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No.398378
Guess The PlaceAnonymous
Replies:>>398381>>398396
Image:143337834900.png(1,018kB, 800x534)guess.png
Wanted to do this for a long time.

It goes like this: you post a photo of some part of the world, and others will try and guess the country. Nature is preferable, but cities are okay, I guess. If 5 posts get it wrong, someone else can post another photo.

Naturally, I'll go first. Hint: it's somewhere in Europe.
No.398381
Omegon
Replies:>>398394
>>398378
Looks like volcanic rock so I'll guess Ireland but I know I'm wrong. Thanks Google Reverse Image Search!
No.398386
Alpharius
Replies:>>398394>>398404>>398409
Image:143339601000.jpg(15kB, 1024x683)1349966445920.jpg
This might be a cool thread. I recommend people go outside and take pictures for hard modes.

And the hint for this one is: it's somewhere in North America
No.398394
Anonymous
Replies:>>398396
>>398381
>>398386
Ahem... 5 people haven't guessed yet.
No.398396
Alpharius
Replies:>>398404
>>398394
Fine. >>398378 is Sweden.
No.398404
Anonymous
Replies:>>398407
>>398396
Google Reverse Search is cheating, but that is correct.

>>398386
Virginia?
No.398407
Alpharius
Replies:>>398409>>398410
>>398404
Nope BUT I will give two hints: It is in the U.S.A.
And The state touches the ocean.
No.398409
Slowpoke
Replies:>>398423
>>398386
>>398407
Maine.
No.398410
Mister Twister
Replies:>>398423
>>398407
Florida.
No.398423
Alpharius
Replies:>>398433>>398440
>>398409
>>398410
Nope, but here is 3 more hints: This state wasn't colonized by the British.
If you can't see it, there are 3 large smokestacks and a large rock formation in that picture.
This states biggest agricultural export is milk.
No.398433
Mister Twister
Replies:>>398441
>>398423
Vermont?
No.398440
Anonymous
Replies:>>398441
>>398423
Oregon?
No.398441
Alpharius
Replies:>>398444
Image:143366187700.jpg(148kB, 900x675)morro-rock1.jpg
>>398433
>>398440
The answer is California.
The giant rock is Moro Rock. Named so by the Spainish settlers due to it reminding them of a turban, a hat Moors (the Muslims that use to inhabit southern Spain) wore.
No.398444
Mister Twister
Replies:>>398447
>>398441
Well, you see, you said the lead export is milk. I checked, and California exports more fruit than milk.

Post another photo, or let someone else do it.
No.398447
Alpharius
>>398444
http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statistics/
>Milk — $7.6 billion
That report is from 2013, so a more recent study might be more up to date.

Someone else do it.
No.399296
Anonymous
Replies:>>399306
http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statistics/
>Human Sperm — $14 trillion

Wow Cali is worlds greatest cum exporter.
No.399306
Anonymous
Replies:>>399307
>>399296
By value, maybe. I'm sure I've got them beat by volume.
No.399307
Slowmobile
>>399306
I laffed
No.399323
Mister Twister
Image:143805015900.jpg(100kB, 799x370)sandy beach.jpg
Okay, I wonder how many of you can get close without reverse image search.

If 5 people get it wrong, I tell you what it is, and someone else posts a photo.
No.414959
Mister Twister
Replies:>>415028
Image:149645476000.jpg(1.11MB, 1772x1161)do not use reverse image search.jpg
Fuck everything, reviving this bitch.
No.415028
Anonymous
Replies:>>415032
>>414959
Honestly, couldn't pick it. Central to Western Europe?
No.415032
Mister Twister
Replies:>>415035
>>415028
Getting very warm. Don't have to be town-specific, but a little more specific than that.
No.415035
Anonymous
Replies:>>415036
>>415032
I'll go out on a limb an pick Spain.
No.415036
Mister Twister
Replies:>>415039
>>415035
You have 3 more tries, and if wrong, you get to post your choice of location.
No.415039
Anonymous
Replies:>>415040
>>415036
Well I could just post anyway, but I'll try.

Portugal lol. I'm looking at that sticker with "salsa" on it
Italy
France. Doesn't look french, but "lait" on that awning makes it a possibility
No.415040
Mister Twister
Replies:>>415041
>>415039
Lulea, northern Sweden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lule%C3%A5

Now post yours, and remember to change the filename!
No.415041
Anonymous
Replies:>>415053
Image:149750110300.jpg(209kB, 1200x652)Easter.jpg
>>415040
This will be an odd one:

Some may immediately recognise the place (or at least the country) based on the event happening. Otherwise, a keen eye may be able to narrow down the region from clues.
No.415053
Mister Twister
Replies:>>415055
>>415041
South America.

