Kyrgyzstan

Plates have a red strip

Albania: Albania = Gen4 camera, Mediterranean landscape, Latin script; bollards with black top + red reflector.

United Arab Emirates: UAE = desert, Arabic script, white Gen3 car with black roof racks - nothing like snowy Central Asia.

Silver car with four bars visible; all coverage is Gen3

Other countries have similar silver Street View cars (e.g. Guatemala), but no country with a similar landscape has one - and none of them uses the Cyrillic alphabet.

Guatemala: Cyrillic + Central Asian mountains → Kyrgyzstan; Spanish + Central American jungle → Guatemala.

Kyrgyz Cyrillic - like Russian but with extra letters Ө Ү Ң (not in Russian Cyrillic)

Kazakhstan: Spot Ә Қ Ғ Ұ І → Kazakhstan. Camera: KZ = white pickup (often Gen4), KG = silver Gen3 car with 4 bars.

Mongolia: Double vowels or the ЗОГС stop sign → Mongolia; yurts + bowling-pin bollards seal it.

Russia: No Ө Ү Ң anywhere → think Russia (its distinctive letters are Ы Э Ё Ъ). Plates fully white, no red strip.

Ukraine: A Latin-looking і inside Cyrillic text → Ukraine, not Kyrgyzstan.

Bulgaria: Latin everywhere alongside Cyrillic + EU blue strip on plates (very common sight) → Bulgaria. Bulgarian also uses Ъ as a vowel mid-word.

All coverage was captured in winter

Russia: Check the camera: KG = silver car w/ 4 bars; Russia = black/white Gen3 car w/ long antenna (or Gen4). Plates: KG red strip vs RU fully white.

Trees & concrete poles painted white at the bottom

Russia: Fully white plates + long-antenna Gen3 or Gen4 → Russia.

Kazakhstan: White pickup camera car → Kazakhstan.

Ukraine: Plate with blue-yellow strip on the left + some of Europe's worst roads → Ukraine.

Simple white bollards with a diagonal black stripe near the top

Russia: Sheer bollard quantity + fully white plates → Russia; combine with the car meta.

Mongolia: Pin shape + red (not black) stripes → Mongolia.

km markers with a red-and-white triangle pattern are unique to Kyrgyzstan

Majority Muslim → many mosques throughout the country

Kazakhstan: White pickup camera car (often Gen4) + Kazakh extra letters Ә Қ Ғ → Kazakhstan.

Coverage is very limited - learning the covered roads pays off massively

Learn the Google-car driving direction on the major roads to narrow down options

Car-mirror metas - the mirror region-guesses Kyrgyzstan

Divided roads are concentrated in and around Bishkek; a major divided highway runs Bishkek → Balykchy

Lake Issyk-Kul is the biggest body of water - often visible from the roads north & south of it

Northern roads: considerable snow + generally bright sky

Bishkek is by far the most developed city - many taller multi-storey buildings, fancier buildings on the outskirts; mountains to the south (often hard to see)

Urban snow coverage exists in one region of Bishkek

South of Bishkek: hilly, snowy Tian Shan to the south, visible smog to the north (most polluted city air)

Towns east & west of Bishkek feature colourful poles - yellow, green, white, sometimes red on top

Osh = 2nd-biggest city; has the southern mirror; weather fair with some clouds - never fully overcast (that's Manas)

Trees in Osh mostly keep their leaves (vs leafless Bishkek)

In the centre you can see mountains with radio masts on top

Manas (prev. Jalal-Abad) = 3rd-biggest city; southern mirror; extremely overcast with no cloud gaps (vs Osh's fair weather); slightly snowy hill to the east

Arslanbob - snowy mountain resort town north of Manas; big elevation changes inside the town; southern mirror

Uzgen - slightly snowy town between Osh & Manas; overcast coverage; southern mirror

In Talas most poles are painted white at the bottom with red & yellow stripes

Karakol sits between snow-capped mountains north & south; sunny coverage; melting snow on the ground

Naryn - steep orange ridge to the north, big snow-capped mountains to the south

Road metas below use OSM road numbers (Google Maps mislabels them) - in-game, orient by town names

EM-04 - the major road Bishkek → Osh

EM-11 (A365 on Google Maps) - Bishkek down to the Chinese border

EM-09 - Balykchy → Karakol along the NORTH shore of Issyk-Kul

EM-10 (A363) - Karakol → Balykchy along the SOUTH shore of Issyk-Kul

EM-17 - southeast of Talas

EM-13 - small gravel road near Kazarman (only bits covered)

M-072 - west of Naryn, south side of the dry Naryn valley

M-068 - east of Naryn, also in the Naryn valley

M-082 - Song-Kul and the mountains south of it

M-118 - Arslanbob down into the Fergana valley

M-107 - Taskomur → Kerben (only the first half covered)

Arkit road - up to Sary-Chelek lake, one of the most unique roads

Other smaller covered roads