Superior, WI and Duluth, MN are in that same kind of category. Both are decent areas that have similar characteristics. And both are separated by the southwestern tip of Lake Superior
I lived in Duluth for a few years. Used to go to the bar in Wisconsin, using the big bridge over the bay called the Bong Bridge. Funny name, scary drive.
The Twin Ports should have been really included. They are very unique. The Bong Bridge someone mentioned is named after an aviation hero Richard Bong. There is a cool museum on thw Superior side.
An interesting thing about Minneapolis and Saint Paul is that they aren't so much on opposite sides of the Mississippi but 10 miles upstream/downstream of each other, the cores of both cities have old neighborhoods on both sides of the river. Saint Paul exists where it is because it's the last decent place to unload tons and tons of goods from a boat without having to haul them up a cliff. Minneapolis was founded around the hydro power available from Saint Anthony Falls, the biggest natural waterfall on the Mississippi river.
Another funny thing about St. Paul is that West St. Paul is south of St. Paul. So called because it's on the west bank of the Mississippi as the river runs west to east through the city.
My Grandparents live in an older part of Minneapolis called Kenwood near 3 lakes with awesome scenic hike/ bike trails around them, I love taking one of my grandpas old 10/12 speed treks for a ride around a lake when I’m there. Winter 🥶 is real there but spring, summer and fall are hard to beat. 👍
I think because historically they began on opposite sides of the river is all. The river’s curve makes for interesting geography. Like in New Orleans you’d take 90 eastbound signed for Westbank (just a name given to all suburbs and part of New Orleans on the west) but geographically it’s east lol. The bridge literally goes east and west. Mississippi River makes for weird quirks like that
I grew up in St. Paul, but have lived in South Minneapolis for the last 30 years. You gave the most concise, succinct description of the Twin Cities I have ever heard. Like all fraternal twins, we strive to accentuate our differences but, in reality, could not exist without each other.
Concise and succinct, but not accurate. He says what is Minneapolis was part of the Louisiana Purchase, but what is St. Paul wasn't. In reality, part of each city is west of the river, and was part of the Louisiana Purchase. Part of each city is east of the river and wasn't part of the Louisiana Purchase.
@@danrobrish3664 The twist in the Mississippi between the Twin Cities makes for some hilarious naming conventions.😆 We have West St Paul which is actually south of St Paul proper ⬇(but on the west side of the the river⬅), not to be confused with West Side, a neighborhood northeast of West St Paul↗. Because of all this, nobody ever refers to the city's border on the Mississippi (and then Minneapolis) as West St. Paul or West Side. Then there is South St. Paul, which actually is south of all that↘, across the river from St. Paul Park (a place I had never heard of until just now), and North St Paul, which is a completely separate city for... reasons.
@@wadeoden8464Funny, I am the opposite...grew up in South Minneapolis and made the move to East Saint Paul when I saw the writing on the wall a dozen years ago that Minneapolis was hurdling towards a cliff. I've since been proven correct.
It’s important to note that the northeast part of Minneapolis used to be a separate city called St Anthony and the two former twin cities merged in 1872.
Thought that maybe Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, WA would be on this list. Portland is much bigger than Vancouver (650,000 vs 200,000), but they are only separated by the Stateline and the Columbia River.
You can easily make another part to this. Some other twin cities you can include are: Ontario OR and and Payette ID, Huntington WV and Ashland KY, Weirton WV and Steubenville OH, Fargo ND and Moorhead MN, Wahpeton ND and Breckenridge MN, Spokane WA and Coeur d'Alene ID, Duluth MN and Superior WI, and many more!
Technically, Maine's twin cities, Lewiston & Auburn are basically one city now. Auburn was incorporated about 20 years before Lewiston. They are separated by the Androscoggin River.
It would be interesting to see this with annexed cities or throughout history as well that still are relatively unique. New York City and Brooklyn used to be independent cities and top 2 or 3 sized by population at the same time. The only inverse I can think of is D.C. and Alexandria/Arlington, which used to be one city and are now multiple due to the retrocession back prior to the Civil War.
Alexandria and Georgetown were founded before the City of Washington, but were incorporated into the political boundaries of the District of Columbia. Therefore, while Georgetown was absorbed into the larger city network, I don't think Alexandria can really be called symbiotic since it started and ended as a separate entity from DC itself.
What-what-what?!?! I stumble across the latest GK upload and I am THE FIRST MINNESOTAN ON THE SCENE?!?! Life is good. I am going to sip my tequila on my balcony here in Bloomington, MN and enjoy this video.
I grew up in the Tri Cities in Eastern Washington, separated from each other by the Columbia River and the Yakima River. No major University, but about 150,000 population. Home of one of the top races in the Unlimited Hydroplane Circuit.
And it's next to pacific northwest national lab and the Hanford site, which was the "Los Alamos of the North." That area punches above its weight in the number of scientists there are.
@@colinberry4992 In 1967 when I went to Vietnam, Pasco and Kennewick were each about 17,000 and Richland was about 25,000. When I returned two years later, the combined pop was over 100,000. Last time I was there was 2019, and there was a bunch more. After the 2020 census, I have no idea. 300,000 plus does not surprise me at all.
