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.

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 Switzerland this set is spread across 15 different cantons, with Valais 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

29

Smallest population

14,184

Largest population

37,942

Median population

19,340

Two you might get asked about

Langenthal
14,184 inhabitants, Bern
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

La Chaux-de-Fonds
37,942 inhabitants, Neuchâtel
One of the better known ones in this set, a fair starting point if you are new to this category.

Play Cities in Switzerland →

All 29 cities in Switzerland

Sorted by population, biggest first.

Place	Population	canton
La Chaux-de-Fonds	37,942	Neuchâtel
Schaffhausen	36,587	Schaffhausen
Chur	35,373	Grisons
Rapperswil	34,776	Saint Gallen
Sitten	34,708	Valais
Neuchâtel	33,475	Neuchâtel
Emmen	30,926	Lucerne
Zug	30,542	Zug
Yverdon-les-Bains	30,157	Vaud
Montreux	25,984	Vaud
Wil	23,955	Saint Gallen
Bulle	23,438	Fribourg
Kreuzlingen	21,997	Thurgau
Aarau	21,503	Aargau
Baden	19,340	Aargau
Olten	18,362	Solothurn
Martigny-Ville	18,301	Valais
Wettingen	18,191	Aargau
Monthey	17,777	Valais
Jona	17,655	Saint Gallen
Nyon	16,797	Vaud
Sierre	16,790	Valais
Solothurn	16,777	Solothurn
Einsiedeln	15,867	Schwyz
Locarno	15,824	Ticino
Steffisburg	15,709	Bern
Schwyz	15,181	Schwyz
Freienbach	14,302	Schwyz
Langenthal	14,184	Bern

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.

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