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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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[โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Wow. And you still have >5 million people? This list goes all the way down to what I'd call not quite villages, but very small towns (although your link is broken, you need to add the Wikipedia part).

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Thanks, fixed the link.

    When you consider that the top 5 on that list take up 50% of the population. Auckland continues to grow, and at 30% of the population already, it has an crazy effect on the economic decisions in the country.

    It is also growing geographically, eventually Auckland and Hamilton will merge somewhere around Huntly (#50).

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Huh, so it does. It looks like it shouldn't at first, my bad.

    Have you had any luck with the urban sprawl? We've brought in a bunch of urban densification stuff recently in Canada, and NZ was cited as an example to follow.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Auckland is the definition of sprawl.

    A bunch of laws were past on the last few years to combat it, but we find see the effects for decades to come.

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