Twin city
A notable example: On the Plaza Internacional , flags on the Frontera de la Paz indicate Santana do Livramento ( Brazil ) on the left and Rivera ( Uruguay ) on the right
As twin cities are called independent, but contiguous cities. They can be separated by a river or border, or grown together from two expanding places. Twin cities usually have different names and histories. They are to be differentiated from divided places that arise through shifting borders. A clear assignment between the terms is not always possible.
German-speaking area
- Within Germany (from north to south)
- Rendsburg - Büdelsdorf (Schleswig-Holstein)
- Berlin - Cölln (Berlin before 1307)
- Doberlug - Kirchhain (united in 1950)
- Cologne - Leverkusen (North Rhine-Westphalia)
- Troisdorf - Siegburg - Sankt Augustin (North Rhine-Westphalia)
- Greußen - Clingen (Thuringia)
- Limburg an der Lahn (Hesse) - Diez (Rhineland-Palatinate)
- Mainz ( Rhineland-Palatinate ) - Wiesbaden ( Hesse )
- Erbach (Odenwald) - Michelstadt (Hesse)
- Mannheim (Baden-Württemberg) - Ludwigshafen am Rhein (Rhineland-Palatinate)
- Nuremberg - Fürth (Bavaria)
- Sindelfingen - Boeblingen (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
- Ulm (Baden-Württemberg) - Neu-Ulm (Bavaria)
- Germany - other countries (clockwise, starting in the north)
- Frankfurt (Oder) (Brandenburg) - Słubice (Poland)
- Görlitz (Saxony) - Zgorzelec (Poland)
- Simbach (Bavaria) - Braunau (Austria)
- Laufen (Bavaria) - Oberndorf near Salzburg (Austria)
- Constance (Baden-Württemberg) - Kreuzlingen (Switzerland)
- Laufenburg (Baden) (Baden-Württemberg) - Laufenburg AG (Switzerland)
- Rheinfelden (Baden) (Baden-Württemberg) - Rheinfelden AG (Switzerland)
- Breisach (Baden-Württemberg) - Neuf-Brisach (France)
- Kehl (Baden-Württemberg) - Strasbourg (France)
- Suderwick (North Rhine-Westphalia) - Dinxperlo (Netherlands)
- Switzerland
The entire Twin Cities Vienna - Bratislava region is also referred to as a twin city, although the two cities are not directly adjacent to each other, but are the closest capitals in Europe (with the exception of the Vatican and Rome ).
Europe
- Capriate San Gervasio - Trezzo sull'Adda (Italy, until 1797 Duchy of Milan / Republic of Venice)
- Como (Italy) - Chiasso (Switzerland)
- Imatra (Finland) - Svetogorsk (Russia)
- Komárno (Slovakia) - Komárom (Hungary)
- Metković (Croatia) - Gabela (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
- Middlesbrough - Stockton-on-Tees (both United Kingdom)
- Narva (Estonia) - Ivangorod (Russia)
- Newcastle upon Tyne - Gateshead (both United Kingdom)
- Russian (Bulgaria) - Giurgiu (Romania)
- Seyssel (Haute-Savoie) - Seyssel (Ain) (both France)
- Strabane (United Kingdom) - Lifford (Ireland)
- Stranorlar - Ballybofey (both Ireland)
- Štúrovo (Slovakia) - Esztergom (Hungary)
- Tornio (Finland) - Haparanda (Sweden)
- Valga (Estonia) - Valka (Latvia)
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife - San Cristóbal de La Laguna ( Spain )
North America
- Benton Harbor - St. Joseph (Michigan) (both USA)
- Bristol (Tennessee) - Bristol (Virginia) (both USA)
- Brownsville (Texas) (USA) - Matamoros (Mexico)
- Colorado City (Arizona) (USA) - Hildale (Utah, USA), together after the stream through both towns as Short Creek referred
- Dallas - Fort Worth (both Texas, USA)
- Del Rio (Texas, USA) - Ciudad Acuña (Coahuila, Mexico)
- Detroit (USA) - Windsor (Ontario) (Canada)
- Eugene (Oregon) - Springfield (Oregon) (both USA)
- Fargo (North Dakota) - Moorhead (Minnesota) (both USA)
- Kansas City (Kansas) - Kansas City (Missouri) (both USA)
- Laredo (Texas, USA) - Nuevo Laredo (Tamaulipas, Mexico)
- Minneapolis - Saint Paul (both USA) (nickname "The Twin Cities")
- Mexicali (Mexico) - Calexico (USA)
- Niagara Falls (Ontario) (Canada) - Niagara Falls (New York) (USA)
- Ottawa - Gatineau (both Canada)
- Québec - Lévis (both Canada)
- San Diego (California, USA) - Tijuana (Mexico)
- Sault Ste. Marie (Ontario) (Canada) - Sault Ste. Marie (Michigan) (USA)
- Texarkana (Texas) - Texarkana (Arkansas) (both USA)
- Toronto - Mississauga (both Canada)
- Vancouver - Surrey (British Columbia) (both Canada)
- Washington, DC - Arlington , Virginia (both US)
South America
- Asunción (Paraguay) - Clorinda (Argentina)
- Corrientes (Argentina, Corrientes Province) - Resistencia (Chaco Province)
- Foz do Iguaçu (Brazil) - Ciudad del Este (Paraguay, so-called Triple Frontera with Puerto Iguazú , Argentina)
- La Quiaca (Argentina) - Villazón (Bolivia)
- Leticia (Amazonas, Colombia) - Tabatinga (Amazonas, Brazil)
- Pedro Juan Caballero (Paraguay) - Ponta Porã (Brazil)
- Posadas (Argentina) - Encarnación (Paraguay)
- Profesor Salvador Mazza (Argentina) - Yacuiba (Bolivia)
- Santa Fe (Argentina, Santa Fe Province) - Paraná (Entre Ríos Province)
- Santana do Livramento ( Brazil ) - Rivera ( Uruguay )
Asia
- Blagoveshchensk (Russia) - Heihe (China)
- Buraimi ( Oman ) - Al Ain ( UAE )
- Osaka - Kobe - Kyoto (Japan)
- Schibam Kaukaban (Yemen)
- Tokyo - Yokohama (Japan) - (although this is more of a metropolitan area that includes other cities , such as the Ruhr area )
Africa
- Goma (DR Congo) - Gisenyi (Rwanda)
- Khartoum - Omdurman - al-Chartum Bahri (Sudan)
- Kinshasa ( Democratic Republic of the Congo ) - Brazzaville ( Republic of the Congo )
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the center of a European core area ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 5, 2010.
- ↑ David Signer : The story of a Congolese love-hate relationship - or why there is no bridge over the Congo: Kinshasa and Brazzaville are like siblings at war. The residents of the two capitals live side by side, they share culture and language - and yet they look at the other river bank with suspicion NZZ, April 16, 2020
