Vietnam

Red national flags are flown in front of houses and along streets.

Vietnamese is written in the Latin alphabet, so it's not hard to distinguish from Cambodia or Laos.

Sign posts have red-and-white stripes.

There are red-and-white bollards.

Besides ordinary cylindrical utility poles, poles with holes in them can also be found.

The Annamite Range runs along the border, while the Mekong River basin forms a flat plain.

Karst topography spreads across specific parts of the north and center, where many irregular, jagged little hills can be found.

• Bố Trạch District (center)
• Sơn La Province (north)
• Bắc Kạn Province (north)

In the Mekong Delta, waterways spread out in a mesh-like network, and small bridges are also common. Trees or palms grow along most of the waterways.

Like the Mekong Delta, the Red River Delta is a triangular delta full of rice paddies and waterways, but fewer trees grow near the waterways.

A plateau called Tây Nguyên, at roughly 700m elevation, spreads across the center. It doesn't have the fine waterway network of the Mekong Delta, and is farmed for a variety of crops such as coffee, pepper, and cabbage.

Shop signs and similar quite often display an address. The further along the address, the larger the district name gets (large cities sometimes omit the city/province name).

State-run power companies handle electricity distribution by region, so utility poles and equipment may differ from region to region.

• EVN NPC (north): utility poles with holes running all the way to the top (a fairly reliable sign of the north)
• EVN CPC (center): a mountain-plus-triangle (△) shape
• EVN SPC (south): a mountain-plus-inverted-triangle (▽) shape. Often accompanied by a parallel row of shorter poles (for fiber-optic lines)

A large-scale reorganization in 2025 is set to merge 6 centrally-governed cities and 57 provinces into 6 cities and 28 provinces, so the display on Google Maps could change.

Rice paddies are especially common in the Mekong Delta in the south, and also in the northern plains and the Red River Delta.

• Mekong Delta
• Red River Delta

Farming in the northern mountains is centered on tea and rice; although production isn't large, terraced fields can be found.

Rubber plantations are common inland, most of all in the southeast, such as Tây Ninh Province. They're also found in the Central Highlands, such as Gia Lai Province.

• Tây Ninh Province (large-scale plantations visible from satellite imagery)
• Bình Phước Province
• Bình Dương Province
• Gia Lai Province

Tea fields are found in parts of the mountainous regions of the north and center.

• Thái Nguyên Province (the largest tea-growing area in the country)
• Phu Tho Province
• Yên Bái Province
• Lâm Đồng Province (production is high, but Street View coverage may be limited)

Coffee production is concentrated in areas with slightly higher elevation, and is common in the provinces around Tây Nguyên.

• Đắk Nông Province

The exact distribution of pepper isn't well known, but it's said to follow a similar distribution to coffee, and is almost entirely absent from the north.

• Đắk Nông Province
• Đắk Lắk Province

In the central region, such as Quảng Nam Province, acacia plantations can occasionally be found.

• Quảng Nam Province
• Quảng Ngãi Province
• Bình Định Province

Dragon fruit is mostly grown on large plantations in Bình Thuận province.

Street name signs sometimes carry a city-specific logo, which can identify the city.

Along ĐT651 is a resort area, with white sandy beaches extending right up to the roadside.

Hạ Long Bay has an unusual submerged karst landscape, with limestone rock towers rising steeply out of the water. There aren't many coastal roads.

There's also coverage on the outlying island of Phú Quốc in the far south, near Cambodia. Common sights include unpaved red-dirt roads or 4-lane roads with a fairly wide median.

Móng Cái is a city with a thriving trade relationship with China, and has speakers of Mandarin and Cantonese. Chinese-language signage and duty-free shops can be found.