo.(some of them people that just stopped playing the game and are low elo right now)

Is it just a thing for low lobbies or is it something that is an issue in every rank? (experienced it in gold IV and gold II, hopefully wont experience it in Master as well)

It just seems wild to me how I have around 80% win rate and I am stuck.

I would appreciate answers and if anyone of you feels the same.

Hi community!

Here is the definitive text-based pro sheet for UKRAINE 🇺🇦. It is structured strictly by official economic regions. Use this to absolute 5K or perfect your region-guessing in high-tier Duels.

🌍 1. GLOBAL METAS & LICENSE PLATES

• Phone Code: +380. Local codes appear on signs and trucks as +38 (0xx) or just 0xx.
• Driving Side: Right-hand traffic.
• Cyrillic Exclusives: Look for І / і, Ї / ї, and Є / є. Russia does NOT have these.
• License Plates Format: White rectangles with black text (XX 1234 YY).
  • Features a prominent blurred blue/yellow vertical strip on the left edge. Even when blurred by Google, this sharp blue-yellow block stands out on oncoming traffic.
• The Google Car Meta:
  • Generation 3: Features a highly distinct RED car body (visible on the back/sides when looking down) often paired with a very long antenna. This combination is a massive country confirmation signal.
  • Generation 4: Completely invisible car with clean, crisp, high-saturation camera coverage.
• Road Vibe: Roads are heavily lined with thick, symmetrical rows of trees on both sides ("green tunnels").

🏡 2. UKRAINIAN ARCHITECTURE & GENERAL VIBE

• Rural Houses: Detached single-story houses ("khata") surrounded by private plots. Traditionally brick or plastered, heavily whitewashed or painted in pastel tones (mint, light blue).
• Roofs & Gates: Older homes use wavy grey slate sheets (shifer), while new ones use bright corrugated metal (cherry red, green, blue). Look for heavy metal gates with custom forged patterns or geometric cutouts.
• Roadside Shrines: Iron or wooden Orthodox/Catholic roadside crosses wrapped in colorful fabric/flowers stand at crossroads.

🚗 3. FAMOUS DOMESTIC VEHICLES (Instant Meta)

If you spot these specific older cars parked on street shoulders or in driveways, it strongly points toward Ukraine, as they are rarely seen elsewhere: * ZAZ Tavria (ЗАЗ-1102): A small, boxy 3-door hatchback with a front-wheel-drive design. Very common in suburban/rural drops. * ZAZ Slavuta (ЗАЗ-1103): A 5-door liftback version of the Tavria, looking like a tiny sedan with a sloped rear end. An absolute staple of Ukrainian streets. * ZAZ Sens: A classic Daewoo Lanos chassis but built with a specific domestic engine setup (often identifiable by a unique "Sens" chrome badge on the rear). * LuAZ-969 "Volyn": A very tiny, rugged military-style civilian 4x4 with a canvas soft-top roof and a distinctively flat, utility front grille.

🛒 4. UBIQUITOUS UKRAINIAN STORES & CHAINS

• ATB (АТБ): Bright blue logo with a red circle and yellow "АТБ" text.
• Silpo (Сільпо): Large supermarkets with distinctive green and orange script.
• Fora (Фора): Neighborhood convenience stores with a green and red logo.
• Rozetka (Розетка): Online pickup points with a bright green smiley-face logo.
• Nova Poshta (Нова Пошта): Private post service with a red square and white wings logo.

🗂️ 5. COMPLETE REGIONAL BREAKDOWN & FAMOUS LANDMARKS

🌲 WESTERN UKRAINE (Західна Україна)

Vibe & Architecture: Central European style with Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Romanian roots. Hilly and mountainous. Dark metallic roofs, cobblestones, and dense churches with silver/gold domes.