Kyle, I'm glad you mentioned Grand Forks and EGF. I find it a bit interesting that the border cities run from South Dakota to Canada. You also have Wahpeton Breckenridge, Fargo Moorhead, amd even Drayton and Pembina have tiny counterparts on the Minnesota side. Great job pointing out the 97 flood ik Grand Forks.
Champaign and Urbana, Illinois - jointly home to the sprawling U. of Illinois - are referred to as Twin City, not quite a copy of the Minneapolis-St. Paul nickname. The university buildings center on a section straddling the boundaries of the cities. Since Champaign is larger and more of the contemporary campus buildings are in it, the university is commonly placed in Champaign. The quad, the original heart of campus, lies in Urbana, so officially the college is named the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. There’s no indication of crossing the municipal boundary as one walks around campus or nearby neighborhoods. A nickname for the metro area is Chambana. I think a cooler one would be Urbaign.
I find it interesting that there are two sets of college town twin cities within close proximity in Illinois: Bloomington-Normal and Champaign-Urbana. Less than 50 miles apart, and contain two of the biggest universities in the state. Illinois State University is solidly in Normal, though. It doesn't straddle the city border like UIUC.
@@findmeinthefuture. I passed through Bloomington and Normal on a bus trip about five years ago. I noticed the street signs changed color to the bright red of ISU's sports teams. That was the only indication we had crossed a city line. I'm guessing we were entering Normal. (As far as leaving Normal, I did that a long time ago. 🎉)
Please do another on a theme of Tri-Cities. I live near Pasco, Kennewick & Richland Washington; yes, I know there are more. PS: I spent three days last week in both Moscow-Pullman & Lewiston-Clarkston.
There's also Champaign and Urbana, Illinois. The university of Illinois campus is shared between both cities, and being such a large university, it gives champaign-urbana a large population, Champaign having 88k people and Urbana having 38k
Hi! I can bring up the song saying a mile from Texarkana, from growing up near there... Those 'towns' around Texarkana aren't very much, so even little people I know from towns like Queen City and Atlanta actually just say they're from Texarkana. Kinda just association by being the only 'larger' city nearby, so people actually have a clue where you're talking about.
There's actually a bunch of twin cities in the PNW. There's Portland/Vancouver, Longview/Kelso, Hood River/White Salmon and even a "Tri-Cities" with Kennewick/Pasco/Richland. Probably even more I'm not remembering.
Back in the early 1900s there was an intense rivalry between the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. There was joke going around to the effect that if the two cities merged, the combined entity ought to be named Minnehaha - Minne for Minneapolis and Haha for St. Paul. You can guess which side of the county line (Hennepin vs. Ramsey) that joke came from.
I feel like another good example is Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Michigan, they BOTH have large universities despite being situated right next to eachother, so due to that they share a lot of people, students, and systems together including a transportation system! All together it’s about a 15-20 minute drive from one downtown to the other
There's also another Lewiston twin city duo- Lewiston and Auburn, Maine. Would love to see some coverage on these old northeast small cities some time. I really love hearing these small towns got built up and found their niche (in this case via hydro-powered industry as far as I understand).
Texarkana was "supposed" to be on the LA border too; the ana represented Louisiana, but the surveyors were off just over 30 miles. Some call it quad state area since Oklahoma is close by also, though of course not as close as the four corners.
Shout out from Winston-Salem, NC -- I believe we are unique in describing ourselves as the "Twin City" (singular; the city that is its own twin) Salem was founded by the Moravians in the 18th C, and Winston was founded by the British in the 19th C Because of all the British immigrants, Winston grew much faster than Salem, and eventually surrounded it.
I lived in Fargo and now live in Grand Forks. I definitely feel like Fargo-Moorhead is more like “twin cities” than Grand Forks-East Grand Forks. It is interesting with these three examples between ND/MN that the North Dakota cities are much larger even though Minnesota is the much much larger state, but I think it’s because these are all just normal areas in North Dakota and this is the fringes of Minnesota. If that makes sense.
Yeah a lot of the border is filled with twin cities, Tijuana-San Diego, Piedras Negras-Eagle Pass, Laredo-Nuevo Laredo, Brownsville-Matamoros, McAllen-Reynosa, El Paso-Juarez, n many others
If you do a part two you should include Waterloo/Cedar Falls Iowa. Waterloo is the home of the original John Deere tractor (which still produces tractors here) and the five Sullivan brothers (WWII history). Cedar Falls is home to the University of Northern Iowa (UNI). Both places were founded around the same time, Waterloo was Prairie Rapids Crossing and CF was Sturgis Falls before being changed later.
4:30 If you haven't already you should do a video on geographical inaccuracies in songs. I would nominate Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves "Picked up a boy just south of Mobile". That would be hard to do unless they were in a boat. And North To Alaska "Below that old white mountain, just a little South-East of Nome". I'm pretty sure that should be Fairbanks, not Nome.
Great video as usual. Others perhaps for a second video could be; Memphis, TN and West Memphis, AR. St. Louis, MO and East St Louis, Il. Chicago, and East Chicago, In. One interesting binational pair as far as names go is Mexicali on the Mexican side and Calexico on the California side. The cities of Oakland, CA and Berkeley, CA have a very close sort of symbiotic relatioship with one another.
