Guess Cities in Canada

A quick look at the 45 cities you can be asked to find on the map, before you play.

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 Canada this set is spread across 6 different provinces, with Ontario home to the most of them (15).

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

Smallest population

50,326

Largest population

99,818

Median population

70,618

Two you might get asked about

Saint-Hyacinthe
50,326 inhabitants, Quebec
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Niagara Falls
99,818 inhabitants, Ontario
One of the better known ones in this set, a fair starting point if you are new to this category.

Play Cities in Canada →

Tips for this category

Cluster them mentally by province or state first, then narrow down inside that cluster.
Distance to the nearest big city is a useful anchor if you know the bigger dots already.

Other place kinds in Canada

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