Cities Word Search
By Reggie J·Updated
Cities word search puzzles with familiar city names from around the world — calm adult geography, not trivia noise. Easy to hard plus large print.
Cities puzzles
Easy · 10×10 · 10 words
Cities: Skyline Walk
Easy · 10×10 · 10 words
Cities: Quiet Plaza
Easy · 10×10 · 10 words
Cities: Open Window
Hard · 15×15 · 18 words
Hard Cities: Full City
Large print · 9×9 · 8 words
Large Print Cities: Soft Town
Medium · 12×12 · 13 words
Cities: Harbor Town
Medium · 12×12 · 14 words
Cities: Metro Day
Medium · 12×12 · 14 words
Cities: Nested Calm
What words are in the cities word search?
Familiar city names worldwide — not obscure trivia.
The full cities word bank has 48 words. Each puzzle picks a set from this list, so no two grids are quite the same:
ATHENS · ATLANTA · AUSTIN · BANGKOK · BEIJING · BERLIN · BOSTON · CAIRO · CHICAGO · CITY · DALLAS · DELHI · DENVER · DUBLIN · HARBOR · HAVANA · HOUSTON · KYIV · LAGOS · LIMA · LISBON · LONDON · MADRID · MELBOURNE · METRO · MIAMI · MONTREAL · MOSCOW · NAIROBI · NASHVILLE · PARIS · PHOENIX · PLAZA · PORTLAND · PRAGUE · QUITO · ROME · SANTIAGO · SEATTLE · SEOUL · SKYLINE · SYDNEY · TOKYO · TORONTO · TOWN · VANCOUVER · VIENNA · WARSAW
Who is this theme good for?
Armchair travellers refreshing place names.
A solving tip
Long names such as MELBOURNE and VANCOUVER are easier than ROME or LIMA.
How these puzzles work
Every puzzle is free and plays in your browser on a phone, tablet or computer. Drag across a word, or tap its first and last letter. Easy grids are 10×10 with words across and down; medium grids are 12×12 and add diagonals; hard grids are 15×15 with words in all eight directions. Press Large print above any grid for bigger letters. Progress is saved on your device, and there is never a timer. New to word searches? Read how to play.
Sources & notes
Word lists on Words at Rest use American English spelling (for example color, not colour). Merriam-Webster records colour as chiefly the British spelling of color. Merriam-Webster: colour.
“chiefly British spelling of color”
