How close are they to other named places? Back in the 1990s my father was astonished to see his little hometown in Canada on a map of North America but it is in

How close are they to other named places? Back in the 1990s my father was astonished to see his little hometown in Canada on a map of North America but it is in an area with few other settlements so even though it isn't a seat of any level of government, it's still the "major" population center for the area. Meanwhile around Toronto cities 50x larger didn't make the map.