Switzerland

Europe, drives on the right, .ch, +41

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Script
Latin
Language
German, French, Italian
Road edge lines
White, solid
Centre lines
White, dashed, White, solid
Bollards
White, black top
Bollard reflector
White / grey
Camera
Gen 3, Gen 4
Licence plates
White
Warning signs
White triangle
Landscape
Alpine, Mountainous
Vegetation
Pine
Road numbers
A

Country-wide 10

Cars

ALL car coverage = low-cam (bigger blur, roads look wide, low angle)

Japan: Kanji/kana + left-hand traffic → Japan.

Liechtenstein: FL plates; tiny country between CH and AT.

Plates unique here

Plates fully white, NO blue strip; front plate extremely short; rear long or tall w/ red Swiss emblem left + canton emblem right

Bollards

Bollards black-white w/ white/grey reflectors - wedge or cylindrical w/ rounded top (Liechtenstein nearly identical)

Liechtenstein: FL plates + Vaduz castle views → Liechtenstein.

Signs

Directional signs: blue = main road, white = side road; road signs often in a round grey metal border; town signs white/blue w/ metal frame (back: distances + canton abbreviation)

Signs unique here

Pedestrian signs: 7 stripes on a tall blue rectangle (Europe: only CH+FL)

Liechtenstein uses identical signs - everything else in Europe differs.

Liechtenstein: Black plates w/ yellow-red emblem → Liechtenstein; white plates → Switzerland.

Markings unique here

Long dashed yellow lines + yellow pedestrian crossings (Europe: only CH+FL)

Yellow crossings/dashes = Switzerland or Liechtenstein only.

Liechtenstein: Black plates w/ yellow-red emblem → Liechtenstein; white plates → Switzerland.

Signs

Chevrons black w/ white arrow (rarely inverted; Austria = red-white/red-yellow)

Landscape

South = extremely mountainous w/ thin valleys; north = farmland on flat/rolling ground w/ forested hills

Arch

Alpine: light warm stone + wood, gable tiled roofs, two-part horizontal wooden shutters

Signs unique here

Bus-stop signs w/ thick metal post looping around them - unique to Switzerland

Regional 5

Language

4 languages (German/French/Italian/Romansh) by region; Swiss German has NO ß; speed-sign text language matches the region

Naming

Canton 2-letter abbreviations on town signs + unblurred plates; postal-code first digit increases west → east

Landscape

Jura: flatter land w/ long forested medium ridge NW; exposed limestone from forested hills; rock walls (also Italian-speaking Alps)

Arch

Architecture regions: Ticino = Italian style (smooth orange-yellow stone, IT shutters); Bern area = thick arch-shaped roofs; northeast = elaborate red timber frames; Appenzell = house+barn at 90° w/ square-grid facades; Graubünden = all-stone houses w/ white painted window decor

Signs

Canton infra: Vaud = large town signs; Basel-Landschaft = olive-green posts/borders/backs; Valais = thick wooden bollards; Glarus = reflectors on fences instead of bollards; Geneva (+Martigny valley) = simplified bike symbol w/ disconnected wheels; road-divider types mapped

City 1

Signs unique here

Sankt Gallen = blue street signs w/ rounded side edges (unique); Basel = big blue signs on low double posts (Denmark-like); Bern downtown = grey 4-storey buildings w/ rounded arcade openings

Specific spots 2

Landscape

Lake tells: hilly + big lake south w/ tall mountains behind = north of Lake Geneva; wide lake NE in low terrain = Lake Constance; Martigny valley = highest fruit-plantation density (also near Constance & NW of Geneva)

Cars unique here

Bernina-Express train coverage in Graubünden (down to Tirano/Italy); Gen2 only near the Bern/Valais border + short Schaffhausen bits (+Gen2 ski resorts in the south)