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.

Proper villages: a church, a main street, a few thousand people at most. This is the tier where local knowledge starts to matter more than general geography.

In Ecuador this set is spread across 9 different provinces, with Guayas home to the most of them (7).

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

20

Smallest population

27,947

Largest population

43,862

Median population

35,389

Two you might get asked about

Yaguachi Nuevo
27,947 inhabitants, Guayas
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Salinas
43,862 inhabitants, Santa Elena
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 20 villages in Ecuador

Sorted by population, biggest first.

Place	Population	province
Salinas	43,862	Santa Elena
Santa Elena	42,214	Santa Elena
Rosa Zarate	42,121	Esmeraldas
Santa Rosa	41,816	El Oro
Balzar	40,115	Guayas
Huaquillas	39,757	El Oro
Ventanas	38,168	Los Ríos
Bahía de Caráquez	37,056	Manabí
La Troncal	36,353	Canar
Jipijapa	35,901	Manabí
Azogues	34,877	Canar
Naranjito	34,206	Guayas
Vinces	32,497	Los Ríos
Otavalo	32,330	Imbabura
El Triunfo	32,282	Guayas
Naranjal	32,045	Guayas
Posorja	30,886	Guayas
Playas	30,564	Guayas
Pomasqui	28,724	Pichincha
Yaguachi Nuevo	27,947	Guayas

Tips for this category

If you have ever driven through the region, trust that memory over a guess based on the name alone.
Villages tend to sit along old roads and rivers rather than in a grid, so look for natural lines on the map.

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