Guess Cities in Germany

A quick look at the 248 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 Germany this set is spread across 15 different states, with Nordrhein-Westfalen home to the most of them (84).

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

248

Smallest population

40,849

Largest population

117,118

Median population

54,503

Two you might get asked about

Buchholz in der Nordheide
40,849 inhabitants, Niedersachsen
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Remscheid
117,118 inhabitants, Nordrhein-Westfalen
One of the better known ones in this set, a fair starting point if you are new to this category.

Play Cities in Germany →

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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