A quick look at the 93 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 Brazil this set is spread across 27 different states, with São Paulo home to the most of them (22).
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 |
|---|---|---|
| São Paulo | 12,400,232 | São Paulo |
| Rio de Janeiro | 6,747,815 | Rio de Janeiro |
| Belo Horizonte | 2,721,564 | Minas Gerais |
| Salvador | 2,711,840 | Bahia |
| Fortaleza | 2,400,000 | Ceará |
| Manaus | 2,219,580 | Amazonas |
| Brasília | 2,207,718 | Distrito Federal |
| Curitiba | 1,948,626 | Paraná |
| Recife | 1,653,461 | Pernambuco |
| Goiânia | 1,536,097 | Goiás |
| Belém | 1,499,641 | Pará |
| Porto Alegre | 1,488,252 | Rio Grande do Sul |
| Maceió | 1,031,597 | Alagoas |
| Campinas | 1,031,554 | São Paulo |
| São Luís | 917,237 | Maranhão |
| Campo Grande | 906,092 | Mato Grosso do Sul |
| Natal | 896,708 | Rio Grande do Norte |
| Teresina | 871,126 | Piauí |
| Nova Iguaçu | 843,046 | Rio de Janeiro |
| João Pessoa | 817,511 | Paraíba |
| Sorocaba | 762,172 | São Paulo |
| Uberlândia | 754,954 | Minas Gerais |
| São José dos Campos | 727,078 | São Paulo |
| Ribeirão Preto | 698,642 | São Paulo |
| Aracaju | 664,908 | Sergipe |
| Joinville | 664,500 | Santa Catarina |
| Jaboatão dos Guararapes | 644,037 | Pernambuco |
| Cuiabá | 618,124 | Mato Grosso |
| Feira de Santana | 616,272 | Bahia |
| Londrina | 581,382 | Paraná |
| Porto Velho | 548,952 | Rondônia |
| Juiz de Fora | 540,756 | Minas Gerais |
| Ananindeua | 535,547 | Pará |
| Aparecida de Goiânia | 527,796 | Goiás |
| Serra | 520,653 | Espírito Santo |
| Belford Roxo | 518,384 | Rio de Janeiro |
| Macapá | 512,902 | Amapá |
| Florianópolis | 508,826 | Santa Catarina |
| Campos dos Goytacazes | 483,540 | Rio de Janeiro |
| São José do Rio Preto | 480,393 | São Paulo |
| Caxias do Sul | 479,599 | Rio Grande do Sul |
| São João de Meriti | 466,536 | Rio de Janeiro |
| Campina Grande | 443,911 | Paraíba |
| Jundiaí | 443,221 | São Paulo |
| Piracicaba | 440,835 | São Paulo |
| Montes Claros | 437,601 | Minas Gerais |
| Barra da Tijuca | 421,438 | Rio de Janeiro |
| Boa Vista | 419,652 | Roraima |
| Rio Branco | 419,452 | Acre |
| Santos | 418,608 | São Paulo |
| Petrolina | 418,444 | Pernambuco |
| Mauá | 418,261 | São Paulo |
| Maringá | 409,657 | Paraná |
| Caruaru | 402,290 | Pernambuco |
| Vitória da Conquista | 396,613 | Bahia |
| Vila Velha | 394,930 | Espírito Santo |
| Bauru | 392,947 | São Paulo |
| Carapicuíba | 386,984 | São Paulo |
| Betim | 384,000 | Minas Gerais |
| Cariacica | 376,200 | Espírito Santo |
| Cascavel | 368,195 | Paraná |
| Praia Grande | 367,400 | São Paulo |
| Franca | 365,494 | São Paulo |
| Blumenau | 361,261 | Santa Catarina |
| Santarém | 360,871 | Pará |
| Uberaba | 356,781 | Minas Gerais |
| Ribeirão das Neves | 346,971 | Minas Gerais |
| São Vicente | 338,326 | São Paulo |
| Pelotas | 336,150 | Rio Grande do Sul |
| Mogi das Cruzes | 325,746 | São Paulo |
| Taubaté | 322,397 | São Paulo |
| Camaçari | 321,636 | Bahia |
| Suzano | 320,261 | São Paulo |
| Anápolis | 319,587 | Goiás |
| Barueri | 316,473 | São Paulo |
| Vitória | 312,656 | Espírito Santo |
| Palmas | 306,296 | Tocantins |
| Parauapebas | 305,771 | Pará |
| Juazeiro do Norte | 305,531 | Ceará |
| Várzea Grande | 300,078 | Mato Grosso |
| Foz do Iguaçu | 297,352 | Paraná |
| São José | 295,658 | Santa Catarina |
| Petrópolis | 294,926 | Rio de Janeiro |
| Guarujá | 294,871 | São Paulo |
| Itajaí | 294,850 | Santa Catarina |
| Ponta Grossa | 292,177 | Paraná |
| Limeira | 291,869 | São Paulo |
| Ceilândia | 287,023 | Distrito Federal |
| Marabá | 283,542 | Pará |
| Chapecó | 282,648 | Santa Catarina |
| Volta Redonda | 279,971 | Rio de Janeiro |
| Sumaré | 279,545 | São Paulo |
| Imperatriz | 273,110 | Maranhão |
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