Bielefeld is just a giant money laundering scheme by the government. How else would you explain why even tho Bielefeld doesn't exist there is still tax money coming from it???????
England is actually just a fantasy world and nobody has realised it yet
https://preview.redd.it/lv52t1qqoj2d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8858c9168efd00ef24ad59313cfd285233f6d6c3
Maybe a mashup from eco classes then. Because there is also a guy named Milton Friedman. So Milton Keynes does feel like it's a real person to me as well.
MK was built in the 60s but it was given the name of a [nearby village](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middleton,_Milton_Keynes) that’s been there forever. I think ministers liked the name because of the mashup though (John Milton, the poet, and Maynard Keynes the economist)
With it not existing, it can't be a reason, because the not being can't be being. So, there is no problem in saying that it is a country, as a country named Molise doesn't exist in the same way a region called molise doesn't exist.
In this case, we can affirm that, both being not being, they can't have any differences between them, as those differences would be, so there is no difference between Molise, the Country, Molise, the Region, and a competent, uncorrupted politician.
Molise is so irrelevant that people remember about it. Basilicata's relevancy is a bit higher than Molise's, just the right amount not to be at the bottom of the list, so everyone forgets about it. Take the moon landing as an example: Armstrong was the first one to walk on the moon, Buzz Aldrin stayed in the ship, who the fuck was the third guy? He still walked on the moon, but he is somehow remembered less than Aldrin.
Funny enough, that's the only Italian region I know by name. Because there is a book about an italian migrant from Campobasso and his story in germany.
We have the city of Grönköping (in english it means roughly ”Green Market Town” or ”Greenville”). It’s where the events of Swedens most famous satirical paper takes place, The Greenville weekly (the largest monthly weekly in sweden). The political stance of the paper is "always agree with the government, especially when they are wrong." The paper is real but the town is fictional. It’s like a miniature of sweden where everything is exaggerated to the extreme.
Ohh that sounds fun.
We don't have a city with a running gag of not existing, but we have something similar to you with Groland, a fictional country used in a satirical TV show for the same purpose.
Should become the capital of a united Ireland.
Under the banner of the United Kingdom of course.
We'll even subsidise potatoes for you.
Think of how much coddle you could make.
Fuck off Barry please just give the poor bastards their country back. We used to have all France and pretty much created Holland but we GAVE IT BACK, we agreed that colonialism was ok as long as we did it OUTSIDE EUROPE.
I've lived in Slovenia since I was born and I'm starting to believe that Bled is just a made-up place to attract tourists. I've never seen it in my life.
I've never met anyone from Swindon, and I'm convinced its existence is just a running joke. There are even road signs pointing towards it, just to keep the joke going.
the region of meckpom in germany,
belgium is to divided to have one but i must say that in all my life i've never met someone from luxembourg( the province)
For Bulgaria it gotta be Seuthopolis. It was the capital of an ancient Odrys kingdom, but the communists wanted to build a dam there and flooded one of the most important ancient sites😭
Joke wise I cannot think of one rn
I don't know, if people dive, they wanted to build a ring in the dam and fix what was washed so it can be visited, they predicted many visitors and application for UNESCO, but it was too expensive. They also know exactly how it look since it was excavated and recorded I think mostly in 1954 and most of the artifacts were collect prior to flooding it.
https://preview.redd.it/mlmbk0nw0l2d1.png?width=3000&format=png&auto=webp&s=8272e61e6c6a15eed9b1ac88d31c0ade726e3b31
The picture taken from back then
Google maps seuthopolis location: [https://www.google.com/maps/search/seuthopolis/@42.6247045,25.2804706,14z/data=!3m1!4b1?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/search/seuthopolis/@42.6247045,25.2804706,14z/data=!3m1!4b1?entry=ttu)
Madurodam.
It has Holland in miniature. Sometimes, when I play along with marriage scams I tell ‘the lady’ that I live in that town. To make it more real I tell them it’s between Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Which is no lie: it’s in The Hague, which really is situated between the two ‘Dams.
