Geoguessr - Finland 3 minutes per round - Country Spotlight #7

Today we close out the trio of Scandinavian Peninsula nations with Finland! How well can I do with just 3 minutes per round? Let's find out.
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[@ChicagoGeographer]

Hey everyone! Clearly I am no Finland expert, but I hope you enjoyed the video anyway! Make sure to check out my Twitch channel as well: twitch.tv/chicagogeographer

[@tuke655]

And you still know Finland better than me. I'm a finnish person.

[@joonapukarinen1153]

@Atte Turppo LOPETAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaa!!!!!!!

[@JuliTheFurry]

3:05 that uudenmaankatu

[@JuliTheFurry]

Satama IS not a village its what we a sea Port(coud not rememder The world)

[@Zarniwooper]

Great tip for geoguessr Finland: if you see light rail, it's Helsinki (Tampere will get light rail in 2021)

[@aleksisuuronen5969]

I don't know how frequently they map these locations again and again but the cart is red in Tampere. It goes already but without passengers for this year to figure out the traffick. The actual rails have been there in some parts more than not for some years so that might be a bit of an headscrather if it hasn't been mapped from that time it wasn't moving still.

[@maxfi878]

@@aleksisuuronen5969 They haven't done Street View since 2014 and most of it is even older. Because of that there are now third parties (like a guy named Ari) who are covering Finland with bad camera quality and slow moving which basically ruin GeoGuessr.

[@maske4074]

Te tiedätte missä tavataan

[@epiclemon9927]

Etä-torilla tavataan

[@perunapelaaja_1772]

tuoko kukaa ämpäreitä?

[@maske4074]

@@perunapelaaja_1772 meikä hoitaa

[@jetsi6821]

Mestoil ollaa

[@perunapelaaja_1772]

@@maske4074 juu

[@h.l.69]

We: Espoonlahti He: A spoon latte

[@GardenOfMathemagics144]

AssPoo

[@tonyheiz5761]

@@GardenOfMathemagics144 Es poo 😂

[@mrfoxyyy2870]

@@GardenOfMathemagics144 basically espoo

[@jiipik]

Some vocabulary, satama = harbour (if without any specs on a sign it is usually an unimportant inland harbour), tie = road / street, katu = street, järvi = lake, lampi = pond, ranta = beach, kk = kirkonkylä = old town centre where the church is located, polku = trail, actually an urban very small street in the suburbs

[@ChicagoGeographer]

Good info, thank you!

[@dualityofsoul3841]

it physically and mentally hurt hearing you try and pronounce the names but it was still fun.

[@picklepepsi3705]

Its not his fault that we speak the hardest language in europe and the 7th hardest in the world, he tried his best atleast

[@nikopotry]

I think he did surprisingly good job (for a person who haven't probably ever studied or spoken finnish)

[@dualityofsoul3841]

@@nikopotry that is true, i wasnt trying to hate on him or anything with my comment i just meant to convey how ridiculous it actually is to pronounce finnish especially for people whose first language is for example english

[@epiclemon9927]

@Big blue whale ralli enklantii

[@zrzrzrzrz]

@Big blue whale teens do

[@u.s.k.maalof4969]

Someone: mentions something about Finland "Now all of Finland knows you're here"

[@Mephitinae]

_Immediately sees the legendary Stockmann department store, the iconic green trolley, and the landmark statue of the 3 smiths_ _Has basically found the Shibuya Crossing of Helsinki_ CG: "What is this city though?"

[@fleshesposito]

"I´m gonna keep Kuru in mind. That's propably a bigger place." That got me! :D

[@raikki7160]

Jep😂

[@jjsillipurkki]

I must say that you did very well. In R4 you had bilingual Finnish/Swedish names. That means S, SW, or W coast.

[@ChicagoGeographer]

Thanks! And that's a good point about R4. Yet another thing that I completely missed haha

[@mikrokupu]

Finnish street signs can look really tricky, they often have both Finnish and Swedish side by side, both are official languages. Like Helsinki/Helsingfors both are official names. Up in north in Lapland the indigenous Sami language is also used.

[@Sipu97]

Swedish is only used in the coastal areas and in the west.

[@TheSamVala]

Finland is Still a bilingual country.

[@blackcoffeebeans6100]

@@Sipu97 May be, but swedish is the official language all over in Finland.

