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*** Shanghai's first rise in significance came when it became a major port city in the 1700s and was then designated a treaty port in 1842 (after the First Opium War). By the 1930s, it was not only a major financial and industrial hub and an international city with tens of thousands of long-term foreign residents (including British, American, French, and Japanese expatriates as well as White Russian exiles and Jewish refugees from Europe), but also the birthplace of modern Chinese popular music and the center of China's film industry.
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* In the DistantFinale of ''Literature/TheHandmaidsTale'', somehow [[CanadaEh Nunavut]] has become the academic center of the world.
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* Music/SamHui's "Bauhinia" (洋紫荊) alludes to UsefulNotes/HongKong's status as this in its first stanza, going from a tiny fishing port to a bustling NeonCity and "Shopper's Paradise".
-->''[This] little fishing island [has] experienced the waves of history'' [[note]]捕魚小島 遍歷風浪[[/note]]\\
''[Located] in a small corner of the Earth, yet it carries such fame'' [[note]]在地球一小角 卻負名望[[/note]]
-->''[This] little fishing island [has] experienced the waves of history'' [[note]]捕魚小島 遍歷風浪[[/note]]\\
''[Located] in a small corner of the Earth, yet it carries such fame'' [[note]]在地球一小角 卻負名望[[/note]]
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* In the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze]] ages, the little town of Smallville became world-famous for being the home of ComicBook/{{Superboy}}. Early ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' tales showed Smallville in the 30th century having become a big city.
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** In a case of already significant cities becoming even ''more'' significant, Chicago serves as the Reds' capital during the war, and after the war when they restructure the United States into the America Socialist Union, New York City (excluding Staten Island, which is ceded to New Jersey, but including Long Island and Westchester County) becomes the new federal capital.
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** In a case of already significant cities becoming even ''more'' significant, Chicago serves as the Reds' capital during the war, and after the war when they restructure the United States into the America American Socialist Union, New York City (excluding Staten Island, which is ceded to New Jersey, but including Long Island and Westchester County) becomes the new federal capital.
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* ''Literature/TheFireNeverDies'':
** When the tide of the [[SecondAmericanCivilWar Second American Revolution]] turns irrevocably against the Whites and it starts looking like DC itself might be threatened, President Wilson reluctantly compromises with Congress' desire to evacuate the city (which he views as ceding what little legitimacy the Whites have left to the Reds) by designating Augusta, Georgia as a "backup capital" that the federal government will relocate to in case staying in DC ceases to be feasible. [[spoiler: This plan is never implemented, however, as [[GeneralRipper General Simmons']] coup of the White government accelerates the Reds' desire to end the war, leading to a full assault on DC that overwhelms it before what's left of the government can flee.]]
** In a case of already significant cities becoming even ''more'' significant, Chicago serves as the Reds' capital during the war, and after the war when they restructure the United States into the America Socialist Union, New York City (excluding Staten Island, which is ceded to New Jersey, but including Long Island and Westchester County) becomes the new federal capital.
** When the tide of the [[SecondAmericanCivilWar Second American Revolution]] turns irrevocably against the Whites and it starts looking like DC itself might be threatened, President Wilson reluctantly compromises with Congress' desire to evacuate the city (which he views as ceding what little legitimacy the Whites have left to the Reds) by designating Augusta, Georgia as a "backup capital" that the federal government will relocate to in case staying in DC ceases to be feasible. [[spoiler: This plan is never implemented, however, as [[GeneralRipper General Simmons']] coup of the White government accelerates the Reds' desire to end the war, leading to a full assault on DC that overwhelms it before what's left of the government can flee.]]
** In a case of already significant cities becoming even ''more'' significant, Chicago serves as the Reds' capital during the war, and after the war when they restructure the United States into the America Socialist Union, New York City (excluding Staten Island, which is ceded to New Jersey, but including Long Island and Westchester County) becomes the new federal capital.
