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Traffic signs or road signs are signs erected at the side of or above roads to give instructions or provide information to road users. The earliest signs were simple wooden or stone milestones. Later, signs with directional arms were introduced, for example, the fingerposts in the United Kingdom and their wooden counterparts in Saxony.Road sign in Greece: no vehicles carrying explosives or flammable goodsSign north of Nome, Alaska, providing warning of the remote, unpopulated area beyond'Know AIDS - No AIDs'. Nubra Valley, Ladakh, India'After Whiskey Driving Risky'. Lahaul, India'If Married Divorce Speed'. Ladakh, IndiaPedestrian crossing in FinlandCycleway sign (white) in FinlandItalian road sign warning of wild animals. Germany, Poland, Latvia, Spain, Turkey, among other countries, use a very similar sign.Romantic Road sign in southern Germany (note the Alps in the background)Pedestrian crossing Slow sign in Buting Pasig CityA sign on an otoyol in TurkeyThe design specifications for a Taiwanese sign warning of double bends ahead. Translated directly, it means that there are winding roads for the next ten kilometresA group of green-colored directional signs on the National Highway No. 1 in Kaohsiung, TaiwanA stop sign in Australia Traffic signs or road signs are signs erected at the side of or above roads to give instructions or provide information to road users. The earliest signs were simple wooden or stone milestones. Later, signs with directional arms were introduced, for example, the fingerposts in the United Kingdom and their wooden counterparts in Saxony.

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