Greece

Double solid white center lines are common. In Europe, these are found almost exclusively around Greece or Cyprus.

Utility poles are often made of wood.

The Greek alphabet is distinctive, with letters like Σ and λ. Signs with yellow text on a blue or brown background are also rare outside Greece.

Small chapel-like monuments called kandylakia are common along the roadside. They seem to be placed near the sites of traffic accidents and the like.

Warning signs often have an orange background.

Speed limit signs usually have a white background.

Chevron (arrow curve) signs are black and white, almost always with a white arrow on a black background. Rare exceptions exist.

Some bollards are black with a red reflector.

Strong sunlight and abundant limestone mean white-walled buildings are common. Roofs are usually reddish-brown, though flat roofs without reddish-brown tiles are also common on some islands and in certain areas.

Olive trees are common.

Karst terrain is widespread, and white rock is often visible.

A plain filled with low-trained deciduous fruit trees in tight rows means a peach or nectarine orchard. 90% of Greece's peaches come from Imathia and Pella (both in Central Macedonia, west of Thessaloniki).

Dense rows of low, white-plastic greenhouses on a dry coastal slope mean the south coast of Crete or the Peloponnese are likely. The largest concentration is around Ierapetra in southeastern Crete.

Tourist areas are concentrated along the coast.

Town name endings can sometimes narrow down the region, though there are plenty of exceptions.

• -άτα: around Kefalonia
• -ανά: Crete or the mountainous mainland
• -ές/-έ: common on Crete
• -αίικα: western mainland, Samos

Houses with gray stone-slab walls and roofs appearing in the mountains mean the Epirus region of the Pindus Mountains (Zagori). The buildings don't look Greek and many areas have no utility poles, so it's easy to get wrong.

Cars are banned on Hydra by local ordinance, so transportation is on foot or by donkey. Street View there is also trekker-only, and donkeys appear around town.

Kea gets little rain, and its hills are mostly bare of trees (reportedly a desert climate by the data). Many houses are built with non-white stone walls, similar to Andorra.

Outside its harbor, Sifnos has not been heavily developed for tourism, so ruins and churches are common. Many roads are unpaved, and there are no red-roofed houses.

Large green trash bins sometimes have a city name written on them (Κομοτηνή, Αθήνα, etc.).

Taxi colors vary by city — Athens's taxis are yellow.

Heraklion (a city in northern Crete) taxis are mostly silver.

Thessaloniki's taxis are navy blue.