?
No.415055
Anonymous
Replies:>>415059
>>415053
Afraid not.

I'd suggest looking at the more well-lit buildings and trees.
No.415059
Mister Twister
Replies:>>415060
>>415055
Spain?
No.415060
Anonymous
Replies:>>415063
Image:149766392900.png(1.21MB, 1280x676)Easter 2014.png
>>415059
Much warmer, but still a fair way away.

A daytime view will help, even if it's fuzzy.
No.415063
Mister Twister
Replies:>>415064
>>415060
Prague.

If wrong, someone else can post, since...... reasons.
No.415064
Anonymous
>>415063
Closer, but not quite.

The town was Vrontados, on the Greek island Chios.

The event was Rouketopolemos, where two rival churches launch fireworks are each other every Easter and count who hit the other belfry the most.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouketopolemos

A nice 2015 video
//youtube.com/watch?v=avsGgxCid1kyoutube thumb
No.422068
Anonymous
Replies:>>422073
Image:160853291801.jpg(375kB, 3456x1803)[redacted]_at_the_evening_(cropped).jpg
This place was renamed last year.
No.422073
Mister Twister
Replies:>>422075
>>422068
That is either Australia or Saudi Arabia.
No.422075
Anonymous
Replies:>>422076
>>422073
Neither. In fact, neither region, but Saudi Arabia is the closest by far.

I picked it because it surprised me.
No.422076
Mister Twister
Replies:>>422096
>>422075
Don't tell me......... it's the capital of Kazakhstan.
No.422096
Anonymous
Replies:>>422099
Image:160878353870.jpg(204kB, 1024x684)Astana-1024x684.jpg
>>422076
It is! Nur-Sultan (formerly Astana).
What gave it away?
No.422099
Mister Twister
>>422096
I happen to know about the landmarks of many cities.
No.422318
Anonymous
Replies:>>422319>>423715
Image:161043963004.jpg(299kB, 800x800)8767654.jpg
Where me be?
No.422319
Anonymous
Replies:>>422321
>>422318
Google says Oink Hog Roast on Victoria Street, Edinburgh.
No.422321
Mister Twister
Replies:>>422331
>>422319
I forgot to mention, but using reverse image search is cheating.
No.422331
Anonymous
>>422321
You shouldn't really need to tell people that.
Reverse image searching on google literally takes all the fun/point out of the game.
No.423715
Anonymous
>>422318
I was going to guess Britain, maybe England, because of the red on the right. Close, but not close enough.
No.424180
Anonymous
Replies:>>424183
Image:162976729375.png(1.06MB, 1000x667)city.png
Guess the place.

Will Twister guess it in one attempt?
No.424183
Mstr Twstr
Replies:>>424184
>>424180
No, I will NOT guess it in 1 attempt. Oslo.
No.424184
Anonymous
Replies:>>424187
>>424183
I feel it's one of those 'You know it or you'll never guess' ones, like Kazakhstan's capital. Not Oslo.
No.424187
Mstr Twstr
Replies:>>424188
>>424184
........ Somewhere in India.
No.424188
Anonymous
Replies:>>424194
>>424187
Nope, but I believe it's now two borders away. Both of them a risk to cross.
No.424194
Mstr Twstr
Replies:>>424196
>>424188
Goddammit, must be Thailand.
No.424196
Anonymous
Replies:>>424198
Image:163021569812.jpg(121kB, 1051x788)pingpyong.jpeg
>>424194
It's Pyongyang, North Korea (DPRK). Flag is visible in the bottom right in this image.
No.424198
Mstr Twstr
Replies:>>424199
>>424196
So much for "2 borders away"... I was thinking of India still.
No.424199
Anonymous
Replies:>>424200
>>424198
India borders China borders Best Korea. So yeah, two borders.
No.424200
Mstr Twstr
Replies:>>424209
>>424199
Well, more embarrassing for me. Post another.
No.424209
Anonymous
Replies:>>424210
Image:163045835004.jpg(221kB, 960x720)bird.jpg
>>424200
This is a super tough one, I probably wouldn't be able to pick it.

