
India
# Overview
Essential identification keys

Position

Sign Post

License Plate
# Top Clues
Most useful for recognizing the country

Gen 1
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Language

License Plate

Locally Unique
Pole
# Regional Clues
Area-specific indicators

Elevation
# Languages
14
Hindi

Marathi (ळ)

Punjabi (ਨ, ਲ, ਅ)

Gujarati (No Line)

Bengali (lots of triangles)

Assamese (à§°, à§±)

Kannada (very curvy, lots of circles)

Telugu (often has checkboxes on top)

Tamil (straight lines, 90° angles, curves)

Oriya (skull-like characters)

Malayalam (upside-down U-shapes)

Manipuri (vertical lines, right angles)

Mizo

English

# Architecture
9
Rounded Roof Tiles

Organized, orange, flat-ridged tiles

Flat tiles with diamond shaped protrusion

Corrugated sheet metal hip roofs

Metal Roofs with triangle at top

Houses made of square panels, thin beams

Thatched Roofs

Gurdwaras (white domes, ornate walls)

Wealthy, modern homes

# Landscape
8
Himalayan Mountains

Extremely dry in Himalayas

Very flat, agricultural fields

Dark Soil

Red Soil

Dry landscape, sandy soil

Distinct ridgelines, often with plateaus

Lush, green valleys with low vegetation, hills

# Plants
11
Chir Pines

Euphorbia Fences

Palmyra Palms

Areca Palms

Khasi Pines

Date Palms

Oil Palm Plantations

Tea Plantations

Sugarcane Fields

Cotton Fields

Canola Fields

# Poles
10
Concrete Holey Poles

Two Section Poles

Mesh Metal Poles

Metal Holey Poles

Thin Grey Metal Poles

Four Yellow-Black Stripes

Yellow Pole Markings

Yellow-Black Pole Paint

Black-White Tree Stripes

Red-White Tree Stripes

# Pole Tops
14
Karnataka Trident Poletops

"Window"-Metal Poletops

Upside down triangle Poletops

Upside down Trapezoid Poletop

Upside Down "A" Bars

Two Vertical Bars forming tall, narrow rectangle

Two crossbars connected by thin vertical supports

Mix of even and uneven Poletops

Diagonal bars forming "<" shape

Two Crossbars with two insulators each

More than two bars with two insulators

Trident Poletops with 90° bent tip

Trident Poletops on metal poles

Short above long crossbar

# Infrastructure
2
"Window"-Mint Green Electricity Counters

Yellow Black Tuk Tuks

# Miscellaneous
4
Large Square Car

Grey Boxy Car

Square-Pattern Wooden Fences

Buddhist Prayer Flags

# Architecture
3
Grey Bricks in roofs/walls/piles

White Clay Huts

Cross Pattern Wooden Huts

# Cities
4
Blue Signs

Bright Orange/Green Buses

Black Taxis with yellow roof

Taxis with yellow hood/small circle

# Landscape
7
Barren Himalaya

Snowy Mountains in brownish valley

Mountain Massif with three distinct Peaks

V-Shape, green valley with smooth ridges

Salt flats with nearly no vegetation

Monolothic mountains with exposed rocks

Flat, bushy landscape with very red soil

# Plants
6
Japanese Cedar Trees

Himalayan Cedar Trees

Bhutan White Pine

Doum Palms

Indian Pitcher Plant

Many coconut trees painted red-white

# Miscellaneous
3
Black Pole stickers with white arrow

Grey, Thin Antenna

Khasi Pines with yellow outer lines, dark pavement

Rarity
UniqueNowhere else on Earth
Locally UniqueUnique on its continent/region
RareOnly rarely found in this country
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