Hello! I'm the one who created the map. It's so exciting to watch a pro player give it a go, thank you! It's replayable, just so you know, I spent quite some time selecting places haha

@jlt131

3 жыл бұрын

thanks! it was fun! and the first time i've ever beaten Tom at one of these! probably mostly by chance though :P

@piteoswaldo

3 жыл бұрын

When playing another time, I got a round that I'm certain was a 3D render, it was not a real place! It claims to be in the Palm Jumeirah in Dubai, but it's totally fake.

@rowanz74

3 жыл бұрын

yay!!! thank you for the system!!

@howdyhamster

3 жыл бұрын

@@piteoswaldo Was it a white and silver banquet hall with reflective surfaces everywhere but no reflection of a person or camera, and a black void for a ceiling?

@piteoswaldo

3 жыл бұрын

@@howdyhamster yeah, exactly that "place". Mirrors in every surface, all illuminated but not one light bulb in sight, no camera reflection, it looks like a very amateur videogame scene.

That intro is world class 😂😂

@AxxLAfriku

3 жыл бұрын

One thing! Just one thing! Please tell IT to me: WHY tf do I have so many fans even though no KZreadr is unprettier than I am? WORLDWIDE!!!! WHY??? Tell me, dear jon

@madalinaapostolescu3165

3 жыл бұрын

👍😂

@kharrison535

3 жыл бұрын

@@AxxLAfriku BEGONE SELF-PROMOTER!!! WE DONT LIKE YOUR KIND HERE

@simon.1st

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah.... that will do

@joeschmoe7866

3 жыл бұрын

@@AxxLAfriku i respect how many crap personal comments you make

On the Chinatown one, you'll never find tall buildings in Washington DC. There is a height restriction to preserve the views of the monuments.

@TheMemeBorrower.

3 жыл бұрын

That’s cool.

@TayTayVideoGaming

3 жыл бұрын

Also the fact that the eastern United States does not tend to have chinatowns, especially dc which is mostly just capital,political, law related stuff.

@301_Garage

3 жыл бұрын

@@TayTayVideoGaming there is a small China town in DC.

@cczsus6513

3 жыл бұрын

@@301_Garage You can't call China town China towns that aren't official for example the China town in NY isn't as big as the 8th ave Chinese population and size but the one in 8th ave isn't a China town. Even though non Chinese people call it a China town as far as I can tell we Chinese don't think it is a China town.

@301_Garage

3 жыл бұрын

@@cczsus6513 it’s pretty official. It even has its own metro stop. Look it up.

Omg the San Fran one is the first time I’ve ever had a better guess than Tom. I mean to be fair I’ve lived in the Bay Area for the past 12 years but still let me have this lol

@robertlampman5507

3 жыл бұрын

I saw that and said to myself oh, looks like San Francisco. Never been there in my life live on the east coast

@weirdfishes6

3 жыл бұрын

Yo Quadeca, I didn't know you were a GeoWizard fan. I can't wait for your album bro!

@girlcow

3 жыл бұрын

what a video to find quadeca on lmao

@PurplySkye

3 жыл бұрын

QUAD??

@micahkxio9321

3 жыл бұрын

QUADECA???

"Crucifixion... good" Quite a revolutionary idea you suddenly got Tom.

@andr3w2090

3 жыл бұрын

That's what I thought too haha!

@chrissanders1027

3 жыл бұрын

The full quote is “crucifixion good one cross each line on the left “ . Life of Brian

@robrophside3691

3 жыл бұрын

Always look on the bright side of life.

@simongood9460

3 жыл бұрын

The PFJ will be after you....

@dylanblack8714

3 жыл бұрын

@@robrophside3691 whistle*

GeoWizard sees a man on a roof: “I would not be standing in that position” Also GeoWizard: *crosses the Norwegian wilderness alone*

@ThePharphis

3 жыл бұрын

walks into a bog

@veryblocky

3 жыл бұрын

I was scrolling through comments, and read this just as he said it

@sara3916

3 жыл бұрын

Almost dies in a bog

@weakw1ll

3 жыл бұрын

The bog

@Tejvir7

3 жыл бұрын

Well that isn’t something he would do compared to something he would. Be more dumb’nt

I love that he can instantly tell what country sometimes out of learning the license plates alone, but has still yet to learn the difference between chinese/japanese/korean text which could help a ton in challenges such as these. Can spot a Ghana license plate from nearly orbit, but "A bit asian I think, definitely oriental" when met with a so-Japanese-it-hurts looking temple.

@SLDimarco

3 жыл бұрын

Yea, it isn't terribly difficult to tell the written languages apart, I was surprised he couldn't given everything else he seems to know.

