Hallstatt - Austria
The city so beautiful that the Chinese copied it.
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2024
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Lajitas, Texas, which once elected as their mayor a goat that drank beer, has a population of 75.
Terlingua, Texas, as made famous by Jerry Jeff Walker and home of the Terlingua International Chili Cook-off, has a population of 78.
Luckenbach, Texas, as made famous by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, has a population of 3.
Edit: I just realised the question was recognising the name of the city, not recognising city based on a picture...
Probably Svolvรฆr/Lofoten with a population of ~4700. It doesn't have the official status of "City" in Norway though.
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What do you consider small? A lot of people know Cupertino California because Apple are based there, but it's only got a population of 57k. It's arguably more recognizable than the closest major city (San Jose), which has a population of nearly 1 million.
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Pueblo, CO from tv commercials or maybe Walla Walla, WA from Bugs Bunny.
Walla Walla, it was also a lyric in an Offspring song.
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Pueblo, CO
Mostly because it is (or was) a publication distribution hub.
Virtually no one outside of the US will have heard of it, though.
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The New Orleans French Quarter is easy to spot.
Forks, Washington population of ~7000 made very notable due to the twilight series. Or Astoria, Oregon population of ~10,000 made famous by the Goonies.
Well, Brazil is such a huge country and there are lots of smallest cities with still huge population.
Unfornately i would have to say that the smallest one and most famous would probably be because of some recent disaster and one I can remember is Brumadinho. Less than 40k people, a city destroyed after a dam collapsed and a lot of mud flooded everywhere, 5 years ago
Winnipeg, Canada (pop. 850k) has a famous namesake in Winnie the Pooh (who was named after Winnipeg) and has been in the Simpsons.
850k isn't really small though.
It's still small for a city, especially a capital city. However, it's bigger than Regina ๐
Your "small city" has more people than 5 US states
It has more people than anywhere that has less people.
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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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Selma
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.
In Slovenia I believe Sevnica (4.5k population) - home town of Melania Trump - would be the smallest most recognizable place by the world.
But Slovenia is small enough even Kostanjevica na Krki with 802 or Vaฤe with 421 population is easily recognizable by Slovenians.