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What is the smallest city in your country that everyone can still instantly recognise the name of? What is it famous for? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by NateNate60@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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In the United States, I'd probably name Oregon City, the famous end of the Oregon Trail and the first city founded west of the Rocky Mountains during the pioneer era. Its population is only 37,000.

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[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Winnipeg, Canada (pop. 850k) has a famous namesake in Winnie the Pooh (who was named after Winnipeg) and has been in the Simpsons.

The Simpsons - That's it, back to Winnipeg!

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

850k isn't really small though.

[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It's still small for a city, especially a capital city. However, it's bigger than Regina 😄

[–] protist@mander.xyz 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Your "small city" has more people than 5 US states

[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 days ago

It has more people than anywhere that has less people.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

It's about the same population as San Francisco.

[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago

Someone won a trip to San Fransico on LMAD yesterday. My hat is a boot.