Yep, Calexico and Mexicali operate almost as a single entity by necessity as they are so economically interdependent, and symbiotic. Another cross border example would be Detroit and Windsor.
Memphis and west Memphis don't actually work like that. West Memphis is very much a dependent suburb of Memphis that developed later than the core city. It would be like calling all of Shelby County a twin city of Memphis.
Not Chicago and East Chicago, Whiting and Hammond Indiana separate them. Chicago is so big it has no twin, every town around it is either a suburb or town that developed because it was near Chicago (Elgin, Aurora, Gary).
In the classic post-apocalyptic novel "A Canticle for Leibowitz", in the future, Texarkana emerges from the devastation to become a powerful city-state. I got quite a kick out of that.
Love my Twin Cities. Live in the SeaTac area for years too. Similar in that Seattle/Mpls are steel and glass, where Tacoma/St Paul are brick and mortar.
I would add: Hartford, Connecticut & Springfield, Massachusetts. Both settled around the same time and by the same people. Both about 400+ years old and the next largest Metro Area between New York City & Boston. Thanks and great work as always! Abel 😉✌🏼
@@fixpacifica I disagree! They are the definition of Symbiotic! Having lived in both cities for 60 years I know of what I speak. You can see each city’s tall buildings from the other. Their are lots of economic development projects between the two. They are both the anchors for each state of the “Knowledge Corridor”, People commute between the two daily, they are often referred to as Hartford-Springfield, etc…. Yeah, I think they qualify. 😉
@@abelreturnstoeden2130 The downtowns are 25 miles from each other. If Hartford and Springfield qualify, then San Francisco and Oakland, or Tampa and St. Pete, which are closer to each other, would qualify, yet they don't. They may be symbiotic, but they aren't twin cities, which according to the video, look to be towns with common borders, the exception being Pullman and Moscow. Even with Pullman and Moscow, which I've driven between several times, it's less than 10 minutes from downtown to downtown, and that's with traffic lights in between.
@@abelreturnstoeden2130 Yeah honestly I don't think so. They may share BDL airport on the CT side, but even that is quite distinctly outside of either city. I grew up in Hartford county and in my experience Hartford is much more connected as a matter of daily life/commuting to neighboring cities like West/East Hartford, Farmington, Newington, New Britain etc. than to Springfield. I've hardly even been to Springfield other than passing through on 91, but in all of the above mentioned places all the time.
@@ILovePotatoChips139 Council Bluffs was made before Omaha, and its one if the 2 principle cities of the Metro (Other being Omaha duh), and holds some historical significance to the region
Another great one! Thank you, Kyle! I grew up in the Tri-Cities! Lived in Bristol, Virginia, and Johnson City, Tennessee! Beautiful area! Later I went to college at the University of Illinois, and had many friends from the Quad cities.
Could definitely do another similar video with those not mentioned. I live in one myself, Waterloo/Cedar Falls, Iowa. Yeah, several of these in Iowa, we have ALOT of rivers, heck, our east/west borders are rivers, and also a alot of railroad/industry towns that merged together around twisty rivers.
South Sioux City, Nebraska (pop: 13,353); Sioux City, Iowa (pop: 85,617) North Sioux City, South Dakota (pop: 3,042). Bonus: the three letter code for the Sioux City airport is... SUX.
Earlier today I was driving though Petersburg and Colonial Heights VA. Including Hopewell they are called the tri-cities. For some reason I remembered about quad cities, Google it and hours later this video was posted. Get out my head Geography King.
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Very informative! Consider doing one on international cross-border cities. I live in Vancouver, BC, on the border with Blaine, WA. Tonnes of Canadians go to Blaine everyday to shop and work.
Mileage Mike has a RUclips video about Texarkana. He focused on how empty and derelict both towns were, especially the Texas side. But he also pointed out that when certain interstate highways are completed Texarkana has the potential to grow substantially as it will then be a major crossroads metropolitan area. Things can change for better or worse in any of these twin/tri/quad cities regions.
I've got some physical geography stuff coming up, including drainage and groundwater. I'm considering doing more physical geography in general on the channel, depending on reception of the next couple of ones I do.
I first came to know of the CCR song with Texarkana being a mile from Louisiana when I was a kid. I told my mom about it, and even showed her a map. She didn't care much for that kind of music. She was a music major and was more into classical music, but she understood the concept of artistic license and helped me to see it on those terms.
You should've included the Quad cities of North West Alabama: Florence, Muscle Shoals, Tuscumbia & Sheffield. As far as twin cities separated by state lines and a river, there is also Augusta, GA & North Augusta/Aiken, SC separated by the Savannah river: Augusta on the southwestern bank and North Augusta/Aiken on the Northeastern bank.
In between the yellow lines in the center of State Street in Bristol are small brass markers that say “Tennessee” and “Virginia” on their respective halves. Lovely touch.
Thank you for making this video! I enjoy these type of comparisons. I actually live just outside of Bristol, VA and have lived here most of my life. Living in a city that is split between two states is a unique environment but also can be a little complicated as the cities sometimes disagree with each other over policies, and such. Having two different sets of state laws to deal with can complicate things as far as city planning... But most of the time they can get it worked out.
