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Türkiye(Republic of Türkiye)

national flag of Türkiye

How to Distinguish

  • The domain is .tr
  • The stop sign is DUR
  • The bollard is Piece Thin with a reflective plate on the surface
  • "sokak” means street in Turkish
  • There are many small holes in the sign stick.
  • There is a gap at the end of the red and white chevron arrow.
  • 🧵-shaped tiles are common on sidewalks, etc.

Signs you can find

One-way sign: By Gigillo83 - own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

Turkish signs and signs.The characters Ç, Ş, Ğ, İ, Ö, Ü and the “・” above the letters Ü are distinctive. .“Ü” is also used in the country name “Türkiye” (参考文献 Turkey changes its country name in the United Nations to Turkiye - JETRO).

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There are many small holes in the sign stick, so you can often see the other side. .

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Turkey GeoGuessr guide image showing Pole

Chevrons are mainly used in red and white, but their distinctive feature is that there is a blank space at the end of the arrow. .Some of them are not red and white, but you should be able to tell the country by the gap between the stick and tip of the sign. .There are often orange and black signs in the median strip. .

Turkey GeoGuessr guide image showing Road Arrow
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The stop sign is DUR, one-way traffic is TEK YON.

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The bollard is Piece Thin with a red reflective plate on the surface .The one that looks the most similar Romaniabollard of .

Turkey GeoGuessr guide image showing Bollard

🧵-shaped tiles are common on sidewalks, etc. .

Turkey GeoGuessr guide image showing Road Surface

Telephone pole that I personally think looks like Türkiye(Only ⑤ images are quoted from outside.) .Different shapes similar to these BulgariaThere are also hook-shaped ones that look like those in .

Turkey GeoGuessr guide image showing Poles
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various telephone poles

There are many roads like this

Turkey GeoGuessr guide image showing Road Surface

There is a Türk Telekom manhole on the road.There is also the notation of telefon (telephone in Turkish).

Narrow down state/region

212 → You can roughly estimate the location, perhaps to the west, including Istanbul.However, there are many cases from 05~ and 08~ that I don’t know where they are.

Wikimedia Commons photo showing Koppen Geiger Map Tur Present

By Beck, H.E., Zimmermann, N. E., McVicar, T. R., Vergopolan, N., Berg, A., Wood, E. F. - "Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution". Nature Scientific Data. DOI:10.1038/sdata.2018.214., CC BY 4.0, Link

agriculture

  • There are many vinyl greenhouses along the southern coast.
    • Mersin
    • Antalya
  • Corn production is about 20 times higher in the south than in the north.
  • Cotton grows in Southeast Anatolia
  • Sunflowers are abundant around Konya and on the Greek side
Turkey GeoGuessr guide image showing Invernadero Pepinos

Below is a road on the outskirts of Antalya.Green greenhouses are lined up on both sides of the road.

Turkey GeoGuessr guide image showing Turkey Corn
Turkey GeoGuessr guide image showing Turkey Cotton
Turkey GeoGuessr guide image showing Distribution Of Wheat Barley Maize Sunflower And Cotton Production In Turkey Cities

Tatar, Özgür. “Climate change impacts on crop production in Turkey.” (2016).

Narrow down city/town

  • The name of the local administrative division or city may be written on the trash can.●× in “●× BELEDiYESi” is the place name.
  • Street name signs vary by city

“Ortahisar” is the town name .

Wikimedia Commons photo showing Trabzon Apr 2020

By Robot8A - own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

You need to see the difference in the circular marks above.

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Street signs in AnkaraSee.There are two types: blue and red.

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