A quick look at the 154 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.
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 the United Kingdom this set is spread across 76 different counties, with Greater London home to the most of them (15).
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 | county |
|---|---|---|
| Islington | 319,143 | Greater London |
| Wolverhampton | 263,700 | Wolverhampton |
| City of Westminster | 247,614 | Greater London |
| Barking | 218,534 | Greater London |
| Archway | 215,667 | Greater London |
| Dudley | 199,059 | Dudley |
| Sutton | 187,600 | Greater London |
| Croydon | 173,314 | Greater London |
| Walsall | 172,141 | Walsall |
| Ilford | 168,168 | Greater London |
| Enfield Town | 156,858 | Greater London |
| Harrow | 149,246 | Greater London |
| Bolton | 141,331 | Borough of Bolton |
| Stockport | 139,052 | Borough of Stockport |
| Tottenham | 130,000 | Greater London |
| Salford | 129,794 | City and Borough of Salford |
| Solihull | 126,577 | Solihull |
| Watford | 125,707 | Hertfordshire |
| Saint Peters | 125,370 | Kent |
| Crawley | 124,008 | West Sussex |
| Burton upon Trent | 122,199 | Staffordshire |
| Cheltenham | 118,836 | Gloucestershire |
| Worthing | 113,866 | West Sussex |
| Doncaster | 113,566 | Doncaster |
| Chelmsford | 111,511 | Essex |
| Dagenham | 108,368 | Greater London |
| Basingstoke | 107,642 | Hampshire |
| Maidstone | 107,627 | Kent |
| Bedford | 106,940 | Bedford |
| Woking | 103,900 | Surrey |
| Lincoln | 103,813 | Lincolnshire |
| Eastbourne | 101,689 | East Sussex |
| Worcester | 101,659 | Worcestershire |
| Gillingham | 101,187 | Medway |
| Hemel Hempstead | 95,961 | Hertfordshire |
| Romford | 95,000 | Greater London |
| Hayes | 93,928 | Greater London |
| Harlow | 93,300 | Essex |
| Hastings | 92,855 | East Sussex |
| High Peak | 92,666 | Derbyshire |
| Darlington | 92,363 | Darlington |
| Stevenage | 91,774 | Hertfordshire |
| Southport | 91,703 | Sefton |
| Chester | 90,524 | Cheshire West and Chester |
| Grays | 89,755 | Borough of Thurrock |
| Harrogate | 89,060 | North Yorkshire |
| Hartlepool | 88,855 | Hartlepool |
| Grimsby | 86,138 | North East Lincolnshire |
| St Albans | 84,561 | Hertfordshire |
| Derry | 83,652 | Derry City and Strabane |
| Weston-super-Mare | 82,903 | North Somerset |
| Tamworth | 81,964 | Staffordshire |
| Gosport | 81,952 | Hampshire |
| Scunthorpe | 81,576 | North Lincolnshire |
| Chatham | 80,596 | Medway |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 79,957 | Stockton-on-Tees |
| Carlisle | 78,470 | Cumbria |
| Shrewsbury | 76,782 | Shropshire |
| Crewe | 76,437 | Cheshire East |
| Aylesbury | 74,748 | Buckinghamshire |
| Guildford | 71,873 | Surrey |
| Lowestoft | 71,327 | Suffolk |
| Stafford | 70,145 | Staffordshire |
| Uxbridge | 70,000 | Greater London |
| Rhondda | 69,506 | Rhondda Cynon Taf |
| Royal Tunbridge Wells | 68,910 | Kent |
| Corby | 68,164 | North Northamptonshire |
| Paignton | 67,520 | Borough of Torbay |
| Folkestone | 66,429 | Kent |
| Wrexham | 65,692 | Wrexham |
| Torquay | 65,388 | Borough of Torbay |
| Taunton | 64,621 | Somerset |
| Bognor Regis | 63,885 | West Sussex |
