A quick look at the 50 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.
Regional cities: big enough to matter locally, small enough that most players outside the country have never heard of them. This is where guessing shifts from "I recognize the name" to "I recognize the region".
In Australia this set is spread across 7 different states, with New South Wales home to the most of them (14).
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wollongong | 280,153 | New South Wales |
| Hobart | 254,930 | Tasmania |
| Townsville | 201,313 | Queensland |
| Cairns | 153,075 | Queensland |
| Toowoomba | 142,163 | Queensland |
| Darwin | 139,902 | Northern Territory |
| Ballarat | 111,973 | Victoria |
| Mandurah | 107,643 | Western Australia |
| Bendigo | 103,034 | Victoria |
| Launceston | 90,953 | Tasmania |
| Maitland | 89,597 | New South Wales |
| Mackay | 84,333 | Queensland |
| Rockhampton | 81,021 | Queensland |
| Coffs Harbour | 78,759 | New South Wales |
| Bunbury | 76,452 | Western Australia |
| Bundaberg | 73,747 | Queensland |
| Hervey Bay | 52,230 | Queensland |
| Port Macquarie | 51,965 | New South Wales |
| Gladstone | 45,185 | Queensland |
| Tamworth | 43,874 | New South Wales |
| Dubbo | 43,516 | New South Wales |
| Orange | 41,920 | New South Wales |
| Wodonga | 38,949 | Victoria |
| Geraldton | 38,595 | Western Australia |
| Bathurst | 36,230 | New South Wales |
| Albany | 35,053 | Western Australia |
| Mildura | 34,565 | Victoria |
| Frankston East | 34,457 | Victoria |
| Warrnambool | 32,894 | Victoria |
| Shepparton | 32,067 | Victoria |
| Liverpool | 31,078 | New South Wales |
| Kwinana | 30,433 | Western Australia |
| Wangaratta | 29,808 | Victoria |
| Kalgoorlie | 29,072 | Western Australia |
| Maryborough | 27,489 | Queensland |
| Busselton | 27,233 | Western Australia |
| Traralgon | 26,907 | Victoria |
| Devonport | 26,150 | Tasmania |
| Alice Springs | 25,912 | Northern Territory |
| Mount Gambier | 25,591 | South Australia |
| Bacchus Marsh | 24,717 | Victoria |
| Goulburn | 24,565 | New South Wales |
| Cessnock | 23,211 | New South Wales |
| Hornsby | 22,462 | New South Wales |
| Gympie | 22,424 | Queensland |
| Mount Barker | 21,554 | South Australia |
| Armidale | 21,312 | New South Wales |
| Narangba | 20,910 | Queensland |
| Whyalla | 20,880 | South Australia |
| Griffith | 20,569 | New South Wales |
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