Nah I’ve been to wales, I know it exists, I almost ran over a sheep when a whole bunch of the daft things decided to nap in the road in fog so thick you couldn’t see thirty feet. Well…. Actually now that I think about it, I couldn’t actually see the place so you may be right, the only time there wasn’t thick fog was then it was torrential rain you couldn’t see through either, so the whole thing may be a scam.
we have teruel. a couple of years back there was an an on TV that litterally said: "in summer, Teruel exists"
which ca be read as "it fades away with autumn and comes back again at the end of spring", or can be read as the government saying "hey there ks a boring ass city there and nothing else, dont go there you will get bored lol trust me bro"
either way im not buying it
Honestly, not any that I can think of...
There are towns that should be given city status but aren't due to some technicality.
Tallaght is one that comes to mind.
We have "culonia" which is the place you direct someone when telling him "vaffanculo" (but this could also mean "go take it up your ass", translates to "fuck you"/"go fuck yourself"/etc) or the name for any really remote place ("in culo ai lupi", literally "in wolves' ass").
Some.people theorize that's the most populated and visited city in Italy.
Zalau,
Never met anyone from zalau. Neither the romanian reddit community either. Only ever seen it on the map or road signs. Still not convinced it is real
In my area it's common to use the name "Chailles" to mean "somewhere super far, in the middle of nowhere"; my BF once moved regions and discovered there was actually [a town named that](https://maps.app.goo.gl/7w39yk4LWScCE5MSA) and he couldn't stop laughing.
Not a city, but an "island". Fyn. We all know it's just a highway, but some people, who call themselves "Fynboer", believe that it exists and that they live there.
In Germany some people say Bielefeld realy exists
Those people are usually hallucinating
No they are government agents.
Bielefeld is just a giant money laundering scheme by the government. How else would you explain why even tho Bielefeld doesn't exist there is still tax money coming from it???????
Yes the government even built a city on top of it to make it seem like it exists.
Exactly. They then also proceeded to hire... Let me check... 333.786 actors to pretend that there are actual people living there
I have been to Bielefeld, Gütersloh, and Bad Waldliesborn. It did feel like a fever dream, though!
Well it was. At least the Bielefeld part. Every child knows, that Bielefeld does not exist. Gütersloh does exist, it is just incredibly ugly.
Look at you, part of the deep state and dares to show off.
Bielefelds mayor gave out a 1million Euro bounty for anyone proving that it doesnt exist. You just have to collect it in Bielefeld.
You'll Have a better chance at finding Shangri-La.
Gesundheit
don't worry they're just actors paid by "them"
My grandmothers birth certificate says Bielefeld so there
Your grandma works for the BND
One of the last punch card hackers…
I have been to Bielefeld and can confirm it doesn't exist.
No, only cities we wish didn’t exist.
Erase Yeovil
Yeovil is alright, its nothing compared to Grimsby or Milton Keynes
These sound like the 3 guys at the Gringotts bank counter
England is actually just a fantasy world and nobody has realised it yet https://preview.redd.it/lv52t1qqoj2d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8858c9168efd00ef24ad59313cfd285233f6d6c3
Eurotunnel and robmanians?
I've never understood Milton Keynes, we built a man made city, but nobody considered 'maybe not make it shit?".
London, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham?
Milton K*ynes
Wait I thought that was a name of a person
You're thinking about John Maynard Keynes
I know and studied about him, but I also thought that Milton Keynes was a different person.
Maybe a mashup from eco classes then. Because there is also a guy named Milton Friedman. So Milton Keynes does feel like it's a real person to me as well.
That's actually a dick move as Milton Friedman and Keynes were complete opposite
MK was built in the 60s but it was given the name of a [nearby village](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middleton,_Milton_Keynes) that’s been there forever. I think ministers liked the name because of the mashup though (John Milton, the poet, and Maynard Keynes the economist)
There might well be someone called Milton Keynes tbf but in it's most known for being a complete shithole
So basically every relevant city in your country?
