Guess Big cities in Portugal

A quick look at the 14 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 Portugal this set is spread across 10 different districts, with Lisbon 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

Smallest population

70,347

Largest population

517,802

Median population

111,981

Two you might get asked about

Faro
70,347 inhabitants, Faro
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Lisbon
517,802 inhabitants, Lisbon
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 14 big cities in Portugal

Sorted by population, biggest first.

Place	Population	district
Lisbon	517,802	Lisbon
Porto	252,687	Porto
Braga	193,324	Braga
Amadora	178,858	Lisbon
Coimbra	140,796	Coimbra
Leiria	128,640	Leiria
Setúbal	118,166	Setúbal
Funchal	105,795	Madeira
Viseu	103,502	Viseu
Queluz	103,399	Lisbon
Cacém	93,982	Lisbon
Aveiro	80,880	Aveiro
Vila Nova de Gaia	70,811	Porto
Faro	70,347	Faro

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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