Guess Villages in Japan

A quick look at the 592 villages you can be asked to find on the map, before you play.

Proper villages: a church, a main street, a few thousand people at most. This is the tier where local knowledge starts to matter more than general geography.

In Japan this set is spread across 47 different prefectures, with Hokkaido home to the most of them (62).

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

592

Smallest population

5,008

Largest population

19,986

Median population

10,680

Two you might get asked about

Daigyōji
5,008 inhabitants, Fukuoka
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Sueyoshichō-ninokata
19,986 inhabitants, Kagoshima
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

If you have ever driven through the region, trust that memory over a guess based on the name alone.
Villages tend to sit along old roads and rivers rather than in a grid, so look for natural lines on the map.

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