Why Is Brazil Geoguessr's Most HATED Country!? Time To Improve 

Part 2 is here!! Better guesses and better Portuguese pronunciation :)) Watch it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wCNzHACIDxU.html

I'm brazilian, and it's fun to see you getting this knowledge about Brazil, but I think it's annoying how the game 90% of the time puts you in the middle of a road without nothing around, just trees and soil. Brazil has a lot of huge cities and little villages, a lot of rivers and lakes all over the country, bridges etc, they should put more diverse locations in the game.

the problem with brazilian maps in Geoguessr is that almost every time you get a road in the middle of the country with basically no hint. they seriously need to change this! Brazil is a massive country for sure - one of the biggest in the world - but you don't get this type of place in the US, for example, in the game.....

Brazilian here with another tip: Lots of cities/places have their names after the rivers that cross them. On 12:10, you had a sign with a city name "Lagos do Iguaçu" - Iguaçu is an important river that crosses Paraná. Get to know the big rivers, it will help you a lot! Also, great guesses! You are doing way better than me, when it comes to my own country 😅

it's so frustrating how 90% of the rounds in the the brazilian map are in the middle of nowhere 😵‍💫

Maybe another tip, from a Brazilian here, big cities actually look like big cities, lots of buildings, cars, traffic and such. I noticed that you tend to click near big cities, but it usually isn't ;)

I work at the Brazilian national geography Institute, it's quite funny how you guys are able to get many hard things right, and easy things wrong. But something that appears odd to me, is that that it doesn't seems quite random enough, it's like the system (or the person who gave the data), is making hard choices by intent. Like, great part of the places are geographic exceptions on its area, like, you have to know at the "municipal" scale that the exact area there doesn't match the average perception of the area, it doesn't seems that fair with outsiders in comparison of what I've seen on other countries. For example, 12:35 is exactly at my city and i would've never guessed if i never had visted that exact place before, is a sparsely populated district that only there such rock formations are visible, and you told that you've seen this geography before at the same place roughly speaking, it sounds hard on intent because the area around the city is huge, and mostly plain (the name campos dos goytacazes means "plains belonging to the waitaka natives"), so why the only coordinates that are showing are those exceptions? Strange... But my tips are, if you are alone in a highway, pay attention to the paint on the floor, number of lanes, (to know if it is a small, medium, interstate or national highway), overall maintenance also are a good indicative of its placing (north or south, close to a big center or far away), as told, the soil alone will never get you anywhere. Talking about cities, grid patterns, pavement, overall condition... It never matters, the difference between rich and poor neighborhoods are so huge that in the same city you can get rural "forest type", rural "arid type", "small city vibes" neighborhoods, slums, high end and business districts, what will always help you are weather, public transportation, and other small things that with practice you'll able to get. Well, I hope I could help by a little here, sorry for my bad English, any subsequent doubts just ask me!

I think the reason its so hard is because for some reason they always just put you in some random road or tiny city, I swear I've never seen someone get say a street in São Paulo or near some landmark. Wish they'd tweak the chances a bit more since it'd probably highlight the cultural variety in my country much more.

a hint to you, pay attention to the abbreviation of the states like "MG" ,"MS", "SP", etc. In the guess that was in Mato Grosso do Sul, on the barn was writed "MS", that in fact is abbreviation of the respectively state.

"Isso com certeza é Goiás!" Moretto, Nilce

Bizarro como ele cai 20x perto de Manaus mas não cai nenhuma vez em São Paulo ou no Rio Grande do Sul...

In 27:57, the "BRB" and that symbol represents Brasilia. The symbol is from Bank of Brasília.

Most people: Can't tell between north and southern Brazil Me: guess Cambodia for Brazil 😎👁👄👁

12:11 It says "Lagos do Iguacu". So the location was near some lakes near the Iguazú-Falls or at least at the Iguazú river

brazil is easy + ratio

In portuguese, every J and Gs followed by E and I are pronnounced the same way the S is on treasure. When G is followed by A, O or U, then it's the same as the G on god.

It's interesting to learn the states acronyms too, like on the 6:00 guess, if you paid more attention to the cellar, it said MS, which is Mato Grosso do Sul. It's definetly something to keep an eye on.

As a Brazilian, this is such a fun video to watch! You did much better than I would. I often can spot right on when it’s Brazil but pointing where is a whole different story. A tip for your pronunciation: when the vowel has an acute accent (á or í), that letter or the syllable it’s in is the strongest, the tonic syllable, so it’s pronounced like Para-NÁ, Piau-Í, Ama-PÁ. And in Bahia, H has no sound, so you just pronounce it like Ba-Í-a.