Isn't that the truth! I live in Lewiston, Idaho and work in Clarkston, Washington. We have 2 different sales taxes, minimum wages, and laws of all kinds. Idaho has a state income tax; Washington does not. Washington had strict Covid laws; Idaho did not. Most lawyers and doctors get licensed in both states. There are separate hospitals in each city. Everyone here in the Lewis-Clark Valley learns 2 sets of laws. Fortunately we are in the same time zone (Pacific) and not the time zone of our evil Republican overseers in Boise (Mountain).
I have never lived more than a 1 hour drive from the hospital where I was born. I never regretted this until I started watching this channel. I’ve been missing out on some neat places.
I grew up in Culdesac, ID, a small farming town about 30 minutes outside of Lewiston. There were a number of small farming towns around that area that helped Lewiston and Clarkston economically. Same for Moscow and Pullman. As when we needed to do any type of shopping, we would go to “town.” Mostly in Lewiston, but once Clarkston got a Costco my parents would do their bulk shopping there. Before that they would make a monthly trip to Spokane, WA to Costco (in the 90’s) and buy like $1,000 worth of groceries to stock up, I guess with gas at $1.00 a gallon and no low cost grocery stores (like Walmart Supercenter) in the area was probably worth the trip. And we had 8 kids in our family. Interesting that WA has no state income tax, but Lewiston is bigger. Of course more jobs in Lewiston, including the paper mill (always stunk), so if you worked in ID as a WA resident would have to pay income tax anyway. My mom commuted to Lewiston to work at the hospital, my dad was a teacher in Culdesac. All my summer jobs when I was in college were in Lewiston, worked on a farm in Culdesac in HS. Both my parents are alumni of U of I, but I was always a WSU fan for basketball and football. My grandparents owned a home on Prospect Ave overlooking the Snake river but at a higher elevation. Fireworks for 4th of July were shot off from the HS football field on the WA side, so we could sit in the front yard and watch them, and then watch all the traffic afterward as it was a prime location, with a big park nearby. The NAIA World Series was held at LCSC in Lewiston growing up, and was always a big deal for the town. And LCSC always had a really good baseball team and had many NAIA championships during that era.
Nice to see Pullman, Washington and Moscow, Idaho get a mention. Anyone who went to Washington State back in the day remembers making that 8-mile beer run to Moscow when the drinking age in Idaho was still just 19…
Your mention of Tri-Cities (and the recent release of Oppenheimer) got me thinking: What about a video covering the various Manhattan Project cities? Hanford, Oak Ridge, Los Alamos. Many might be interested to learn what remains of the instant-cities they built for all the workers. Maybe discussion about the positive and negative effects of their respective operations to the surrounding communities.
I love your videos. I watch at least one of them each day. I live in the San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles County. I really find it especially interesting to hear from a Californian now living in Tennessee. I have more to say about this topic, but I will not be long-winded for now. I will tell you the entire story at another time.
I always thought of Clovis as a suburb of Fresno. And when I was in the Air Force, I was based in the Marysville/Yuba City, California area. The people in the area often called them the Twin Cities. Lots of businesses names there have "Twin Cities" in them, e.g., my old gym in Marysville was called the Twin Cities Health Club.
This was so much fun! I learned a lot as usual. So as a suggestion…since Dallas-Fort Worth was not included (and you had great reasons why) perhaps you could do a follow up video on double metros and their rivalries, personalities, and future. You could call the topic Rival Cities and have some fun. As you well know, When you have two powerhouse metros side by side, there’s always the underdog city striving to gain recognition under the shadow of the dominant city. So for example…cow town Fort Worth is always trying to beat glittery glitzy Dallas; poor super rich San Jose can’t hang on to its elite million+ people status on the census count while smaller San Francisco seems to always be “famous” about something. Other examples, Miami always beats little brother Ft. Lauderdale at everything, but rival Saint Petersburg seems to be finally getting some recognition under the dominance of Tampa. I think stipulating that these are cities only 30 or less miles away should be added. Some are so lopsided (like Seattle and Tacoma) that it’s almost painful to talk about. And my advice, Central North Carolina is so confusing that I would just leave it alone! All the best Kyle.
There's Sault Ste Marie Michigan and Sault Ste Marie Ontario, too. Just seperated by the St Mary river. I know these aren't both in the US, but i think it's worth a mention!
Not necessarily twin cities but the Charleston/North Charleston/Mt Pleasant, SC area would be a cool place to check out. You have 10+ small, distinct areas within the region that are all culturally, economically, and demographically somewhat unique compared to the other parts
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada are international twin cities, both founded in the 1600s and separated by the St. Mary's River and the Soo Locks.
Here in Wisconsin in the Appleton area are two small cities which are joined at the hip. They are Neenah and Menasha. Basically, they are divided by the Fox River more or less. Neenah is the larger of the two at 27,000 while Menasha has 18,000. They share a fire department, but the rest of their municipal departments are separate, as are their elected officials. Often the towns are simply referred to in toto as Neenah-Menasha.
Kyle, interesting video. In regard to the Quad Cities, although Bettendorf holds claim to a number of stats, including the annual running of the Bix 7 (7 miles) race, it's the Illinois side--Moline, specifically--which is home to the area's international airport.
