Twin Cities - What Are The Twin Cities In Minnesota

Twin cities are a special case of two cities or urban centres that are founded in close geographic proximity and then grow into each other over time, losing most of their mutual buffer zone.

There are no precise criteria for twin-cityhood, but to be considered twin cities, the cities involved have to have a similar administrative status and somewhat comparable sizes; a suburb of a much larger population center is usually not considered to form a twin city with it. For example, South San Francisco (population about 65,000) is not considered a twin city with San Francisco (population about 850,000). However, cities considered twinned by proximity do not necessarily match demographically, economically, or politically.

In many historical cases, cities that grew into each other's space lost their individual identities, and the border or barrier originally separating them became almost irrelevant. An 1873 case of twin cities merging to become a united city is Budapest in Hungary, which began as two settlements (Buda and Pest) facing each other across the Danube at a strategic fording place along a trade route. In China, the three ancient cities of Hankou, Hanyang, and Wuchang, separated by the junction of the Yangtze and Hanjiang rivers, were joined in 1927 into the single entity of Wuhan.

Twin cities may share an airport into whose airport codes are integrated the component initials e.g. BWI (Baltimore-Washington), DFW (Dallasâ€"Fort Worth), LBA (Leedsâ€"Bradford), MSP (Minneapolisâ€"Saint Paul, Minnesota), RDU (Raleigh and Durham, NC), and CAK (Akronâ€"Canton, Ohio).

In some cases, such as Albury/Wodonga in Australia, the two cities are permanently divided by a state border, often one that strictly adheres to a geographical landmark, such as the Murray River that divides New South Wales from Victoria, and thus Albury from Wodonga. In other cases twin cities can be divided by an international border, but retain a cultural and historical similarity, for example Haparanda (Sweden) and Tornio (Finland), Leticia (Colombia) and Tabatinga (Brazil) or Valga (Estonia) and Valka (Latvia).

Examples

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Americas

North America

Canada

Battleford and North Battleford, Saskatchewan "The Battlefords"
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and Halifax
Gatineau, Quebec and Ottawa, Ontario Also Known as the Ottawa-Gatineau Metropolitan Area
Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo

United States

Alcoa and Maryville, Tennessee
Allentown and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Auburn and Lewiston, Maine
Auburn and Opelika, Alabama
Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan
Bloomington and Normal, Illinois
Bluefield, Virginia and Bluefield, West Virginia
Bossier City and Shreveport, Louisiana
Bristol, Tennessee, and Bristol, Virginia
Bryan and College Station, Texas
Centralia and Chehalis, Washington
Champaign and Urbana, Illinois
Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah
Dallas and Fort Worth
Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin
Durham and Raleigh, North Carolina
Easton, Pennsylvania and Phillipsburg, New Jersey
Fargo, North Dakota, and Moorhead, Minnesota
Fitchburg and Leominster, Massachusetts
Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota
Greensboro and Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Greenville and Spartanburg, South Carolina
Gulfport, Mississippi and Biloxi, Mississippi
Hartford, Connecticut and Springfield, Massachusetts
Killeen and Temple, Texas
Lafayette and West Lafayette, Indiana
Lancaster and Palmdale, California
Lansing (west), and East Lansing, Michigan
Macon and Warner Robins, Georgia
Marinette, Wisconsin and Menominee, Michigan
Midland and Odessa, Texas
Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota
Monroe and West Monroe, Louisiana
Montague and Whitehall, Michigan
Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Virginia
Portland and South Portland, Maine
Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia
Reno and Sparks, Nevada
San Francisco and Oakland, California
Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Sherman and Denison, Texas
South Bend and Mishawaka, Indiana
St. Petersburg, Florida and Tampa
Texarkana, Arkansas and Texarkana, Texas
Union City, Indiana and Union City, Ohio
Wahpeton, North Dakota and Breckenridge, Minnesota
Yuba City and Marysville, California

Mexico--United States border

San Diego, California, United States and Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
Calexico, California, United States and Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico
Yuma, Arizona, United States and San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, Mexico
Nogales, Arizona, United States and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico
Douglas, Arizona, United States and Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico
Columbus, New Mexico, United States and Las Palomas, Chihuahua, Mexico
El Paso, Texas, United States and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Presidio, Texas, United States and Ojinaga, Chihuahua, Mexico
Del Rio, Texas, United States and Ciudad AcuÃ±a, Coahuila, Mexico
Eagle Pass, Texas, United States and Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico
Laredo, Texas, United States and Nuevo Laredo, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Mcallen, Texas, United States and Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Brownsville, Texas, United States and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico

