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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Chornobyl, Ukraine. "50 thousand people used to live here, now it's a ghost town"

There are many more ghost towns now, due to the war. Adviivka, Bakhmut and many others, some small, some relatively big. Everyone has heard of those small cities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 53 minutes ago

Pretty sure that quote refers to Prypiat. Chornobyl had around 14k people living at the moment of the evacuation, according to wikipedia