Find City Sign

Hello!

My name is Tim. I am a travel enthusiast (probably just like you) and the author of this website.
During my trips around the world, I always tried to find a sign with the name of the city I was visiting and to take a photo with it. It could be in any form - a casual graffiti on a wall, a "Welcome to ..." sign on a road, huge "I love ..." letters on a beach, or anything similar.

But, surprisingly, in many places it turned out to be a difficult task!
It might be easy to take a photo with the Eiffel Tower, the Great Wall of China or the Christ the Redeemer statue in the background, and, of course, these landmarks will be perfectly recognizable. But where could you locate a sign that says "Welcome to Paris", "I love Beijing" or "Enjoy Rio de Janeiro"?

I had a really hard time looking for such signs in several very touristic cities, including the ones mentioned above.
Sometimes the only place where I could find an inscription mentioning the name of the city was a bus stop, an entrance to a public library, a post office or a town market... A shame!

That's how the idea of Find City Sign appeared.
I decided to create a website with a collection of pictures and details of geographical signs around the world - I thought it would be a fun way for travelers to locate such signs, to learn geography, to share photos and to communicate with each other.
Initially intended for cities (as reflected in its name), this website also accepts signs of countries, states, islands, rivers, national parks or other landmarks. Any name worth taking a photo with!

Some sign photos are taken by me, but to be able to expand and to keep this website up to date, I am kindly asking dear visitors to please share pictures and details of the signs you have visited or know of.
• Does your home city have a sign with its name?
• Have you traveled somewhere and taken a photo of a sign?
• Can you spot an inaccuracy in the details of any sign (for example, the sign doesn't exist anymore, has moved, has changed appearance...)?
• Do you recognize a sign and its location, in case it's marked as unknown?
• Or can you just provide a better or a more recent picture of a published sign?
Please get in touch with me - I will be happy to publish your sign on this website (optionally with a link to your social media account, travel blog - whatever you want!)
(Also, if you have any suggestions regarding this website, let me know - any feedback is greatly appreciated!)

The SIGNS page shows the signs sorted by country.
A record of a sign consists of the following fields:
• Location: approximate location of the sign.
• GPS coordinates: decimal coordinates, followed by a button to copy them to clipboard. Click on the coordinates to open Google Maps at the specified location.
• Comments: additional information related to the sign.
• Credits: contributors who provided a photo or other details of the sign.
• Photo taken on: approximate date when the sign photo was taken.
• Sign confirmed on: approximate date when it was confirmed that the sign still exists at its location.
• Record updated on: date when the record of the sign was last updated on this website.
• Photo of the sign: the contributor will be mentioned in the Credits field.
• Google Maps frame: shows the location of the sign on the map.
• Google Street View frame: shows the street view of the sign.

... And some additional notes:
• The website is totally free to use, without ads or any other means of money-making. My biggest reward is to learn that someone has found it useful or at least fun to check out.
• This website is in the English language, as it's directed to the general public worldwide. Names of signs, countries, regions and other locations are written in English, wherever possible.
• The list of countries includes only UN sovereign member states. Dependent territories (such as Greenland, Aruba or New Caledonia) are listed as "regions" in the main country's section.
• This website is politically neutral - signs from all countries and territories are welcome. Of course, I do have my own opinion of the current political situation in the world, but I don't want to reflect it here in any way.
• All published sign photos have a resolution of 800x600 pixels, without any EXIF metadata. If you contribute your photos, I will resize and format them accordingly.
• The GPS coordinates specify the location of the sign itself, not the location from which the photo was taken.
• Country flags used on this website are kindly provided by Flagpedia.net