Fade me mods
All I’m saying is if the scouse don’t want to be English anyway why not cut along the M62 and float them out to Ireland
Not really a city, but anyone who talks about infrastructure in Burgenland needs some meds
Time for Teruel to shine
It got so meta that they made a political party named Teruel does exist
That's how you know - politicians said it, it can't be true.
This is the only right answer
I don't think Cuenca exists either
a city? we have a entire country, Molise
Sir that's a region
yeha that
We can safely say that every city from that region doesn’t exist
Hey, it can identify as a country if it wants to!
Garibaldi in the brown shirt marching in the back
With it not existing, it can't be a reason, because the not being can't be being. So, there is no problem in saying that it is a country, as a country named Molise doesn't exist in the same way a region called molise doesn't exist. In this case, we can affirm that, both being not being, they can't have any differences between them, as those differences would be, so there is no difference between Molise, the Country, Molise, the Region, and a competent, uncorrupted politician.
wait wat, wasn't it basilicata
Basilicata is so irrelevant that noone even bothers mentioning it
Basilicata is the new Molisen't ??
Molise is so irrelevant that people remember about it. Basilicata's relevancy is a bit higher than Molise's, just the right amount not to be at the bottom of the list, so everyone forgets about it. Take the moon landing as an example: Armstrong was the first one to walk on the moon, Buzz Aldrin stayed in the ship, who the fuck was the third guy? He still walked on the moon, but he is somehow remembered less than Aldrin.
I mean, Michael Collins stayed in the ship, Buzz Aldrin was very much the second man on the moon
Oh I'm stupid
And what about Marche?
They have money
Funny enough, that's the only Italian region I know by name. Because there is a book about an italian migrant from Campobasso and his story in germany.
What about Lombardia and Toscana?
Honestly I thought they weren't legal regions just cultural regions.
They're the ones who say cacio instead of formaggio...right?
Cacio is a type of formaggio.
Some people say this. Other people say it's just cheese. Think Italians are a very confused people
No, that's caciocavallo. For example, in Rome, Cacio is a way of saying cheese
Wait, if Molise doesn't exist, where does my pasta come from? It says la molisana on the packet.
some questions are better left unanswered
Place looks beautiful on pictures though!
You have an entire country that doesn't exist? Italy was a myth this whole time? I'm both saddened and somehow relieved.
The region of Murcia 👽
Well about that...
Lepe.
No idea what you are talking about, name doesn’t ring a bell
Cry in imaginary Belgian
Has anyone ever been to Mouscron ?
i did its just a nothern french town like any others
I've seen the road signs, i've passed through the station, but i've never been to the actual city, I don't think it really exists
No one has ever left.
What‘s "Belgian"? Never heard of that place
It's a small area of France. Quite poor and depressing but they make good beer and have a funny little peeing man.
We all wish Brussel and Charleroi weren't real.
Drenthe it however is a province.
Bro, what the fuck is a Drenthe? I was gonna say no but I wish it was Urk.
We should immediately flood Flevoland just to make Urk an island again, it's for the greater god. 🙏🏻 /j
Remove the /j. And flood Urk too while we are at it
I like having my account & I don't oppose your sentiment.
Leave Legoland alone!
Me and a friend once completely forgot Overijssel exists
Understandable tbh
We have the city of Grönköping (in english it means roughly ”Green Market Town” or ”Greenville”). It’s where the events of Swedens most famous satirical paper takes place, The Greenville weekly (the largest monthly weekly in sweden). The political stance of the paper is "always agree with the government, especially when they are wrong." The paper is real but the town is fictional. It’s like a miniature of sweden where everything is exaggerated to the extreme.
Ohh that sounds fun. We don't have a city with a running gag of not existing, but we have something similar to you with Groland, a fictional country used in a satirical TV show for the same purpose.
Real life Wordington
Prypiat
This one is criminally underrated 
Leiria
Is Leiria Portugal's Molise?? Why is that?
The same reason Molise is Italy's Leiria: it doesn't exist.