@horizon3064

3 жыл бұрын

@@SLDimarco He definitely is able to tell a lot of not most Asian languages apart

@kamakiriad

3 жыл бұрын

@@horizon3064 Yeah if you're not sure about the specifics chinese and japanese can be hard to tell apart. Korean is way different tho, it's more shapey (compared to the other east asian languages)

@r3alityrjectna452

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I know for sure that he knows at least the difference between Korean and the other two, he’s mentioned “more circles” before, I think it’s just Chinese and Japanese that’s been struggled with in the past. Then again, China doesn’t have street view, but still.

@ev6558

2 жыл бұрын

@@r3alityrjectna452 Yeah that's pretty much the dead giveaway for Korean: it's somewhat square and blocky like Chinese but it has TONS of ovals which the others don't have. But the others aren't that hard either, like I said Chinese is very square and blocky whereas Japanese looks more "free-form". I don't speak any of the languages or have any major exposure to them irl, I feel like if you spend a bunch of time on the internet you encounter them enough that you can learn the difference.

**cross** Tom: “Crucifix... crucifixion” **the Virgin Mary** Tom: The Lord Our Savior

@FreeZeon1

2 жыл бұрын

Made me laugh

@CaptDF97

2 жыл бұрын

Even as a non-Christian, that part made me go "????" as well lmao

@Maxzes_

2 жыл бұрын

@@CaptDF97 ikr lol

Tip: Washington D.C. has no tall buildings. Law states the Capitol must be the tallest building in the district

@channelwithoutaname6244

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, the law is that buildings can only be a certain amount taller than the width of the street they are on.

@valeriavagapova

3 жыл бұрын

Really? That sounds very nice. Must be a nice city. Assuming "the capitol" is a small-ish building.

@kingchicken8232

3 жыл бұрын

The law actually has nothing to do with the height of the capitol. It's along the lines of "A building can't be more than 20 feet taller than the width of the street it faces".

@ImUppish

3 жыл бұрын

I feel like that’s not true. Maybe I’m wrong, but I’ve been to DC, and I’m pretty sure there are quite a few buildings taller than the Capitol. The Capitol is rather small

@soniab1023

3 жыл бұрын

@@ImUppish im from dc, the washington monument is the tallest, and everything else is short. im not sure what the actual rule is

"maybe we're in stoke-on-trent" "no, sun shining,...nice...no" lmao

@tinytimtam

3 жыл бұрын

nice pfp

@annie420xx

3 жыл бұрын

@@tinytimtam you too! love neutral milk hotel, although i prefer on avery island to in the aeroplane over the sea

@tinytimtam

3 жыл бұрын

@@annie420xx wow unbelievable 😠 jk love every island but aeroplane's so much better to me. Anyways it was pretty nice to see mbv on a geowizard vid, you could say it was "out of place"

@annie420xx

3 жыл бұрын

@@tinytimtam you got a lastfm or rateyourmusic? ill follow you

@tinytimtam

3 жыл бұрын

@@annie420xx TinyTimTam for both

‘I’m not sure what about this is supposed to throw me off.’ Uh, it’s a pyramid in Italy...

@supercips00

3 жыл бұрын

The first place is italian as hell the only thing is that pyramid but they are not inly in egypt 🤣

@wavetech_

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@murderboytje

3 жыл бұрын

With obviously Roman letters and everything being so clearly not Egyptian or whatever. So yeah...

@murderboytje

3 жыл бұрын

@@BlackLotusVisualArchive Lol no. Its just a tomb for a Roman guy (his name is on there).

@esoteridactyl

3 жыл бұрын

Tom overthinking things as usual lol

Oh my god, I never would've guessed to see my uncle's glasses storefront in Geoguessr!! Probably the first (and last time) I've beat GeoWizard's guess haha

@nicholashouse1613

3 жыл бұрын

Omg that’s crazy!

@JTheMelon

3 жыл бұрын

One night, my friend and I were playing Geoguessr. It was our first ever round after discovering the game on youtube. Literally, the first location was right next to our house. Spooked us quite a bit that night lmfao

@kx65andyx85rider

2 жыл бұрын

@@JTheMelon the odds of that are ridiculous that’s awesome

@angus3540

2 жыл бұрын

that is so cool.

