I am obsessed with Geography and Countries (perfect for coin collecting) and I have one random question, who here comes from the smallest populated city or town. If you live in the country side then count the place closest to you.
I come from Palmerston North in NZ, the Wikipedia average estimate population for Palmy is 87,300 as of 2017.
I'm not sure if I can really say I'm from there, but my grandparents' English country residence is near this "quaint little town" in Sussex. I spent a few of my summers when I was younger there, but haven't been back since attending a family wedding reception there at age 12.
I'd estimate the population at about a few thousand people at most, but that's the best card I can play, since in the UK I've lived (long term) only in Guildford (80,000 pop. according to online sources) and London (a huge city). For the forseeable future, I'm probably going to stay a "city-slicker" ; I have plans to be in Paris for university next year and maybe I'll stay in Rome for an extended time.
My "summer" place is in zip code 12438, which supposedly has a population of 55. I assume this refers to the permanent, year-round population (which does not include me). The post office has about 180 boxes (I think), so the total number of houses (both main and 2nd homes) is probably around 150 to 200.
This would give a total population of a few to several hundred, although not everyone would ever be there at once.
My main zip code has a population of about 9000, and the central village has a population of about 2700.
I'm from Dunedin so we're got a few more than you in Palmy, about 120,000....but then it depends on the time of the year because we've got about 20,000 students that show up in February and bugger off in November.
I was born in Drohobych (Drohobych), Ukraine. It has a population of almost 80,000 inhabitants. I've lived first 17 years of my life there. My city has recently been commemorated on a coin:
The small fishing town where I spent my half childhood in, has a population of 761 people, according to Wikipedia. But my home town in enormous in comaparisement, since it's the second largest city in the country.
City One Shatin, if you count that as a town, has 24,758 people. However, due to the small area, the population density of the place would be 148000 ppl/km^2 - placing it at the top of the world if it were a town/city.
To make things fairer, I live in Sha Tin, which makes the population ~700,000 (twice of Iceland) and the population density approximately at 9500 ppl/km^2.
I actually originally came from your namesake in the South Island. Palmerston, population listed as 795. All our mail used to come via Palmerston North even if it was addressed as Palmerston, Otago, because apparently New Zealand Post couldn't seem to cope with the fact that there are two towns called Palmerston in New Zealand.
I grew up in the Pennsylvania countryside in the US. The post office was located in a village of 300 (now almost 900 per Wikipedia) people (the village grew up around a crossroads and had only 2 or 3 streets besides the two that made the main intersection) called New Tripoli (named after the fighting in the Barbary Wars). It is pronounced tri-POH-lee instead of TRI-poh-lee by residents of the area.
Quote: "Coinman48"It is pronounced tri-POH-lee instead of TRI-poh-lee by residents of the area.
Isn't that also how the "real" Tripolis (in Libya and Lebanon) are pronounced? The "TRI-polis" pronounceation may be from the original Greek (meaning three cities), but I've never heard it used.
Well my city has a pop. of 66,579 (2016). But every July the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh attracts about 500,000 people and 10,000 airplanes. WE get very busy on the ground and air. Everything from WWI to todays air plains.
A lot of people come from all over. It was very strange to see a B-25 or a diamond formation of hellcats over head.
"New Tripoli (/trɪˈpoʊli/ trih-POH-lee) is a census-designated place in Lynn Township, in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 898 residents.
The village is located at the intersection of Madison Street and Pennsylvania Route 143 near Pennsylvania Route 309 in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. The pronunciation of New Tripoli is with the stress on "PO," as many non-natives make the mistake of stressing the first syllable which will often be corrected by natives."--Wikipedia, residents of US (and the rest of the world, I think) generally say TRIP-uh-lee for the Libyan and Lebanese cities. Actually they are Tarabulus in Arabic.
The residents of the little village made the stress on the second symbol due to the Pennsylvania German accent prevalent in the area and if you would hear it you would not miss the difference from the general pronunciation.
I lived in Griggs, Oklahoma. Population 8. 5 were my family. We three kids attended Plainview school, 5 miles away. Kinder thru 8th grade. 46 kids in the whole school.
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Quote: "Oklahoman"I lived in Griggs, Oklahoma. Population 8. 5 were my family. We three kids attended Plainview school, 5 miles away. Kinder thru 8th grade. 46 kids in the whole school.
I now live in a town of about 27 447 inhabitants (stats from January 2017). But I was previously (2 years ago) living in a village nearby of about 800 people.
Quote: "Oklahoman"I lived in Griggs, Oklahoma. Population 8. 5 were my family. We three kids attended Plainview school, 5 miles away. Kinder thru 8th grade. 46 kids in the whole school.
I think we have a Winner!!!
The smallest town I've lived in is Cheltenham, Ontario, Canada. Population less than 500.
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure, that just ain't so. Mark Twain
I moved about a year and a half ago from a small town called Hubert NC. Even though it only had a population of 15,000 there is another Great collector here on Numista that is from there as well. Before that I lived in a even smaller town called Lockhart Florida it says that the population there was 13,000 in 2010 during the census. Now I live in Cocoa Florida and it says that the population here is 16,000. Honestly all of them were too populated for me so hopefully one day I can find one of these towns of 4-500 people so I don't have to deal with so many idiots.
; I have plans to be in Paris for university next year and maybe I'll stay in Rome for an extended time. 
