Twin City

Twin city or twin town may refer to:

  • Twin cities (geographical proximity): two towns or cities that are geographically close to each other, and often referred to collectively
    • Minneapolis-St. Paul in the U.S. state of Minnesota, most commonly referred to as the Twin Cities.
    • The Twin City, a nickname for the city of Winston-Salem in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
    • Twin City, Georgia, taken as a proper name when two adjacent municipalities merged.
  • Town twinning or sister cities: two distant cities or towns agree to partner each other, for various reasons.
  • Twin City (Bratislava), name of the biggest multifunction building complex in Central Europe, under construction, in Bratislava.
  • Twin Town: 1997 comedy film
  • Cândido Godói, a town in Brazil known for its unusually high twin population
  • Twinsburg, Ohio, location of an annual twin convention


Famous quotes containing the words twin and/or city:

    If they be two, they are two so
    As stiff twin compasses are two;
    Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
    To move, but doth if th’ other do.
    John Donne (1572–1631)

    In this absence of nine years I find a great improvement in the city of New York.... Some say it has improved because I have been away. Others, and I agree with them, say it has improved because I have come back.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)