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56 clues · 28 countries.
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56 clues · 28 countries.
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Each state has a unique bus stop design. These are quite common in urban rounds, so are worth learning. Darwin bus stops are usually concrete shelters.
NOTE: The designs may vary slightly, but should still be recognisable. There are multiple versions of Tasmanian bus stops, but most of them should have the word ‘metro’ on it.
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Yellow signposts are specific to Western Australia.
NOTE: Although South Australia does not use yellow signposts for regular road signs, SA bus stops will have yellow posts.
Austrian bus stop signs contain a yellow and green circle with the letter H.
NOTE: This design is relatively unique in Europe. The only other country with similar bus stop signs is Germany.
Each Austrian state has its own unique bus company, the logo of which can be seen on the side of buses.
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Bus stops consisting of neon-yellow poles are found in Vorarlberg.
Bus stops are always marked by yellow signposts. Bus shelters often have yellow roofs.
Bus stop signs in Flanders (and Brussels) have a white rectangle at the top. In Wallonia they will have a yellow top.
Bus stop signs in Denmark are black and yellow. A small sign is attached to the top of the pole, with the bus schedule underneath. Additionally, you may see this older blue and white version.
There are six regions in Denmark that each use a different bus transportation company. Each bus will have the brand written on the front, and have a unique colour scheme.
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In addition, these regions each have their own bus stop sign.
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The bus stops on the island of Bornholm have this unique green, red and white colour scheme.
Estonian bus stop signs have this design.
The bus has four windows. This is mostly useful to distinguish it from the Latvian bus stop sign, which has five windows.
Note, however, that Lithuania has the same bus stop signs as Estonia.
Concrete bus shelters are a common sight on roads in Eswatini.
Finland has two styles of bus stop signs, a blue and white one, and a yellow and black one.
NOTE: This can be used to tell Finland apart from Sweden, which has many different bus stop signs (example), most of which have the names of the stops on them.
Bus stops on Åland include a white plate with 4 numbers. Some also include this semicircle sign on top.
NOTE: Some bus stops in Mariehamn do not follow this rule.
The buses in and around Helsinki are typically blue-and-white, with a vertical split. Buses elsewhere can have the same colour scheme, so look for one of these logos on the bus.
The buses in and around Tampere are blue on the bottom and white on the top. The word ‘NYSSE’ is written on the sides of the buses.
Buses in Turku are uniquely yellow, with a white rear.
Buses in Jyväskylä are almost completely green.
Buses in Oulu have a pink front.
Most departments have their own unique logo (formally called official flag), often containing stylized initials or the entire name. Notable infrastructure with department logos include bus stops, kilometre markers, trail banners, directional signs and signbacks. Learning what each logo looks like is not recommended for beginners, but it can be helpful to know what they stand for when scanning.
You can find the full list of logos here, or see them projected onto a map here.
Like Austria, Germany uses a wide variety of regional bus stops, all of which have the big yellow and green H symbol on them.
Every city state uses a unique and recognisable bus stop.
Berlin uses segmented bus stops, with a yellow signpost.
Hamburg bus stops have a red signpost, and the route numbers are within hexagons. Note that they can be found outside of Hamburg as well
Bremen proper uses simple bus stops, which have the bus stop name within a red section. The edges can be rounded.
Bremerhaven, which is still part of Bremen, uses bus stops with a grey section on the opposite side of the signpost. And the bus stop name is red within a yellow section.
Buses in Hong Kong are mostly double-decker, with various colour schemes and adverts on the side. Single-decker versions do exist, but are less common. Smaller minibuses can also be seen, with a green or red roof.
NOTE: Place names are sometimes visible on the front of the buses, which can be useful for region guessing.
Double-decker buses are also somewhat common in Singapore, but these will often have a recognizable light green colour scheme.
Orange and bright green buses are typically found in Delhi.
On large roads in Ahmedabad and Surat you can find separated middle lanes for buses. Beware that people will still often drive in these lanes.
You can occasionally spot licence plate codes on the back of trucks and buses. The codes themselves follow an alphabetical order, with smaller numbers corresponding to regions that start with earlier letters. Note that cars do travel, and as such not all codes are reliable. Buses and smaller utility vehicles are the most reliable.
These are the most useful to learn bus stops.
Atyrau has a modern design, with white and lime/neon green walls. The bus stop name is prominently written on top.
Kostanay uses simple brown bus stops, that have a blue and yellow crest on one of the glass panes.
Petropavl also has brown bus stops, with glass panes on all 3 sides not facing the road. The roof is angled slightly upwards.
Karaganda uses old looking turquoise bus stops, which have a curved roof.
Zhezqazghan has very wide blue bus stops, which have 2 sections; 1 indoors, and one outside. These sections are separated by a door.
These cities have buses worth learning.
