Like, can you name just a few, a large cities in certain regions, none at all, wtf is the USA, etc.
The USA is geopolitically isolated in a rather unique way on the global stage where this is a curious perspective.
Nantucket (pop 14,255 according to Wikipedia) and Los Alamos (13,179)
I once knew a man from Nantucket…
Uhh, without looking anything up, Nome, Alaska? In the lower 48, maybe Butte, Montana. Oh wait, how big is Roswell?
I know a fair bit. I could probably label most of the states on a map. Canada is very, very close culturally and obviously geographically, and we pay attention to you the way a flea pays attention to dogs.
Yeah yeah, y’all are like Texas talking about independence but from the other side of the boarder. You’re practically States already; one major oil strike away from a WMD Bushwanking invasion.
…if only we could afford your Megaflea market - Vancouver.
Yeah, but we have a functioning democracy. That’s pretty cool, if you want to fling mud.
I don’t think any of us really have a choice in the matter of our governments any more than a sand grain has a choice of beach or sea bed, right?
I’m not flinging mud friend. I think all philosophical government speak must come with a ribald pall. I am flinging a beer at a new friend in a digital bar for a few empty words. Sorry if my ebullience tints florid or dare I say turgid.
I’ve fallen through the social safety net of my respective government with an insuperable future. My sardonic outlook colors my words.
How old is this crowd? No one knows Luckenbach?
In other words: who’s played ticket to ride USA?
Smallest settlement I know would be Intercourse, Pennsylvania. Not a city by any stretch.
The next one that comes to mind is Jackson, Jackson Hole, Wyoming where we had an exchange student from 20+ years ago.
The first I thought of was Dead Horse, Alaska. Permanent population 25 - 50, I understand.
I really can’t recall where I first heard of it though.
I have probably heard of a few other odd ones like this.
That’s where the “definitely just a balloon, don’t pay any attention” landed after the Chinese spy balloon was shot down about a year ago.
At least that’s the first time I heard of Dead Horse.
Smallest I know of is Lyle, Minnesota (population of 573). The only reason I know that is because I added all of the buildings there to OpenStreetMap - before and after photo on Mastodon.
For me it’s mostly places in the middle of nowhere that popped up on Google Maps because they had the same name as a city this side of the pond that I was looking for. I know there are several tiny Londons, a tiny Prague, and iirc even a tiny Poland
I visited NYC for less than a week.
Des Moines , Iowa.
For Canada it’s probably Sherbrooke or
jonviveJonquière.Bonus game: name the linking theme and specific things that link those places. Hint: it’s not french things.
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now!
And for the other, I’m guessing either poutine or Joli Rouge cider.
Do they have either in des Moines?
Good question. Doubtful. So, not cider punk.
Correct. I mean… incorrect?
Either way, it’s not cider punk. It is musical though.
Cooter, Missouri
In a similar vein, there is a town in Oklahoma (the foam finger above Texas) called Hooker.
I’ve been there… It should just be called Lot Lizard…
While flying to NY for a week, I saw some cities on the airplane map that I remember because it was weird to me that there is a “London” in the USA, or a “Berlin”. Apparently, Berlin (New Hampshire) is a city of around 10k inhabitants…
I mainly know big cities and the names of some states.
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There’s no California County in Maryland.
“London” in the USA,
there’s also London ontario in Canada
Alabama
A few smaller ones that pop into my head are Boulder, Amarillo, Centralia (does that still count?), Slab city (not sure that counts either), Salem and Providence. Looking it up, the smallest proper city of these is Salem with 44k.
I could also probably name a ton of European city names and there will be small towns in the USA with that name, but that would kind of be cheating.
And which salem… lol. (I know which you mean, but there are others too. Very few names in the US aren’t used many times.)
The witchy one! Funnily enough, when I googled it for the population number, I found that there’s also a Salem in my home state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. I had never heard of that one, despite having been within like 15km of it.
Which Centralia? The one that inspired Silent Hill? Or the site of the anti-labor massacre?
I was thinking of the one with the cracked roads and the fire burning below. So that’s probably the former? Haven’t actually heard of the massacre I think.
That is indeed. The massacre happened in Centralia, WA on the other side of the continent.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_massacre_(Washington)
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Yup. We had those on the West Coast too.
Hell, Michigan. Uniquely memorable, for some reason.
Hell is always a good answer.