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- Twin_cities abstract "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. In the United States, \"the Twin Cities\" usually refers to the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area in Minnesota.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. DFW (Dallas–Fort Worth), MSP (Minneapolis–St. Paul), and CAK (Akron–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).".
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- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Aalborg.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Africa.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Agua_Prieta.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Ahmedabad.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Ajman.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Akron,_Ohio.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Akron–Canton_Airport.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Al-Bireh.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Al-Madain.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Alberta.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Albury.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Alcobendas.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Alexander_County,_North_Carolina.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Allahabad.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Allegheny,_Pennsylvania.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Allentown,_Pennsylvania.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Amalgamation_of_Toronto.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Amalgamation_of_Winnipeg.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Amaravati_(state_capital).
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Ankh-Morpork.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Ann_Arbor,_Michigan.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Antelope_Valley.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Aravaca.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Argentina.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Ark-La-Tex.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Arkansas.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Arlington,_Texas.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Asansol.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Athens.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Auburn,_Maine.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Aylmer,_Quebec.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bad_Radkersburg.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Baltimore.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Baltimore–Washington_metropolitan_area.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bangkok.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Barmen.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Batman.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Battleford.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bay.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bedford,_Nova_Scotia.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bellingham,_Washington.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Benton_Harbor,_Michigan.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Berlin.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bethlehem,_Pennsylvania.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bettendorf,_Iowa.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bhadravati,_Karnataka.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bhaktapur.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bharatpur,_Nepal.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bhilai.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bhubaneswar.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bielsko.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bielsko-Biała.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bloomington,_Illinois.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bloomington–Normal.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bluefield,_Virginia.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bluefield,_West_Virginia.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Boquillas,_Texas.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Boquillas_del_Carmen.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bossier_City,_Louisiana.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Boston.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bournemouth.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bradford.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bratislava.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Brazil.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Brazzaville.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Breckenridge,_Minnesota.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Brighton_and_Hove.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bristol,_Tennessee.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bristol,_Virginia.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink British_Hong_Kong.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Brownsville,_Texas.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Bryan,_Texas.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Buckingham,_Quebec.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Buda.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Budapest.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Buffer_zone.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Burslem.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Böblingen.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Cairo.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Calexico,_California.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Calexico–Mexicali.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink California.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Callao.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Cambridge,_Massachusetts.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Cambridge,_Ontario.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Canada.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Canberra.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Canton,_Ohio.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Capreol.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Carmen_de_Patagones.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Category:Twin_cities.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Central_City_(DC_Comics).
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Centralia,_Washington.
- Twin_cities wikiPageWikiLink Chamartín_de_la_Rosa.