While I would have liked to see Bloomington-Normal make this list, I’m glad IL was at least represented! As always, great content! I was always really confused by Kansas City when I was a kid. I just couldn’t fathom that there were 2 😂
At least a third of the St Paul-Mpls border is land. The entrance walk to the KSTP studios straddles two cities, two counties, and two congressional districts.
It would be cool to see a video about cities that punch above their weight - as in have far more recourses and options than they would otherwise based on their size. I thought about this because you mentioned two sets of twin cities that are the sole real city in their area, but I’m assuming there are a fair amount of people in a surrounding radius that enter those cities for nights on town, groceries, etc.
I was also thinking about the area around Saginaw, Bay City, and Midland as well as Kalamazoo, Portage, and Battle Creek, Michigan. Both aren't really "Twin cities" per-se, but I consider them as Tri-Cities. And seeing how you included the Quad-cities in IA and IL, I think you could've included those two as well
I haven't seen anyone mention Columbus, Georgia and Phenix City, Alabama, which are separated by the Chattahoochee River. And within an hour's drive is Auburn and Opelika, Alabama, which function as twin cities.
The KING has come and blessed upon us another of his masterful pieces of geographic artistry!! Oh King, we are not worthy!! You rule with compassion over us plebeians and we will forever call you KING 👑
not nearly as well known but worth talking about is the Triple Cities of Endicott, Johnson City and Binghamton in upstate New York. very interesting history there, from EJ shoe factories all the way to the start of IBM and Dicks Sporting Goods. all 3 cities work together in tandem with each other
A pleasant surprise that you included Grand Forks and East Grand Forks, which is were I currently live. I was thinking about it earlier in the video that it would be cool if you mentioned them, but was starstruck when you did.
Honestly i saw this and as an iowa, instantly thought quad cities, and as the video went on i grew more and more skeptical that it would be mentioned. But then, then, the quad cities closes it and my Iowan heart couldnt have been happier
Love the shoutout to Lewiston/Clarkston...but no potatoes getting on a boat up here, that's a southern Idaho thing. Wheat is the main crop getting shipped out of Lewiston/Clarkston.
My state has Augusta and across the Savanah River is north Augusta SC. It technically is less than 120 years old but the original city of hamburg was older
Another good one would be HEB (Hurst, Euless, Bedford) they reside within DFW and all three cities touch each other on all sides and make up a massive amount of population for DFW. Great video!
Superior, WI and Duluth, MN are in that same kind of category. Both are decent areas that have similar characteristics. And both are separated by the southwestern tip of Lake Superior
They're also called the twin ports.
I lived in Duluth for a few years. Used to go to the bar in Wisconsin, using the big bridge over the bay called the Bong Bridge. Funny name, scary drive.
I love the area, the terrain of Duluth is fascinating and practically mountainous for the Midwest.
The Twin Ports should have been really included. They are very unique. The Bong Bridge someone mentioned is named after an aviation hero Richard Bong. There is a cool museum on thw Superior side.
Superior Wisconsin has the highest bar count in the world. 😮
An interesting thing about Minneapolis and Saint Paul is that they aren't so much on opposite sides of the Mississippi but 10 miles upstream/downstream of each other, the cores of both cities have old neighborhoods on both sides of the river. Saint Paul exists where it is because it's the last decent place to unload tons and tons of goods from a boat without having to haul them up a cliff. Minneapolis was founded around the hydro power available from Saint Anthony Falls, the biggest natural waterfall on the Mississippi river.
Another funny thing about St. Paul is that West St. Paul is south of St. Paul. So called because it's on the west bank of the Mississippi as the river runs west to east through the city.
My Grandparents live in an older part of Minneapolis called Kenwood near 3 lakes with awesome scenic hike/ bike trails around them, I love taking one of my grandpas old 10/12 speed treks for a ride around a lake when I’m there. Winter 🥶 is real there but spring, summer and fall are hard to beat. 👍
It's been said that Minneapolis is a great place to shop with no place to park and St. Paul is a great place to park with no place to shop.
I think because historically they began on opposite sides of the river is all. The river’s curve makes for interesting geography. Like in New Orleans you’d take 90 eastbound signed for Westbank (just a name given to all suburbs and part of New Orleans on the west) but geographically it’s east lol. The bridge literally goes east and west. Mississippi River makes for weird quirks like that
I grew up in St. Paul, but have lived in South Minneapolis for the last 30 years. You gave the most concise, succinct description of the Twin Cities I have ever heard. Like all fraternal twins, we strive to accentuate our differences but, in reality, could not exist without each other.
me too! grew up on the East Side of St. Paul and have lived in So Mpls for 25 years.
Concise and succinct, but not accurate. He says what is Minneapolis was part of the Louisiana Purchase, but what is St. Paul wasn't. In reality, part of each city is west of the river, and was part of the Louisiana Purchase. Part of each city is east of the river and wasn't part of the Louisiana Purchase.
@@danrobrish3664 The twist in the Mississippi between the Twin Cities makes for some hilarious naming conventions.😆 We have West St Paul which is actually south of St Paul proper ⬇(but on the west side of the the river⬅), not to be confused with West Side, a neighborhood northeast of West St Paul↗. Because of all this, nobody ever refers to the city's border on the Mississippi (and then Minneapolis) as West St. Paul or West Side.