Aktobe uses orange and black buses.
Zhezqazghan has orange and white buses, with “Men ♥ Jezz/Zhez” written on the sides.
Astana commonly uses these white, black, and green electric buses.
Karaganda uses turquoise buses, just like their bus stops.
Semey has these light green and white buses.
Almaty uses fully green buses, with white patterns and the city name on the sides. Taraz can use similar buses, but they will have “Taraz” written on the sides instead.
Latvian bus stop signs have this design.
Most importantly, the bus has five windows. Within the Baltics, this is unique to Latvia. The other two Baltic countries have four windows.
Bus stops in Liechtenstein use a green-and-white design, with a black metallic border around the sign. The phrase LIEMOBIL is written at the top.
NOTE: The metallic frame is not always black.
Unlike the rest of Liechtenstein, Vaduz sometimes uses red bus stop signs.
NOTE: Regular bus stops are also present.
Unlike the rest of Liechtenstein, Balzers sometimes uses black bus stop signs.
NOTE: Regular bus stops are also present.
Lithuanian bus stop signs have this design.
The bus has four windows. This is mostly useful to distinguish it from the Latvian bus stop sign, which has five windows.
Note however, that Estonia has the same bus stop signs as Lithuania.
Bus stop signs are blue and always have this exact design. The bus has six windows.
NOTE: Bus stop signs in Belgium and the Netherlands have significantly different designs. For example, the Belgian bus stop sign always has a yellow signpost.
Bus stops signs on Madeira follow a unique black, white and yellow colour scheme.
Bus stops are a common sight in Malta. They may sometimes have useful information as to where you are.
Uniquely, all bus routes on Gozo Island are in the 300s. These can be quite hard to see, meaning they are most useful in moving games.
The cities of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch all have unique bus stop signs.
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Norwegian bus stops usually have this small, blue sign with a white bus.
NOTE: Sweden has a lot of different bus stops, none of which look like this.
There are six distinct bus stop designs on Réunion:
Yellow - This is the most common type and can be found all over the island. It is usually accompanied by another bus stop, meaning you can get a good region guess if you see it on its own.
L Shaped - It can either be white, or an olive colour. It may also be in the form of a bus shelter. It is almost never accompanied by a yellow bus stop.
Pink - Rarely accompanied by a yellow bus stop.
Orange - Almost always accompanied by a yellow bus stop.
Green - Almost always accompanied by a yellow bus stop.
Red - Rarely accompanied by a yellow bus stop.
This infographic shows where each one can be found. The list above is ranked by how common each one is found.
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These are the bus stops unique to specific federal subjects in Russia. Notably common and memorable ones include Krasnoyarsk Krai, Chuvashia, Tatarstan, and Mari El Republic.
Singaporean buses are mostly lime-green, making them easily recognisable. Other designs can also be found, for example the white-and-purple SBS Transit variants.
Moreover, all bus stops are protected by concrete bollards with unique black-and-yellow warning bands.
NOTE: Similar, but not quite identical designs are found in some Malaysian cities.
In addition to the concrete bollards on bus stops, Singapore sometimes has a unique and yellow bus-leaving box with an arrow on the street.
Most bus stops in Asturias have a red post with the CTA logo at the top.
NOTE: These may be confused with Madrid bus stops, which can also have a red post. The company in charge of Madrid public transport goes by EMT.
The surrounding region of Madrid has round topped red bus stops, and green buses. Some bus stops are just a red post.
In the city centre, you can find urban blue buses.
Each administrative region in Sweden has at least one, and in many cases several, bus stop signs which are unique to that region.
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Many regions have their own distinct type of bus shelters, which may either replace or complement the bus stop signs. This image contains the ones which are most common and easily recognizable.
NOTE: Every region has multiple types of bus shelters, these are simply the most common.
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Many cities and towns have their own local bus stop signs, which are different from the signs in the rest of the region (as shown in the infographic in section 2).
NOTE: The Växjö sign can also occasionally be found in Älmhult.
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Neon-yellow school bus stop signs are commonly found in the municipalities of Linköping, Norrköping and Jönköping.
If you see Västra Götaland bus stops combined with three blue stripes as shown in the picture, you are in Kungsbacka municipality.
NOTE: These same stripes are found on bus stops in all of Halland.
Black bus shelters with this specific design, mainly recognised by the square ridge along the back of the roof, can be found in Västerås and Umeå.
These bus stop signs, with thick metal signposts going around them, are unique to Switzerland.
Throughout Kampala, you will often see these taxi buses, with a blue blocky pattern on the sides. These are a good clue for the city if you are not able to see the Google car.
Bus stop shelters with a vibrant yellow-and-green paint scheme, featuring sunflowers and the name of a local brand (Оліс), can be found in the Mykolaiv and Kherson oblasts.