3:07 "sol" actually means sun south is "sul"

as a brazilian player, I always get confused between landscapes of the Amazon Northeast (Maranhao and Piauí) and Mato Grosso do Sul, because of the red soil

I love how you're saying "Consistently decent." and meanwhile, I'm like "Dang! You're so good! Those guesses are so close!" Good luck on the tournament!

3:10 without speaking Portuguese, porta do sol i suppose means literaly Door of the sun. Sol is the word in Spanish( and Portuguese I think) for sun and Porta is very similar to Puerta, which means door. Not so important but hey Really important to improve in Brazil, such a difficult country

Dude, as a Brazilian, I can say that you are very good at this. Our country is very varied and some distant regions can also be similar. I'm from Piauí, and a tip that I give you and I noticed your mistakes, is that even in the northeast region, some areas can be very green, leading to confuse with areas of more forest. The tip I give is the soil, if it seems harder and has green areas, it is usually northeast, if the soil is fluffy, or red, it is more possible to be in the midwest region, and if the soil is sandy with green areas , it is more possible to be from maranhão or northern region.

in that one at 15:38 (with the "amapa roof", but actually in Rio de Janeiro State) there was what seems to be a small salt field on the roadside. these are kinda caracteristic of northern Rio State. still, REALLY impressive job - as a Brazilian, I wouldnt get better results (apart from recognizing the "61" as Brasilia phone code, that was in a satellite city; and maybe being able to understand signs and public utilities acronyms). and its really frustrating that they insist on middle of nowhere locations, which poorly represent Brazil

5:47 you can actually see 'MS' written on the wall of the building back there, that's Mato Grosso do Sul abbreviation. Also, the Centro-Oeste region has a lot of flat lands. I hope that helps!

I'm Brazilian and I like to play geoguesrr, and I can say that I have more difficulty finding a location within Brazil than in the whole world hahaha

Sempre estaremos onde tem Brasil.

Tip: almost always, the short form of government institutions name's ends with the shorts off the state where it is. My English is not that good so I will show you can example: 26:58 IDEPI (idk wtf it is but) ends with PI, it remembers me of Piauí state. It should help you. I just need to know the state names and their short forms. It's like NYPD (New York police department)

Brazil is really difficult even for brazilians! Love your content, good luck on tournment tomorrow! I'll play on Devens team, our brazilian goat hahah. This document is gold!

lol as a brazilian i was also pretty confuse...i didn't even know the grassland in Roraima,and the white sand beaches in Maranhão....i was super lost,good job lol greetings from brodowski - São Paulo

28:10 the big structure there is a soybean or corn processing plant, these are mostly in the center-west(Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Goiás) or Tocantins(in the north).

Definitely do other large countries like Russia or USA. It's so entertaining and helps us all to improve at region-guessing.

I'm so mad at Geoguessr because they always put you in some random location in the middle of nowhere and it gives the wrong impression for foreigners that Brazil is only a rural country with red dirt roads and ugly houses. Brazil is much more than that. I don't know why this happens and they need to fix this ASAP. Please do more Brazilian rounds, nobody seems to care about our country in the geoguessr community. There are places in Brazil that looks just like Australia, Switzerland, Italy, Japan, even Maldives, it's so frustrating geoguessr keeps putting those ugly middle of nowhere 500km far from the nearest human locations!

eu não chamaria isso que arquitetura, é so o que o pedreiro conseguiu fazer mesmo

wow! even I had a hard time guessing these and i'm brazilian, you're pretty much on point with a lot of these! Brazil can be a very diverse and random place

Hint.. the state of the roads is a great indication of what region of Brazil you are. The other is the color of the soil (Red is in the south plateao region (not litoral) sand colored is litoral, more yellowish is northeast. Dark colored ground is north (but you will get very few pictures there due to a lot of territory there not having been mapped in street view). There are some exceptions but when you have no other clues in a simple road picture it helps a lot.

Yep, I'm Brazillian and can confirm, it's the hardest... you get pretty much any style of city in all states, and both dryer and wetter parts on most states...

i love to listen you pronounce the names of some states completely wrong and some perfectly, it gives me life fr

Can we at least point out that you had a streak of 32 at the end? That's really impressive dude!

