Romania

Plates long white + single blue strip left

Romanian (Romance, Italian-like): Ă Ș Ț + Â Î

Turkey: Ă and Ț → Romania; dotless ı → Turkey.

Italy: Ă Ș Ț diacritics → Romania.

Holey poles with holes to the very bottom (wide or tall holes); round concrete poles too (≈ Bulgaria)

Poland: Bottom holes → Romania.

Hungary: Big holes → Romania.

Bulgaria: Cyrillic → Bulgaria.

Trees & poles w/ white-painted bottoms (also UA + parts of RU); huge yellow pole stickers - Romania-specific, with the town name in the middle

The extremely large yellow sticker is Romania-only - smaller yellow stickers also exist in Bulgaria and Hungary.

Bulgaria: Huge sticker with the town name → Romania; smaller sticker → Bulgaria.

Hungary: Huge sticker with the town name → Romania; smaller sticker → Hungary.

Upside-down-triangle poletop supports (also CZ/SK/AL/RS)

Waystones very common: large w/ red or blue frame + road number, rugged real-stone ones, or tiny all-white ones

Outer lines = short dashes w/ narrow gaps; middle lines noticeably thick (Bulgaria: thin)

Bulgaria: Thick middles → Romania; Cyrillic → Bulgaria.

Directional signs blue, arrow-shaped, white border + red/blue road number; town entry = yellow sign w/ speed limit + skyline over a white name sign; black sign backs (also IT/AL/DE)

Chevrons red-on-white, often with a yellow frame (frame ≈ Romania); yield sign w/ extremely thick red border + thin white outline unique

Bollards thin white w/ red vertical strip near the top - but rare in Romania

Turkey: Bollard rarity + Ă/Ș/Ț → Romania.

Single-family pastel stone houses; roofs orange tile → grey metal; walls of painted square tiles in patterns

Tall forested mountains centre/north; flat/rolling farmland south, west & east; haystacks with a stick through the middle

Dacia > 25% of all cars (no other Eastern-European country >10%)

Elevation: tallest mountains centre+north; south & west flat - hills north = you're in the south, hills south/east = you're in the west; orange tiled roofs dominate → western half; metal/fake-tile roofs → eastern half; sunflowers → far east (+far west)

Hungarian-border villages = Hungarian style (long straight streets, single-storey houses, short side to the road, orange tiles); Hungarian bilingual signs → Covasna/Harghita/Mureş (+border); Maramureș = elaborately carved wooden gates; south of Iași = rolling valleys w/ NNW-SSE angle + hilltop fields

City street signs: infographic covers every city >100k - learnable; Sibiu = 'squinting eye' roof windows

Road/coverage spotlights: 67C = mountain road w/ all-yellow lines; 7C (Transfăgărășan) = most dramatic mountains, peak at the Sibiu/Argeș border; Gen2 + mountains ≈ Brașov; Gen2 + flat ≈ Bucharest; green-boat trekker through overgrown canals in the far east (no roads there)