19:46 "Got a black couple here.......TRASHHH" i was reading the comments and just heard that i was shook lmao

@marcos22216

3 жыл бұрын

lmao

@KarAtFeng

3 жыл бұрын

same hahaha

@georgerussell9118

3 жыл бұрын

haha that was unfortunate timing

@WTFtomahawks0

3 жыл бұрын

Omg LMAOOAOAO

@michaelpaul5043

3 жыл бұрын

I WAS READING THIS COMMENT WHEN I HEARD IT

“There’s all the tall buildings,” he says, pointing at the center of DC

@calebwitt4207

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I’m guessing he doesn’t know the whole “nothing can be taller than the Washington monument” thing, but if he did he would never have gone DC

@peterg644

3 жыл бұрын

@@calebwitt4207 Nah the height limit actually has to do with the width of the street its on

@annoyedgamer8847

2 жыл бұрын

Americans are so smarmy it’s cringe

I knew it was Goa the moment I saw the church Goa's a former Portuguese colony, they were Portuguese from the 1500s to annexation by India in 1961 so the Portuguese influence is quite strong

@User_-xx3fd

3 жыл бұрын

Ty for enlightening me Kim Jong-un. I'm happy you had time to educate the public in between war-crimes and genocide.

@noot_2

3 жыл бұрын

Foda-se Kim, gostei

@victorpujadasaltemir8747

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah portuguese churchs are pretty distinct

@krapnek1

3 жыл бұрын

That was the first time i had a better guess than Tom. I'm brazilian, so i can spot a portuguese-like church from miles hahahahah. That + indian looking people would give me a near 5k

@rogerwilco2

3 жыл бұрын

I thought Portuguese colony in India as well.

Love the content! You've become our regular breakfast entertainment, keep it up Tom!

@karthikbsrinivas9638

3 жыл бұрын

He has very very good content ngl

@knower1514

3 жыл бұрын

Gets a little bit more than what you can say about the game but I can’t think of anything else that would help you out with the other games

@justin.booth.

3 жыл бұрын

Didn't expect to see you here,

@tolga9388

3 жыл бұрын

Breakfast entertainment how? Like a clown?

@abinayaria5345

3 жыл бұрын

Whoa 😳 it’s nerdforge here✨

8:30 the map makes that place look like it's in a weird spot because google maps's coverage in China is distorted and the roads on the maps do not corrispond with the real ones

@DeronMeranda

3 жыл бұрын

The map can be off by about 1/4 mile in seemingly random directions in China. Maps in china are by law considered top national secrets and "cryptographically" distorted, and creating/possessing maps themselves can be illegal. And you thought Germany's blurriness was annoying. Read more at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_data_in_China

@seniorvenusdigital3904

3 жыл бұрын

@@DeronMeranda thanks bro

@erejnion

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, I was convinced it's near the sea too.

@codyau2729

3 жыл бұрын

Google maps actually accurate in Hong Kong tho. It’s only in mainland China that’s distorted.

@difoolgc5211

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, satellite photos are not shifted, so here it is, by the lake to the east of where it shows on Tom's map. There are four photos spheres there, atm. goo.gl/maps/djhyinQbGJyauGeo9

The reason the Theme Park in China probably didn’t add up to the map is because China has banned google from accurately mapping its roads, lakes, mountains, and most other features. So I’m sure the actual lake on the google maps in real life correlates to the shape of the lake on the billboard

@jamiemb17

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Phil

@Kevinevin1345

3 жыл бұрын

Well, the boards and so on all used simplified characters (as far as I can tell) so that it has to be China. But what made me think it is Taiwan were the blue "construction signs" (or rather propaganda / motivation signs, whatever it is called) in the background. You'll see a lot of them in China, not only on construction sites, also at Universities, bridges etc., and they're usually red (obviously). So that was confusing

@jaredf6205

3 жыл бұрын

It's required by the government that all mapping companies, even Chinese ones, randomly warp the map alignments.

@youtubecensorpolice9112

3 жыл бұрын

It seemed pretty accurately mapped to me. It's a newly budding lakeside residential area (according to the Chinese banner), and there was indeed a lake closeby on Google Maps.

@lemonofish869

3 жыл бұрын

It’s not a theme park. It’s a residential neighborhood called Hallstatt, and it’s an exact replica of Hallstatt, Austria.

The one in China is meant to look like Austrian town “Hallstatt“ kinda weird because they literally tried to rebuild it there

@owenfowler1685

3 жыл бұрын

I thought it looked like Hallstatt!

@Kancsuki

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you man! I was so confused why a Chinese stairway had a Hungarian writing on it :)

@nadiayorc

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, as soon as I saw the Chinese text and obvious alpine looking buildings I knew it had to be one of those weird Chinese recreations of a European town. Honestly kind of surprised that Tom hadn't heard of them before, there's quite a lot of them

@W0Ndr3y

2 жыл бұрын

Also one of the lines on the stairwell is in Czech. Kinda weird

@azathoth3700

Жыл бұрын

Coming into this map a year later, that round was annoying. The location was incorrect in Tom's map (the photo location is right next to that small lake visible near the marker) and is even MORE incorrect now! In fairness, it's only off by maybe a few hundred metres, but it's more than enough that a perfect score seems unlikely without cheating.