Canadaâ€"United States border

Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario
Niagara Falls, New York and Niagara Falls, Ontario
Buffalo, New York and Fort Erie, Ontario

South America

Argentina

Carmen de Patagones and Viedma
ParanÃ¡, Entre RÃos and Santa Fe

Brazil

Juazeiro and Petrolina
Olinda and Recife
Vila Velha and VitÃ³ria

Chile

ConcepciÃ³n and Talcahuano
Coquimbo and La Serena
Valparaiso and ViÃ±a del Mar

Peru

Callao and Lima

Venezuela

Guarenas and Guatire
Acarigua and Araure

International

Examples, sharing names or similar names, across an international border include:

ChuÃ, Brazil; Chuy, Uruguay
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada; Niagara Falls, New York, United States
North Portal, Saskatchewan, Canada; Portal, North Dakota, United States
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada; Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, United States
Boquillas del Carmen, Coahuila, Mexico; Boquillas, Texas, United States
Naco, Sonora, Mexico; Naco, Arizona, United States
Nogales, Sonora, Mexico; Nogales, Arizona, United States
Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico; Laredo, Texas, United States
Nuevo Progreso, RÃo Bravo, Tamaulipas, Mexico; Progreso, Texas, United States
San Luis RÃo Colorado, Sonora, Mexico; San Luis, Arizona, United States
Tecate, Baja California, Mexico; Tecate, California, United States
Calexico, California; Mexicali, Baja California â€" see Calexicoâ€"Mexicali

Pairs with unrelated names

San Diego and Tijuana â€" see San Diegoâ€"Tijuana
Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario â€" see Detroitâ€"Windsor
Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora
Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, Tamaulipas â€" see Matamorosâ€"Brownsville Metropolitan Area
Eagle Pass, Texas and Piedras Negras, Coahuila
Del Rio, Texas and Ciudad AcuÃ±a, Coahuila
Presidio, Texas and Manuel Ojinaga, Chihuahua
El Paso, Texas and Ciudad JuÃ¡rez, Chihuahua â€" see El Pasoâ€"JuÃ¡rez

Historic

Brooklyn, New York and New York City - until incorporation as a single city in 1898 - as noted in "The New Colossus", inscribed on a plaque at the Statue of Liberty.
Lloydminster, Alberta/Saskatchewan
Thunder Bay, Ontario (formed by the amalgamation of Fort William and Port Arthur, Ontario in 1970)

Asia

Current

Dhaka and Gazipur, Bangladesh
Guangzhou and Foshan, People's Republic of China
Macau and Zhuhai, People's Republic of China
Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, India
Allahabad and Naini, India
Cuttack and Bhubaneswar, India
Munger and Jamalpur, India
Durg and Bhilai, India
Hubli and Dharwad, India
Hyderabad and Secunderabad, Telangana, India
Vijayawada and Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, India
Kankroli and Rajsamand, India
Kochi and Ernakulam, India
Kolkata and Howrah, India
Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, India
Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad, India
Harihar and Davangere, Karnataka, India
Jalpaiguri and Siliguri, West Bengal, India
Asansol and Durgapur, West Bengal, India
Shivamoga and Bhadravati, Karnataka, India
Ranchi and Hatia, India
Tiruchirappalli and Srirangam, Tamil Nadu, India
Tirunelveli and Palayamkottai, Tamil Nadu, India
Seleucia and Ctesiphon, Iraq
Tel Aviv and Jaffa, Israel
Okayama and Kurashiki, Japan
Tsukuba and Tsuchiura, Japan
Nasushiobara and Otawara, Japan
Kamisu and Kashima, Japan
Beirut and Jounieh, Lebanon
Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur, Nepal
Bharatpur and Narayangarh, Nepal
Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan
Jhelum and Sarai Alamgir, Pakistan
Ramallah and al-Bireh, Palestine
Dipolog and Dapitan, Philippines
Taipei and New Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan)
Dammam and Khobar, Saudi Arabia
Seoul and Incheon, South Korea
Bangkok and Nonthaburi, Thailand
Chiang Mai and Lamphun, Thailand
Songkhla and Hatyai, Thailand

Historic

Chirala-Perala, India
Victoria and Kowloon, colonial Hong Kong - although, in both colonial Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Victoria is the only city recognised by law; they were widely considered to be separate cities until at least the mid-1970s
Saigon and Cholon, merged into Saigon-Cholon, now Ho Chi Minh City.
Wuhan (merger of Wuchang, Hankou, Hanyang)

