Norway

Very mountainous, fjords along most of the coast

Sweden: All-white lines + red-yellow infra → Sweden.

Finland: Flat + lakes → Finland.

Denmark: Flat + æøå + brick → Denmark.

Almost all houses wooden: red (like SE/FI), black more common than elsewhere, white frequent; wooden houses even in suburbs (SE/FI use more brick); traditional grass roofs

Plates long white + EU strip; commercial plates green (vans!) - most common in Europe here

Green plates exist elsewhere only on EVs - frequent green VAN plates = Norway.

Small roads: long dashed white outer lines; bigger roads: solid outer + yellow middle w/ orange tinge; lines often made of paint dots

Sweden: Yellow middle → Norway.

Finland: Dashed outers → Norway.

Norwegian: Æ Ø Å (Danish identical letters!); vs Swedish: more E's, 'kk' instead of 'ck'

Denmark: Flat Denmark vs mountains; Danish infra (rectangular line sections).

Sweden: Ä/Ö → Sweden; Æ/Ø → Norway.

Iceland: þ ð → Iceland.

Bollards: thin curved rectangles, reflector inside a black parallelogram

Snow poles orange w/ thin reflector near the middle; also thin wooden snow poles with painted reflectors (other Nordics: wooden ones lack reflectors)

Sweden: Wide high reflector → Sweden.

Finland: Top reflector → Finland.

Guardrails often on wooden posts (not SE/FI); rusty guardrails → coasts (esp. southern west coast)

Wooden guardrail posts are the quick Nordic separator - Sweden and Finland use steel.

Sweden: Wooden posts → Norway; steel posts → Sweden.

Finland: Wooden posts → Norway; steel posts → Finland.

Pedestrian signs: 4 stripes + very simply drawn person (variants: 5 stripes, hatted person); SE = detailed person no hat, FI = 5 stripes

Directional signs yellow w/ black border + road number in green (E/major) or white (small) box; traffic signs = white background + red outline (SE/FI: yellow!); bright-yellow construction signs; small signs attached w/ 4 bolts in a tall rectangle

Blue M signs (meeting place) - Swedish version's M font differs (middle point not to the bottom in NO); bus stops = small blue sign w/ white bus; 'Sone' speed-zone signs in cities

Chevrons yellow on black; white square km markers: road number (R = findable on the map, Fv = hard) + distance to next town

Street suffixes -veien / -gata/-gate attached (Sweden: väg/gata detached variants; Denmark: vej/gade); street signs centred on top of posts (Sweden: side-mounted)

Wooden poles w/ Nordic black metal cap; lamps mounted w/ thick SINGLE bolting (SE/FI: double)

Gen4 smallcam coverage

Road-number first digit = region (exceptions among 1-2-digit roads; 9 = road 9 N of Kristiansand + far north; Fv roads don't follow)

Sámi bilingual signs in the north: Á, Đ, several vowels in a row

Vegetation: bracken ferns → south; spruces → SE + Trondheim; pines → southern coasts + far inland; oaks → far south; maples → Oslo farmlands; bright moss → Lillehammer↔Oppdal

Farmland triangle: SE/Oslo = flattest, rolling w/ smooth forested hills; Trondheim = hilly & uneven; south of Stavanger (Jæren) = flat, vast open grass fields + round-rock walls

Deep fjords + tall mountains → Bergen↔Trondheim; Lofoten = sharp rocky low-tree mountains; NE = rolling, tiny birches + patchy grass; SW = barren treeless highlands; south coast = exposed rock w/ coastal pines; far-north coast = bare grasslands + low distant mountains; all-white villages → south coast

Black snow poles → Bergen↔Trondheim; small wide black pole plates → southeast; Svalbard = separate page here

Oslo: big black/red pole plates; Stavanger: two red stripes on lamp posts; Bergen: green fire hydrants

Russian border: humid green overcast/foggy road w/ low thin birches+pines; Russian on signs near Kirkenes (E6/E105); Røros = dense traditional wooden mining town