Guess Big cities in Peru

A quick look at the 7 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 Peru this set is spread across 7 different departments, with Lima Province home to the most of them (1).

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

456,250

Largest population

7,737,002

Median population

1,067,700

Two you might get asked about

Huancayo
456,250 inhabitants, Junin
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Lima
7,737,002 inhabitants, Lima Province
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 7 big cities in Peru

Sorted by population, biggest first.

Place	Population	department
Lima	7,737,002	Lima Province
Callao	1,226,200	Callao
Arequipa	1,195,700	Arequipa
Trujillo	1,067,700	La Libertad
Piura	630,000	Piura
Chiclayo	609,400	Lambayeque
Huancayo	456,250	Junin

Tips for this category

Look for proximity to water or a border first: big cities rarely sit in the middle of nowhere.
If two dots look close together, the bigger one on a real map is usually the one with more infrastructure around it, not necessarily the one nearer the center.

Other place kinds in Peru

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