Clue, which explained to me why it is so hard and might guide you on what to ignore:
>[redacted] is a private, planned city built near [redacted]. It is stylistically based on the Italian town Portofino, with a street and several buildings bearing the name of that town.
No.424210
Mstr Twstr
>>424209
Colombia, eh?
No.424225
Anonymous
Replies:>>424226
Geographically far off, but the right mindset.
No.424226
Mstr Twstr
Replies:>>424227
>>424225
Portugal?
No.424227
Anonymous
Replies:>>424261
>>424226
Nope.
It's a country with far more people than either.
No.424261
Mstr Twstr
Replies:>>424266
>>424227
Don't tell me it's Malaysia.
No.424266
Anonymous
Replies:>>424267
Image:163139717962.jpg(113kB, 1024x486)1024px-Lavasa_Nightscape.jpg
>>424261
I won't, because it's in India.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavasa
It's a bit of a cheat Guess The Place as it's literally designed to look like another place.
No.424267
Mstr Twstr
>>424266
My OP was 100% a cheat, so you did well.
No.424706
Mstr Twstr
Replies:>>424723
Image:163902402308.jpg(1.41MB, 2272x1704)someplace with boats.jpg
I shall revive the thread!
No.424723
Anonymous
Replies:>>424724
>>424706
Northern USA
No.424724
Mstr Twstr
Replies:>>424727
>>424723
Northern, yes. But not USA.
No.424727
Anonymous
Replies:>>424728
>>424724
My second guess would have been a Western Europe (France, Spain) but I shall instead say South Canada.
No.424728
Mstr Twstr
Replies:>>424743
>>424727
Stick with Europe.
No.424743
Anonymous
Replies:>>424747
>>424728
Italy.
No.424747
Mstr Twstr
Replies:>>424787
>>424743
To the north of that.
No.424787
Anonymous
Replies:>>424788
>>424747
Northern Italy
No.424788
Mstr Twstr
Replies:>>424789
>>424787
It's to the north of Italy. And it's definitely not Italy.
No.424789
Anonymous
Replies:>>424797
>>424788
That leaves either Austria or Germany, unless you mean further up north as in Scandinavia?
No.424797
Mstr Twstr
>>424789
Your guess is very good.
No.424819
Anonymous
Replies:>>424820>>424823>>424835
Image:164012693942.jpg(471kB, 1600x1200)Forest.jpg
Four images. Not easy, but I'm confident you'll get within a couple of borders.

All from the same general part of a country, just need to get the country
No.424820
Anonymous
Image:164012700390.jpg(99kB, 600x400)Clouds.jpg
>>424819
No.424821
Anonymous
Image:164012709707.jpg(4.64MB, 5184x3888)Houses.jpg
No.424822
Anonymous
Replies:>>424835
Image:164012716293.jpg(82kB, 602x452)Flowers.jpg
No.424823
Mstr Twstr
Replies:>>424832
>>424819
Slovakia. Also no one guessed mine yet.
No.424832
Anonymous
Replies:>>424833
>>424823
Germany.
>Slovakia
No, around 4-5 borders away.
No.424833
Mstr Twstr
>>424832
I misread
>flowers
as
>Alps
SOMEHOW.

To the north of Germany. And maybe Montenegro.
No.424835
Anonymous
Replies:>>424868
>>424819
>>424822
The flowers make me think of Bulgaria, but the houses make me think of South America.
No.424868
Anonymous
>>424835
Bulgaria is the closer one by far, but still a few borders off. I get the feeling you and Twister may have correctly recognized the flowers, so you've hit close to the region.
No.425529
Anonymous
Replies:>>425530
Image:165158854344.jpg(3.98MB, 3856x2169)asdf.jpg
This is probably not hard to guess, but I just wanted to share this picture because it is really fucking beautiful in several ways (the incredible scale of the building is really humbling, and the sun lighting up the city blocks in the background is a beauty of its own).
Man-made and natural beauty clashing in one single picture.
No.425530
Mstr Twstr
Replies:>>425532
>>425529
Don't tell me it's Chehia.