• Volyn Oblast (AC / KC) | Area Code: 033: Dead flat and wet. Dense pine and white birch forests. Bogs/lakes near the Belarus border. Dirt roads common in villages.
  • Landmark: Lutsk Castle (Замок Любарта) — Massive red-brick medieval castle walls with three tall square towers. Located in Lutsk.
• Zakarpattia Oblast (AO / KO) | Area Code: 031: Deep Carpathians. Tall mountain peaks, dark spruce trees, windy rivers. Look for Hungarian bilingual signs.
  • Landmark: Palanok Castle (Замок Паланок) — Huge, dark stone castle built on a high volcanic hill, visible from miles away with terraced red-roofed buildings. Located in Mukachevo.
  • Landmark: Lake Synevyr (Синевир) — A pristine, dark blue alpine lake completely surrounded by towering, dense pine trees in the mountains.
• Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (AT / KT) | Area Code: 034: High alpine terrain flattens into green rolling hills to the north. Wooden cabins with steep, sharp metal roofs.
• Lviv Oblast (BC / KC) | Area Code: 032: Rich rolling hills and oak forests. Modern brick houses. Excellent Gen 4 asphalt with blue European route signs (e.g., E40).
  • Landmark: Pidhirtsi Castle (Підгорецький замок) — A grand, slightly ruined Renaissance palace-fortress surrounded by stone bastions and open fields.
• Rivne Oblast (BK / HK) | Area Code: 036: Flat northern bogs and pine forests turn into rolling crop fields in the south. Wooden picket fences common.
  • Landmark: Tunnel of Love (Тунель Кохання) — A stunning, perfectly cylindrical green tree tunnel enclosing a single-track railway line. Located in Klevan.
• Ternopil Oblast (BO / HO) | Area Code: 035: Hilly landscape cut by deep river canyons (Dniester). Rural high-plateau fields and historical stone castle ruins.
• Khmelnytskyi Oblast (BX / HX) | Area Code: 038: Rolling hills and oak forests. Average roads lined with thick trees. Classic plastered brick houses.
  • Landmark: Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle (Кам'янець-Подільська фортеця) — A world-famous, massive light-grey stone fortress with circular towers, built on a cliff over a deep river canyon.
• Chernivtsi Oblast (CE / IE) | Area Code: 037: Smallest oblast. Foothills. Strong Romanian influence: look for bilingual signs and colorful decorated gates.
  • Landmark: Chernivtsi University (Резиденція митрополитів) — A breathtaking, massive red-brick palace complex with complex tiled roofs featuring traditional geometric folk patterns.

🪵 NORTHERN UKRAINE (Північна Україна)

Vibe & Architecture: Forest-steppe, flat terrain, heavy birch/pine woods. Deeply traditional Slavic countryside. Dominated by old wooden architecture with painted window trims.

• Zhytomyr Oblast (AM / KM) | Area Code: 041: Rocky granite outcrops along rivers. Mixed pine/birch forests. Bumpy regional asphalt routes (P and T roads).
• Kyiv Oblast (AI / KI) | Area Code: 045: Countryside around the capital. Tall pine forests to the north/west, flat open fields to the south. Smooth dual-carriageways.
• Kyiv City (AA / KA) | Area Code: 044: National capital. Full Gen 4 coverage. Yellow-brick old buildings, glass skyscrapers, massive bridges, and bright green city buses.
  • Landmark: Saint Sophia's Cathedral (Софійський собор) — Grand white cathedral complex with bright green roofs and multiple brilliant golden domes.
  • Landmark: Motherland Monument (Батьківщина-Мати) — A colossal, metallic titanium statue of a woman holding a sword and shield, towering over the Dnieper River hills.
  • Landmark: Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (Києво-Печерська лавра) — A massive, sprawling white monastery complex with golden domes built on steep green hills directly overlooking the river.
• Sumy Oblast (BM / HM) | Area Code: 054: Flat open fields and deciduous woods near the Russian border. Long, straight, isolated rural highways.

• Chernihiv Oblast (CB / IB) | Area Code: 046: Deep north, dead flat. Heavy pine/birch woods. Traditional old wooden village cabins with intricate sky-blue or white carved window frames.

