A quick look at the 8 big cities you can be asked to find on the map, before you play.
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 Finland this set is spread across 6 different regions, with Uusimaa home to the most of them (3).
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.
Sorted by population, biggest first.
| Place | Population | region |
|---|---|---|
| Helsinki | 658,864 | Uusimaa |
| Espoo | 323,910 | Uusimaa |
| Tampere | 260,646 | Pirkanmaa |
| Vantaa | 252,724 | Uusimaa |
| Oulu | 216,066 | North Ostrobothnia |
| Turku | 206,655 | Southwest Finland |
| Jyväskylä | 148,744 | Central Finland |
| Kuopio | 125,462 | North Savo |
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