[@UrheiluhuIIu]

Imagine getting this to your recommended and click the video and you see your house on video..... I actually did

[@tumeh7410]

Oliko se siellä satama nimisessä " kylässä"

[@UrheiluhuIIu]

@@tumeh7410 Joensuu

[@tumeh7410]

@@UrheiluhuIIu läpällä sanoin ku toi tyyppi sano tuota satamaa kyläksi

[@tammo02]

Lol

[@violaattoric6771]

yea i got this in my recommended too and then he said my last name (because its one of the tiny places.) and i was like O_O

[@kinkku4780]

i love that almost all the places are named after some old timey simple stuff. Jyväskylä = graintown. Pyydysmäki = hunting hill. Sepänkylä = blacksmith's town

[@DissedRedEngie]

Then you get 'Vammala'. Kinda yikes tbh

[@jeepujoona]

Good tip for Finland how you can eliminate half of Finland. Look at the trees. If there is lots of leaf trees, it is south Finland, but if there is lots of coniferous trees, then it is Lapland. if it little bit of both, then it is middle of Finland. And if there is no trees, then it is the northern most part of Finland.

[@tales-of-fossegrim]

dude just casually told him how to eliminate half of Finland.

[@suola__]

And then to eliminate half of southern Finland is to look for swedish

[@tumeh7410]

And if you see lakes its kinda bottom right of finland

[@suola__]

Except when it isnt

[@chrislfc2317]

@@tumeh7410 There are lakes everywhere...

[@mwickholm]

In case you didn't check it up, "satama" means "harbor". Nice that you did Finland, was screaming here when you searched for Siuntio in Lapland. :)

[@ChicagoGeographer]

Good to know! And yes I'm extremely disappointed about that round haha, I still can't believe how badly I screwed it up

[@tharetsku]

Finland is actually hard as hell, most of the spots you get are mostly bush and trees and an empty road.

[@Ex0rz]

Yeah a big country with less than 6 million people living here... Finland is in the bottom of the least densely populated countries. This video is a prime example of how low the population density is :D

[@finnicpatriot6399]

@@Ex0rz You mean top of least

[@user-pv7vc9kp9k]

Knowing the countries helps a ton

[@henkkahenrik4183]

looks directly at trams that pretty much don’t exist anywhere in finland exept helsinki: ”anything at all, please...” 😂

[@valentinoleppala]

Tampere gets them soon

[@buggy8396]

@@valentinoleppala Doesnt matter the trams in helsinki are way older and you can easily seperate them two

[@antonsalminen3301]

As a fin this is satisfying to watch you quess these

[@Sryloth]

same

[@akshljgdtgp]

I'm from Espoo. Thinking about it the city would be so tricky on geoguessr. It has a very large land area, but only the southern part of the city is metropolitan and densly populated and the north is basically country side.

[@velttovee2052]

Espoo could be brutal tbh xD.. One picture is like from Leppävaara station and next one from Lake Bodom or Siikajärvi National Park..

[@veksuvee9806]

@@velttovee2052 vat juu miin vit siikajärvi national park its nuuksio and siikajärvi is a pleis in nuuksio

[@kalamakkara]

VALINTATALO translated: choosehouse

[@AK_.]

More like choice house to be fair but yeah :D

[@Are1i]

There is a house that you can make choices in, what can I tell you.

[@Sryloth]

lmfao vittu

[@rasvakissa]

Rip valintatalo. They're no longer with us

[@humaanimal2481]

Good guess on that "i doubt we are gonna find "satama" here" while looking area with few lakes. Satama means harbor :D

[@hyge269]

this man really teleported to 2km away from my cottage

[@Laserjr]

Alternative title for the video: ”guy butchering finnish place names for 17 minutes straight”

[@skeppy6679]

yes

[@stasacab]

Jesus, I stopped with Scandinavia. Next time I hear "Chicago" I will ask, where in Mexico that is.

[@Frank71]

Little Village or Pilsen. It's mostly all Spanish Speaking. You think your in Mexico. "No habla ingles" "Next time I hear Chicago I will ask, where in Mexico that is" Response you hear... Veintiseis y California.....la esquina, cerca del carcel del condado....the Mexican part of town.

[@butterflies655]

Not a bad mistake. Still a lot of ppl think Finland was a part of the Soviet union and a part of Russia and Finns are quiet.

