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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€“] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 19 hours ago (4 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!

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[โ€“] 200ok@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Bobcaygeon, population 3,500.

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[โ€“] deadbeef@lemmy.nz 2 points 19 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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