Guess Big villages in South Korea

A quick look at the 14 big villages 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.

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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 South Korea this set is spread across 7 different provinces, with Gyeonggi-do home to the most of them (5).

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

307,242

Largest population

623,256

Median population

419,531

Two you might get asked about

Chinju
307,242 inhabitants, Gyeongsangnam-do
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Ansan-si
623,256 inhabitants, Gyeonggi-do
One of the better known ones in this set, a fair starting point if you are new to this category.

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All 14 big villages in South Korea

Sorted by population, biggest first.

Place	Population	province
Ansan-si	623,256	Gyeonggi-do
Anyang-si	595,644	Gyeonggi-do
Kimhae	531,966	Gyeongsangnam-do
Pohang	492,041	Gyeongsangbuk-do
Jeju City	488,844	Jeju-do
Uijeongbu-si	479,141	Gyeonggi-do
Masan	434,371	Gwangju
Gumi	404,691	Gyeongsangbuk-do
Sejong	394,630	Sejong-si
Pyeongtaek	364,694	Gyeonggi-do
Yangsan	358,074	Gyeongsangnam-do
Gwangmyeong	357,545	Gyeonggi-do
Wŏnju	332,849	Gangwon-do
Chinju	307,242	Gyeongsangnam-do

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.

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