Twin city

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Twin city or twin town may refer to:

Twin cities (geographical proximity) Twin cities: two towns or cities that are geographically close to each other, and often referred to collectively. In many cases, they are on either side of a regional, national, or other political boundary.

[edit] In United States

• • Minneapolis-St. Paul in the U.S. state of Minnesota, most commonly referred to as the Twin Cities.
  • Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, USA - Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada located on the north eastern border of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the south eastern border of Ontario.
  • South Bend-Mishawaka in the U.S. state of Indiana.
  • Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, in the U.S. state of Illinois
  • Champaign-Urbana in the U.S. state of Illinois.
  • The Twin City, a nickname for the city of Winston-Salem in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
  • Before the Greater New York Act of 1898, New York City and Brooklyn, which was then a separate city, were considered "twin cities." ^[1]
  • Twin City, Georgia, taken as a proper name when two adjacent municipalities merged.
  • name of the joint development and marketing project between the cities of Wien and Bratislava, see Twin City (Wien, Bratislava).
  • Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario

[edit] In India

• • Surat-Navsari in the Indian state of Gujarat.
  • Hyderabad-Secunderabadin the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh
  • Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar in the Indian state of Gujarat
  • Pune-Pimpri-Chinchwad in the Indian state of Maharastra
  • Mumbai-Navi Mumbai in the Indian state of Maharastra
  • Kandla-Gandhidham in the Indian state of Gujarat
  • Hubballi-Dharwad in the Indian state of Karnataka
  • Vadodara-Halol in the Indian state of Gujarat

• Town twinning or sister cities: two distant cities or towns agree to partner each other, for various reasons.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Proof can be found in Emma Lazarus's 1883 poem "The New Colossus," which now appears inside the Statue of Liberty. The poem reads, in part, "The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame." Also, nineteenth-century New York-area newspapers referred to New York and Brooklyn as twin cities. For instance, in an 1892 article about public transportation between Manhattan and Long Island, a New York newspaper said a bill signed by the governor would be "likely to be of such benefit to the material interests of the twin cities of New-York and Brooklyn." (See The New York Times, "Signed as Amended: Gov. Flower on the East River Bridge and Railroad Bills," May 10, 1892, page 5.) Also, in an 1878 article on how a Brooklyn cemetery offered a peaceful retreat from the bustling metropolis, a Brooklyn newspaper said, "The time has gone by when the remark of that pleasure loving Frenchman about the attraction of the twin cities was true. He said that, 'the only place of popular resort in which he was shown upon a visit to New York were a park and a cemetery.'" (See The Brooklyn Eagle, "Greenwood: The Cemetery as a Popular Resort," August 27, 1878, Page 4.)

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