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.

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 Poland this set is spread across 14 different provinces, with Silesia home to the most of them (9).

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

25

Smallest population

142,510

Largest population

1,702,139

Median population

248,125

Two you might get asked about

Rybnik
142,510 inhabitants, Silesia
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Warsaw
1,702,139 inhabitants, Mazovia
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 25 big cities in Poland

Sorted by population, biggest first.

Place	Population	province
Warsaw	1,702,139	Mazovia
Kraków	816,614	Lesser Poland
Wrocław	672,545	Lower Silesia
Łódź	639,890	Łódź Voivodeship
Poznań	536,151	Greater Poland
Gdańsk	487,371	Pomerania
Szczecin	395,513	West Pomerania
Lublin	336,339	Lublin
Bydgoszcz	330,038	Kujawsko-Pomorskie
Białystok	295,683	Podlasie
Katowice	286,960	Silesia
Gdynia	257,000	Pomerania
Częstochowa	248,125	Silesia
Sosnowiec	227,295	Silesia
Radom	226,794	Mazovia
Gliwice	198,835	Silesia
Rzeszów	198,317	Subcarpathia
Toruń	196,935	Kujawsko-Pomorskie
Kielce	192,468	Świętokrzyskie
Zabrze	192,177	Silesia
Bytom	189,186	Silesia
Bielsko-Biala	176,515	Silesia
Olsztyn	169,793	Warmia-Masuria
Ruda Śląska	146,189	Silesia
Rybnik	142,510	Silesia

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.

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