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 Colombia this set is spread across 14 different departments, with Valle del Cauca Department home to the most of them (2).

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

15

Smallest population

432,385

Largest population

7,674,366

Median population

581,130

Two you might get asked about

Buenaventura
432,385 inhabitants, Valle del Cauca Department
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Bogotá
7,674,366 inhabitants, Bogota D.C.
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 15 big cities in Colombia

Sorted by population, biggest first.

Place	Population	department
Bogotá	7,674,366	Bogota D.C.
Cali	2,392,877	Valle del Cauca Department
Medellín	1,999,979	Antioquia
Barranquilla	1,206,319	Atlántico
Cartagena	914,552	Bolívar
Cúcuta	777,106	Norte de Santander Department
Soacha	655,025	Cundinamarca
Bucaramanga	581,130	Santander Department
Ibagué	529,635	Tolima Department
Santa Marta	499,192	Magdalena Department
Montería	490,935	Córdoba
Valledupar	490,075	Cesar Department
Pereira	467,269	Risaralda Department
Manizales	434,403	Caldas Department
Buenaventura	432,385	Valle del Cauca Department

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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