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 Belgium this set is spread across 9 different provinces, with Henegouwen home to the most of them (5).

How this category is defined

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.

Places in this set

27

Smallest population

36,251

Largest population

1,019,022

Median population

73,879

Two you might get asked about

Maasmechelen
36,251 inhabitants, Limburg
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Brussel
1,019,022 inhabitants, Brussel
One of the better known ones in this set, a fair starting point if you are new to this category.

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All 27 big cities in Belgium

Sorted by population, biggest first.

Place	Population	province
Brussel	1,019,022	Brussel
Antwerpen	529,247	Antwerpen
Gent	265,086	Oost-Vlaanderen
Charleroi	200,132	Henegouwen
Liège	195,278	Luik
Brugge	118,509	West-Vlaanderen
Namur	110,939	Namen
Leuven	101,032	Vlaams-Brabant
Mons	95,299	Henegouwen
Hasselt	77,651	Limburg
Aalst	77,534	Oost-Vlaanderen
Mechelen	77,530	Antwerpen
La Louvière	76,668	Henegouwen
Kortrijk	73,879	West-Vlaanderen
Tournai	69,554	Henegouwen
Oostende	69,011	West-Vlaanderen
Genk	63,666	Limburg
Roeselare	56,016	West-Vlaanderen
Verviers	52,824	Luik
Mouscron	52,069	Henegouwen
Dendermonde	45,673	Oost-Vlaanderen
Turnhout	44,000	Antwerpen
Lokeren	41,438	Oost-Vlaanderen
Beringen	40,930	Limburg
Heist-op-den-Berg	37,873	Antwerpen
Sint-Truiden	37,859	Limburg
Maasmechelen	36,251	Limburg

Tips for this category

Look for proximity to water or a border first: big cities rarely sit in the middle of nowhere.
If two dots look close together, the bigger one on a real map is usually the one with more infrastructure around it, not necessarily the one nearer the center.

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