Guess Big cities in Switzerland

A quick look at the 14 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.

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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 Switzerland this set is spread across 9 different cantons, with Bern home to the most of them (4).

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

38,365

Largest population

415,367

Median population

78,762

Two you might get asked about

Fribourg
38,365 inhabitants, Fribourg
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Zürich
415,367 inhabitants, Zurich
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 14 big cities in Switzerland

Sorted by population, biggest first.

Place	Population	canton
Zürich	415,367	Zurich
Geneva	201,741	Geneva
Basel	177,595	Basel-City
Lausanne	139,111	Vaud
Bern	121,631	Bern
Winterthur	111,840	Zurich
Luzern	81,691	Lucerne
Sankt Gallen	75,833	Saint Gallen
Lugano	63,185	Ticino
Biel/Bienne	55,120	Bern
Thun	43,723	Bern
Bellinzona	43,220	Ticino
Köniz	41,784	Bern
Fribourg	38,365	Fribourg

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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