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Guess Big cities in the Netherlands

A quick look at the 22 big 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.

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These are the places most people already know by name, capitals and major hubs with a large population. They tend to sit on a coastline, a river, or a border, and their outline on the map is usually distinctive.

In the Netherlands this set is spread across 10 different provinces, with Noord-Brabant home to the most of them (4).

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
22
Smallest population
93,084
Largest population
868,135
Median population
161,604

Two you might get asked about

Heerlen
93,084 inhabitants, Limburg
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.
Rotterdam
868,135 inhabitants, Zuid-Holland
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 22 big cities in the Netherlands

Sorted by population, biggest first.

PlacePopulationprovince
Rotterdam868,135Zuid-Holland
Amsterdam741,636Noord-Holland
The Hague474,292Zuid-Holland
Utrecht376,435Utrecht
Groningen244,807Groningen
Eindhoven235,691Noord-Brabant
Tilburg221,947Noord-Brabant
Breda184,126Noord-Brabant
Nijmegen177,359Gelderland
Almere Stad176,432Flevoland
Arnhem162,424Gelderland
's-Hertogenbosch160,783Noord-Brabant
Enschede153,655Overijssel
Amersfoort139,914Utrecht
Apeldoorn136,670Gelderland
Zwolle129,840Overijssel
Leeuwarden124,481Friesland
Maastricht122,378Limburg
Venlo101,988Limburg
Deventer97,331Overijssel
Alkmaar94,853Noord-Holland
Heerlen93,084Limburg

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