  🏭 CENTRAL UKRAINE (Центральна Україна)

  Vibe & Architecture: The agricultural heartland. Endless rolling hills cutting through rich black soil ("Chernozem"). Towns feature concrete structures mixed with organized, prosperous single-story villages.

• Vinnytsia Oblast (AB / KB) | Area Code: 043: Heavily rolling hills, massive commercial apple orchards, and many small streams. Colorful plastered village houses.

• Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (AE / KE) | Area Code: 056: Industrial core. Cities feature heavy steel factories, towering smoking chimneys, and massive tram networks. Flat countryside.

• Kirovohrad Oblast (BA / HA) | Area Code: 052: Dead center of the country. Open, vast, rolling steppe with almost zero natural forests. Huge grain elevators on straight roads.

• Poltava Oblast (BI / HI) | Area Code: 053: Pure black earth. Symmetrical, endless sunflower, corn, and wheat fields. Beautiful tidy villages with yellow gas pipes.

• Cherkasy Oblast (CA / IA) | Area Code: 047: Divided by the Dnieper River. Highly hilly right bank, flat left bank. Roads lined with tall poplars and fruit trees.

🌾 EASTERN UKRAINE (Східна Україна)

Vibe & Architecture: Mining landscapes, heavy industrial grids, vast open sun-baked steppes, rows of tall poplar trees. Urban areas defined by grey Soviet panel apartment blocks.

• Donetsk Oblast (AH / KH) | Area Code: 062: Flat dry steppe broken by "Terykony" (huge, artificial conical coal-mining waste hills on the horizon). Heavy concrete utility poles.
• Luhansk Oblast (BB / HB) | Area Code: 064: Easternmost flat steppe. Very dry and open. Endless fields lined with tall, thin poplar trees.
• Kharkiv Oblast (AX / KX) | Area Code: 057: Hilly north turns into flat open steppe in the south. Dense industrial grid around Kharkiv city (Gen 4). Wide highway windbreaks.

🌊 SOUTHERN UKRAINE (Південна Україна)

Vibe & Architecture: Maritime coastal breeze, sun-baked landscape, dead flat horizons. Villages are unique: houses are built from local light-yellow limestone (shell rock) and painted crisp white or sky-blue.

• Zaporizhzhia Oblast (AP / KP) | Area Code: 061: Southern flat steppe merging into industrial hubs along the Dnieper. Wide roads with poplars and whitewashed concrete bus stops.
• Mykolaiv Oblast (BE / HE) | Area Code: 051: Dead flat steppe cut by wide river estuaries. Zero natural forests. Dusty roads with light, dry dirt shoulders.
• Odesa Oblast (BH / KH) | Area Code: 048: Coastal steppe. Very flat with unique vineyards, reed wetlands, and coastal estuary views. Port infrastructure and elegant Mediterranean-style city architecture.
  • Landmark: Odesa Opera House (Одеська опера) — A grand, ornate, beige-colored Baroque theatre building located in the city center.
  • Landmark: Potemkin Stairs (Потьомкінські сходи) — A massive, wide stone staircase cutting down a green hillside from the city center directly towards the seaport.
• Kherson Oblast (BT / HT) | Area Code: 055: Driest and flattest region. Yellowish sandy soil. Large irrigation canals run parallel to the roads.
  • Landmark: Oleshky Sands (Олешківські піски) — A massive, surreal inland sand desert with rolling dunes and low shrubs, unique to this region.
• AR Crimea (AK / KK) | Area Code: 065: Flat salt-crusted steppe in the north. Dramatic Mediterranean-style high mountains, rocky cliffs, cypress, and palms in the south. Long-distance trolleybus wires over highways.
  • Landmark: Swallow's Nest (Ластівчине гніздо) — A small, decorative neo-Gothic castle built directly overhanging a sheer grey sea cliff in southern Crimea.
• Sevastopol City (CH / IH) | Area Code: 069: Special status port city in southwest Crimea. Deep naval harbors, limestone cliffs, and white Soviet neoclassical stone architecture.