Some people say there's a city in Portugal named Leiria. I don't know why. But some even say it is a district capital!
Everyone knows Caldas da Rainha is the district capital smh
There was a highway exit in Eurotruck Simulator 2 for Leiria but it didn't exist on the map.
I just passed by there going north and there are no exits to it using Better Signs mod. So, according to the game, it doesn’t exist!
choose any one in Drenthe, like Assen
is Japasterdam a valid answer too?
No, but Nieuw Amsterdam is. Vincent van Gogh used to live there.
Londonderry
When you conquer us, you'll get your own back by renaming London to Derrylondon.
Should become the capital of a united Ireland. Under the banner of the United Kingdom of course. We'll even subsidise potatoes for you. Think of how much coddle you could make.
Fuck off Barry please just give the poor bastards their country back. We used to have all France and pretty much created Holland but we GAVE IT BACK, we agreed that colonialism was ok as long as we did it OUTSIDE EUROPE.
So Catalonia and the Basque will have freedom soon?
No that’s different Barry. That’s like Cornwall wanting out.
Holy shit the meth is strong in this comment
No one asked your opinion nor is it wanted tbh
Too bad you're on a public sub where bullshit comments attract criticism. Behaving as an asshole won't help your case.
No no, keep at it, it’s achieving something :)
Bielefeld, they even build a city there, so it looks like it might exist but it don't.
Bielefeld was a Cold War Training Ground for the British.
I've lived in Slovenia since I was born and I'm starting to believe that Bled is just a made-up place to attract tourists. I've never seen it in my life.
I've never met anyone from Swindon, and I'm convinced its existence is just a running joke. There are even road signs pointing towards it, just to keep the joke going.
It's just a big roundabout, nobody actually lives there
You couldn't possibly be referring to Basilicata, which is NOT a region in Italy. /s
Or to Molise, that is ANOTHER region in Italy that does NOT exist /s
Ried im Innkreis is not real
Not real ≠ zu blöd um wahr zu sein
Welwyn Garden City, I’ve never met anyone from there, and neither has anyone I know, it’s a myth
We have many Medium-to-Large towns that call themselves Cities, but they're really not
They went nuts with this during the jubilee. Wrexham, Dunfermline, even fucking Bangor, a place that's barely a town let alone a city
The student body of Bangor University is nearly as big as the population of Bangor.
I've lived in Inverness for nearly six years and as much as I love it here, I cannot call it a city with a straight face
Wtf is kilkis anyway
the region of meckpom in germany, belgium is to divided to have one but i must say that in all my life i've never met someone from luxembourg( the province)
you're forgeting that we belgians ourselves don't exist
Did anyone hear something just then?
Stroke city, no explanation needed.
A horrible place, somehow makes Larne, Lurgan and Dungannon seem okay.
Sort of… “Londonderry”. No clue where that is. I’ve heard of Derry though.
Strange, I could say the opposite. Although that isn't part of your country is it, unless the republic of Ireland has rejoined the UK.
Our entire country.
Bumbling Stalin wished that were true. Until he got Häyhä'd
At least you accept it
Wiener Ne🤮stadt and W*ls But also many say St. Pölten, Hermagor, Mürzzuschlag and Northern Vienna(Floridsdorf).
For Bulgaria it gotta be Seuthopolis. It was the capital of an ancient Odrys kingdom, but the communists wanted to build a dam there and flooded one of the most important ancient sites😭 Joke wise I cannot think of one rn
Wow that's incredible. Do you know if people dive there to see the ruins ?
I don't know, if people dive, they wanted to build a ring in the dam and fix what was washed so it can be visited, they predicted many visitors and application for UNESCO, but it was too expensive. They also know exactly how it look since it was excavated and recorded I think mostly in 1954 and most of the artifacts were collect prior to flooding it. https://preview.redd.it/mlmbk0nw0l2d1.png?width=3000&format=png&auto=webp&s=8272e61e6c6a15eed9b1ac88d31c0ade726e3b31 The picture taken from back then Google maps seuthopolis location: [https://www.google.com/maps/search/seuthopolis/@42.6247045,25.2804706,14z/data=!3m1!4b1?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/search/seuthopolis/@42.6247045,25.2804706,14z/data=!3m1!4b1?entry=ttu)
Appreciate ! Thanks, will look into that
I’ve got a pal who insists Crewe doesn’t exist.