9:41 What a historical moment of this KZread channel.

@NikhilBlr

3 жыл бұрын

Lmaoooooo

@kbr7075

3 жыл бұрын

And don't forget the new intro🤣

20:39 “Fran- San- Fran Sancisco” 😂

@Dunkster23

3 жыл бұрын

“Mr Franman. Bring me some fran. make it the frandiest san”

Genuinely thought it was Stoke-on-Trent...

@67hutch

3 жыл бұрын

bruh

@ArchieStiglitz

3 жыл бұрын

I still believe it was

@Zalheide

3 жыл бұрын

i guessed Glasgow, oh god

@mattc3581

3 жыл бұрын

I couldn't get past half the chess pieces seem to have been stolen from the giant chess board, so could be Stoke-on-Trent.

@tidnid1869

3 жыл бұрын

@@mattc3581 yeah lol Stoke on Trent is a dump

"All of the writing is either in English, or... Asian" GJ with the language recognition :D

The fact that you recognize the hungarian language makes me so happy. Mad respect for you brother

"Yohoho and a bottle of rum... plestiltskin's... foreskin." Amazing.

@zetro8870

3 жыл бұрын

That will do.

@JonathanGiovannacci

3 жыл бұрын

Yohoho and a bottle of sake

@jonahs92

3 жыл бұрын

Foreskin 🥵😍

“Maybe we’re in Stoke-On-Trent..” 🤣

@WeirdSeagul

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Ludwig viewers

@wloffblizz

3 жыл бұрын

"No, sun shining, nice... no."

@PaulisInclusion

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kaiji... whats it like living by eddie hall

@NJH01

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kaiji... it was a joke because there’s a waterworld in Stoke

@fudgetable1

3 жыл бұрын

@@WeirdSeagul whats ludwig got to do with stoke on trent? 🤣🤣

Tom: “Chinese writing, Chinese people, sun shining” Also Tom: “Stoke-on-Trent?”

@LewWainwright

2 жыл бұрын

Thought the same😂😂

Tom, when you're in America you need to check around for manhole covers! The manhole covers often have a mark of the state and or city they're in

@ev6558

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like this is probably something you see more in really big cities that order a LOT of manhole covers and have huge tax budgets to get them personalized? Most of the ones I'm familiar with from working in municipal sewer and water will have, at the most, a designation for if they are "Storm" or "Sanitary" and perhaps the name and location of the foundry that made them but not the locale in which they end up.

@zengrath

2 жыл бұрын

probably going to be hard to read manhole covers unless your directly over top of them due to camera angles. And as last person said this is likely going to mostly be in larger cities that are customized like this.

In Italy, staring at a pyramid: “what is it that’s supposed to be throwing me off here?”

@andorpetrei663

3 жыл бұрын

I saw some latin on the side of it

@Chris.1812

3 жыл бұрын

@@andorpetrei663 true. I doubt anyone thought that was Egypt, but it should’ve been pretty obvious what part of the round was supposed to be the “misleading” bit

@andorpetrei663

3 жыл бұрын

@@Chris.1812 Yup, it was quite misleading, but everything looked italian to me except that weird license plate

@OliverJWeber

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, going for the very centre of Rome when you are clearly looking at a city gate... 🤪😂😷 ... and the pyramid could be a hint that the gate will be found to the south?

@arcanmster

3 жыл бұрын

@@Chris.1812 maybe that was an "out of place" one instead of "tricky" one

That church was in Goa, a place with heavy Portuguese colonial history and Christian missionaries.

@P3TARK

3 жыл бұрын

Also home of Goodfellas, one of world's best pizzas Shoutout to all youtubefrogs who understand the refference 👋🏻

@dmitriymakletsev7290

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting! As I've seen this church I thought that it looks really portuguese... there is something unique about it's architecture.

@kekmaster

3 жыл бұрын

@Het Modi It was Goa.

@nidhibhat6122

3 жыл бұрын

@@P3TARK yupp one of the restaurants from the chain goodfellas 👀

@wenderis

3 жыл бұрын

i guessed somewhere in Kerala where I thought the 'original Indian christian' reside in. So fixated, forgot to account the architecture of the church. Kerala's church should be more Indian I presume?

"Cesta Časem" and "Utazas Az Időben" in the China one are Czech and Hungarian, respectively In English, they mean something along the lines of travel in time/journey through time. It is modelled and named after Hallstatt in Austria

@PrettyGirlBuzz

3 жыл бұрын

The last line is in Russian and can confirm it means journey through time. :)

@_blank-_

3 жыл бұрын

This type of recreation shouldn't be allowed.

@Sparrow318

3 жыл бұрын

@@brvk9202 It's a replica of stairs to museum in Hallstatt, so it makes sense to have the czech language there.