[@maunohorttanainen5450]

Chicago Geographer: * exploring some small villages in Lapland * Also him: _"Espoonlahti... Espoonlahti..."_ Me: * laughs in Finnish *

[@NamiZu00]

Also Finland is not q part of the Scandinavia, It's just a northern country

[@NamiZu00]

@Big blue whale since when has that happened?

[@cinderellaandstepsisters]

@@NamiZu00 Very often.

[@butterflies655]

I wish ppl would defend Finland, when still a lot of foreigners think Finland is a part of Russia.

[@hajonnut]

trio of sweden, norway and finland. [distant denmark crying noises]

[@Sipu97]

Finland is not a part of Scandinavia, but a Nordic country :)

[@morallybankrupt7132]

I've been reading a little on European tram systems, mostly France, but I also looked up Finland some time ago. If I remember correctly, the only city in Finland that still has trams is Helsinki.

[@mwickholm]

Yes, I can confirm that.

[@ChicagoGeographer]

Makes sense! I figured the first round had to be Helsinki from the start but I just wanted to get a solid confirmation.

[@jjsillipurkki]

Yep, Tampere is building theirs, though

[@holoholopainen1627]

The Tampere TEST TRAM - had its 1st accident already ! It was just Test Driving - so NOBODY got HURT ! Thank God

[@aleksisuuronen5969]

@@holoholopainen1627 Many factors to that tho. We all know how taxi drivers drive like in coke and people still aren't expecting any danger when coming from that curved hill from Hallila (or anywhere where the tracks are) because it's so new addition to the traffic (and doesn't go so frequently as when it starts to take passengers) and also it's winter so it's really slippery right at that place where it happened so it's hard to break early enough. I do wonder tho that isn't there lights? I used to live just by the road some and a few years back, aren't they already synced the lights to match when the tram is coming. But yeah this is why they do a whole year these test drivers so stuff like this won't happen again.

[@ihavetopowerofgodandanimeo2551]

Finland isn't really a part of scandinavia(sweden, denmark and norway are), but it is one of the nordic countries(sweden, denmark, norway, iceland and finland)

[@butterflies655]

Partly Finland is located on the Scandinavian peninsula. Finland 🇫🇮 is a Nordic country with Sweden 🇸🇪 Norway 🇸🇯 Denmark 🇩🇰 and Iceland 🇮🇸 politically, economically, religiously culturally and geographically. All of them are members of the Nordic council.

[@axelrajantie9381]

I can fuken not deal with the amount of frustration in me

[@WWRTheJudge]

Greetings from Finland 🤜🏻🇫🇮🤛🏻 2021.

[@miikakankkunen1045]

You did pretty well as a foreigner

[@MetroPoika13Pelailee]

Tip for you! when u see swedish on road signs it means u r very close to the coast line

[@taranectaria]

The first one was very close to where I live woah :D Btw you did so well!

[@erroremma4679]

One of my fav passtimes is listening to people trying to pronounce finnish 😂 Good job friend

[@zikkeboi]

As a finn this is some of the most enjoyable content imaginable xD

[@masterticcu]

Actually insane. Great job dude!

[@whatever4111]

I screamed at the end of the last round when you hovered your mouse on top of Kontiolahti. The sign showed Kontiolahti to the north and tractor route to Joensuu to the south. Normal route to Joensuu to the east, but no distances. This usually means the smaller place is really close by, while it just points to the larger one. It pointed Joensuu to the east since highway 6 was closeby to the east. The yellow town sign said Kontiolahti, but it was hard to read. The small bike distance sign says something 2 km to Kontiolahti and 17 or so to Joensuu.

[@Jaakobsten]

As a finnish person it is so annoying to watch this when u now exactly where you are

[@kasperjoonatan6014]

Teisko, Tampere and Kuru 🧡

[@anelma.9540]

*video about finland* Him: I’ve always wanted to go to Scandinavia

[@Lmuussi]

That feeling when your from Finland and he goes next to main building of Finland and he doesn't even notice

[@ChicagoGeographer]

Wow lol

[@are3287]

What "Main building", I'm from Finland too and there's no "main building" huh

[@nicoh332]

Mikä vitun Suomen päärakennus

[@Lmuussi]

@@are3287 i have no idea either this comment was 10 months ago i have friggin idea what i was taliing about

[@budipyromaani]

I live in Joensuu, Kontiolahti is a neighbour town of Joensuu.

