Geoguessr: Interesting Photospheres in Obscure Countries #4 [PLAY ALONG] 

The fact that Tom still wants to trust the compass on photospheres cracks me up

Kwibuka means 'to remember' and describes the annual commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Another classic intro. For years I've been wondering what size plectrum you prefer. Thank you GeoWizard.

"Tom?" "Yeah?" "Shut the f*ck up" Cracked me up so hard

7:04 Tom "Howdy!!" Also Tom: "Fuck you" LMFAO I absolutely died laughing at that part

4:59 this hilarious little conversation he had with himself had me absolutely rolling- love this guy lmao

Those vehicles are likely for the fire brigade demonstrations as they're on their property xD One car has been opened by the jaws of life, the other burned.

Curacao has street view footage and, to remind, this map doesn't have countries with official Google footage. Similar thing applies to Hong Kong

“Kwibuka” means “to remember”, and 25 is for the years since. Cheers.

My best round was the Rwanda one, only because I have stood in that exact spot on two separate occasions. Great video Tom.

Thanks for playing my map again, Tom! You got some good rounds - I know you can get a perfect score on this map eventually!

28:07 "kabouterbos sound like an old language" it literally translates to "gnome forest" which is pretty funny

Knowing it was the Rwandan flag made that last round so tense

Kigali really threw off Tom and I was rooting hard for him to get it right & almost screaming my screen. Anyway, the street maps on Geoguessr for Africa are mostly outdated by about 15 years and those places look completely different today so keep this in mind when playing photospheres. Also Kigali is a bit of a smaller city in just East Africa alone so don't write off African cities based on skylines...you'll be surprised.

The Only way you got Tibet round right is by knowing either the Chinese or Japanese language and knowing the word “西藏” means "Tibet" 14:58, otherwise, it would be difficult. It is easy to tell it is somewhere in China due to the mandatory front and back blue plate with the white font (and only blue unless a special purpose vehicle), It consists of a Chinese letter upfront, with a Latin letter ( And if the letter is A means most important city in the region indicated by the Chinese letter province abbr., B is the second-largest city in that province, etc), then a White dot and then follow either number or Latin letter combinations. This plate is very different than Japanese (you could search for Japanese license plates and Korean and Taiwan etc, it is very hard to confuse with any other Asian pacific countries.) Other hints may be a typical 3 flag pole (if you see big flag poles, it almost has to be three in China, one for the national flag, one for CCP, and one for whatever you intended to hang (for instance the flag for the hotel). If no the two mandatory flags hanging, you are likely to be getting into unwanted trouble by just hanging the hotel flag. Other hints may be the mandatory "green (and green only) color of construction protective sheet" in China. That Tibet in is actually a getable location for Chinese or Japanese, but only because we can read the letter Tibet follow by the letter A next to it, then it has to be somewhere in Lhasa.

If you go frame by frame around 17:49 during the zooming out, you can see a glimpse of St. Regis across the big orange road.

I find it hilarious that the game keeps the highscore for you, but Toms checks his previous video :D

The burnt out cars are most likely training cars for the fire station. Great viddy as always.

I love how Tom apologizes that he hasn't upload in two weeks, Tom... Your training to dribble a ball across the Uk it's fine.

It never gets old how mildly surprised Tom is that he is in fact recording.

For the Tibet round, the characters on the bus actually give way the clue: "西藏“ means Tibet. And Lhasa is pretty damn popular tourist place.

I went to that very musuem - it was so sad and moving. I had the great pleasure of visiting Rwanda with my job about 10 years ago. My main memory of Rwanda was the joy in the faces of all the children I encountered there. The adults carried a wistful sadness, but it really felt like a country that is focused on making the best of the present and future rather than living in the pain of the past.

Interesting to note: That Algerian round was the very same place you had last time. Just a couple dozen meters away. There might be several photospheres from each place.

That plectrum information is essential. Thank you for sharing this.

i guessed Bhutan for the third one and I was so glad. My theory was that the Chinese tour buses needed to take the tourists somewhere far away that wasn’t reachable by train, and it was also a nicer luxury hotel that could plausibly be in Bhutan I guess. The mountains also helped my case haha

Zoomed in to Beijing and immediately found a St. Regis hotel, in like 3 seconds, in a 22 million city. At that point you couldn't convince me out of Beijing even if you sent me a postcard from Lhasa. :D

I like how you point out kabouterbos (gnomeforest in dutch) as if its an odd local language and then follow it up by pointing the mouse to the actual local language, papiamento.

I was not aware Rwanda had changed it's flag. I was still going around giving the trivia question "Which country is the only one to have the first letter of their name on their flag?".

I'd love to see you get a perfect score in this game mode but I'm pretty confident that won't happen until you learn your flags! Anyways, smashing video as always mate, best of luck on your Dribbling Britain adventure!

