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Came here to say this. Bielefeld is obviously a government psy-op. It's not a real city, much like the fake cities they used in the US for bomb tests.
Brazil has a lot of those. One of my favorites is the city of Itu, where supposedly everything is giant sized. Where a toilet is the size a pool and a snack is a full family barbecue.
It comes from a comedy show from the 60s where a character exaggerated everything from his hometown, but it caused the city to become famous for it and they even built some giant stuff there to attract tourists.
Labrador. Just try and find an actual Labradorese.
I saw a few Labradors yesterday at the dog park.
They were probably just Newfies.
I'd say Delaware.
They were the first state to sign the Constitution (barely, Pennsylvania was only a week later) and they've been kinda coasting on that ever since. The state only has about a million people total, whereas Philadelphia right next door has 1.5m just in the city proper. I-95, one of the busiest highways in America, cuts across the top and you can go across the state that way in 1/2 an hour. We usually have to remind ourselves that Wilmington exists when we think of the Northeast Corridor.
And yet, due to a ton of unique state laws to make DE business friendly, this tiny-ass mostly-forgotten state is the corporate home of over 1.4 million corporations, including 2/3 of Fortune 500 companies. And the state has no sales tax, so most people only go there to buy booze and TVs.
Itβs moderately common in my social circles to argue that South Dakota is a hoax
Here in the Netherlands I hear quite often that the province of Drenthe doesn't exist. As someone who lives quite close to its presumed location I can neither confirm nor deny that it exists.
Drenthe is the liminal space through which the A28 and a railway line connect Groningen to the rest of the country.
I was about to add the A7 to that list, but that one manages to avoid Drenthe. Apparently at exit 34a, the south end of the right of way is the provincial border, with the southern parallel road in Drenthe, and everything else in Groningen.
At one point it was the Chlamydia capital of the country. The joke these days is that even the weather goes around it instead of through.
Urk
Bullied yes. Satirical love? Either Limburg or something like Almelo thanks to Herman Finkers.
Florida. Because all arrest records and mugshots are pretty much immediately available to the public they get the most stories of dumb criminals in the media
Also, Florida is America's wang.
Sviripichino
It litelarlly means a musical pussy.