| Buckley | 63,576 | County of Flintshire |
| Great Yarmouth | 63,434 | Norfolk |
| Feltham | 63,368 | Greater London |
| Margate | 63,322 | Kent |
| Ashford | 62,787 | Kent |
| Tonypandy | 62,545 | Rhondda Cynon Taf |
| Scarborough | 61,749 | North Yorkshire |
| Farnborough | 60,652 | Hampshire |
| Hereford | 60,415 | Herefordshire |
| Stroud | 60,155 | Gloucestershire |
| Craigavon | 59,236 | Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon |
| Littlehampton | 58,714 | West Sussex |
| Livingston | 56,840 | West Lothian |
| Barrow in Furness | 55,489 | Cumbria |
| Canterbury | 55,087 | Kent |
| Dunfermline | 54,990 | Fife |
| Sittingbourne | 54,392 | Kent |
| Macclesfield | 54,345 | Cheshire East |
| Braintree | 53,477 | Essex |
| Weymouth | 53,416 | Dorset |
| Morecambe | 51,644 | Lancashire |
| Horsham | 51,472 | West Sussex |
| Clacton-on-Sea | 50,548 | Essex |
| Yeovil | 50,176 | Somerset |
| Bridgend | 49,597 | Bridgend county borough |
| Banbury | 48,651 | Oxfordshire |
| Inverness | 47,790 | Highland |
| Perth | 47,350 | Perth and Kinross |
| Lancaster | 47,162 | Lancashire |
| Kilmarnock | 46,970 | East Ayrshire |
| Dumfries | 46,500 | Dumfries and Galloway |
| Ayr | 46,260 | South Ayrshire |
| King's Lynn | 46,093 | Norfolk |
| Boston | 45,339 | Lincolnshire |
| Salisbury | 44,748 | Wiltshire |
| Grantham | 44,580 | Lincolnshire |
| Merthyr Tydfil | 43,820 | Merthyr Tydfil County Borough |
| Bexhill-on-Sea | 43,754 | East Sussex |
| Newark on Trent | 43,363 | Nottinghamshire |
| Redruth | 42,690 | Cornwall |
| Andover | 42,276 | Hampshire |
| Ramsgate | 42,027 | Kent |
| Dover | 41,709 | Kent |
| Coity | 41,352 | Bridgend county borough |
| Bury St Edmunds | 41,280 | Suffolk |
| Greenock | 41,280 | Inverclyde |
| Bridgwater | 41,276 | Somerset |
| Trowbridge | 40,952 | Wiltshire |
| Bishops Stortford | 40,915 | Hertfordshire |
| Aldershot | 40,160 | Hampshire |
| Cleethorpes | 38,996 | North East Lincolnshire |
| Fleet | 38,726 | Hampshire |
| Glenrothes | 38,360 | Fife |
| Stirling | 37,910 | Stirling |
| Farnham | 36,971 | Surrey |
| Great Malvern | 36,770 | Worcestershire |
| Newton Abbot | 36,474 | Devon |
| Tonbridge | 36,115 | Kent |
| Chippenham | 35,800 | Wiltshire |
| Falkirk | 35,310 | Falkirk |
| Bridlington | 35,154 | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Irvine | 34,130 | North Ayrshire |
| Loughton | 33,346 | Shropshire |
| Ebbw Vale | 33,068 | Blaenau Gwent |
| Newbury | 33,065 | West Berkshire |
| Portadown | 32,926 | Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon |
| Wisbech | 32,489 | Cambridgeshire |
| Whitstable | 32,196 | Kent |
| Deeside | 32,000 | County of Flintshire |
| Falmouth | 31,988 | Cornwall |
| Chichester | 31,654 | West Sussex |
| Barnstaple | 31,616 | Devon |
| Aberdare | 31,135 | Rhondda Cynon Taf |
| Spalding | 30,556 | Lincolnshire |
| Stratford-upon-Avon | 30,495 | Warwickshire |
| Winsford | 30,259 | Cheshire West and Chester |
| Wishaw | 30,050 | North Lanarkshire |
| Colwyn Bay | 29,275 | Conwy |
| Kendal | 29,147 | Cumbria |
| Ballymena | 28,932 | Mid and East Antrim |
| Bideford | 28,672 | Devon |
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