Guess Cities in the United States

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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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 the United States this set is spread across 43 different states, with California home to the most of them (86).

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.

Two you might get asked about

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The 250 biggest cities in the United States

Only the 250 biggest fit on this page. The game still picks from all 462.

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.

Other place kinds in the United States

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