[@samukantelinen3560]

When I saw the last one i felt like it looks like a place where I have been, as you checked the Kontiolahti-Asemankylä sign I realized it was my hometown.

[@samukantelinen3560]

Also also Finland isn't officially considered to be a part of scandinavia.

[@tezvx]

As a Finlandian I instantly recognized the first one as Helsinki since I'm there like every week.

[@aaleh_04]

Finland is not part of Scandinavia. It`s part of Fennoskandia and the Northern countries though.

[@js0988]

And still no one cares!

[@cinderellaandstepsisters]

Partly Finland is located on the Scandinavian peninsula. All the Scandinavian countries are also Nordic countries. No difference. Nordic countries are Finland 🇫🇮 Norway 🇸🇯 Denmark 🇩🇰 Sweden 🇸🇪 and Iceland 🇮🇸. They are all members of the Nordic council.

[@kasperjoonatan6014]

Finland is not in Scandinavia! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia If you don't want to hurt Finns' feelings, don't say that. That is like saying we are Swedish 😫

[@kasperjoonatan6014]

@Big blue whale I think I am more anxious when that happens.

[@henkkahenrik4183]

ehh, i’m fine with finland being called scandinavian, even tho it’s kinda inaccurate, part of northern lapland is still technically scandinavia.

[@kasperjoonatan6014]

@@henkkahenrik4183 Henrik must be a Sami or Norwegian spy 😁

[@henkkahenrik4183]

@Kasper Joonatan nope. southern finn from kotka harbor born and bred. and so has been my family for as many generations as i know. the fact that we have forrest property in kotka that we keep inheriting kinda keeps most of us here. nobody is even sure how fucking long that property has been in our family, and who was dumb enough to buy so much forrest in the first place, but we’re kinda stuck with it. none of us has ever even had any forestry education, we just kinda deal with it. most of our family are logistics workers and programmers, even my grandpa has mostly worked in logistics. i think my grandpa even sold most of it but there’s still more than enough forests still left in our name. well atleast we ain’t running out of firewood or xmas trees in few generations...

[@singleturbosupra7951]

I don't know anyone who'd be offended by calling Finland Scandinavian, I don't care one bit, most likely it is just people mixing the terms Scandinavian and Nordic

[@juhis8921]

When some one is doing something about finland all finish peapole finds in here

[@chrislfc2317]

7:06 I've been in that red cottage (store named ABC) when me and my football team came home from a tournament😂

[@limaturskiainen]

i live in kuru so i was impressed that it was close to that

[@frankdoe1696]

16:15 Kontiolahti was right there on the map! a little north of Joensuu

[@januszsmalec697]

Man u R good

[@ChicagoGeographer]

Thank you!

[@opahgpv7786]

Mies sinä OLET hyvä

[@jopera7798]

Ai saw annankatu and thought immediately that the first one was helsinki

[@cat157]

YES MY HOME COUNTRY FINLAND

[@muronjunat1826]

Oon myös suomest

[@cat157]

@@muronjunat1826 torilla tavataan

[@muronjunat1826]

@@cat157 sorry, en asu Helsingis

[@cat157]

@@muronjunat1826 iso rip

[@robinlindholm1525]

1:42 Finland isn't a Scandinavian country

[@ryhminesko6614]

Finland isn't Part of Scandinavia btw

[@js0988]

NO ONE FUCKING CARES!!!!!!

[@DatFinnishGuy]

@@js0988 you seem to care cuz u answering in every 1 of these comments

[@butterflies655]

More Scandinavia than Russia surely.

[@snadisni]

Hahaha, this was great! Just randomly found this video and boom - the second place is from my home town! Like seriously in the middle of nowhere! 😂 So the second challenge was pretty easy to me.

[@duli2427]

Finland actually isn't part of scandinvia. Scandinvia consists of Sweden, Norway and Denmark c:

[@cinderellaandstepsisters]

It is a Nordic country anyway. No differences.

[@duli2427]

@@cinderellaandstepsisters Of course there are many similarities, for example the societys are very much like each other, but then we have many different things too. Finnish language and history are very different from scandinavia.

[@Silveirias]

@@cinderellaandstepsisters Yes there is a difference. Scandinavia refers to Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Nordic Countries refers to Scandinavia plus Finland and Iceland, and the overseas territories of Denmark and Norway.

