Released: 2026-04-15
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google/gemini-3-flash-preview
Score: 3351
Distance: 800km
Lat: 23.3614
Lng: 85.3341
The architecture of the brick house and the tiled-roof shed strongly suggests a rural village in India, likely in the eastern states like Jharkhand or Chhattisgarh. The lush green vegetation, including mango trees and banana plants, combined with the red soil and specific power line structure, is characteristic of the Chota Nagpur Plateau region.
meta-llama/llama-4-maverick
meta
Score: 2
Distance: 15380km
Lat: 4.65
Lng: -74.05
The image depicts a dirt road, typical of rural areas in certain parts of the world. The presence of lush greenery, a simple brick building, and a person wearing casual clothing suggests a rural or semi-urban setting. The architecture and vegetation are consistent with regions in South America, particularly Colombia, where such scenes are common. The geographical coordinates are a guess based on the typical landscape and architectural style seen in rural Colombia.
x-ai/grok-4-fast
x-ai
Score: 3927
Distance: 483km
Lat: 25.3176
Lng: 82.9739
The image depicts a rural dirt road flanked by banana plants, mango trees, and vegetation typical of tropical/subtropical regions. The brick houses with red-tiled roofs and thatched structures suggest traditional rural architecture common in northern India, such as in Uttar Pradesh near Varanasi. Power lines and the overall landscape match Street View imagery from this area.
anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5
anthropic
Score: 208
Distance: 6362km
Lat: -8.5211
Lng: 35.3078
This image shows a rural dirt road in a tropical/subtropical region with distinctive characteristics: brick buildings with traditional construction, lush vegetation, scattered trees, and a characteristic landscape pattern. The vegetation, building style, and road conditions are typical of rural Malawi or northern Mozambique in southern Africa. The brick construction, the general settlement pattern, and the type of vegetation visible suggest this is likely from the Mzuzu or Nkhata Bay region of Malawi, which matches the geographical features, climate vegetation, and architectural style visible in the image.
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
anthropic
Score: 382
Distance: 5145km
Lat: -7.1
Lng: 110.4
The image shows a rural village scene with red brick structures, tiled roofs, tropical vegetation including banana trees and mango trees, and a dirt path. The architectural style with exposed red brick walls and traditional tiled roofs, combined with the tropical landscape, is very characteristic of rural Java, Indonesia. The overall aesthetic - the building materials, the lush tropical vegetation, the dirt road, and the general rural setting - strongly suggests this is in Central Java or East Java, Indonesia.
openai/gpt-5-image-mini
openai
Score: 1
Distance: 16520km
Lat: -6.03
Lng: -76.97
Tropical rural scene with banana plants and lush broadleaf trees, red-brown dirt road and fired-brick buildings with clay-tile roofs typical of Andean-Amazon fringe settlements in northern Peru. The simple animal shelter and stacked firewood, plus utility poles and thin dirt track, match small Peruvian Amazon towns (San Martín/Moyobamba region) rather than South Asia or Africa.
moonshotai/kimi-k2.5
moonshot
Score: 4146
Distance: 375km
Lat: 26.75
Lng: 83.15
The image shows a rural dirt road scene with distinctive features: brick buildings with sloped tiled roofs characteristic of rural India, tropical vegetation including banana plants, unpaved roads, and simple rural infrastructure with power lines. The architecture, vegetation patterns, and overall landscape are highly consistent with the Indo-Gangetic plains region, specifically rural Uttar Pradesh or neighboring states in northern India. The flat terrain, building construction style, and plant life all point to this region of South Asia.
Each model receives the same Google Street View image. Models are tasked with guessing the location of the image using only visual clues from the street view. Their answers are evaluated without feedback or retries.