China

All mainland coverage is tripod coverage - motion blur, slightly saturated colours, no car

Hong Kong: See a car/normal road coverage with Chinese signage → think HK (or Macau/Taiwan), not the mainland.

Macau: Car coverage + Portuguese/Chinese bilingual signs → Macau.

Simplified Chinese characters (reduced stroke count)

Taiwan: Complex many-stroke characters + car coverage + scooters everywhere → Taiwan.

Hong Kong: Traditional characters + English + left-hand traffic → HK.

Macau: Portuguese on signs → Macau.

Plates blue with white text

Coverage = several small spots, mainly in/near major east-coast urban areas; a big share is hidden coverage (not on Google Maps, only via Map-Making App)

Much coverage is inside museums - most covered museums are in/around Beijing & Shanghai

Ancient towns with coverage: Zhoucun, NE of Xuzhou, Yangzhou, west of Jiaxing, west of Zhangzhou

Outdoor urban coverage: Beijing, Yangzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chengdu

Plate 1st character = province indicator (京 Beijing, 沪 Shanghai, 粤 Guangdong…) - learnable

Palace Museum / Forbidden City - massive palace in the centre of Beijing

Today Art Museum: modern street with cafés/bars + an uncanny statue out front

Sichuan Museum: parking area with lots of greenery

Hubei Museum: palace-like architecture with grey roofs

Museum of Silk Production: rounded glass facade + fountain at the front

Long Museum: boxy concrete main building

Suzhou Museum: white-and-grey symmetric angular architecture

Yangzhou Museum: beige rounded stone building

Zhoucun = the only pinpointable ancient city - street runs straight north-south