@margaretkopretina

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sparrow318 hallstatt is in austria though lol and there's no german

@libor1990

2 жыл бұрын

@@margaretkopretina It must have something to do with Austria-Hungary empire.

Fun fact, buildings in Washington DC tend to be short due to building codes that restrict the building height relative to the width of the streets. That's why you don't see skyscrapers like in NYC there.

17:36 my grandad when i take him out of the house once a month for a walk in the town

@jamesdettmann94

3 жыл бұрын

19:45 as well lol

@benja1378

3 жыл бұрын

Racist...

@KayJay01

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesdettmann94 Oh my god that caught me by surprise. Totally didn't notice how bad that sounded when I watched the video.

@jumpvelocity3953

3 жыл бұрын

@@benja1378 damn you must be a blast at social gatherings. Also, Hindu is not a race.

@oddrocket5555

3 жыл бұрын

Lmaooo

Smooth intro

I laughed my ass off on that Huizhou, China one. Btw, there's an art school constructed like a Hogwarts castle near my hometown in Xinle county, Shijiazhuang, China, in the middle of nowhere. That one for sure would have thrown you off.

@sweetcandy233

2 жыл бұрын

The problem is, yeah there's almost no street view pictures in mainland. So what i thought is: the possibility that this photo is taken there is low. But yeah I can tell from the advertisement that it's in mainland but still have no idea where the exact location is lol.

@rich-tp2dx

Жыл бұрын

China is very well known for recreating worldwide monuments/landmarks within mainland China. Probably because most cities can't afford or aren't allowed to leave. Plus they like to pump their chest over being "the center of the world"

The China round was a funny one. This place is modelled after the small town of Hallstatt in Austria! They just rebuild it there :D and the whole story lead to lots of media reports here in Austria a couple of years ago.

@marinewauquier8630

3 жыл бұрын

it's been a trend for the last 10 years now, China's real estate moguls love to recreate european towns and cities in the middle of nowhere as a way to offer real estate invesment opportunity for the middle class and a way to get a taste of europe without leaving the country

@gianvh7834

3 жыл бұрын

I even knew about the place when I played it, but didn't know where in China it was so I just guessed Beijing cause it's the biggest city. And Tom wasn't even sure which country he was in and got twice as many points as me. Life can be unfair

"Yo ho ho and a bottle of rumplestillskin's foreskin" *w h a t*

@Cassxowary

3 жыл бұрын

Yo ho ho, and a bottle of rum (Pirates of the Caribbean) then segue’d into rumplestiltskin hah

@jonahs92

3 жыл бұрын

Foreskin 🥵😍

@User-be4fx

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonahs92 Shalom, Rabbi

@thebestone8872

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah that'll do

@weakw1ll

3 жыл бұрын

Thatll do

GeoWizard: can guess any country out of blurred out license plates also GeoWizard: can't tell chinese and japanese writing apart and just calls everything "oriental"

@Emily-sj4gl

3 жыл бұрын

yeaaaah its not great

@arto1245

3 жыл бұрын

he just acts like he couldn't possibly learn another word. what a dullard.

@jolliron

3 жыл бұрын

Are you Asian?

@thewesternsky

3 жыл бұрын

@@arto1245 that is what is so frustrating about it. he takes all this time to learn so many things, small details about places all over the world. he clearly knows it's the wrong word to use, but he just doesn't care. i really enjoy his videos, but each time he does that... it's just a bummer.

@lukaszspychaj9210

3 жыл бұрын

@@thewesternsky jesus christ stfu, oriental means eastern, stop acting offended on behalf of someone else

I'd like to see another of these! This was so much fun watching you try to work them out 😊

I was so happy when i got that Hawaii guess! First time participating long time watching... Looks like some of your skill has rubbed off :) Even beat your score! Can die a happy man now. Thx for the content man

the second location was a fake build of the austrian city hallstatt. They rebuild the hole city in detail thats pretty insane

@simonb9

3 жыл бұрын

it's just loosely inspired by Hallstatt, very far from the real deal just in terms of how it looks and the arrangement of the buildings.

@maha3431

3 жыл бұрын

There's also a fake Paris somewhere in China. Including an Eiffel tower.

@simonb9

3 жыл бұрын

@@maha3431 it's near Hangzhou

@cfoples

3 жыл бұрын

I've been to hallstatt, didn't even remind me of it until I saw your comment

@maha3431

3 жыл бұрын

There is a nice panoramic view video from "the daily360" about both hallstatts. I've tried to post the link but yt won't let me.

