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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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[-] A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.com 13 points 4 days ago

By population, and not land area, certain more remote geographic places are well known but have quite a low population. 'Everyone' is a high bar, but most adults in Australia would know the following places (ordered from smaller population but slightly less known to higher population):

Wittenoom, WA - population 0 - well known in Australia for being heavily contaminated with dangerous blue asbestos (which used to be mined there until the 60s), and having been de-gazetted and removed from maps to discourage tourism to it.
Coober Pedy, SA - population 1437 - well known in Australia for its underground homes and opal production.
Alice Springs, NT - population 25,912 - well known for being near the centre of Australia in the rangelands (outback) - most larger population centres in Australia are coastal.

[-] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

As a non Australian, I didn't know wittenoom, but I'm pretty sure I know of it from the old videos of asbestos shoveling competitions that went around a few years back.

I think the smallest Australian town I know is oodnadatta, but I don't know why I know it. I also had to look up if "nullarbor" was a city, or just a place name, so idk if that counts.

[-] zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 2 points 4 days ago

I'm an Australian, and I also don't know why I know Oodnadatta! Probably it's just one of those words that sticks in the brain, and it comes up every so often because it is a key point between Adelaide and Darwin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oodnadatta (population 102)

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