Then there is South St. Paul, which actually is south of all that↘, across the river from St. Paul Park (a place I had never heard of until just now), and North St Paul, which is a completely separate city for... reasons.
@@wadeoden8464Funny, I am the opposite...grew up in South Minneapolis and made the move to East Saint Paul when I saw the writing on the wall a dozen years ago that Minneapolis was hurdling towards a cliff. I've since been proven correct.
I don't man... I drove through the old neighborhood recently, near Case and Payne, and it was bad news. @@dner75-xh9le
It’s important to note that the northeast part of Minneapolis used to be a separate city called St Anthony and the two former twin cities merged in 1872.
I did not expect to see Texarkana recognition ever! My grandparents live there, awesome vid
Thought that maybe Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, WA would be on this list. Portland is much bigger than Vancouver (650,000 vs 200,000), but they are only separated by the Stateline and the Columbia River.
You can easily make another part to this. Some other twin cities you can include are: Ontario OR and and Payette ID, Huntington WV and Ashland KY, Weirton WV and Steubenville OH, Fargo ND and Moorhead MN, Wahpeton ND and Breckenridge MN, Spokane WA and Coeur d'Alene ID, Duluth MN and Superior WI, and many more!
Why does ur list only include twin towns in separate states?
@@adambutler5918 Those were just the examples I thought of off the top of my head.
@@user-hm1zb8js5i they were all good examples. Just thought it was funny that they all involved cities in separate state
Don’t forget Sault ste Marie in Michigan and Canada, Detroit and Windsor, Niagara Falls in Canada and New York.
@@robertwazniak9495 Rochester and Niagra Falls NY too
Technically, Maine's twin cities, Lewiston & Auburn are basically one city now. Auburn was incorporated about 20 years before Lewiston. They are separated by the Androscoggin River.
I watched, waiting for LA... and sit here disappointed.
Time to take bets on how long we wait for another merger vote.
YOOOO THANK YOU FOR THE CCR REFERENCE😂 been saying that forever
It would be interesting to see this with annexed cities or throughout history as well that still are relatively unique. New York City and Brooklyn used to be independent cities and top 2 or 3 sized by population at the same time.
The only inverse I can think of is D.C. and Alexandria/Arlington, which used to be one city and are now multiple due to the retrocession back prior to the Civil War.
Allegheny used to be a separate city from Pittsburgh. It had over 100,000 people when it merged with Pittsburgh in 1907.
Alexandria and Georgetown were founded before the City of Washington, but were incorporated into the political boundaries of the District of Columbia. Therefore, while Georgetown was absorbed into the larger city network, I don't think Alexandria can really be called symbiotic since it started and ended as a separate entity from DC itself.
You can do Brooklyn and Queens their pretty much twins
Thank you for addressing the inaccuracy in “Cotton Fields”! Had there been a map we could have ended up with “just about 35 miles from Texarkana”
What-what-what?!?! I stumble across the latest GK upload and I am THE FIRST MINNESOTAN ON THE SCENE?!?! Life is good. I am going to sip my tequila on my balcony here in Bloomington, MN and enjoy this video.
I'm right behind you bud
Watching from St. Paul
@@aldelvex234 white bear
I grew up in the Tri Cities in Eastern Washington, separated from each other by the Columbia River and the Yakima River. No major University, but about 150,000 population. Home of one of the top races in the Unlimited Hydroplane Circuit.
And it's next to pacific northwest national lab and the Hanford site, which was the "Los Alamos of the North." That area punches above its weight in the number of scientists there are.
@@clayton97330 beat me to it
Actually the population is over 300,000,
@@colinberry4992 In 1967 when I went to Vietnam, Pasco and Kennewick were each about 17,000 and Richland was about 25,000. When I returned two years later, the combined pop was over 100,000. Last time I was there was 2019, and there was a bunch more. After the 2020 census, I have no idea. 300,000 plus does not surprise me at all.
@@oldgandy5355 yeah, it has been crazy to watch the area grow over the last 15 years
There's also Bloomington-Normal and Champaign-Urbana in Illinois
Kyle, I'm glad you mentioned Grand Forks and EGF. I find it a bit interesting that the border cities run from South Dakota to Canada. You also have Wahpeton Breckenridge, Fargo Moorhead, amd even Drayton and Pembina have tiny counterparts on the Minnesota side. Great job pointing out the 97 flood ik Grand Forks.
Champaign and Urbana, Illinois - jointly home to the sprawling U. of Illinois - are referred to as Twin City, not quite a copy of the Minneapolis-St. Paul nickname.
The university buildings center on a section straddling the boundaries of the cities. Since Champaign is larger and more of the contemporary campus buildings are in it, the university is commonly placed in Champaign. The quad, the original heart of campus, lies in Urbana, so officially the college is named the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. There’s no indication of crossing the municipal boundary as one walks around campus or nearby neighborhoods. A nickname for the metro area is Chambana. I think a cooler one would be Urbaign.
University of Illinois Chambana-Urbaign
I live in Illinois and lived in “Champurban” a short time and can’t believe I forgot how well it fit this category….part 2 needs to be done Kyle!
