Guess Big villages in Japan

A quick look at the 510 big villages you can be asked to find on the map, before you play.

Villages with enough people that locals would call them a proper town, but small enough that they rarely make the news. Ranked play starts here, since cities are too easy to be a real test.

In Japan this set is spread across 47 different prefectures, with Ibaraki home to the most of them (26).

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

510

Smallest population

20,023

Largest population

49,872

Median population

31,233

Two you might get asked about

Karuizawa
20,023 inhabitants, Nagano
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Tsukubamirai
49,872 inhabitants, Ibaraki
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

These places cluster around bigger cities more than you would expect: check the commuter belt of the nearest big city first.
Names ending in common local suffixes (think "-dorp", "-ham", "-ville") often hint at the region, not just the country.

Other place kinds in Japan

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