That India round you actually were in Goa like you suspected, which has a rich history with the Portuguese, hence all the Catholic churches. side note, this video is a goldmine of hilarious bits that Tom says 😂

Just got my first ever perfect score (UK Better Map) thanks to watching you for the last couple of years, picking up tips and advice! Took me 1hr19min mind you, but we got there slowly. Keep up the incredible work, you never cease to amaze me with all the games you play!

Idk if this map has it, but there’s a town in Sicily where all of the signs are in Albanian due to the local Albanian community, would be great to see it

@Arthur.Friberg

3 жыл бұрын

Name of town?

@r3alityrjectna452

2 жыл бұрын

I think I’ve been there before in a Battle Royale game lol! Iirc, I don’t think anyone got Italy because Albanian writing is so distinctive (rrs and such), so it kinda caught me out by surprise.

@claudioluparello5035

2 жыл бұрын

Piana degli albanesi gang

Thank you, Mr. Map Maker, for this map. You are truly amazing. All the love to you and your family. God bless you.

As an indian immediately knowing that the 4th round was Goa was such a nice feeling

@aadhisenthivel5107

3 жыл бұрын

i thought it could've been kerala cus i got konkan coast vibes

@mrugod

3 жыл бұрын

I guessed immediately too, was quite obvious considering the Christian influence from the Portugese.

@RishwynStudios

3 жыл бұрын

I confirmed it was India with the dio scooty😂

@apoema42

3 жыл бұрын

As a Brazilian I just knew that the church must be portuguese, then the Indian people got me think it had to be Goa.

@tekrunner987

3 жыл бұрын

@@aadhisenthivel5107 I thought Kerala too, turned out to be my grandfather's birthplace... born Indian in a christian family with some Portuguese ancestry, moved to french-speaking India, and eventually to France, to marry his WWII pen pal.

I’ve been watching your channel for ages and was here since before the ‘crossing Wales in a straight line’ video, which was incredible and so was the other straight line challenges. I just want to say thank you for making these amazing videos. Keep up the great work

Just for futures reference remember that there are no tall buildings in Washington D.C. so that the monuments and capital are visible through the whole city. A little like how London used to be.

Re: the second location. China has weird fake monuments/towns/etc. Think fake Venice in Vegas. It’s like theme park versions of different places/cities/etc.

@ihatewillhughes

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah they’ve built a mini Paris with an Eiffel Tower

@genjermaine

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly, I believe the fake town in question here is Austrian Halstatt, which is on a lake, so that's why geowiz thought it was coastal from that bilboard

@G0TUGAI

3 жыл бұрын

@@genjermaine can confirm that. It's Hallstatt

@Oberkommando

3 жыл бұрын

@@genjermaine it is the fake hallstatt you are correct

@professorquarter

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly I thought maybe it was in Qingdao's historic district but it all looked so new and I read "lakeside" and was deeply confused.

Tom: Knows all the bloody countries in the world by sight and name. Also Tom: "Oriental... No idea what other word to use!"

@alanwu5012

3 жыл бұрын

I'm okay with the word usage, but less happy that tom says he's not taking suggestions. if it is offensive, you _should_ want to be cognizant and open to change

@katherine511

3 жыл бұрын

@Santa Anna but it’s the sentiment that he’s unwilling to change if it were outdated language.

@huuhvuhvuvu

3 жыл бұрын

@@alanwu5012 thought that was sarcasm

@alanwu5012

3 жыл бұрын

@Santa Anna lol i said i was okay with the word usage

Can I just say how wholesome this content is, it just makes me happy watching your videos

@francissanto12

2 жыл бұрын

same here

Thank you random man who recommended this map

actually, "cesta časem" is in czech, the top one was definitely hungarian.

@zedforfun7315

3 жыл бұрын

Hungarian, Chinese, Czech, Russian ... that really thrown me off, what a strange combination. It is even spelled correctly, so weird :) ... Czech here.

@ZwRkErDa

3 жыл бұрын

@@zedforfun7315 Why is that weird? :D The sign itself said (in Russian tho) "A Journey Through Time ". Still, that's a great combo of languages.

@Oberkommando

3 жыл бұрын

Its the chinese copy of the Austrian village of Hallstatt

@Alex-if1hc

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, first is hungarian, last is russian, and all of them mean a travel through time. Kinda weird combo, never expected to see hungarian outside of hungary lol.

@hatujemeletsplayeryheskyce6460

3 жыл бұрын

@@Oberkommando Chinese are known to make replicas of western/european cities. They have built their own Eiffel tower and Big Ben

I'm really enjoying Tom forming an interesting sense of humor lately

For the China Town one there was 415 area codes (San Fran) all over the place! Learning those codes would really help to locate cities in North America

@annoyedgamer8847

2 жыл бұрын

Easy to say when you already know. Rude

@rich-tp2dx

Жыл бұрын

its also a (very) general rule of thumb that the more important/historical a city is the lower their numbers will be. ex: NYC is 212 which is very easy to dial with an old-school rotary phone. contract with (I just googled this) Las Vegas which is 702, which didn't really blow up in expansion until mid-60s ish

@lcmortensen

Жыл бұрын

@@rich-tp2dx x0x were originallyassigned to whole states. 702 covered the whole of Nevada until 1998, when everything outside the Las Vegas metro area was reassigned to 775.

