when looking at road signs in norway, prob sweden also, you need to look at if the line around is full or dotted ig. if full youre on the road, and if not, then you are driving towards it.
The two languages on some of the signs are Norwegian and Sami. The Sami is a minority group living in the far north of Norway. They used to be known as Finns or Lapps, thereby the name Finnmark.
Just so you know Fennoscandia is Norway,Sweden and Finland Scandinavia is Norway,Sweden and Denmark (there all monarchies.) The Nordics are Iceland,Norway,Sweden,Denamrk and finland. (Färö islands and Åland) Hope it helps
Last one was kinda funny considering the name Finnmark comes from the old Norwegian name for the Sami people and the 2nd language on the signs are also Sami, the Sami are the indigenous people of northern Scandinavia. So there was actually no relation to Finland, but luckily it ended up helping you out anyways since the location was right next to the border with Finland anyways.
There is actually a kind of relation to Finland: Sámi people were called "Finns" in Scandinavia at least partly because the Sámi languages are Finno-Ugric, the same reason Tornedalians were also called "Finns" (speaking another Finno-Ugric language, Meankäli). Not an especially good reason obviously, but still. :)
As a Swede who has been to Norway quite a bit I struggled with this map aswell because of how diverse Norway is A lot of the cities look so similar Same can be said for here in Sweden Greetings from Sweden
Well played, but that last round in Vadsø was a little painful because the town name was visible from the first seconds :D Finnmark is the northernmost region (fylke) of Norway. Basically the whole area which is north from Finland. 5:20 that dashed border line means that you're not on that exact road but heading to it. A solid line would mean that it is that exact road. The same system is at least in all Nordic countries and some other European countries too.
yea and you saw the sign for vadsø videregående skole aka Vadsø high school from the start aswell. but I understand that its hard when you don't know the language. but a tip for later if you see videregående skole on a sign again :)
This is great advice but you have to make sure you're in Norway as Sweden also use the word Finnmark but to refer to heavily forested towns in Dalarna in south/central Sweden
Another tip, the white on green road number signs are national roads and have unique numbers. The black on white signs are county roads, and are a bit more messy. Depending on the age of the street view images, they may have numbers which are duplicated in several other counties. This was changed in 2019, and most if not all county roads now have unique numbers that could go up to four digits.
fun fact, if you're ever able to see the license plates on the cars, the first letter on it (unless it's a custom one, or one that starts with E, since E just means that it's electric) indicates which part of the country it was registered in. A is eastern Norway, and Z is northern Norway. (S is around Bergen iirc, but there is someone in northern Norway selling ZZ signs that people in that area often buy since apparently they don't want signs saying SV on it, since that is a political party.)
i might be good at geoguesser but then again i did use google maps i dont have geoguesser, but i was looking for litldalen, and i found a town nearby and i placed my guy down EXACTLY where you started there
I have usually been very unlucky when doing Geo Guessr in Norway. Though I did once get a location close to where I live, and another time I got a location right next to the football stadium of my favorite team.
On the forst one i wa slike that could be the road twoards harstad (i drive there often) then i saw the speed camera thingy and i knew it, i have driven here many times as i live not to far away😂😅
if you have a broken line around the road the number means that, that this road leads to the road with nnumber (E 39) Its not the number or name of this road.
