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Guess Big cities in United Kingdom

A quick look at the 67 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 the United Kingdom this set is spread across 55 different counties, with Greater London home to the most of them (11).

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
67
Smallest population
145,007
Largest population
8,961,989
Median population
228,000

Two you might get asked about

Blackpool
145,007 inhabitants, Blackpool
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.
London
8,961,989 inhabitants, Greater London
One of the better known ones in this set, a fair starting point if you are new to this category.

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