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Old Posted Nov 25, 2020, 10:01 PM
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Lets Hear It For Twin Cities!

We all know of the obvious and probably the most noted one. At least in NA.
That being Saint Paul- Minneapolis.
From my perspective, the criteria for truly being a twin city should be that although they may of merged, it has to be apparent that they were once very independent from each other. That, or they can still be separate functioning municipalities, but part of the same metro. One cannot be just merely a suburb or satellite community of the other either.

The most obvious one for Canada is right here Ottawa/Gatineau ..Seperated by a river and provincial boundary..
Another one would be Thunder Bay ON


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Old Posted Nov 25, 2020, 10:09 PM
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Dallas-Fort Worth

San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose are arguably triplet cities.
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Old Posted Nov 25, 2020, 10:11 PM
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Halifax-Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

Though they are now merged into a single municipality/city.
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Old Posted Nov 25, 2020, 10:12 PM
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Old Posted Nov 25, 2020, 10:13 PM
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Newark and New York

Brooklyn and New York

Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, MI

Maybes: Baltimore and Washington, Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre
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Old Posted Nov 25, 2020, 10:26 PM
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Lyon and Saint-Étienne, both towns being roughly 40 miles apart, that's nothing. Not even an hour distance by driving.

Of course, some would burn me alive as a heretic for saying it, because of their local soccer teams rivalry, but who cares? I surely don't.

There's also historically been something like a social class divide locally. Saint-Étienne is supposed to be a manufacturing, "blue collar", rust-belt-like town, whereas Lyon is quite larger and traditionally better off, with a significant bourgeois and entrepreneur community.

But that's only old history. You wouldn't perceive so much divide between the 2 nowadays.
In fact, the worst is their stupid professional soccer teams lol.
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Old Posted Nov 25, 2020, 10:37 PM
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Istanbul and Constantinople
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Old Posted Nov 25, 2020, 10:40 PM
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The Ohio City neighborhood in Cleveland, right across the river from downtown, used to be an independent city. It merged with Cleveland in 1854. It was very contentious at the time, and there was a big debate as to which name the merged city would take as both were of similar size at the time.
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Old Posted Nov 25, 2020, 11:48 PM
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Some smaller-scale examples:

Bloomington and Normal
Urbana and Champaign
Palo Alto and Maywood (now united, but Palo Alto has two commercial districts, one on University Ave and one on California Ave).
Reno and Sparks
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Old Posted Nov 26, 2020, 12:02 AM
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Buffalo - Niagara Falls

Boston - Cambridge

Detroit - Windsor

Philadelphia - Camden

Kansas City - Kansas City

S. Louis - East St. Louis

San Francisco - Oakland

Seattle - Tacoma
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Old Posted Nov 26, 2020, 12:06 AM
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Recife and Olinda, in Pernambuco state, Northeast Brazil. 6 miles apart as the crow flies.

They are both part of Recife metropolitan area (4.5 million inh.) and while Olinda was the Portuguese town, Recife was founded by the Dutch when they invaded the region in XVII century. When the Portuguese retook the region some 3 decades later, many Dutch settlers and specially the Jewish community fled to New York (still New Amsterdam then).

Olinda still boosts traditional Portuguese colonial architecture while Recife rivers and canals and some buildings evokes the Dutch presence.
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Old Posted Nov 26, 2020, 12:23 AM
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Old Posted Nov 26, 2020, 12:31 AM
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Raleigh-Durham (and Chapel Hill for the trifecta)
Greenville-Spartanburg
El Paso - Juarez

Maine has a number of twin or paired cities/towns:
Lewiston-Auburn
Augusta-Waterville
Bath-Brunswick
Camden-Rockland
Biddeford-Saco
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Every neighborhood/district in the LA basin – every other neighborhood/district in the LA basin.

Forget twins, LA is literally several hundred separate towns and cities:

- Some of these merged to form the city of LA
- Some initially had nothing to do with LA but ended up –willingly or unwillingly– transitioning into suburbs (like nearly every city in Nassau and Westchester Counties, for example)
- More still decided to follow LA's lead and merge into competing large cities, like Riverside, San Bernardino, and Long Beach
- Finally, still more banded together to secede entirely from LA county, forming orange county

To this day, most of these towns and cities are de facto fully independent, with much of their own infrastructure systems, central business districts, and laws. This includes many of the so-called "neighborhoods" that ended up within the LA city limits.

Unlike more centralized cities like Philly, Boston, Chicago, etc, it was a total toss-up that the initial town which ultimately grew into Downtown LA ended up becoming the biggest in the region. "Downtown LA" couldve just as easily sprung up from another town, perhaps where Long Beach is, or maybe where LAX is, or even all the way down where Anaheim is.
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S. Louis - East St. Louis
Beat me to it. East St. Louis is the stillborn dumpster twin.
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Hong Kong - Shenzen?
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One of the most successful of these is so successful that they aren't even recognized as twin cities any more:

Buda - Pest
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Beat me to it. East St. Louis is the stillborn dumpster twin.
Harsh!
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Old Posted Nov 26, 2020, 3:34 AM
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The good: Davenport & Rock Island

The bad: Moline

The ugly: Bettendorf
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