Kenya

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Script
Latin
Language
English, Swahili
Road edge lines
White, solid
Centre lines
Yellow, solid, Yellow, dashed
Car details
Snorkel, Roof rack, Pickup truck
Camera
Gen 3, Gen 4
Licence plates
White front, yellow rear, White
Warning signs
White triangle
Landscape
Tropical, Arid
Vegetation
Acacia
Road surface
Poor, Unsealed
Road numbers
A, B, C

Country-wide 11

Cars unique here

Mostly Gen4 pickup-truck coverage - usually blurred, but sometimes coloured car parts or a snorkel show

Only Kenya and Mongolia have a Gen4 snorkel.

Mongolia: Savanna vs steppe - instant.

Markings

Road lines: outer always solid white, inner yellow (solid or dashed)

Utility

Poles concrete or wood w/ an L-shaped crossbar

Ghana: Follow-car + yellow rear plates → Kenya.

Cars unique here

A grey Toyota SUV follows the Street View car on much of the coverage

Plates

Plates: long white front / square YELLOW rear

General unique here

Safaricom mobile-network shops - unique to Kenya, in almost every city

Signs

Directional signs green w/ white border + text, road numbers white/yellow; other signs mostly red-white

Cars

Repurposed vans (matatus) everywhere

Uganda: Wrap design + Safaricom → Kenya.

Landscape

Eucalyptus very common (long clumped leaves, smooth bark) - supporting clue

Cars

Gen3: visible roof rack + snorkel (some Gen3 shows no car at all)

Utility unique here

Pole markings w/ a skull + danger message

Regional 3

Naming

County names appear on signs/billboards/posters → learn the counties; PO BOX postcodes: 'PO BOX XXX-YYYZZ' - the number after the hyphen = area code, city name often follows

Landscape

Coverage outside the SW mostly on main roads; east + north = extremely flat, SW = higher; climate zones humid → very arid (map); far west (around Kisumu) = the farm belt: grassy hills + eucalyptus; Kitui = semi-arid, light-orange sandy dirt; NW (A1/Sibiloi) = tan soil + sparse low trees + dirty exposed car

Landscape

Coast: coconut palms (+ rare Taita-Taveta); white flowers en masse → east of Chyulu Hills / Tsavo / A109 south of Nairobi; endless stick fences → around Narok; red brick → west + east of Nairobi; mud-and-stick houses → west + coast; light bricks w/ excess mortar → coast

City 1

Landscape unique here

Nairobi = the only skyscraper city, ringed by poor settlements; Mt Kilimanjaro visible to the south from Oloitoktok & the border area; Homa Bay = protruding hill east; Wajir = blinding white dirt roads + extremely red roadside soil

Specific spots 2

Roads unique here

Road spotlights: B9 (NE) = unpaved bright red-orange dirt; A2 Isiolo↔Marsabit = plants + big ranges (huge range west in Namunyak); A2 north of Marsabit = flatter, barer; A3 north of Garissa = light soil + green trees; western C34 = flat E-W, sugar cane + a long range north; B8 north of Kibaoni = succulents

Cars unique here

National-park cars (almost all w/ snorkel):