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26 clues · 13 countries.
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26 clues · 13 countries.
Showing 26 clues across 13 countries.
House numbers in Czechia are generally written on blue or red signs with thin white borders.
NOTE: On the contrary, Slovak house numbers are typically written on white signs with a thin red or black border.
Pairs of black and white house numbers are found in Brno.
NOTE: The city district can be found written on the black house number.
Pilsen house numbers typically consist of two red and white octagonal plates with inverse colour schemes.
House numbers in České Budějovice have one red and one white plate with underlined numbers.
Red house numbers with a dividing line and a Roman numeral are unique to Liberec.
The dividing line is an important identifying factor, as Roman numerals can be found on house numbers in other cities.
Písek uses yellow house numbers with a black outline.
It is fairly common to find oval-shaped blue house numbers in Estonia.
NOTE: This is not common in the other Baltic countries, but can also be found in Russia.
House numbers in France are most commonly blue, typically written in a serif font with slightly exaggerated shapes. This is most useful when differentiating from Italy, which almost never uses blue house number signs.
NOTE: Similar designs can be found in all other neighbouring, as well as many other, countries.
The City of Chandigarh is a planned industrial city. As a result, the city features a lot of unique infrastructure, such as blue signs mentioning sectors and industrial areas, round yellow markings on street lights, and street signs which will typically feature several numbers rather than street names.
NOTE: The nearby cities of Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar and Panchkula are also planned industrial cities, which feature somewhat similar signs.
Blue house numbers with the number written with Arabic numerals in the top left and with Eastern Arabic numerals in the bottom right, with a thin diagonal line between them, can be found in Bethlehem. Street signs will generally have the same format.
House numbers in Rosh Haayin are blue, with a G-clef in the bottom left corner.
In Ness Ziona, There is an Israeli flag on house numbers.
Blue, shield-shaped house numbers are unique to the city of Herzliya.
Latvian house numbers are often shaped like tall rectangles and can be found in several colours.
NOTE: This is not common in Estonia or Lithuania.
Similarly, Mexican postal codes can be seen on this map. They will commonly appear at the bottom of street signs, and are ordered alphabetically based on state names.
House numbers in Slovakia are typically written on white signs with a thin red or black border.
Slovenian house numbers are typically red with white text.
NOTE: Czech house numbers are also commonly red.
Instead of the normal red house numbers, Ljubljana will typically feature green house numbers.
NOTE: Street signs in Ljubljana are also occasionally green.
Korean buildings have very distinctive house numbers. They are blue and usually are shaped quite literally like a house. The full address of the building is written on them, in both Hangul and Latin script.
Some places have unique house numbers, which you can use to region-guess. More information about this can be found in the spotlight section.
House numbers in the Hampyeong region can be recognised from the large white section at the top of the sign.
Red street signs with a coloured bottom strip are found in several cities. In the bottom right corner, you can find a white arrow and some numbers. If this arrow is pointing in both directions and has a single arrowhead, rather than double, then you are almost certainly in Istanbul.
Beware that simple arrows pointing in only one direction can be found in both Istanbul and in other cities. However, if you see such signs in combination with red house numbers, then you should be in Istanbul.
Street signs in Trabzon and Yalvaç are red and oval-shaped. House numbers also feature the same design.
A horizontal blue, red, or green sign can commonly be seen at the ends of driveways in Wisconsin and the Michigan peninsula. The house number is present, in addition to either the town name and or the road name (usually.)
NOTE: Nearby states often use similar markers, but typically lack any town or street name information and only feature numbers.
Properties in rural and exurban Ohio, Lower Michigan, and Indiana commonly feature a vertically-oriented metal sign with white numbers, indicating the house number of the adjacent building. These signs are most commonly blue or green, and are commonly attached to mailboxes.
NOTE: These may be rarely found in other states.
North Carolina commonly uses a style of street signs showing street numbers and arrows in addition to the street name.
NOTE: Other states occasionally feature street signs with similar designs, so use other clues before guessing.
Addresses on signs are _extremely _common in Vietnam, in particular on storefronts. These addresses follow a hierarchical sequence that usually goes from specific (house/building) to general (city/province). These can be tremendously helpful to find your exact location.
Usually an address will contain all or some of the following elements, from left to right:
House and street number
Ward/commune:
District:
Province/City
These words are often abbreviated. For example, huyện can be abbreviated as just H., thành phố as just TP., etc. Additionally, sometimes the province itself may be abbreviated, for instance here Thái Bình is abbreviated as TB.