Twin towns
Twin towns may refer to one of:
- Town twinning, two geographically-disparate municipalities which have been paired as twin towns or sister cities as part of a cultural or diplomatic exchange.
- Twin cities, two adjacent but distinct municipalities - often on opposite banks of the same river or opposite sides of a border.
Town twinning
Events
- Boring & Dull Day. Boring, Oregon. Aug. 9, annual celebration of sibling relationship with Dull, Scotland.
Twin cities
Canada
- Kitchener-Waterloo (Ontario) — a pair of southwestern Ontario cities
- Ottawa-Gatineau — a pair on the Ontario-Québec border, famous as the tulip capital of Canada
- Windsor-Detroit — a pair on the Ontario-Michigan border, synonymous with the North American auto manufacturing industry
United States of America
- Minneapolis-St. Paul — a pair of Minnesota cities, the most commonly known Twin Cities
Cross-border town naming
In some locations, a pair of towns on opposite sides of the same boundary will have the same or similar names:
- Kansas City (Missouri) and Kansas City (Kansas)
- Niagara Falls (Ontario) and Niagara Falls (New York)
- Sault Sainte Marie (Ontario) and Sault Sainte Marie (Michigan)
- St. Louis and East St. Louis on the Missouri-Illinois border
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