Guess Big cities in United States

A quick look at the 114 big cities you can be asked to find on the map, before you play.

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 the United States this set is spread across 35 different states, with California home to the most of them (19).

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

114

Smallest population

209,802

Largest population

8,804,190

Median population

364,040

Two you might get asked about

Rochester
209,802 inhabitants, New York
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

New York City
8,804,190 inhabitants, New York
One of the better known ones in this set, a fair starting point if you are new to this category.

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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.

Other place kinds in United States

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Big cities in other countries

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