27:59 there was a BRB wrote. BRB stands for Brasilia Bank. Some abbreviations could help you

I would enjoy this kind of video for other country as well. Playing a country map is helpful to improve your precison within the country, but also it gives you more ideas of what the country looks like to recognize it from others. I would like to see France for example that I often recognize but get it very far from the location (even if it is way smaller than Brazil).

Unless you end up in a city or in a specific regional bioma (wetland near Paraguay, semi-arid in countryside Northeast) most of Brazil is highland fields and they get very similar. Of course the game isn't likely to put you inside the rainforest because there will be almost no roads. We can only guess in most situations really by paying attention to phone numbers and road signs.

I'm brazillian and it was really fun to watch this. There were many places I wrong guessed too 😆 Congrats for trying to pronunciate the names of the states and cities, you got most of them right.

This map needs to be updated for the present, because many routes shown in the video have evolved and because of that new cities have emerged, in addition these routes are located in fields and places where housing not.

Wow, ur really good! I’m Brazilian myself and I would never be that accurate, it’s insane with all those random roads.

Ele tentando entender a lógica dos DDDs sendo que nem a gente que é brasileiro sabe kkkk

I feel like every location they took for him could be in my city. I live in São Pauto State, next to the borderline between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro

brazil is hard because they always get a location on the middle of nowhere with a lot of green. i would have performed poorly on this game and I am brazilian lol

I learned more about Brazil with this dude than my whole life in school

5:46 if you zoom in in that storage, you could read the initials MS that is from Mato grosso do Sul

We have a thing called "mares de morros", meaning "hill sea" in the litorall specially São Paulo and southern Minas Gerais, very wavy and green landscape with dark red soil

I love this sm! I was rooting for you the entire time and the effort you put in was great! As a Brazilian, I wouldn't have done better myself! (I love geography but havent played a lot of geoguessr, seems difficult)

As a brazilian I can say it's very entertaining seeing how much more than me you know about the country :') yeah I know it's cause you''ve been "studying" this a lot but still! If I got one or two right it was too many already. And like some other people I thought that the sceneries being mainly composed of roads in the middle of nowhere was meh, but thinking about it since it's a big country, makes sense that roads would compromise most of the locations shown since there's lots of them between cities

A good tip for you is that at the beginning, when you clicked in Mato Grosso do Sul, the soil was red, like really really red, the reddest ever. The junction of north of Paraná, southwest of São Paulo and south of Mato Grosso do Sul is known for having this really red soil. In fact, here in Paraná we call people who are born in this region “pé vermelho” or “red footed” because it’s pretty much impossible for you to walk around the region without getting your shoes or feet completely red because of the dirt.

I have been waiting for this video, very nice to finally see it

your pt-br reading is good, understandable

What sells a lot of these locations is the vegetation and the soil, but mostly the vegetation is a huge clue.

do more, this was very fun to watch

I can confirm that whenever I get Brazil I often don't differentiate more than North/South

As a Brazilian it’s funny to see how many times he missed obvious clues… and sometimes he was able to find the correct place with absolutely no clues.

13:30 this type of palm is mostly common in maranhão, there's literally a sub biome of palms here called "mata dos cocais"

Your guesses were really good! I'm brazilian and I was trying to guess where were those places at the first 5 minutes of the video but you demolished me hahaha. Congrats!

As a Brazilian i was really surprised when you got close, because i had no idea LOL. Geo guesser puts you in the middle of nowhere for some reason,really surprising you got them right!

Brazil does seem like a super hard country to differentiate from, I definitely wouldn't have your luck! hopefully this training helps you with the tournament this weekend!

Ur honestly so fucking cool for giving us the doc

in the mato grosso do sul one there was a barn with huge MS written out, you could have gotten that one!

I started playing GeoGuessr but only in Brazil and São Paulo where I live, it's so much fun when so many places are familiar and I can instantly guess where they are by little details .

16:29 the logo on top of the sign says 'caesb', it's the water distributor in DF (federal district)

21:45 this road looks exactly like the landscape picture for amapa in the doc. In fact, it looked so similar that I looked and it definitely could be the exact same road lol

As other have pointed out the initialism (?) of the name of the state is featured on that barn/factory. It is common for businesses to put the name of the state somewhere in their name. in Minas Gerais (pronounced like "Minas Jerais" according to the google lady) it's common to put the suffix "mig" in some busineses

on the second try u saw a sign writen "balneáreo" usually is someone near the beach, because it is a word related to baths. Sometimes it is rivers/lakes. Usually beaches

I live in brasilia and i could tell when it was brasilia when there were telephones with 61 and when it showed BRB sign, thats a Federal district bank, they mainly have those in the federal district area with some exceptions!

