Since Google Maps isn’t in China, but the country has a greatly varied and interesting landscape, from megacities to countrysides, from deserts to jungles, and from mountains to prairies, it’s a shame it’s entirely excluded from GeoGuessr.

Yes, Google Maps is blocked in China along with all other Google service since the early 2000s. Back in 2010, Google quit China by moving its headquarters from Beijing to Hong Kong. It was a dramatic exit prompted by Google’s refusal to bend to China’s demands to censor their search queries.

China is expanding the country’s “sovereign internet” with the launch of a rival to Google Earth. Like Google Earth and Google Maps, the new service, Mapworld, offers both virtual and satellite maps.

The short answer is that China does not use the same GPS standard as the rest of the world to plot coordinates on a map. Since maps of China use a different standard than the one used by GPS it causes the GPS coordinates to appear off, sometimes by a large amount, and this is known as the China GPS shift problem.

Navigate with Live View

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Maps app .
2. In the search bar, enter a destination or tap it on the map.
3. Tap Directions .
4. Above the map in the travel mode toolbar, tap Walking .
5. In the bottom center, tap Live View .

China: Tencent Maps offers street view many cities around China including Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Xi’an, Chengdu, Kunming, Wuhan, Lijiang, Dali, Sanya, Wuyuan, Ürümqi, Harbin, Changchun, Gobi Desert, including Lhasa and other sparsely populated places, and is currently …

What Is Baidu Used for? Baidu is China’s largest and most widely used search engine, much like Google in the U.S.

Due to national law, the use of geographic information in the People’s Republic of China is restricted to entities that obtain a special authorization from the administrative department for surveying and mapping under the State Council.

It is, in fact, illegal for foreign individuals or organizations to make maps in China without official permission. As stated in the “Surveying and Mapping Law of the People’s Republic of China,” for example, mapping—even casually documenting “the shapes, sizes, space positions, attributes, etc.

Every country in North America and South America (that GeoGuessr includes) drives on the right, as well as all countries in Europe, excluding the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, and Cyprus.