I find it interesting that there are two sets of college town twin cities within close proximity in Illinois: Bloomington-Normal and Champaign-Urbana. Less than 50 miles apart, and contain two of the biggest universities in the state. Illinois State University is solidly in Normal, though. It doesn't straddle the city border like UIUC.
@@findmeinthefuture. I passed through Bloomington and Normal on a bus trip about five years ago. I noticed the street signs changed color to the bright red of ISU's sports teams. That was the only indication we had crossed a city line. I'm guessing we were entering Normal. (As far as leaving Normal, I did that a long time ago. 🎉)
Bloomington - Normal is a twin city I grew up there!
18 big "10" teams now 🙄😅. Great video, as always. Your videos inspire me to travel!
Please do another on a theme of Tri-Cities. I live near Pasco, Kennewick & Richland Washington; yes, I know there are more.
PS: I spent three days last week in both Moscow-Pullman & Lewiston-Clarkston.
There's also Champaign and Urbana, Illinois. The university of Illinois campus is shared between both cities, and being such a large university, it gives champaign-urbana a large population, Champaign having 88k people and Urbana having 38k
Hi! I can bring up the song saying a mile from Texarkana, from growing up near there...
Those 'towns' around Texarkana aren't very much, so even little people I know from towns like Queen City and Atlanta actually just say they're from Texarkana. Kinda just association by being the only 'larger' city nearby, so people actually have a clue where you're talking about.
There's actually a bunch of twin cities in the PNW. There's Portland/Vancouver, Longview/Kelso, Hood River/White Salmon and even a "Tri-Cities" with Kennewick/Pasco/Richland. Probably even more I'm not remembering.
Back in the early 1900s there was an intense rivalry between the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. There was joke going around to the effect that if the two cities merged, the combined entity ought to be named Minnehaha - Minne for Minneapolis and Haha for St. Paul. You can guess which side of the county line (Hennepin vs. Ramsey) that joke came from.
Minneapolis....the city of (f)lakes as reported by a St. Paulite.
I feel like another good example is Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Michigan, they BOTH have large universities despite being situated right next to eachother, so due to that they share a lot of people, students, and systems together including a transportation system! All together it’s about a 15-20 minute drive from one downtown to the other
There's also another Lewiston twin city duo- Lewiston and Auburn, Maine. Would love to see some coverage on these old northeast small cities some time. I really love hearing these small towns got built up and found their niche (in this case via hydro-powered industry as far as I understand).
Champaign-Urbana in east central Illinois are also twin cities to the point that the University of Illinois here had to be named after both of them.
Texarkana was "supposed" to be on the LA border too; the ana represented Louisiana, but the surveyors were off just over 30 miles. Some call it quad state area since Oklahoma is close by also, though of course not as close as the four corners.
You left out shreveport- Bossier hub of the Arklatex
Shout out from Winston-Salem, NC -- I believe we are unique in describing ourselves as the "Twin City" (singular; the city that is its own twin) Salem was founded by the Moravians in the 18th C, and Winston was founded by the British in the 19th C Because of all the British immigrants, Winston grew much faster than Salem, and eventually surrounded it.
Interesting
Not to mention that Winston-Salem could be considered to be connected to Greensboro and High Point too.
Fargo/Moorhead is another Twin City along the ND/MN border. Just like Grand Forks/East Grand Forks... the ND town has the bigger population.
Perhaps a tricity now, I wouldn’t be surprised if West Fargo is bigger than Moorhead by the 2030 census.
Wahpeton and Breckenridge are also twin cities along the ND-MN border.
I lived in Fargo and now live in Grand Forks. I definitely feel like Fargo-Moorhead is more like “twin cities” than Grand Forks-East Grand Forks. It is interesting with these three examples between ND/MN that the North Dakota cities are much larger even though Minnesota is the much much larger state, but I think it’s because these are all just normal areas in North Dakota and this is the fringes of Minnesota. If that makes sense.
Nogales, Arizona is a twin city in the US, but it's twin is Nogales, Sonora in Mexico.
Yeah a lot of the border is filled with twin cities, Tijuana-San Diego, Piedras Negras-Eagle Pass, Laredo-Nuevo Laredo, Brownsville-Matamoros, McAllen-Reynosa, El Paso-Juarez, n many others
If you do a part two you should include Waterloo/Cedar Falls Iowa.
Waterloo is the home of the original John Deere tractor (which still produces tractors here) and the five Sullivan brothers (WWII history).
Cedar Falls is home to the University of Northern Iowa (UNI).
Both places were founded around the same time, Waterloo was Prairie Rapids Crossing and CF was Sturgis Falls before being changed later.
I'd love to see this. I had family in Waterloo for decades.
Never thought the Lewiston Clarkston valley would get mentioned in any sort of one of your videos. It’s a pretty unique little place to live
"It Came Out of the Sky" is another CCR song that mentioned Moline.
One thing, they pronounce Moscow, Idaho as "Moss-Co". The rumor from going to one of those schools was that that started during the Cold War
4:30 If you haven't already you should do a video on geographical inaccuracies in songs. I would nominate Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves "Picked up a boy just south of Mobile". That would be hard to do unless they were in a boat. And North To Alaska "Below that old white mountain, just a little South-East of Nome". I'm pretty sure that should be Fairbanks, not Nome.