Europe

Current

Aalborg and NÃ¸rresundby, Denmark
Bournemouth and Poole, England
Brighton and Hove, England
Chatham and Rochester, England
Leeds and Bradford, England
Manchester and Salford, England
Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Gateshead, England
Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
PÃ³voa de Varzim and Vila do Conde, Portugal
Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, Germany
Mainz and Wiesbaden, Germany
Ulm and Neu-Ulm, Germany
Sindelfingen and BÃ¶blingen, Germany
Frankfurt and Offenbach, Germany
Nuremberg and Fuerth, Germany
Rotterdam and The Hague, The Netherlands
Fredrikstad and Sarpsborg, Norway
Porsgrunn and Skien, Norway
Sandnes and Stavanger, Norway
SÅ‚upsk and Ustka, Poland
Novi Sad and Petrovaradin, Serbia
Zemun and New Belgrade, Serbia
Alcobendas and San SebastiÃ¡n de los Reyes, Spain
Santa Cruz de Tenerife and San CristÃ³bal de la Laguna, Spain
Elda and Petrer, Spain
Gothenburg and MÃ¶lndal, Sweden
JÃ¶nkÃ¶ping and Huskvarna, Sweden
Athens and Piraeus, Greece

International

Strasbourg, France and Kehl, Germany
Frankfurt (Oder), Germany and SÅ‚ubice, Poland
Bad Radkersburg, Austria and Gornja Radgona, Slovenia
Comines, Belgium and Comines, France
Mouscron, Belgium and Tourcoing, France
Wervik, Belgium and Wervicq-Sud, France
TÄ›Å¡Ãn, Czech Republic and Cieszyn, Poland
Copenhagen, Denmark and MalmÃ¶, Sweden
Narva, Estonia and Ivangorod, Russia
Valga, Estonia and Valka, Latvia
Tornio, Finland and Haparanda, Sweden
Hendaye, France and Irun, Spain
GÃ¶rlitz, Germany and Zgorzelec, Poland
Guben, Germany and Gubin, Poland
Heringsdorf, Germany and ÅšwinoujÅ›cie, Poland
Gorizia, Italy and Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Kerkrade, The Netherlands and Herzogenrath, Germany
KomÃ¡rno, Slovakia and KomÃ¡rom, Hungary

Historic

City of London and City of Westminster, England. Absorbed into London.
Buda and Pest. United into Budapest.
Barmen and Elberfeld, Germany. United into Wuppertal.
Bielsko and BiaÅ‚a, Poland. United into Bielsko-BiaÅ‚a.
Knokke and Heist-aan-Zee. United into Knokke-Heist.
Gradec and Kaptol. United into Zagreb.

Oceania

Albury and Wodonga, Australia
Canberra and Queanbeyan, Australia
Gold Coast and Tweed Heads, Australia
Forster and Tuncurry, Australia
Harden and Murrumburrah, Australia
Kalgoorlie and Boulder, Australia
Napier and Hastings, New Zealand
Perth and Fremantle, Australia
Townsville and Thuringowa, Australia
Parramatta and Sydney, Australia

Tri-cities

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Brisbane; Logan; Ipswich, Queensland Australia
Chandigarh; Mohali; and Panchkula, India
Stockholm; Solna; and Sundbyberg, Sweden
San Jose; San Francisco; and Oakland, California
New York, New York; Newark; and Jersey City, New Jersey
GdaÅ„sk; Gdynia; and Sopot, Poland
Greensboro; Winston-Salem; and High Point, North Carolina, the cities' collective metropolitan area is often called the Piedmont Triad
Raleigh; Durham; and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the cities' collective metropolitan area is often called the Research Triangle
Dallas; Fort Worth; and Arlington, Texas
Warangal; Hanamkonda; Kazipet, India
Pasco; Richland; and Kennewick, Washington
Dubai; Sharjah; and Ajman, United Arab Emirates
Kitchener; Waterloo; and Cambridge, Ontario, the cities' collective metropolitan area is often called the Kitchener-Waterloo or simply K-W
Bay City; Saginaw; and Midland, Michigan, the cities' collective metropolitan area is often called Saginaw Valley and the MBS Regions
Temiskaming Shores, Ontario, Canada - Amalgamated the former municipalities of Cobalt, Haileybury and New Liskeard

