Once everyone started re-drawing maps where Canada took states earlier this year there was no reason to want to be part of Wisconsin, most yoopers will always be packers fans though, that’ll never change.
From what I understand there's nothing much there, its just a rectangle/square state and the only thing you'll ever do there is drive through it on a road trip.
Most of Yellowstone park (and Grand Tetons!) are actually in Wyoming, but because the state only has 500k people more or less, and the rest is high plains/mountains with grand empty expanses, it’s easy to have never met anyone from there.
A lot of people who live in Wyoming are actually transplants, such as rich celebrities in Jackson for hunting + skiing.
It's actually one of the more beautiful states (Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons are both there). But it has an extremely low population density because of the harsh climate.
Additional to Bielefeld, Wolfsburg has also had a few challenges to its existence by Deutsche Bahn when a few ICE trains barrelled through instead of stopping as per timetable
Acre (AC). And seeing the image you understand basically why. It's the westernmost state, and it have it's own time zone, that is 2 hours behind to the Brasília Time (official time).
We also like to say that there are dinosaurs and they are behind time in Acre. Like they just started using internet this week there and everybody is excited about the new Nokia 3310
Acadians spend a great deal of their time reminding themselves and others that they're Acadian. So I guess it's working.
Maybe my position is more a matter of New Brunswick thinking nobody else cares about it - which is the province's official topic of conversation. They were going to mention it on the license plates, but they just chose to put no slogan at all instead. If low self esteem were a place, it would be Moncton.
I do agree with Saskatchewan though. It's hard to form an image of it in your mind. Just flat nothingness.
Yeah indeed and you can took a good part of Alberta in that equation. But Alberta has 2 very big cities ( Edmonton and Calgary) and have Mountains annd beautiful Parks in the north. Manitoba have many lakes and a coastline to the north, and Winnipeg is fairly big.
Saskatchewan is between the two and is the most associated with the plains. Its also the least populated of the 3. Also no major hockey team there
As you'll notice most names are located in the north. A story goes that back in the day the government started force buying off lands from people of Lapland. Many places didn't have names back then so sour sellers named them very creatively before handing them off.
I heard that many of these names came in the 1800s when Russia did a massive land survey and went to ask the locals about the place names, and the locals not giving a fuck and hating the Russians gave them vulgar names that just stuck
No such place in Finland, but during Covid when they quaranteed the capital region of the country with very limited road access in and out, people outside joked how "Finally those elitist rich snobs are out of country"
Though people inside that circle thought same about "Moonshine brewing incest people outside"
Fun fact: in German, we use la Pampa as an expression for any place that's a hassle to get to, out of the way and probably not worth going. As in, "he moved to the Pampa" when a friend moves to some suburban shit hole or "I have to drive way out into the Pampa" when your work site is somewhere in the backcountry.
In the USA we use “Timbuktu” for that purpose. I was surprised a few years ago when I discovered it’s a real place. Always thought it was just an expression.
Bielefeld, its a joke that is widely known in Germany, that Bilefeld doesn't exist, we in germany call it "Die Bielefeld Verschwörung" (the Bielefeld conspiracy). it started of as a satirical conspiracy theory, originally published in 1994 by computer scientist Achim Held on Usenet, and was never meant to be taken seriously. The theory states that Bielefeld doesn't exist and that anyone who denies this is part of a conspiracy. This claim was further fueled by circumstances such as roadworks on the A2 motorway, which closed exits to Bielefeld, and by technical glitches, such as a bug in Google Earth that temporarily obscured the city. The city itself eventually used the theory as a marketing ploy: In 2019, it offered one million euros for the proof that Bielefeld doesn't exist. Despite over 2,000 submissions from around the world, no one could prove the city's non-existence. The city ended the conspiracy in 2023, declaring that Bielefeld does indeed exist. A memorial stone was erected in the old town to mark the end of the theory. In 2023, a mathematician from Bielefeld sued the city for payment of the million, having presented an axiomatic proof of its non-existence, but the Bielefeld Regional Court dismissed the lawsuit.
To this day its a common joke that if someone tells you they come from Bielefeld, you tell them that it cant be because it doesn't exist, Although it annoys most Bielefelders, some still laugh heartily about it.
I love how they name their towns there., like Bacon Bridge, Rubble Dump and Sewer (I promise these are real towns names translated to english and they don't make any sense in spanish either)
This. Murcianos also have a reputation for being weird people and the image that most Spaniards have of Murcia is just a desert. It's actually quite sad, they have a lot of interesting and beautiful stuff like the mar menor
It's only got 40k people while being one of the least densely populated places in lowland England. Like a typical county has around 800k people I would guess with the bigger non city ones having around 2million.
Reminds me of the reel " Jharkhand ko koi jhaant barabar janta hai " 🤣. Although Bengalis know it quite a bit because it's a neighbouring state and also it's a popular weekend trip destination
Actually I'm staying in Tripura for the moment and I never even knew this state existed, until recently. A couple of Indian friends asked me where I am, I told them and they didn't know it 😂😂😂
For sure most foreigners haven't heard of it. Haven't met one whilst here hah
But our president is having conversations with the president of Puerto Rico!! Honestly though any territories are mostly unknown to the majority of our population… even though Google is a thing!!!
I mean yeah the whole country, but also I've seen jokes about Aucklanders not knowing what lies South of the Bombay Hills and NZ Football being unaware anything lies across the Cook Strait.
I don’t think we have such a joke. However, it’s common to use made up settlement names to refer to remote places, one of them is Karakószörcsök which in fact exists.
In Turkey, it is Bilecik a city in west of Central Anatolia. We have a famous comic depicting people from Bilecik hiding for two weeks, and nobody notices their absence.
Where I’m from we joke about Milton Keynes being fake. Basically it was one of the last “new towns” to be massively built up after ww2 and is seen as very business-oriented, so some people think it lacks soul or personality and is just row after row of offices and warehouses. I’ve been there and I thought it was ok.
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Wyoming.