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.

Regional cities: big enough to matter locally, small enough that most players outside the country have never heard of them. This is where guessing shifts from "I recognize the name" to "I recognize the region".

In Portugal this set is spread across 13 different districts, with Porto home to the most of them (3).

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

20

Smallest population

27,378

Largest population

58,065

Median population

35,051

Two you might get asked about

Caldas da Rainha
27,378 inhabitants, Leiria
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Felgueiras
58,065 inhabitants, Porto
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 20 cities in Portugal

Sorted by population, biggest first.

Place	Population	district
Felgueiras	58,065	Porto
Évora	53,591	Évora
Monsanto	50,000	Santarém
Figueira da Foz	46,600	Coimbra
Ponte de Lima	44,667	Viana do Castelo
Sesimbra	41,134	Setúbal
Guarda	40,126	Guarda
Portimão	38,487	Faro
Viana do Castelo	36,148	Viana do Castelo
Bragança	35,341	Bragança
Beja	34,760	Beja
Esposende	34,625	Braga
Lagos	33,494	Faro
Castelo Branco	33,479	Castelo Branco
Santarém	29,385	Santarém
Olhão	29,239	Faro
Póvoa de Varzim	29,044	Porto
Sequeira	28,502	Guarda
Vila do Conde	27,642	Porto
Caldas da Rainha	27,378	Leiria

Tips for this category

Cluster them mentally by province or state first, then narrow down inside that cluster.
Distance to the nearest big city is a useful anchor if you know the bigger dots already.

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