Quad cities

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In North Carolina, the Unifour: Hickory, Lenoir, Morganton and Alexander County
Allentown/Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Easton, Pennsylvania/Phillipsburg, New Jersey; the collective area is often called the Lehigh Valley
Quad Cities of Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, and Rock Island and Moline, Illinois. It also includes a fifth member, East Moline, Illinois.
The Florence-Muscle Shoals Metropolitan Area in Alabama is locally referred to as "the Quad Cities", with Florence, Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. Formerly, when Muscle Shoals was a mere village, this region was known a "Tri-Cities", Alabama. Actually, they are all incorporated as towns except for Florence.
The Quad Cities of Minnesota consist of Virginia, Eveleth, Gilbert, and Mountain Iron.
The cities of Pullman, Washington, Moscow, Idaho, Clarkston, Washington, and Lewiston, Idaho have marketed themselves as "Quad Cities."
Pattaya-Chonburi Metropolitan Area consists of the City of Pattaya, Town of Chonburi, Portal town of Laem Chabang and Town of Sattahip on the west coast of Chonburi Province, Thailand

More than four cities

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In the US state of Virginia: Norfolk; Chesapeake; Hampton; Newport News; Portsmouth; Suffolk; and Virginia Beach, the cities' collective metropolitan area is often called Hampton Roads
Ruhr district (Germany): consisting of Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg, Bochum, Oberhausen, MÃ¼hlheim, Bottrop, Gelsenkirchen and Herne in its core.

Examples of cities formed by amalgamation

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Asia

Delhi, India: What used to be Old Delhi, New Delhi, and a collection of smaller villages has now grown into the current megalopolis that we see today, also known as the National Capital Region (NCR)
Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, has, as of 2013, grown out so much that small towns by this giant city, such as Shahdara, have been absorbed in its city limits.
Wuhan in China consists of the towns of Wuchang, Hankou, and Hanyang in Hubei Province.
Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan, has been expanded to include smaller towns including Rawat in its territory.
Bangkok, the capital and largest city of Thailand, was created in 1971, when the previous Bangkok province (Phra Nakhon) was merged with Thonburi province.
Fukuoka in Japan, a city of 1.4 million people, formerly the twin cities of Hakata and Fukuoka until the late 19th century.
Saitama in Japan, a city of 1.2 million people, created in 2001 by the merger of the cities of Urawa, Omiya, Yono, and later Iwatsuki. Urawa and Omiya could formerly have been considered twin cities.
Kitakyushu in Japan, a city of 900,000 people, created in 1963 by the merger of Yahata, Kokura, Moji, Wakamatsu, and Tobata. Yahata and Kokura had formerly been major cities in their own right.
The cities of Saigon and Cholon merged in 1931 to form a single city named Saigon-Cholon; in 1956, the name Cholon was dropped and the city became known as Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City).

Europe

London grew from its cores in the City of London and the City of Westminster to encompass many other towns and villages within neighbouring counties and absorbed almost the whole of Middlesex county.
Budapest is the amalgamation of Buda, Pest and Ã"buda.
Berlin (Berlin and CÃ¶lln), in Germany
Duisburg (Duisburg and Hamborn, 1929â€"1935 called Duisburg-Hamborn), in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Wuppertal (Barmen and Elberfeld), in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Manchester and the city of Salford, England in the Metropolitan County of Greater Manchester (formerly in Lancashire).
Stoke-on-Trent was created in 1910 from the towns of Burslem, Hanley, Tunstall, Longton, Fenton and Stoke, taking its name from the latter. Neighbouring Newcastle-under-Lyme remains a separate town.
Eindhoven merged with five neighbouring municipalities (Woensel, Tongelre, Stratum, Gestel en Blaarthem and Strijp) into the new Groot-Eindhoven ("Greater Eindhoven") in 1920. The prefix "Groot-" was later dropped.
Madrid evolved by absorption of other towns (like TetuÃ¡n de las Victorias, Vallecas, ChamartÃn de la Rosa or Aravaca)

