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 Ukraine this set is spread across 26 different provinces, with Donetsk home to the most of them (5).

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

36

Smallest population

115,449

Largest population

2,952,301

Median population

267,067

Two you might get asked about

Uzhhorod
115,449 inhabitants, Zakarpattia
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Kyiv
2,952,301 inhabitants, Kyiv City
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 36 big cities in Ukraine

Sorted by population, biggest first.

Place	Population	province
Kyiv	2,952,301	Kyiv City
Kharkiv	1,421,125	Kharkiv
Odesa	1,010,537	Odesa
Dnipro	968,502	Dnipropetrovsk
Donetsk	901,645	Donetsk
Lviv	717,273	Lviv
Zaporizhzhya	710,052	Zaporizhzhia
Kryvyy Rih	603,904	Dnipropetrovsk
Sevastopol	547,820	Sevastopol City
Mykolayiv	470,011	Mykolaiv
Vinnytsya	430,091	Vinnytsia
Luhansk	397,677	Luhansk
Makiyivka	338,968	Donetsk
Simferopol	336,460	Crimea
Chernihiv	282,747	Chernihiv Oblast
Poltava	279,593	Poltava
Khmelnytskyi	274,452	Khmelnytskyi
Cherkasy	269,836	Cherkasy
Chernivtsi	264,298	Chernivtsi
Zhytomyr	261,624	Zhytomyr Oblast
Sumy	256,474	Sumy
Rivne	243,873	Rivne Oblast
Horlivka	239,828	Donetsk
Ivano-Frankivsk	238,196	Ivano-Frankivsk
Mariupol	230,000	Donetsk
Kamyanske	226,845	Dnipropetrovsk
Ternopil	225,238	Ternopil
Kremenchuk	224,997	Poltava
Kropyvnytskyi	219,676	Kirovohrad
Lutsk	215,986	Volyn
Bila Tserkva	207,273	Kyiv Oblast
Kerch	148,932	Crimea
Melitopol	148,851	Zaporizhzhia
Bohuniya	147,324	Zhytomyr Oblast
Kramatorsk	147,145	Donetsk
Uzhhorod	115,449	Zakarpattia

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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