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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Roswell, NM comes to mind. Tiny and yet most people will think of UFOs when they hear the name.

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I can’t think of a smaller city in the US that fits “so many have heard of it”

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Tombstone comes to mind as well

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Dodge City, maybe

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I was gonna say Albuquerque, because of the name itself, the weird Al song and Breaking Bad, but Roswell is way tinier.

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don’t forget being famous for wrong turns

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Waco, TX for anyone around in the 90s

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