A quick look at the 12 big cities you can be asked to find on the map, before you play.
GuessTheDot is a free geography guessing game: you get a place name and a map full of dots, then click the one you think is right.
These are the places most people already know by name, capitals and major hubs with a large population. They tend to sit on a coastline, a river, or a border, and their outline on the map is usually distinctive.
In Australia this set is spread across 6 different states, with Queensland home to the most of them (4).
Place kinds on GuessTheDot are a practical grouping by population and place type for gameplay, not a legal or historical designation. A place can hold official city rights (or an old city charter) and still show up here as a village if it stayed small, and the other way around: this is a rough size ladder for guessing, not a statement about a place's official status.
Sorted by population, biggest first.
| Place | Population | state |
|---|---|---|
| Sydney | 5,638,830 | New South Wales |
| Melbourne | 5,435,590 | Victoria |
| Brisbane | 2,780,063 | Queensland |
| Perth | 2,384,371 | Western Australia |
| Adelaide | 1,469,163 | South Australia |
| Gold Coast | 640,778 | Queensland |
| Newcastle | 508,437 | New South Wales |
| Sunshine Coast | 398,840 | Queensland |
| Canberra | 367,752 | Australian Capital Territory |
| Central Coast | 346,596 | New South Wales |
| Logan City | 345,098 | Queensland |
| Geelong | 282,809 | Victoria |
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