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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Aramoana here in New Zealand. It has a population in the low hundreds and it is famous for a horrible massacre in 1990. The cops here don't usually have guns and in a little place like that there are often only a handful of police that are anywhere in the general region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramoana_massacre

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Bobcaygeon, population 3,500.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Darwin, Australia.

Famous for being bombed by the Japanese repeatedly during World War 2

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I'd go with Port Arthur, Tasmania. 251 people from the 2016 census and the massacre is still burned into many people's memories.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Probably Regina. And it’s famous for rhyming white schmamima.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I legitimately though Oregon was a State, I didn't know it was also a city.

From my country I'm going to be generous and say Barcelona. Second biggest city here. I doubt next bigger cities are universally known.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I think Seville and Pamplona are well known, for the Barber of Seville and the running of the bulls respectively.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Tilt Cove in Newfoundland. 5 whole people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

In France it might be Y (population : 89), famous for having a one-letter name. Far from "anyone can still instantly recognise the name" but still probably much more well-known than any other town this size.

Otherwise idk, feels like the only french city everyone would instantly recognise the name of is Paris tbh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The smallest Indian city that (almost) all Indians would know would be the hill resort of Shimla (pop 170,000). However, this is because a place is expected to have a population of about 100,000 to be declared a 'city', so for example New Delhi is only a town.

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