Your average person in Quebec will know a ton of places in Quebec, even in some cases pretty small ones due to popular culture (St-Élie-de-Caxton, Kamouraska) or even to tragedies (Lac-Mégantic, Les Éboulements).
This even extends to some degree to a handful of small places outside the province, like Paquetville NB.
But generally speaking, once outside Quebec it drops like a stone. Of course people will know the main ones like Toronto, Vancouver, places with NHL teams like Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg, the capital of the country (Ottawa) and a famed tourist place like Niagara Falls. Moncton is also on the radar due to having a substantial francophone university and being the de facto Acadian capital. Maybe Hamilton too (CFL team that plays the Alouettes) and Halifax (combination of LHJMQ team + decently large historic city).
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