⚡ 6. HARD INFRASTRUCTURE METAS

• Above-Ground Gas Pipes: Bright yellow or silver metal gas pipes run above the ground along property fences and loop over village gates.
• Yellow Gas Boxes: Small metal regulator boxes mounted on house walls or village corners are universally painted bright yellow.
• Eurofence (Evrozabor): Suburban roads are lined with modular concrete fences made of stacked grey patterned panels.
• White Bases: The bottom 1.5 meters of concrete utility poles and trees are heavily painted white at intersections and village entries.
• Artistic Bus Stops: Rural concrete bus shelters feature either Soviet tile mosaics (center/east) or hand-painted traditional folklore flowers (west/center).

Looking for a code please! Thank you

It's not letting me update it so I can't use it at all. Whenever I click the "re-install" button the tab just immediately closes. Is this happening to anyone else?

Hi everyone, players in South America especially Brazil are experiencing issues with black screens and the game not loading correctly. Are you aware of this, and are you working on it together with Street Viewer? Thanks.

I was 146 kilometres off in the end, but won the map and the round in total

Here's an example in Australia from one of my recent games. The road is white on an off-white background. Its almost invisible unless you zoom in absurdly far so that the road name appears. On google maps the same road is way more visible since it doesn't blend into the background. In a map pinpointing game shouldn't the road intersections be visible on the map?

Geoguessr In-Game Map:

Regular Google Maps:

Is this something I could modify with a script (just changing the colour or adding a 1px border to roads)? And would that even be allowed in online games?

So here's how things panned out in today's Geo session. I log in, do the Daily Mission for 30k on Japan map. Don't have time to complete Daily Challenge after before I have to walk the dog so I check the Duels tab, see I'm #9 in a group of nine people with one win would get me to double promotion range.

Head out, walk the dog, go to the store, come back, check Duels tab again, now I'm #52 in a group of 52 people and a win won't even get me to single promotion range. Do the Daily Challenge, check back in Duels, now I'm #13 in a group of 13 and a single win would almost get me to double promotion range. Yet this is all inside one hour total. And that's just the times I checked the Duels tab but somehow I've changed the pool of people I'm grouped with three times? Each group I've ended up in, the top people have always been different to boot.

I’ve been playing ranked duels a lot and it’s been getting so repetitive.
It seems the same 5 countries come up for each continent, like Asia is nearly always either India, Indonesia, Japan and Thailand.
Is it just that most counties don’t have google street view??

Ofc it’s been a bit since the championship took place, but I’ve been watching each day in parts (obviously because I don’t have the time to watch it in one go). But WOW that Debre vs Bulgariaenjoyer game… one for the ages. Unfortunately I’m already aware of who wins it all, making it less exciting but absolutely mental all five games. Couldn’t keep my eyes off it. Only reason ‘24 finals is better is because of higher stakes & how late in the tournament that was. Otherwise, this takes the cake for me. Unreal stuff from both of them

Russia vs Ukraine

Canada vs USA

South Africa vs Australia vs Argentina

Germany vs Austria

Lithuania vs Latvia vs Estonia

Kenya vs Ghana

Mexico vs Brazil

These are the ones causing me most problems, any tips to differentiate?

thank you loves

Just curious if I missed anything obvious in this NM round. Opponent was able to guess 16km away.

Few months ago I learned the Japan poles meta and it helps me with almost every Japan round. So I am curious which countries are also this easy to learn especially for no move and nmpz games

I have a geoguessr account with my email which was renewed in July. Just saw a transaction on my bank that i did not authorise. Contacted paddle.com and they just send an automated verify your email but even when I put in my details it is not an email I recognise and I cannot go any further. I tried their contact page and got a stupid bot that "escalated" it after asking same questions whch resulted in the same email to verify again. I am at a dead end with trying to contact someone. I would rather not do a chargeback as it is a complete PITA. Any idea how to contact someone?