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The reasons for this vary. Sometimes, they just aren't given. Other times, other candidates for the position have been destroyed or invaded. Or perhaps they got lucky and economic conditions shifted their way.
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== Tropes ==
* [[Big Applesauce]].
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* In ''[[RahXephon]]''. Apparently between 2012 and 2024 North Korea comes out of its shell and the Olympics are held in Pyongyang. Kabul hosts the 2028 games. Oh, and skateboarding is finally an Olympic sport.
* In the backstory of ''[[Legend of Galactic Heroes]]'', Brisbane, Australia became the capital of the United Earth Government which was established after almost of a century of warfare that left much of the world devastated and practically all major cities destroyed.
* In ''[[The Open Door
== [[Film]] ==
* Radiator Springs in ''[[Cars]]''. Goes from [[Dying Town]] to hot tourist spot after Lightning McQueen moves in.
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* In ''[[Gold Digger]],'' the Diggers family members aren't really [[Weirdness Magnet|weirdness magnets]] ''per se,'' but none the less, after their adventures lots of weird cosmic entities tend to follow them home. Home is Atlanta, Georgia.
* In the [[Silver Age|Silver]] and [[Bronze Age|Bronze]] ages, the little town of Smallville became world famous for being the home of [[Superboy]]. Early [[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]] tales showed Smallville in the 30th century having become a big city.
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== [[Religion]] ==
* "'But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.'" (Matthew 2:6, citing Micah 5:2)
** Also Nazareth was just a tiny town of probably less than 500 people of doubious reputation until one former local started a movement that grew into two of the
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Web Comic]] ==
* In ''[http://www.rockpapercynic.com/littleworlds/ Little Worlds]'', Halifax (the city in Canada, not in the UK) is treated as though it were a much more urban of a center than it actually is.
▲== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
▲* In ''[[The Open Door|"The Open Door"]]'' by Academia Nut, the town of Nesme in [[Forgotten Realms|Northern Faerun]] gets conquered by an interloper deity during the Times of Troubles and turned into the industrialized capital of a new country, the Republic of Noctis. Unfortunately, the concept of [[Fantastic Racism|equal rights for all sentient beings]] doesn't mesh well in a Medieval fantasy setting, causing most people to view Noctis as a [[Lawful Evil|lawful evil country]] for giving citizenship to [[Exclusively Evil|drow, goblins, and orcs]] so long as said creatures follow the rules.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[wikipedia:Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador|Gander,]] a small town in Newfoundland, became famous in September 11, 2001 when American airspace was shut down due to the terrorist attacks. Gander's airport was a designated emergency landing strip for inbound flights from Europe, but the sheer number of planes was never planned for so the small town was suddenly forced to accommodate thousands of displaced passengers until airspace was reopened.
** This inspired the [[musical]] ''[[Come from Away]]''.
* The moderately important city of Byzantium was refounded as Nova Roma by Constantine I in 330 and became the capital of the East Roman Empire under the name Constantinopolis. It was always geographically important (being on a strait), but it wasn't Capital-of-an-Empire important.
* New York and Philadelphia were the major seats of political power during and immediately after the American Revolution. Washington DC was built because the southern state representatives insisted on a more centrally located capital and a certain marshy site on the Potomac river that no one wanted was available.
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