🍀 March 17th is St. Patrick's Day (Lá Fhéile Pádraig), which is considered the national day of Ireland and is celebrated worldwide in areas with Irish heritage. Ireland is home to just over 5 million people and just over 4 million sheep. 🐑 Let's learn what clues we might find in a game of GeoGuessr that would tell us we're on the Emerald Isle.

Road signs are one obvious tell that you're in Ireland; the vast majority of the time, you'll see place names provided in both Irish and English; the Irish is usually written in italics above its equivalent in English.

Another more obvious hint that you're in Ireland over the UK is the presence of dashed yellow lines along the roadsides. These dashed yellow lines indicate that a driver should not pull over there unless it is an emergency. The UK uses solid white lines to indicate that message instead, so given similar landscapes, these road lines can help you pick the correct country.

It can be very helpful to learn all 26 of the counties in Ireland (and the 6 in Northern Ireland) for pinpointing your location quicker. Often the largest city in each county bears the same name as the county, so the names for these places are likely to show up on road signs.

Have you ever been to Ireland? Let me know in the comments! I spent a week in Ireland in the fall of 2022 and really enjoyed the landscapes, food, and most of all the hospitality of all the kind folks I met along the way.💚🐦

Come hang out and play GeoGuessr with us live every Saturday at 6PM Pacific / 9PM Eastern and Sunday at 5PM Pacific / 8PM Eastern!
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