# Most obscure American city for its size

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 16, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obscure-american-city-for-its-size/644203 "2012-12-16T18:22:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obscure-american-city-for-its-size/644203/41 "2012-12-17T18:47:58Z")

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> [@fachverwirrt](#):
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> Until a couple of years ago, if you had asked me what the second largest city in New England was, I would have guessed Providence or Hartford.
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> [Worcester](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester,_Massachusetts) would never have occurred to me.
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> (Also, Hartford isn’t even the largest city in Connecticut, nor is it the second largest.)

Hartford is one of those cities that comes across as smaller than it actually is because the borders never were enlarged from colonial days when now town was bigger than the amount of time it took to ride a horse to church on Sunday morning.

Indeed all o Connecticut is like this. There a well over 100 towns and villages within the state.

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