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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 Peru this set is spread across 20 different departments, with Lima region home to the most of them (10).

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

46

Smallest population

30,033

Largest population

184,614

Median population

50,712

Two you might get asked about

Tambo Grande
30,033 inhabitants, Piura
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Santa Anita - Los Ficus
184,614 inhabitants, Lima region
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 46 big villages in Peru

Sorted by population, biggest first.

Place	Population	department
Santa Anita - Los Ficus	184,614	Lima region
San Martin	130,000	Piura
San Francisco De Borja	105,076	Lima region
Breña	81,909	Lima region
San Juan	78,153	Loreto
Ciudad Satelite	76,410	Arequipa
Chilca	73,371	Junin
Selva Alegre	72,696	Arequipa
San Isidro	68,309	Lima region
San Fernando	67,844	Ucayali
Jesus Maria	66,171	Lima region
Santiago	64,075	Cuzco Department
Villa Poeta José Gálvez Barrenechea	61,000	Lima region
San Miguel	60,850	Puno
Wanchaq	59,134	Cuzco Department
Cerro de Pasco	58,899	Pasco
Catacaos	57,304	Piura
Paita	56,151	Piura
Huacho	54,545	Lima region
Ilo	53,476	Moquegua Department
Tingo María	53,177	Huánuco Department
Jaén	52,493	Cajamarca Department
Tarma	51,350	Junin
Moyobamba	50,073	San Martín Department
Huancavelica	49,570	Huancavelica
Centenario	47,581	Ancash
Cono Norte	47,347	Arequipa
Barranca	46,290	Lima region
Jacobo Hunter	46,092	Arequipa
Lambayeque	43,710	Lambayeque
Picsi	43,610	Lambayeque
Chepén	41,992	La Libertad
Carmen De La Legua Reynoso	41,863	Callao
Yurimaguas	41,827	Loreto
Saña	39,200	Lambayeque
Tambopata	38,966	Madre de Dios
Juanjuí	37,715	San Martín Department
La Unión	34,834	Piura
Ferreñafe	34,357	Lambayeque
Sicuani	33,575	Cuzco Department
La Oroya	33,345	Junin
Chocope	32,370	La Libertad
Imperial	32,344	Lima region
Nuevo Imperial	32,344	Lima region
Chachapoyas	32,026	Amazonas
Tambo Grande	30,033	Piura

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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