Twin towns
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Twin towns may refer to one of:
- Town twinning, two geographically-disparate municipalities which have been paired as twin towns, partner cities or sister cities as part of a cultural, economic or paradiplomatic exchange.
- Twin cities, two adjacent but distinct municipalities - often on opposite banks of the same river or opposite sides of a border.
Town twinningThere are thousands of "twinned town", "partner city" or "sister city" pairs.
Twin citiesOften, two towns will grow on opposite sites of a common geographic boundary; the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul reside on opposite banks of the Mississippi River.
Cross-border town namingIn some locations, a pair of towns on opposite sides of the same boundary will have the same or similar names:
Divided citiesOften, a village, town or city existed before the border lines were drawn.
Other
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