List of Divided Cities - United Cities That Were Divided

United Cities That Were Divided

• Baarle, divided since 1194, modern NL-BE division since 1831
  • Baarle-Nassau, Netherlands
  • Baarle-Hertog, Belgium
• Bad Muskau, Germany
  • Bad Muskau, Germany
  • Łęknica, Poland
• Bad Radkersburg, Austria-Hungary
  • Bad Radkersburg, Austria
  • Gornja Radgona, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (now Slovenia)
• Beirut (since reunited) in Lebanon, during the Lebanese civil war
• Berlin (since reunited) in Germany
  • West Berlin, closely associated with West Germany
  • East Berlin, East Germany
• Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
  • Bratislava, Slovakia
  • Engerau (Petržalka), Germany (reunited after World War II)
• Bristol, USA
  • Bristol, Tennessee
  • Bristol, Virginia
• El Paso del Norte, Mexico (divided in 1848 after the Mexican-American War)
  • El Paso, Texas, United States
  • Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
• Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
  • Frankfurt (Oder), East Germany, now Germany
  • Słubice, Poland
• Forst (Lausitz), Germany
  • Forst (Lausitz), Germany
  • Zasieki, Poland
• Galkayo, Somalia
  • North Galkayo (administered by Puntland)
  • South Galkayo (administered by Galmudug)
• Ghajar divided between Israel and Lebanon
• Gmünd, Austria-Hungary
  • Gmünd, Austria
  • České Velenice, Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic
• Gorizia, Italy
  • Gorizia, Italy
  • Nova Gorica, Yugoslavia, now Slovenia
• Görlitz, Germany
  • Görlitz, East Germany, now Germany 60,000
  • Zgorzelec, Poland 38,000
• Guben, Germany
  • Guben, East Germany, now Germany 22,000
  • Gubin, Poland 19,000
• Herzogenrath, divided since 1815 at the Congress of Vienna (before that, department of Meuse-Inférieure)
  • Herzogenrath, Germany (47,187)
  • Kerkrade, Netherlands (47,681)
• Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine (de facto reunited in 1967)
  • West Jerusalem, Israel, under Israeli control from 1948 onwards
  • East Jerusalem (al-Quds), under Jordanian control 1948-1967, under Israeli control afterwards, claimed by Jordan in late 20th century; claimed by Israel from 1967 onwards; claimed by Palestinian Authority at present, as well
• Komárom, Austria-Hungary
  • Komárom, Hungary
  • Komárno, Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia
• Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo
  • ethnic-Albanian south (Republic of Kosovo-controlled)
  • ethnic-Serb north (North Kosovo)
• Küstrin, Germany
  • Kostrzyn nad Odrą, Poland
  • Küstrin-Kietz, Germany
• Laredo, New Spain/Mexico (note: Mexican city was founded when the border was established, by people moving over the border from what had just become the American city)
  • Laredo, Texas
  • Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
• Laufenburg divided between Switzerland and Germany
• Lloydminster, Canada, divided between Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905–1930
  • The community was founded in 1903 in what was then the Northwest Territories, and located on the Fourth Meridian of the Dominion Land Survey, which became the boundary between the newly created provinces two years later. In 1930, the community was reunited as a single town under the shared jurisdiction of both provinces, and reincorporated as a single city in 1958.
• Lo Wu / Luohu
  • 1898-1911: divided between the Qing Empire and British Hong Kong
  • 1911-1939: divided between Guangdong Province, Republic of China and British Hong Kong
  • 1939-1941: divided between Japanese occupation zone and British Hong Kong
  • 1941-1945: both under Japanese occupation.
  • 1945-1949: divided between Guangdong Province, Republic of China and British Hong Kong
  • 1949-1997: divided between Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China and British Hong Kong
  • 1997-present: the People's Republic of China possesses the sovereignty of the entire town since Hong Kong was handed over to the People's Republic of China by the United Kingdom in 1997; the part that was previously possessed by British Hong Kong is now administered by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the rest of the town is still administered by Guangdong Province.
• Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • The Dayton Agreement that ended the Bosnian War in 1995 divided many cities that once were united in former Yugoslav Bosnia — for details, see the Inter-Entity Boundary Line article.
• Moyale, divided between Kenya and Ethiopia
• Narva, Estonia
  • Narva, Estonia
  • Ivangorod, Russia
• Nicosia, capital of Cyprus, divided since 1974 after the Turkish invasion on the island (North Nicosia).
• Padang Besar, Malay Peninsula, divided between Malaysia and Thailand. (Note: as the history of the area is somewhat hazy, it is not clear whether the town constituted a single settlement divided by an international border, or is instead an example of a geographical twin city. However, both towns' names, and the majority of their inhabitants, are of Malay origin.)
  • Padang Besar, Malaysia
  • Padang Besar, Thailand
• Pello
• Rafah divided between the Palestinian Authority and Egypt
  • Rafah, Egypt
• Resuleyn, Ottoman Empire
  • Ceylanpınar, Turkey
  • Ra's_al-'Ayn, Syria
• Rheinfelden divided between Switzerland and Germany
• Rijeka, Croatia
  • Fiume, Italy (1924-1944)
  • Sušak, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
• Rome, Papal States
  • Rome, Italy
  • Vatican
• Sha Tau Kok / Shatoujiao
  • 1898-1911: divided between the Qing Empire and British Hong Kong
  • 1911-1939: divided between Guangdong Province, Republic of China and British Hong Kong
  • 1939-1941: divided between Japanese occupation zone and British Hong Kong
  • 1941-1945: both under Japanese occupation.
  • 1914-1949: divided between Guangdong Province, Republic of China and British Hong Kong
  • 1949-1997: divided between Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China and British
• Temasek, Sultanate of Johor
  • Johor Bahru and Pasir Gudang, Malaysia
  • Singapore
• Teschen, Austrian Silesia
  • Cieszyn, Poland
  • Český Těšín, Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic
• Texarkana, USA
  • Texarkana, Texas
  • Texarkana, Arkansas
• Torneå, Kingdom of Sweden
  • Tornio, Finland
  • Haparanda, Sweden

• Walk, Livonia
  • Valga, Estonia
  • Valka, Latvia
• Veľké Slemence
  • 1946-2005: divided between Slovakia and Ukraine (connected with an exclusive border just for the village, the only one in Schenghen)