Cambodia

There are bollards painted white and red.

Rural areas have plenty of stilt houses. With a hot, humid tropical monsoon climate year-round, raising the house helps with the heat during the day and gives cattle or water buffalo a place to rest at night.

Most people are Buddhist, so Buddhism-related architecture is common.

Small shrines dedicated to land spirits or ancestral spirits are common, often facing toward the house.

Parasols and signs carry the logos of well-known local companies — Beeline for telecom, Coca-Cola for soft drinks, and LEO, Kingdom, or Angkor for beer. In the countryside, bottled drinks are often sold under a parasol.

Palmyra-palm-like trees appear here. Similar-looking trees grow widely across warm regions, but in Asia, Cambodia has especially many.

Rice paddies are common around Tonlé Sap Lake and in the plains south to southeast of Phnom Penh (Prey Veng, Takéo, and similar). They're almost absent in the northeast, east of Route 7. They're sparse along the coast, but present around Kampot.

Rubber trees planted in straight rows are common in the red-soil area east of the Mekong (Kampong Cham, Tbong Khmum) and in the northeastern Ratanak Kiri. They're rare in the rice-heavy south or around Tonlé Sap Lake.

Cassava fields, filled with knee-to-waist-high, palm-shaped leaves, are common around Tbong Khmum east of the Mekong, and in the northwestern provinces near the Thai border (Battambang, Pailin, Banteay Meanchey, Oddar Meanchey).

The side of a bollard shows the road number, and both faces show distances to towns. If you spot the road number and a town name, you can narrow the region down from the distance ratios.

Street View also covers Tonlé Sap Lake. Floating villages of boathouses sit on the water, with distinctive architecture.

On roads near the Thai border west of Battambang, you may see rugged rocky hills. Where fields give way west of Battambang, rocky terrain becomes common.

French colonial-era architecture is common in Cambodian cities. In Kampot, an important port town, especially many European-style buildings remain in the old quarter.

Siem Reap is home to Angkor Wat and the Bayon temple.

Preah Sihanouk is a major import/export hub, growing with Chinese investment. It has buildings 4 stories and taller, and is a logistics hub with an oil terminal.