The most typical place in each country?

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For the United States, might it be a suburb of Columbus, Ohio?  Or perhaps Knoxville, Tennessee, which is not too far from the country’s population center?

Those locales are relatively generic, and not too much of any single region, or perhaps they straddle regions.  They represent life in the United States as a whole, unlike say NYC or Miami or San Francisco, or a small town.

For Germany, how about the town of Mainz?

For France, somewhere near Lyon?

Japan has to be the outskirts of Tokyo.

For the UK, you cannot name such a place, unless you think there is an “in-between” north of London and south of northern England?  I can’t think of one.

For Italy, how about Bologna or Turino?

For Mexico, how about Puebla?  An Ontario suburb for Canada?

For Brazil, Belo Horizonte?

Where else?

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