Argentina

The language is Spanish.

License plates turn dark in the middle when blurred.

The Google Car is sometimes black.

The street name sign here has a look you'd expect from Argentina or Uruguay. A sign like this is rarely found outside South America at all.

There are sometimes small roadside signs with a route number written on them.

Utility poles with holes, and occasionally ones resembling Australian poles, are also found. Due to Street View's terms of use, a photo can't be included here, so please click "View on Street View."

There are gas stations belonging to YPF (Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales), the state-owned oil company. Look for a blue sign and drums.

Argentina's northeasternmost and northwesternmost corners look like Brazil.

A distinctive tree with branches spreading like an umbrella, covered all the way to the trunk in stiff, triangular leaves, is a monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana). On the Argentine side it is almost entirely confined to western Neuquén province.

A northern lowland of thorny shrubs and medium-height dry forest, with sandy-looking ground, is the Gran Chaco. It spans northern provinces such as Chaco and Formosa.

A plain scattered only with low, gray-green shrubs and tussock grass, with not a single tree, is the Patagonian steppe. Strong winds blow constantly from the west.

If you're driving through the dry north and suddenly encounter dense green forest and fog, that's the Yungas (cloud forest) on the eastern slope of the Andes.

If a dry highland has thick columnar cacti (cardón) standing 1.5-10m tall and sparsely scattered, that's a high-elevation area of the northwest.

A stretch of flat grassland and fields extending to the horizon, with almost no hills or forest, is the Pampas. It spans five provinces, including Buenos Aires.

A solid stand of deciduous trees with small, jagged leaves is southern lenga (Nothofagus pumilio). It's found in the south. In autumn its leaves turn yellow to red.

Rows of low evergreen shrubs on red soil are a yerba mate field, the raw material for mate tea. It's grown almost entirely in Misiones province, so combined with red soil, you can be confident in this one!

If sugarcane fields and lemon orchards spread across a lowland backed by mountains to the west, that's Tucumán province.

If canals run across dry land, with trellised vineyards and snow-capped mountains to the west visible at the same time, that's Mendoza province.

If tall, thin trees stand packed in a single row, looking like a hedge squaring off a field, that's a windbreak (cortina rompevientos). Fields in Mendoza are exposed to a dry, strong wind called the "Zonda", so trees are planted in rows along field boundaries.

A low crop about knee-high, with lush round leaves, stretching to the horizon, is a soybean field. Main growing areas include Buenos Aires province. In summer (December-March) the fields are deep green; by April-May, before harvest, they turn a withered brown.

A continuing field of corn taller than a person most likely means Córdoba or Buenos Aires province.

A field that turns solid low green from winter through spring (June-November), then golden around December, is wheat. It's common in Buenos Aires province, and rarely seen in the northern Chaco or the dry west.

If dry shrub steppe has straight gravel roads and drilling rigs and tanks scattered here and there, that's Neuquén province's Vaca Muerta.

The region with the most active farming is Córdoba province.

At the very southern tip of Argentina is a library called Biblioteca Península Haush.

In Buenos Aires, navy-and-yellow taxis run around marked "GCBA" (Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires — the Buenos Aires city government?).