Bhutan

Plates almost always full red; taxis = yellow plates + yellow roofs

Within Asia, Bhutan is the only country with full-red plates - outside Asia, red plates exist (e.g. some European trade plates), so confirm with Dzongkha script or the stone barriers.

Coverage = grey Google car without antenna

The only LEFT-driving country with a grey car - don't mistake it for a white car (e.g. Philippines' silvery grey drives right).

Philippines: Left-hand traffic → Bhutan; right-hand traffic → Philippines.

Stone-block safety barriers on winding rural roads (guardrails rare) - the best rural Bhutan tell

Traditional architecture: tin roofs + ornate painted wooden frames - very distinct

Dzongkha script - on Street View these letters exist only in Bhutan

Mountainous - coverage mostly on main mountain roads (flat areas only in the south); prayer flags along roads

Thin metal poles, often painted black at the bottom

Road markers: yellow top + white bottom - best rural pinpointing clue; national-highway numbers on top (not on the map - learnable table)

Red/blue city signs with the town name - instant location tell in cities

Black-white striped signposts

Sri Lanka: Sinhala script → Sri Lanka.

India: Shitcam/smallcam + Indian scripts → India.

Nepal: All-shitcam + Devanagari → Nepal.

Malaysia: Malay Latin → Malaysia.

Bangladesh: Bengali script → Bangladesh.

Coverage on main roads & cities; two solid white outer lines → only western Bhutan near/south of Thimphu; flat landscape → only the four southern regions

Phobjikha Valley (S of Nubding): the largest wide, flat agricultural valley with no major river in view

A hook on the back of the car in Haa District (mainly the town of Ha) - sometimes barely visible

Late-sunset coverage in exactly two places: rural sideroad in east Mongar + urban area around Paro

Airport metas: Gelephu = the only southern flat airport; Paro International = dry NW valley; Bumthang Domestic = wet northern valley