"There has been some real mixing or trading of land there." I always love the down to earth and of the cuff geopolitical / historical remarks Edit. Wrote this before the Rwanda debacle 😂

Tom, never change. You’re absolutely my favorite RU-vidr!

The classic catchphrase: "Are we recording?"

lmao the rwanda flag just staring at u the whole time on the last one was funny

imagine one day we see him check if he's recording and he actually isn't 💀

The cars near the fire station were probably used to practice rescues for the firemen. Love the videos and self commentary Tom

On the 3rd round there was two clues that you missed. 1. The sky was very blue so I ruled out eastern China. 2. There was two 4WD type vehicles (Land Cruiser) so I immediately thought probably Tibet or in that region.

kwibuka is the remembrance of the Genocide, so kwibuka 25 is the 25th honoring

Love ya Tom, so excited for your next mission!

Very much admire your compassion there, Tom. Kudos.

Fair play Tom. I prefer 0.88 millermeters so respect for being a thick boy. Skinny plectrums are for children. 💪

Tom! I thought of an idea, it would be really funny if you played Geoguessr with verity blindfolded and had Verity explain what she sees for you to guess!

Your Rwanda mishap let me back in the door after I went Syria in round 2 (the temple looked more Hellenistic than Roman), came out with 17,762! In better news, I've been working on a new map for weeks with quality, accurately-compassed photospheres and carefully-chosen street view rounds in every single country, I'll let you know when I'm finally done.

You do not have to apologize for anything because your videos are always amazing and fun to watch.

I enjoy these a lot! Keep 'em coming! Round 1 - Knew this was Suriname by the flag and .sr clue straight away. I am native in Dutch so I could read all the text on the 'Lelydorp Villa' sign on the house. The address of the place was actually on there. It said 'Ta ... {something something} ... weg', with 'weg' meaning 'road'. So I went looking for that in Lelydorp, and found 'Tawajari weg', with a police station on it. I figured the police station was probably the same as the firefighter's station in this small of a place, so I went for the house just left of it on the road that would make sense with the layout of the buildings and roads. I also assumed the compass was wrong, because... well, why would it be right, I mean come on. 5000 points Round 2 - What on earth? '... in obscure countries', so I guess I'll go for an obscure country? Nothing to go off of here. Could be Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Iraq, Uzbekistan, Mongolia even? I took a wild guess and went Uzbekistan, zoomed in and clicked on the very first monument thing I could find. Well, I completely misjudged that, and for some reason I didn't even think of the Roman empire and algeria/tunisia. 241 points Round 3 - I think that's Chinese writing? I am not too informed on the differences between the older Japanese scripts and Mandarin. The English text next to the supposedly-Chinese text is throwing me off. Maybe Hong Kong? I considered Macao, but I don't think that's considered a country by many places, and I don't think that'll be right. I'll go just north of Hong Kong city. Ah yeah, cool. 1241 points Round 4 - Saw the Afghanistan flag instantly, so I'll go smack in the middle of Kabul. It looks kind of mountainous enough for it to be Kabul. Not like I care about 50 points more or less at this point, lol. And I'm not about to scan the entire country for 'Salik photography', no thanks. 4730 points, yep, that'll do Round 5 - I think that's the flag of Gabon? Shit, I've forgotten some international flags that I used to know by heart. I'm quite confident it might be Gabon. I'll have a search for 'Kwibuka' or something. The Gazprom logo to the left of the text is... odd, though... I'll go in the middle of Libreville, because I can't find anything better. The hills don't seem to make sense, nor does the fact that this place seems quite well-off, and I don't think Gabon is... It's also a little too tropical for my liking. OH WELL, LIBREVILLE IT IS 1338 points. Rwanda! Of course.... wait, what? Total = 12,550 points. ggwp

That is how thick I like my plectrums 😂

Still my favourite GeoGeussr RU-vid channel. Don't know where to start, but this has all the classic Tomisms that we love.

I’ve been playing more geoguesser lately and I cannot die the life of me get the scores you’re getting! You’re a true wizard

OMG I just clicked when it said 1 second ago haha

« Proper Osama Bin Laden territory » 😂🤣

8:22 it is labelled incorrectly, the house is just down the second left on the road where the location is tagged and the fire station is the building below the house on the map

I also love how Tom keeps his sneezes in the video 😂😂

Can't believe Tom didn't say thankyou after I said "Bless You" when he sneezed both times.

Damn, Tom was in quite the mood for this one 😂

just wanted to say that your videos make me really happy, love ya sm

I got 5,000 for the last round. Knew the flag, figured out the meaning of the number 25, then it was just a matter of finding the place. 17,837 in total. Great video, by the way!

Dude I was thinking an hour ago about how long it's been since the last upload, now we get a new upload 🤩

The Lhasa spot is in the wrong location. The St Regis is further south and is on Google Maps.