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* ''Literature/BlackTideRising'': When the federal government is officially reestablished at the end of ''Strands of Sorrow'', it's decided that DC is still too overrun by zombies to be able to function as a capital, so for the time being they'll relocate to the more secure Jacksonville, Florida.
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* On the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'', over the course of just several months, the faction Las Nevadas has turned from a mountain range terraformed into blank desert far from the main hub of the SMP, to a hustle-and-bustle hub for entertainment... and more importantly, ''lore'' and plot.
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* On the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'', ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'', over the course of just several months, the faction Las Nevadas has turned from a mountain range terraformed into blank desert far from the main hub of the SMP, to a hustle-and-bustle hub for entertainment... and more importantly, ''lore'' and plot.
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* In ''VideoGame/FZero: Maximum Velocity'', a discovery of pure titanium had caused Bianca City to change from a small village to replacing Mute City as the center of galactic activity. All this in less than 40 years.
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* In ''VideoGame/FZero: Maximum Velocity'', ''VideoGame/FZeroMaximumVelocity'', a discovery of pure titanium had caused Bianca City to change from a small village to replacing Mute City as the center of galactic activity. All this in less than 40 years.
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* During the gold rush, an indebted family raised money by selling their land in part of the Sacramento River's flood plain as residential and commercial lots, forming a town. It was repeatedly flooded, devastated by chloera, and once nearly entirely burned down. Despite that; the new California State Legislature moved the state capital there after briefly locating it in San Jose. And thus there is the city of Sacramento.
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* At its start, Venice was nothing but a collection of fishing villages on the islands near the coast of North-Eastern Italy, if somewhat large in population due the influx of refugees from the mainland escaping Attila's invasion. After organizing themselves in a town they more or less lived on fishing while power in Italy shifted between the Western Roman Empire, the Ostrogoths, the Eastern Roman Empire and the Lombards, until the latters' invasion and a final influx of refugees turned Venice in one of two Roman outposts in Northern Italy alongside Cremona (and later the only one after Cremona finally fell to the invaders), and one powerful enough that it was turned into a duchy (to the Eastern Roman Empire, a semi-autonomous province of military importance similar to a ''theme'') allowed to elect its own duke, putting the basis for its rise to merchantile power and even a superpower capable of orchestrating the Crusade's conquest of Constantinople itself.
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* At its start, Venice UsefulNotes/{{Venice}} was nothing but a collection of fishing villages on the islands near the coast of North-Eastern Italy, if somewhat large in population due the influx of refugees from the mainland escaping Attila's invasion. After organizing themselves in a town they more or less lived on fishing while power in Italy shifted between the Western Roman Empire, the Ostrogoths, the Eastern Roman Empire and the Lombards, until the latters' invasion and a final influx of refugees turned Venice in one of two Roman outposts in Northern Italy alongside Cremona (and later the only one after Cremona finally fell to the invaders), and one powerful enough that it was turned into a duchy (to the Eastern Roman Empire, a semi-autonomous province of military importance similar to a ''theme'') allowed to elect its own duke, putting the basis for its rise to merchantile power and even a superpower capable of orchestrating the Crusade's conquest of Constantinople itself.itself.
* UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}}, British Columbia, was put very quickly on the map when the Canadian Pacific Railroad, which had previously planned on laying mainline track only as far as Port Moody, decided that better port facilities could be obtained further down Burrard Inlet. Victoria, which remains the provincial capital today, was a more significant settlement then and the nominal western terminal of the CPR, which had to settle for ferry connections due to its island location.
* UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}}, British Columbia, was put very quickly on the map when the Canadian Pacific Railroad, which had previously planned on laying mainline track only as far as Port Moody, decided that better port facilities could be obtained further down Burrard Inlet. Victoria, which remains the provincial capital today, was a more significant settlement then and the nominal western terminal of the CPR, which had to settle for ferry connections due to its island location.
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* The city of Texarkana ends up the center of a major empire following a nuclear war in ''Literature/ACanticleForLeibowitz''.
