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None of those questions are too localized. It's a common misconception that I need to dispel early on. A lot of uses will come to ask very specific questions about specific destinations. That's awesome! We don't close localized questions, we close questions that are "TOO" localized. So what does "too localized" mean? I'm going to repost an answer from ...

Just my £0.02 - I wouldn't say any of those questions were too localised personally - specialist, specific, somewhat localised questions are good because they enable precise answers. If it was unlikely that anyone would ever need the answer to those questions I'd agree they were too localised but as far as I can see that's not the case - I for one could use ...

Recall that on the proposal page, there was a fairly highly upvoted announcement (+27) about this: I think that geographically-specific questions are perfectly appropriate, as long as they are tagged as such. Think of how Stack Overflow is so successful in having vary narrowly-targeted programming questions, about obscure languages. I think that same ...

Stackoverflow prided itself on specific technical questions, so my initial thought would be some loose metric like how many people visit the place annually. For example, I think questions relating to Isle Royale National Park in lake superior, such as details about the ferries, or what kind of animals/insects live there, wouldn't be too localized. Isle ...