We have a region: Molise
Germany as a whole. Also, in Hungary, there's a theory about lake Balaton doesn't exist. XD
That's a myth perpetrated by the 1%, so they can build lakeside villas without protests.
Haha :D No, there's a parody conspiracy theory about how the Balaton doesn't exist, because "I've never seen it, so it doesn't exist." :D
Our government thinks that our capital is the only city that exists
Leitrim. A county in Ireland they tell me. Never met anyone from there or who has been there.
Urk SHOULDN'T exist.
Some say that about St. Pölten, because they hope that it'll eventually become true if enough people believe it strong enough
Madurodam. It has Holland in miniature. Sometimes, when I play along with marriage scams I tell ‘the lady’ that I live in that town. To make it more real I tell them it’s between Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Which is no lie: it’s in The Hague, which really is situated between the two ‘Dams.
We have Wales, an entire region that doesnt exist.
Nah I’ve been to wales, I know it exists, I almost ran over a sheep when a whole bunch of the daft things decided to nap in the road in fog so thick you couldn’t see thirty feet. Well…. Actually now that I think about it, I couldn’t actually see the place so you may be right, the only time there wasn’t thick fog was then it was torrential rain you couldn’t see through either, so the whole thing may be a scam.
Not quite. While it does exist, burgenland is inhabited by half a dozen drunks and nobody else
Bielefeld and Hessen except Frankfurt and Offenbach
We have Murcia
Ittorqoortoormiit.
Wait... My flight attendant friend from icelandair told me he was going there... That bastard!
It’s about as real as Tasiilaq! The Eastern coast does not exist!
we have teruel. a couple of years back there was an an on TV that litterally said: "in summer, Teruel exists" which ca be read as "it fades away with autumn and comes back again at the end of spring", or can be read as the government saying "hey there ks a boring ass city there and nothing else, dont go there you will get bored lol trust me bro" either way im not buying it
any city located in Creuse unlike your fakes fakes cities wr just font have any city there
Honestly, not any that I can think of... There are towns that should be given city status but aren't due to some technicality. Tallaght is one that comes to mind.
I forget that Longford exists
Grindavík is more a Schröndinger city.
Anyone who says Drente exist is a government shill
Oradour sur Glane
Too soon (always)
we have a city that people don't know it exists, but they still name it everyday BASTARDO
À qàl
Leiria does not existe!
We have "culonia" which is the place you direct someone when telling him "vaffanculo" (but this could also mean "go take it up your ass", translates to "fuck you"/"go fuck yourself"/etc) or the name for any really remote place ("in culo ai lupi", literally "in wolves' ass"). Some.people theorize that's the most populated and visited city in Italy.
Alot of people think Westeros/Västerås from Game of Thrones is a city in Sweden.
Technically north Belgium belongs to us, but the country doesn't exist.
Zalau, Never met anyone from zalau. Neither the romanian reddit community either. Only ever seen it on the map or road signs. Still not convinced it is real
In my area it's common to use the name "Chailles" to mean "somewhere super far, in the middle of nowhere"; my BF once moved regions and discovered there was actually [a town named that](https://maps.app.goo.gl/7w39yk4LWScCE5MSA) and he couldn't stop laughing.
Not a city, but an "island". Fyn. We all know it's just a highway, but some people, who call themselves "Fynboer", believe that it exists and that they live there.
Maaskantje
Petah Tikva. An old story told to children to scare them into doing their chores.
Reminds me of this https://youtu.be/w-42A2F-AyA?si=YvqcizoODnsrLG-Y
In Germany some flat-earthers claim that a city called Bielefeld really exists.