North America

Richmond (Richmond and Manchester) in central Virginia
Cleveland (Cleveland and Ohio City) in Ohio
Minneapolis. St. Anthony (not to be confused with St. Anthony Village, a modern city which is a suburb) was a twin city to Minneapolis in the two cities' youth. Minneapolis annexed St. Anthony in the late 1800s.
New York City (five boroughs, historically especially between Manhattan and Brooklyn)
Jersey City, New Jersey, was incorporated in 1820, and slowly grew by annexing surrounding municipalities: Van Vorst Twp. (1851), Bergen City (1869), Hudson City (1869), Bergen Twp. (1869) and finally Greenville Twp. (1873).
Fremont, California was formed in 1956 by the combination of the five towns of Centerville, Irvington, Niles, Mission San Jose, and Warm Springs, California. The town of Newark has always refused to merge into Fremont, and Newark is completely surrounded by Fremont.
What is now the city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina was once two separate towns called Winston and Salem that were combined into one.
Ottawa, Ontario, was given its large area by the amalgamation in 2001 of the old City of Ottawa, the suburbs of Nepean, Kanata, Gloucester, Rockcliffe Park, Vanier and Cumberland, Orleans, and the rural townships of West Carleton, Osgoode, Rideau, and Goulbourn
Gatineau, Quebec, formed by the amalgamation of the old City of Gatineau, City of Hull, City of Aylmer, City of Buckingham and the Municipality of Masson-Angers all facing the City of Ottawa, Ontario from the north shore of the Ottawa River.
Toronto formed by an amalgamation of the Old Toronto with East York, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough and York, which were themselves products of earlier amalgamations.
Thunder Bay, Ontario (Fort William and Port Arthur).
Lloydminster, Canada, on the Saskatchewan-Alberta border, was formed as a single entity in 1903, when both future provinces were part of the Northwest Territories, but was divided into two separate entities in 1905 because the border between the newly created provinces bisected the community. In 1930, the two towns were reunited as a single town under the shared jurisdiction of both provinces, and Lloydminster was reincorporated as a single city in 1958.
Halifax and Dartmouth (Canada) were forcibly merged in 1996 along with Bedford and Halifax County to create the Halifax Regional Municipality.
Saguenay, Quebec (Chicoutimi, JonquiÃ¨re, et al.)
Bellingham, Washington was formed from four cities, Fairhaven, Sehome, Bellingham and Whatcom.
Lincoln City, Oregon was formed in 1965 by merging the extant seaside towns of Oceanlake, Delake, and Taft, with the adjoining unincorporated areas of Nelscott and Cutler City.
Pittsburgh annexed Allegheny City, which is now the quarter of the city that lies north of the Allegheny and Ohio rivers. Also annexed was Birmingham, now referred to as the "South Side".
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which absorbed the cities of South Bethlehem, and West Bethlehem. The former Bethlehem and South Bethlehem are situated in Northampton County, and West Bethlehem is in Lehigh County. As a result, present-day Bethlehem straddles the county line.
Montreal, Quebec, was merged with the other 27 communities on the Island of Montreal by an act in the Quebec Parliament in 2002. Following a change in the provincial government, several communities later voted via referendum to de-merge and there are now a total of 15, leaving Montreal merged with the other 12.
Kingston, Ontario was amalgamated in 1998 with the neighboring Kingston and Pittsburgh Townships.
Winnipeg, Manitoba amalgamated with 12 surrounding municipalities and its metropolitan corporation in 1971 under what was referred to as unicity reforms in local government restructuring.
Park Hills, Missouri was formed in 1994 by a four-way municipal merger involving the cities of Flat River, Elvins, and Esther, plus the village of Rivermines.
Helena-West Helena, Arkansas was formed in 2006 by the merger of the previous cities of Helena and West Helena.
Greater Sudbury, Ontario, was formed in 2001 by the amalgamation of the former Regional Municipality of Sudbury, comprising the municipalities of Sudbury, Nickel Centre, Valley East, Capreol, Rayside-Balfour, Onaping Falls and Walden, plus a number of previously unamalgamated townships. The amalgamation made it the most populous city in the Northern Ontario region.
Boston, Massachusetts is made up of the former towns of Boston, Dorchester, Brighton, Roxbury, Charlestown, and Hyde Park.
Port Alberni, British Columbia was formed in 1967 when Alberni and Port Alberni, merged to become one city.

Fictional twin cities

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Gotham City (the home of Batman) and Metropolis (the home of Superman) have sometimes been presented as twin cities, mainly in 1970s and 1980s stories by DC Comics. In stories presenting them as twin cities, Gotham City and Metropolis are located on opposite sides of a large bay (identified as Delaware Bay in 1990's The Atlas of the DC Universe), with both cities linked by the Metro-Narrows Bridge, a suspension bridge resembling New York City's Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
Central City and Keystone City, from the current Flash comics, are shown as twin cities. Before the 1985-86 miniseries Crisis on Infinite Earths, Central and Keystone are presented as located in the same space but on different parallel Earths.
- Their real-life equivalents might possibly be St. Joseph, Missouri and either Elwood or Wathena in Kansas.
Ankh-Morpork, from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, is referred to as "the twin cities of proud Ankh and pestilent Morpork"
Duckburg and St. Canard were depicted in the cartoon Darkwing Duck as sister cities connected by a bridge, very similar to Oakland and San Francisco.

Twin Cities - What Are The Twin Cities In Minnesota

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Twin Cities - What Are The Twin Cities In Minnesota