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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)

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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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[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Bobcaygeon, population 3,500.

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[-] deadbeef@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month 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

[-] guillem@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Puerto Hurraco. Population 100. Everybody in Spain recognises its name because of a shooting that got burned into the collective mind.

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Darwin, Australia.

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

[-] 404@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month 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.

[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

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

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