TIL: Closed Cities are cities requiring special permission to visit, a phenomenon common in the former Soviet Union. Today Russia has the highest number of closed cities.

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A closed city or town is a settlement where travel or residency restrictions are applied so that specific authorization is required to visit or remain overnight.

The USA version of this is a sundown town. The reason is racism.

And because I respect you (and I’m not a monster) I altered the URL to point to the main article and not the mobile version. Ffs, people, just delete two characters.
- Ehh not really. One is a cultural thing the other is a state issued piece of legal code.
  
  Sundown towns are real but they're not really an american specific thing either. Tons of places on the planet will target you based on cultural shit. Closed Cities are some fascist ass shit
  
  edit; a word
- How did you draw that conclusion exactly?
  
  . . . How did they draw the conclusion that sunset towns are racist?
I've actually closed myself out of the whole country.
- Probably you should add yourself to the list on Wikipedia then ;)
  
  I'm not looking to fall out of a window
Super Freedom
I thought the movie Tenet made this up :)

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