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.

Proper villages: a church, a main street, a few thousand people at most. This is the tier where local knowledge starts to matter more than general geography.

In Bulgaria this set is spread across 21 different provinces, with Plovdiv home to the most of them (3).

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

39

Smallest population

8,980

Largest population

18,676

Median population

12,175

Two you might get asked about

Kubrat
8,980 inhabitants, Razgrad
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Peshtera
18,676 inhabitants, Pazardzhik
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 39 villages in Bulgaria

Sorted by population, biggest first.

Place	Population	province
Peshtera	18,676	Pazardzhik
Lom	18,593	Montana
Parvomay	17,000	Plovdiv
Svilengrad	16,959	Haskovo
Popovo	16,571	Targovishte
Rakovski	15,782	Plovdiv
Chirpan	15,109	Stara Zagora
Berkovitsa	15,027	Montana
Radnevo	14,667	Stara Zagora
Radomir	14,494	Pernik
Ihtiman	14,154	Sofia
Tryavna	13,818	Gabrovo
Provadia	13,755	Varna
Pomorie	13,714	Burgas
Nesebar	13,347	Burgas
Novi Pazar	13,276	Shumen
Balchik	13,000	Dobrich
Cherven Bryag	13,000	Pleven
Razlog	12,486	Blagoevgrad
Kostinbrod	12,175	Sofia
Stamboliyski	12,070	Plovdiv
Mezdra	11,975	Vratsa
Levski	11,467	Pleven
Kozloduy	11,331	Vratsa
Kavarna	11,205	Dobrich
Pavlikeni	11,151	Veliko Tarnovo
Etropole	11,031	Sofia
Teteven	10,790	Lovech
Elhovo	10,424	Yambol
Byala Slatina	10,282	Vratsa
Lukovit	9,792	Lovech
Zlatni Pyasatsi	9,760	Varna
Isperih	9,735	Razgrad
Sredets	9,573	Burgas
Veliki Preslav	9,425	Shumen
Bansko	9,232	Blagoevgrad
Tutrakan	9,214	Silistra
Omurtag	9,070	Targovishte
Kubrat	8,980	Razgrad

Tips for this category

If you have ever driven through the region, trust that memory over a guess based on the name alone.
Villages tend to sit along old roads and rivers rather than in a grid, so look for natural lines on the map.

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