I’m from Minas Gerais. My city is Ipatinga. It is located in the steel valley Your video is very good Gastei todo meu inglês aqui. Kk

01:39 Dude wtf I live in this city. I drive on this very road on my way to work. I've never been so spooked by a video before.

Your guesses are better than some people I know who live here in Brazil.

A tip that can make your guesses better. Sometime ur in somewhere that is a small town, lot's of vegetation. And you guess like Huge metropoles ( 5:20 is an example) Maybe it's a geoguesser meta thing. But to a brazilian it's ludicrous lol. Geography is a big part too for guessing those roads in the middle of nowhere, some of them you can get a good guess just by seeing the vegetation, the terrain and even the rocks.

Man you are good, I’ve been in almost every state and you will beat me every time.

I always do badly in Brazil, and South America as a whole, I can never work out which country it is or where I am in those countries

You should do games in the states of Brazil so you can see what is similar to each state

12:10 if you can remember of the famous touristic point waterfalls of the Iguaçu you get this one for free

I’m from Cuiabá and I watched your video on a Friday night! Cheers!! 😁😁

A tip about minas gerais: it rarely has long straight roads like that first one. The whole state is full of mountains and hills.

One thing I like to use for reference and didn't see you doing is satellite dishes. Places close to the equator have their satellite antennas pointed almos straight up, as opposed to places further north or south. This is because these satellites are geostationary and need to be exactly over the equator.

my tip for clearing the maranhão doubt is to check the roads, most often times the roads in maranhão aren't in the best shape

I'd like to see you do this for Russia as well! Could definitely be fun

esse cara fez toda uma pesquisa hahaha muito bom

As a Brazilian I got a bit annoyed with Brazil in Geoguesser like they usually show north and northeast of the country, it's the less populated area and the most poor so it gives the impression that Brazil is only that... what's not true at all we have a lot of really good cities but they never show that

5:47 the "MS" written there was a giveaway 11:51 you can barely see an "AP" to show how two letters not necessarily mean an abbreviation 18:20 "GG" memorizing all state abbrev would rule out "GG" as a state 26:39 you can barely see the zip code (CEP) starting with 77 and at the end you can see the "TO" abbrev

I don't know if gonna see this comment, but just a hint: in this sign in 16:28, there is a name "CAESB" . It's the name of the Brasília's water and basic sanitation company. So if see this name again, for you are in Distrito Federal (DF) region.

When I'm playing I usually look at the names of the stores. One thing I noticed is that it's really common for stores to put the name of the city in the logo. I hope it helps!

The red soil is mostly found in the states of Mato Grosso do Sul (MS), Mato Grosso (MT), Goias (GO) and the north west of Parana (PR). Mostly on the central west of the country

16:32 from what i can read it says "manancia protection area (DO NOT DESTROY NATURE)"

As a Brazilian, most of those images could be literally any where...!! We have a loooot of roads, so, no wonder most of the images are just random nowhere roads. So, it is really surprising how much you got right! Congratz

Mate, I'm Brazilian and have no clue about where these pics may be. They choose stuff that is too generic and can be basically anywhere. You certainly did it better than I could... cheers!

Btw, when you see an H in portuguese it's either completely silent (Like is Bahia) or it makes a completely different sounds because of the consonant preceding it. When you see a "lh" the sound is the same as "ll" in spanish (as in quesadilla) and when you see a "nh" the sounds is the same as a "ñ" in spanish (as in piñata). When you se a "ão" the sound is similar to "aum". It's confusing because those combinations sound like entirely different letters and most of those sounds don't really exist in english.

The funny thing is, a lot of the landscape of the north of the country can also be seen in the countryside of São Paulo, some places in the video seemed really similar to the landscape I'm used to see in the countryside of São Paulo

6:24 I saw the eucalypt plantations and that red dust from the soil I knew instantly it was my state XD

No brasil sem andar é praticamente impossível. Eu consegui muito boas aproximações (acertando menos de 10km), mas só fazendo literalmente uma procissão de 10km por uma estrada reta de terra até achar alguma placa ou algo que dê uma dica kkkkkkkk.. Quase tudo é no meio do nada, literalmente só mato e terra. Fica impossível sem dar uma boa caminhada kkkkkk

I'm Brazilian and you got good reads of the map in the middle of nowhere. I'm surprised, good job!

I'm weirdly entertained by this man guessing places in my country that I have no clue where they are