Many italians died when you tried to pronounce Cinquecento 🤣

Just came over looking for a new video... 51 seconds after you posted :)

@Omar-cg2mj

3 жыл бұрын

51 mins for me lol

@67hutch

3 жыл бұрын

noice

The symbols you were referring to as Sikh were actually Hindu symbols representing temples

@apoked

3 жыл бұрын

And weren't also the one's he was referring as Hindu actually Buddhist?

@fireburst1760

3 жыл бұрын

And the ones he called Hindu were Buddhist

@danktank5193

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah the one with the wheel is Buddhism and the one that has the 3 looking symbol is Hindu.

The second one the billboard said the city (Huizhou) and also indicated the development is next to a lake. Sadly for Tom it was in Chinese

I suspect the author expected you to go "oh look, a pyramid, this must be Egypt then, innit"

@pa9030

3 жыл бұрын

ye tbh that one was pretty cringe, the place was literally screaming Rome so hard

@updated5709

3 жыл бұрын

@@pa9030 cRiNgE

@thatalchemistlady

3 жыл бұрын

It's like showing a big ass clock tower to make someone think it MUST be London, lol.

For someone who spent the entire childhood playing GTA SA, the Chinatown in San Francisco (Fierro) was such a eureka moment (the tall building and the gradient on the street was a massive giveaway). For once I was correct about something that Tom wasn’t.

Wow that intro made me feel something

@Strokwor

3 жыл бұрын

felt like your foreskin was pulled back?

random worldwide produced car: existst this dude: *OOOOH ITALY*

@felixman97

3 жыл бұрын

You can tell by the license plate

I didn't know if needed this content but it's great thanks!

You have to make a video called „ Hints on How to identify a country“ at some point; I would love that!! Great video as always of course

@evelinakarlsson3741

3 жыл бұрын

id like something like this too!

@codycornell2212

3 жыл бұрын

He doesn’t want added competition. Tips for no one

@SneakyBadAssOG

3 жыл бұрын

Go with architecture, cars, people in this order.

Reads the word "Partition" as "Partheon," proceeds to call the Parthenon "Partheon," which this place very blatantly isn't. The mapmaker was trying to get you to guess a swiss/gothic country, definitely not greece lmao

@acomingextinction

3 жыл бұрын

I don't know if the mapmaker underestimated or overestimated Tom.

@MatthewTaylor86

3 жыл бұрын

This is why Tom is so great. He's the WILDCARD!

@pbjbagel

3 жыл бұрын

I believe he also read "Heritage" and "Heridge" from "Bridge." Somebody get this man some glasses!

18:24 - Well, "quite British" in the sense that that's where the British got their cooks (because it was one of the places in India where people ate the most meat). Goa was (for a very long time) a Portuguese colony / enclave. Which is why a lot of "curries" served in the UK are actually Portuguese / Goan dishes, practically unknown in the rest of India.

Thank you random person who suggested this map 😁my personal gratitude

"there's a Sikh one" points to Hindu temple

Anyone else have an advert at 9:41 just to be greeted to a yawn afterwards? I've got my headphones in and I F**king shat myself🤣

@NJH01

3 жыл бұрын

Same lmao

@maddiepilz5711

3 жыл бұрын

lmao

Through the whole video I was always thinking back of a round my girlfriend and I played in which we were so sure it was somewhere in Bulgaria. There were Bulgarian flags, a gym with a poster of very Eastern European-looking people in tracksuits, a website ending with the ".bg" domain... and just such a general Eastern European vibe too! Where was it? The Hague, in the Netherlands. Must have been their Bulgarian town!

@GoldenJayTime

2 жыл бұрын

I once had a round where i was dropped on a cobblestone path, super european looking, with a european looking like, shop next to me, with austrian flags hung up outside. super convinced i was in austria. where was i? brazil.

As a beginner I was very proud of my 6.3 mile guess on that last one :) Thanks for the great content Tom!

The one in India has lots of portuguese influences, as you cal see by the "ão" in some words, goa used to be a trade port for Portugal

@Q_QQ_Q

3 жыл бұрын

yeah its portuguese , not english .

@wetstoffels3198

3 жыл бұрын

It was also a Catholic church. Not a Protestant one. Which means that it was a non-British held territory of India.