Yes, that is how I spelled it.
No.425532
Anonymous
Replies:>>425533
>>425530
oh no, think more glorious.
No.425533
Mstr Twstr
>>425532
Did they actually make that thing in Moscow?
No.425856
Anonymous
Replies:>>425858
Image:165406300546.jpg(58kB, 431x600)tough.jpg
Props if you get the continent in 3 because I'm not that good.
No.425858
Mstr Twstr
Replies:>>425862
>>425856
The biggest of them all, Eurasia.
No.425862
Anonymous
Replies:>>425863
>>425858
Well it's technically not a continent, but yes.
No.425863
Mstr Twstr
Replies:>>425894
>>425862
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia
No.425894
Anonymous
Replies:>>425986
Image:165444004598.png(111kB, 799x734)continents.png
>>425863
Looks like we're both right because of conflicting valid models. Well, 5 guesses in Eurasia.
No.425985
Anonymous
Let's guess
No.425986
Mstr Twstr
Replies:>>426020
>>425894
Thailand.
South Korea.
India.
Arab Emirates.
Iran.
No.426020
Anonymous
Replies:>>426021
Image:165602282797.png(384kB, 400x543)montage.png
>>425986
Can be considered to share a border with Iran.
No.426021
Mstr Twstr
Replies:>>426022
>>426020
I ain't no expert, but I will go with name recognition and say Kuwait.
No.426022
Anonymous
>>426021
Correct!
Kuwait City, Kuwait. Shares maritime borders with Iran.
No.427122
Anonymous
Replies:>>427124>>427651
Image:166411378553.jpg(114kB, 1023x682)Lavatown.jpg
No.427124
Meester Tweester
Replies:>>427126
>>427122
Is that Canada or Alaska?
No.427126
Anonymous
Replies:>>427660
>>427124
neither
No.427651
Anonymous
Replies:>>427652
>>427122
It looks like when you look into an active volcano.
No.427652
Anonymous
>>427651
Or possibly... Mordor?
No.427660
Meester Tweester
>>427126
Some part of Russia then.
No.429028
Anonymous
Replies:>>429029>>429038>>429102
Image:168484141068.jpg(762kB, 1832x1488)n.jpg
Visit lovely _ _ _
No.429029
Anonymous
Replies:>>429030
>>429028
Based on the panel houses, I'm guessing eastern Europe or post-ussr countries.
No.429030
Anonymous
Replies:>>429034
>>429029
Close, very particular 'post-ussr' country.
No.429034
Anonymous
Replies:>>429036
>>429030
Ukraine?
No.429036
Anonymous
>>429034
Nope, further east.
No.429038
Anonymous
>>429028
Why didn't we invest in East Poland?
No.429102
Mister Twister
Replies:>>429103
>>429028
Magnitogorsk?
No.429103
Anonymous
Replies:>>429110>>429128
>>429102
No, though it IS in Russia.
Honestly should probably just reveal it at this point, since asking people to guess a specific place in Russia is unfair...
No.429110
Anonymous
>>429103
Sure, but then you win and have to re-roll a new place for us.
No.429128
Mister Twister
Replies:>>429131
>>429103
Random guess. Chelyabinsk?
No.429131
Anonymous
Replies:>>429135
>>429128
Nope, its way up north/north-east of there.
No.429135
Mister Twister
Replies:>>429136
>>429131
Norilsk?
No.429136
Anonymous
Replies:>>429137
>>429135
*Ding Ding Ding*
We have a winner!
No.429137
Mister Twister
>>429136
Good old political maps and basic knowledge of cities! Anyway, will post a place within a day.
No.429139
Mister Twister
Replies:>>429169
Image:168564047537.jpg(1.46MB, 2666x4000)a place somewhere.jpg
Have fun!
No.429169
Anonymous
Replies:>>429171>>429182
>>429139
Just too fuzzy for me to read much text, I'm assuming central-east Europe from what I could glimpse, and it doesn't contradict the architecture. Is it a lighthouse?
No.429171
Anonymous
Replies:>>429182
>>429169
Judging by the text, it is somewhere in northern Europe, England, maybe the Benelux, or wherever they have Ingman ice cream parlors.
No.429182
Mister Twister
>>429169
>>429171
It is not a lighthouse, and northern Europe is getting close.
No.429263
Mister Twister
Replies:>>430965
People, it's northern Europe. Just keep guessing!
No.429269
Anonymous
Replies:>>429402
Jersey, the island.
N^ E> <W vS ?
No.429402
Mister Twister
>>429269
Go north(er).
No.430964
Anonymous
Image:170394202143.jpg(482kB, 1830x1220)foggy city.jpg
No.430965
Anonymous
Replies:>>430966
>>429263
>People, it's northern Europe. Just keep guessing!

In that case that is definitely a Finnish flag, so somewhere in Finland.
No.430966
Mister Twister
>>430965
I thought no one would be able to see the flag from that flat angle. Bingo, it's Oulu!
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