Thank you for the important piece of knowledge about how you like your plectrons

I cannot believe how well you did. Outstanding.

I first learned that Suriname used to be a Dutch dependency when I heard back in the 80s that Dutch 100-metre sprinter goddess Nelli Cooman was born in Suriname. Which also reveals how old I am ;)

Dont trust compass on photospheres Tom! If you upload coverage you can't tell the compass direction there, so it is random.

I wish you blessings for your challenge! Good Luck my man

It's so easy to forget that this lanky dork is a straight line god. I could not do what he does, yet he's still so humble and funny. What a legend

"Kabouterbos.. definitely some old language that still got an influence here" It's actually perfectly modern Dutch. :) Kabouter = gnome, bos = forest. But yeah, kabouter doesn't sound very Germanic. Nothing indigenous in any case. The Dutch nicked the island from the Spanish in 1634.

I didn't know it was Rwanda specifically, but I was very confident that it was in Africa based just on the Kwibuka word.

''You've made an effort. At some point. A few years ago'' hilarious

good to see ya back

Why would you delete your browser's search history, Tom?

11:45 Next time Tom. Your best shot is always to look at the columns or sculptures/reliefs. In that way u know which part of the ancient time you are in and which country/civilization you are in. // Coming from an expert.

Love these videos:) you crack me up!

Good luck on the football challenge, cant wait to see the vids

I fkin die everytime at the music tom decides to choose for his timelapse clips

I got the last one mainly because my African history class in Uni paid off and I remembered the Rwandan flag. Also my wife has been to curaçao and would like you to know the correct pronunciation is Cur-a-sao 😅

Thank you for this proper challenging GeoGuessr video

Looks like those cars are used as training props for fireman to do extractions and put out fires. I've seen similar at airports with cutaway planes/helicopters near the fire stations. Love this channel btw. Found it at random a while back and have enjoyed it. You introduced me to this game as well.

Tom in the Lhasa round: We _are_ in China Tibetans: 🥲

The burnt out cars are for training the firefighters on how to rescue people from wrecks. They have some near my local firestation.

honestly tom, I dont think anyone cares how often you upload, we'd much rather a single good video every 2 weeks than a video of you stressing trying to fit in playing geoguessr everyday :)

Good to see another upload Tom! Always makes my day :) Well done on the Roman ruins; I was honestly thinking Syria or Iraq the whole time Also, St Regis is an international chain of hotels, like The Westin, The Hilton, Le Meridien, etc.

"Dutch.... Overseas territory" You mean like a colony?

10,710 pts I got extremely lucky with the first round. I went to suriname(from the .sr on the firetruck) and zoomed it on Lelydorp. 2. I guessed in Libya. 3. I thought maybe Taipei, 4. Maybe Uzbekistan, though I should have maybe backed off due to the lack of cyrillic and more latin characters. 5. I had no clue except South pacific.

“Tom. Yeah? Shut the fuck up. Okay.” best monologue i’ve ever heard

love your videos, you are my favourite geography channel

Haven't finished the video yet, but c'mon Tom, you need to know your flags. Maybe playing some sporcle in the channel? That's the Gabon flag right there in the last round. Hope you figure it out! Goddammit I got it confused with Rwanda. Turns out I have to study my flags too.

I am proud of myself for beating you in the Surinamese and Rwandan rounds. (:

Been waiting on this Tom

The green dunlop is the greatest pick ever, i love it, very versatile and stilysh!!

Photospheres are quite interesting because a lot of countries are not in the Street View so you never get them on normal maps. Do more!

The blue yellow and green flag is the Rwandan flag and I was screaming at my monitor lol.. That must hit hard. You'll get it next time Tom!!! Edit: you just checked it lol..

For number two, the easiest way to distinguish Greek from Roman architecture is when you see "brick and mortar" type of building. That tends to be Roman. The greeks did have brickwork, but the Romans integrated it much more in their architecture.

Beyond excited to see how this dribbling challenge goes!

id like to know how many times tom has started a video without pressing record, considering he seems to check every vid lol.

When Tom mentioned the guy's name on that Timgad round, I was really proud because I thought he was gonna point out it was a Maghrebi Arabic name. I died a little inside when he then said 'Mouad Boumoud' sounded distinctly Iranian (a notably non-arab country). Still a great video, apart from the Rwanda round 😬

great vid mate, would love to see more duels!!

I actually thought of Rwanda from the second I saw the flag. When I saw the big city on the hill I knew for certain that the answer was Kigali. I have looked in google street view a couple of times in Kigali, and it is actually quite a wealthy and hilly place!

How is china an obscure country lol

This upload just made my day.

i have the same green .88mm dunlop pick! love you tom!

That's the best ending to a video I've ever seen

Love your vids tom keep it up