Profile used for matching
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- Script
- Cyrillic, Latin
- Language
- Bulgarian
- Road edge lines
- White, solid
- Centre lines
- White, dashed, White, solid
- Bollards
- Plain white
- Bollard reflector
- Red
- Telephone poles
- Concrete
- Street View car
- Blue, Red, Black
- Car details
- Antenna, Tape
- Camera
- Gen 3, Gen 4
- Licence plates
- White, Blue side strip
- Warning signs
- White triangle
- Landscape
- Temperate, Hilly, Mountainous
- Road surface
- Poor
- Road numbers
- A, I, II, III, E
Country-wide 10
Plates standard European (blue strip left)
Cyrillic - but very often paired with Latin transliterations; Ъ only Bulgarian & (rarely) Russian; street = улица (ул.)
Russia: Latin next to Cyrillic + EU plates → Bulgaria; frequent Ъ as a vowel → Bulgarian.
North Macedonia: Macedonian Ѕ Ј Љ Њ → North Macedonia.
Serbia: Serbian Ђ Ћ Ј → Serbia.
Ukraine: і/ї/є + вул. → Ukraine.
Gen4 cars: blue (pan-European), red (also LV/LT/RU/SK/SE) or black (also GR/HR) - ± antenna, sometimes hidden; Gen3 = mostly March/April dead-'winter' look + grey-tape 'flag antenna'
Hungary: ő/ű + utca → Hungary.
Czechia: Ř/Ě/Ů → Czechia.
Slovakia: Ľ/Ô/Ä → Slovakia.
Romania: Ă/Ș/Ț + thick lines → Romania.
Cylindrical concrete poles (+ladder variant, wooden); most poletops = small alternating hook insulators; 3 large upward-hook insulators ≈ unique to Bulgaria (downward variant exists)
The 3-large-hook poletop is 'probably unique' per Plonk It - the small alternating hooks are the everyday version.
Chevrons red-on-white (also RO/TR/MK; GR/RS = black-white); directional + town signs show two lines (Cyrillic + Latin) - visible even from afar
The two-line bilingual signage is the fast Bulgaria tell among Cyrillic countries.
Pedestrian sign: 4 stripes + person wearing a hat - no other Eastern/Central-European sign has 4 stripes
Bollards rare & generic (red front/white back, inconsistent shape - ≈ HR/HU designs)
Thin road lines (Romania: much thicker); road quality fairly poor (cracks, potholes)
Romania: Thin lines → Bulgaria; thick → Romania.
Orange tiled roofs w/ mortar patches along corner tiles - famously uneven, 'poorly built' look
The sloppy mortar-corner roofs are the classic Bulgaria architecture tell.
Metallic trash bins of a distinct shape (also TR/RS/AL/MK)
Regional 4
Balkan range splits the country: flat north to Romania; Rhodope SE w/ highest peaks; second flat area between the ranges; west = small valleys in hills
Area codes ordered by first digit - the single best urban region clue
Pirin & Rila NP: pyramid peaks visible from Blagoevgrad/Kyustendil/Sofia provinces; wind turbines → Dobrich coast; Alpine-look houses → Smolyan region
Car metas: invisible Gen4 car → N+W borders + northern coast; red Gen4 → central + SE; short tape antenna → east (never Vratsa/Montana/Pazardzhik/Smolyan); taped LONG antenna + white car → Stara Zagora (+rare Plovdiv/Burgas); bulky unpeeled-tape antenna + March coverage → Varna
City 1
Sofia: white street signs w/ two red strips (others exist); Stara Zagora: brown signs w/ bright yellow text
Specific spots 1
Vratsa: distinct 'bumpy' mountains SW of the city; Nessebar/Sozopol old towns = unpainted stone + white walls + brown wood + cobblestone