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Guess Big villages in Switzerland

A quick look at the 30 big villages you can be asked to find on the map, before you play.

Villages with enough people that locals would call them a proper town, but small enough that they rarely make the news. Ranked play starts here, since cities are too easy to be a real test.

In Switzerland this set is spread across 16 different cantons, with Zurich home to the most of them (6).

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
30
Smallest population
20,000
Largest population
43,723
Median population
28,035

Two you might get asked about

Riehen
20,000 inhabitants, Basel-City
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.
Thun
43,723 inhabitants, Bern
One of the better known ones in this set, a fair starting point if you are new to this category.

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