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 South Korea this set is spread across 9 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

13

Smallest population

638,421

Largest population

2,365,523

Median population

1,025,702

Two you might get asked about

Jeonju
638,421 inhabitants, Jeollabuk-do
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Daegu
2,365,523 inhabitants, Daegu
One of the better known ones in this set, a fair starting point if you are new to this category.

Play Cities in South Korea →

All 13 cities in South Korea

Sorted by population, biggest first.

Place	Population	province
Daegu	2,365,523	Daegu
Daejeon	1,441,203	Daejeon
Gwangju	1,401,235	Gwangju
Suwon	1,234,582	Gyeonggi-do
Ulsan	1,098,421	Ulsan
Goyang-si	1,061,752	Gyeonggi-do
Changwon	1,025,702	Gyeongsangnam-do
Seongnam-si	914,832	Gyeonggi-do
Cheongju-si	852,147	North Chungcheong
Bucheon-si	850,731	Gyeonggi-do
Cheonan	658,831	Chungcheongnam-do
Hwaseong-si	640,890	Gyeonggi-do
Jeonju	638,421	Jeollabuk-do

Tips for this category

Cluster them mentally by province or state first, then narrow down inside that cluster.
Distance to the nearest big city is a useful anchor if you know the bigger dots already.

Other place kinds in South Korea

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