[@duli2427]

@Big blue whale Yes Finland is part of the nordic countries, but not under the term scandinavia, because norway, sweden, denmark and iceland share the same kind of language and closer history than finland with them. Though swedish is offically our second language here, nobody really wants to learn it because most of us see it as very useless language compared for example, to english, and only small part of the population speaks it as their first language. But like you and I both said, the societys are similar.

[@butterflies655]

​@@duli2427Finnish history is not different. Finland was directly a part of Sweden for over 600 years.

[@kilmameri]

10:26 that's... whyd you day those are small towns? how does he know based on a sign?also that road looks like a basic intercity road, like one of the numbers ones like 13 and 4

[@64ankka]

Because the sign revealed that the villages were just two kilometres apart, so they couldn't be big towns

[@Kuplpa]

I have been in that place on left 7:08

[@jeffthegod_]

''my country go brrrrrr'' - Gemify

[@jannepaananen1046]

6:40 man was going around my hoods😂

[@juuzosavi]

In the last one you had the yellow town sign. Normally under those is the name of the town

[@jonni6826]

6:41 This is where the upper sign said there was a school over there. Its in Finish koulu... Koulu=scool. And 6:50 It says: ohitus kaista What is the bypass in English😂

[@kais3297]

i drive through where you were in round 4 and didnt even recognize it before the bigger intersection

[@hethey66]

OMG! My mother works at a place that is very close to where you started the first round.

[@Lmuussi]

Really good video

[@fgs4emill]

Yay finally something to watch and btw i from finland

[@nordicgunpowder]

my town at 10:40. I was like whaaat? Welcome to my house.

[@8x5t3e7s4r6y]

I droven that Espoonlahti Road with Porsche 911, its really fun Road to drive.

[@SnibediSnabs]

Oh wow, I got a pretty nice score of 24005. Though to be fair I would've never gotten #4 if not for the fact that I actually drove through there semi-recently and recognized the area from memory.

[@esjonne6651]

Suomi!! Torilla tavataan!!

[@FinnishElevators]

Etä-Torille!

[@muronjunat1826]

@@FinnishElevators justnii

[@eetu2773]

Justiin niin

[@masa6259]

9:55 I live super close to that place

[@smcr_stg6461]

You went right by my local shchool on the last one

[@Edezkii]

Lieksa maailman kartalle, torille

[@ashullu]

wow one of those places was my hometown!

[@hk416enjoyer8]

11:52 I know where that is

[@cherrybearberry]

The pronunciation is cute lmaoo

[@amppuli]

it’s weird to see town you live in in this lol xD

[@drivingmanualfinland956]

This was hilarious!

[@otjayk2784]

Kirkkonummi mainittu 10:38

[@rustyspace900]

Green trams = Helsinki, red trams = Tampere

[@allenenottup4545]

Satama means port or harbor

[@mikkohannila2014]

kenen muun mielestä ulkomaalaiset kun puhuu suomee on hauska kuunella

[@vanhahillo9984]

the 4th one is near my summer cottage

[@MilenaAnnina]

With your voice you should be doing ASMR and voice over jobs

[@markosuhonen5511]

Tampere "ThAnpHeReE" Kuru "KghUrUu"

[@iarmycombo5659]

Plays geoguessee for work, also calla finland scandinavian country. Somethings not right here, i can feel it.

[@kariahola463]

That was painful !

[@ChicagoGeographer]

That's rude.

[@sahiblindberg]

Good stuff but I'd like to remind you that Finland in fact is not part of Scandinavia!

[@Vammaidtuki]

Finland has everything what peoples need good to I live in Finland

[@Sryloth]

yes

[@liinuskaikkonen7820]

Im from finland and u know the country better than me lol

[@xwillex]

Man my country looks good

[@mattiaspaananen3461]

Btw finland is not part of scandinavia

[@butterflies655]

More Scandinavia than Russia.

[@scrumpe8517]

Hah i drive that road on the 4th round like every day

[@maunohorttanainen5450]

Satama means harbor

[@KanaKukk0]

satama means harbour

[@maxfi878]

I got 19009 points. I got 5000 from the first 3 rounds but lost some points on the 4th and especially the 5th round. But I was on mobile so I think that's quite good.

[@maxfi878]

Also on round 1, 3 and E12 are the same road, but I think Google only shows one label per road.

[@ChicagoGeographer]

Nice work, especially for being on mobile! You just barely beat me by 11 points lol

[@annsivaxby9910]

Im in finland 🇫🇮