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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 Norway this set is spread across 13 different counties, with Trøndelag 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

26

Smallest population

12,816

Largest population

89,684

Median population

19,324

Two you might get asked about

Vennesla
12,816 inhabitants, Agder
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Lillestrøm
89,684 inhabitants, Akershus
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 26 big villages in Norway

Sorted by population, biggest first.

Place	Population	county
Lillestrøm	89,684	Akershus
Asker	61,906	Akershus
Nesttun	35,638	Vestland
Sola	29,541	Rogaland
Horten	27,178	Vestfold
Grimstad	24,017	Agder
Kristiansund	24,013	Møre og Romsdal
Larvik	23,113	Vestfold
Molde	22,410	Møre og Romsdal
Halden	21,970	Østfold
Harstad	20,953	Troms
Levanger	20,171	Trøndelag
Time	19,781	Rogaland
Mo i Rana	18,866	Nordland
Tromsdalen	18,291	Troms
Kongsberg	17,667	Buskerud
Gjøvik	17,596	Innlandet
Stjørdalshalsen	15,693	Trøndelag
Alta	15,094	Finnmark
Narvik	14,141	Nordland
Leirvik	14,126	Vestland
Hønefoss	13,678	Buskerud
Strand	13,474	Rogaland
Steinkjer	13,060	Trøndelag
Stjørdal	13,032	Trøndelag
Vennesla	12,816	Agder

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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