Guess Big cities in France

A quick look at the 40 big cities you can be asked to find on the map, before you play.

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 France this set is spread across 12 different regions, with Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes home to the most of them (6).

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

Smallest population

103,671

Largest population

2,103,778

Median population

150,767

Two you might get asked about

Nancy
103,671 inhabitants, Grand Est
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Paris
2,103,778 inhabitants, Île-de-France
One of the better known ones in this set, a fair starting point if you are new to this category.

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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.

Other place kinds in France

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