@mothgru

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I thought the church looked very Spanish/Portuguese so I guessed Goa.

@Aoderic

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it was clearly a Portuguese colonial style church, I knew that Goa used to be a Portuguese colony, so I got almost perfect score on that one. But to give Tom some credit, Colombo was owned (about 100 years) by the Portuguese as well.

@user-qj5io6ex8k

3 жыл бұрын

Wasn't just a trade port, the entire region was under portuguese rule for centuries. Surprised he didn't get it tbh

'Maybe we're in Stoke-On-Trent' Lmao

this channel is a blessing in these boring corona times, thanks

The last place is the Byodo-In Temple in Oahu, I visited there about 8 months ago. I'm typing this before the video has ended; that's a place I will never forget. Truly one of the most serene places I've ever been to.

I have never been to San Francisco, but I instantly got it for some reason.

@brandonk.4864

3 жыл бұрын

I live near San Francisco but I didn’t get it, lol

@YossiRafelson

3 жыл бұрын

The street sign is very San Francisco style. So much so that I said SF and didn't waver even when he looked at the word Washington. I thought he was going to go Seattle, DC was just a dreadful guess.

@rdmz135

3 жыл бұрын

the inclined roads did it for me. reminded me of san fierro from GTA lol.

@articleanteater

3 жыл бұрын

@@rdmz135 😂 the slanted road also did it for me but just bc im from the bay area, i dont even play gta

@mediator1049

3 жыл бұрын

its that wentworth sign that did it for me

That Yawn was like a demon leaving your soul

20:40 "Fan Sansico" - Tom Davies

second round was Hallstatt. A chinese remodel/copy of a town in Austria.

FYI Tom, Goa was a Portuguese colony and has a rich Christian influence, including the ashes of Francis Xavier.

@depped3655

3 жыл бұрын

I believe it's where the word 'vindaloo' comes from - carne de vinha d'alhos

@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes

3 жыл бұрын

Is also the setting of the film Singham

@piteoswaldo

3 жыл бұрын

I noticed the Portuguese heritage, but placed my guess at Timor Leste, which is unfortunately very far away.

@wenderis

3 жыл бұрын

i guessed somewhere in Kerala where I thought the 'original Indian christian' reside in. So fixated, forgot to account the architecture of the church. Kerala's church should be more Indian I presume?

I've been abroad once and only in Italy for 4 hours (layover) and I drove right by that pyramid... knew INSTANTLY where that was!! I've always wondered when this would happen to me while watching you!

10,441 hard game, kudos to the map builder. GGs Tom

never seen you but i love how your literally playing vs your fans here its fucking awesome

I believe the word was "partition" on that sign.

"Sees Trees" Oh its the UK

That was a really fun map! I was hitting myself for being so far off on rounds 3 & 5 though, I had the right ideas at first but I changed my guesses and was way off on both.

*Me yelling at my screen:* "PARTITION! IT CLEARLY SAYS PARTITION!"

"What's with all the Hindus??" - GeoWizard, 2021

@fumthings

3 жыл бұрын

and the betchelor parties...

@benjamindecosta6885

3 жыл бұрын

crucifixion... Good. -Geowizard, 2021

@angadsingh9314

3 жыл бұрын

@@benjamindecosta6885 LMFAO

@IFentonito

3 жыл бұрын

@@redbetta2191 and scrolling sri lanka, neighbouring the most hindu country in the world

@foxfoster1

3 жыл бұрын

17:37

Can't wait for Ludwig to play along with this.

Been starting to play along a few days ago, and there are pros and cons: Already knowing where it is spoils a bit your struggles, on the other hand it's fun to compare it's own thinking with yours. Had the pyramid in Rom before, so that doesn't count, fell for Asia in Chinatown (chose Hongkong), almost as bad with Hawaii (Taiwan), tried Macau with this strange China-Austria-Swiss-Italien-Chalet-Church-Place. I'm sure somebody mentioned it before: On Google Earth this China place looks like an area with apartements for the rich with some fake scenery included. Thanks for sharing, your calm talking and fine sense of humour is certainly what draws many people to your videos like myself.

Possibly the greatest intro to a video ever

Weird fact #1836: The annual number of worldwide shark bites is 10 times less than the number of people bitten by other people in New York

5:05 The top one is Hungarian, it means "traveling in time"!

awesome videos. you've inspired me to get back into geoguessr. I'm quite slow, but meticulous. just got a 23,506 score on World! blows away any of my other attempts

Definitely need more of this

His intros don’t miss. Best on yt keep it up baby

"I don't think I know enough to be thrown off" hahaha

Man you are so good at this. The only one I got you on was the Hawaii one, and I only got that cause we went there on our last vacation before covid. Good job.

greatest intro you've done to date