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| | Pekin, Niagara County, New York: The Name Pekin |
 | | New York State has, to name a few, Syracuse, Rome, Ithaca, Cairo, Jerusalem Corners, Carthage, Paris, New London, Berlin, Moscow Hill, and so on. |
 | | Pekin back then was another great city and, like Western New York back then, it was pretty much at the edge of the world, at least to Americans. |
 | | The biggest one, Pekin, Illinois, has something like 34,000 people; the smallest one looks like Pekin, South Dakota, which claims to have "approximately" 101 people. |
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