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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Pueblo, CO from tv commercials or maybe Wala Wala, WA from Bugs Bunny.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

Regina, the city that rhymes with fun!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

The New Orleans French Quarter is easy to spot.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Vulcan, Alberta.

Famous because of a spaceship that landed there once, I think.

Some people with pointed ears may have also been involved, but I would replicate that with a grain of salt. I haven't really looked into it.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours 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!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

850k isn't really small though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's still small for a city, especially a capital city. However, it's bigger than Regina ๐Ÿ˜„

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

It has more people than anywhere that has less people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Bobcaygeon, population 3,500.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours 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

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