Washington double feature got me more excited than Barbenheimer
Yeah, I live in Dayton, WA. Those towns are not far from me.
Great video as usual. Others perhaps for a second video could be; Memphis, TN and West Memphis, AR. St. Louis, MO and East St Louis, Il. Chicago, and East Chicago, In. One interesting binational pair as far as names go is Mexicali on the Mexican side and Calexico on the California side. The cities of Oakland, CA and Berkeley, CA have a very close sort of symbiotic relatioship with one another.
Yep, Calexico and Mexicali operate almost as a single entity by necessity as they are so economically interdependent, and symbiotic. Another cross border example would be Detroit and Windsor.
Memphis and west Memphis don't actually work like that. West Memphis is very much a dependent suburb of Memphis that developed later than the core city. It would be like calling all of Shelby County a twin city of Memphis.
Not Chicago and East Chicago, Whiting and Hammond Indiana separate them. Chicago is so big it has no twin, every town around it is either a suburb or town that developed because it was near Chicago (Elgin, Aurora, Gary).
@@timmmahhhh Ah ok. Thanks for the lcarification
@@joker-0723 Gotcha. I better stick the my part of the world LOL
In the classic post-apocalyptic novel "A Canticle for Leibowitz", in the future, Texarkana emerges from the devastation to become a powerful city-state. I got quite a kick out of that.
Excellent content as usual. Thanks GK.
Love my Twin Cities. Live in the SeaTac area for years too. Similar in that Seattle/Mpls are steel and glass, where Tacoma/St Paul are brick and mortar.
I can get lost for hours in your videos. I appreciate what you do
I would add: Hartford, Connecticut & Springfield, Massachusetts. Both settled around the same time and by the same people. Both about 400+ years old and the next largest Metro Area between New York City & Boston.
Thanks and great work as always! Abel 😉✌🏼
I don't think those would count. Too far away from each other.
@@fixpacifica I disagree! They are the definition of Symbiotic! Having lived in both cities for 60 years I know of what I speak. You can see each city’s tall buildings from the other. Their are lots of economic development projects between the two. They are both the anchors for each state of the “Knowledge Corridor”, People commute between the two daily, they are often referred to as Hartford-Springfield, etc…. Yeah, I think they qualify. 😉
@@abelreturnstoeden2130 The downtowns are 25 miles from each other. If Hartford and Springfield qualify, then San Francisco and Oakland, or Tampa and St. Pete, which are closer to each other, would qualify, yet they don't. They may be symbiotic, but they aren't twin cities, which according to the video, look to be towns with common borders, the exception being Pullman and Moscow. Even with Pullman and Moscow, which I've driven between several times, it's less than 10 minutes from downtown to downtown, and that's with traffic lights in between.
@@fixpacifica I stand by my 60 years of experience. Think what thee may! Good day sir!
@@abelreturnstoeden2130 Yeah honestly I don't think so. They may share BDL airport on the CT side, but even that is quite distinctly outside of either city. I grew up in Hartford county and in my experience Hartford is much more connected as a matter of daily life/commuting to neighboring cities like West/East Hartford, Farmington, Newington, New Britain etc. than to Springfield.
I've hardly even been to Springfield other than passing through on 91, but in all of the above mentioned places all the time.
Nice job, Kyle. I will need to watch this several times to take in all the info. Greetings from Minneapolis.
Omaha-Council Bluffs Has Left the Chat
You mean? Like Elvis left da building!?? HA HA!
Don't lump Omaha in with Council-tucky!
Pretty sure Council Bluffs is just a suburb
@@ILovePotatoChips139 Council Bluffs was made before Omaha, and its one if the 2 principle cities of the Metro (Other being Omaha duh), and holds some historical significance to the region
omaha is normal CB is meth town
Another great one! Thank you, Kyle! I grew up in the Tri-Cities! Lived in Bristol, Virginia, and Johnson City, Tennessee! Beautiful area! Later I went to college at the University of Illinois, and had many friends from the Quad cities.
I grew up in bristol
Could definitely do another similar video with those not mentioned. I live in one myself, Waterloo/Cedar Falls, Iowa. Yeah, several of these in Iowa, we have ALOT of rivers, heck, our east/west borders are rivers, and also a alot of railroad/industry towns that merged together around twisty rivers.
Didn't see this comment until after I posted, but a native of W'loo/CF.
Iowa City/Coralville too
Omaha/Council Bluffs.
2nd comment I saw on this pairing. I'd love to see this, had family in Waterloo for decades.
South Sioux City, Nebraska (pop: 13,353); Sioux City, Iowa (pop: 85,617) North Sioux City, South Dakota (pop: 3,042). Bonus: the three letter code for the Sioux City airport is... SUX.
South Sioux City and North Sioux City are definitely suburbs of Sioux City and not core economic or industrial areas on their own.
Last November there were some "pranks" between Pullman and Moscow that sure didn't turn out very well 😲
I had a friend who went to the University of Idaho in Moscow, and he was always bad-mouthing WSU in Pullman.
Kyle left out Fitchburg & Leominster, MA because he didn't want to deal with trying to pronounce Leominster
Earlier today I was driving though Petersburg and Colonial Heights VA. Including Hopewell they are called the tri-cities. For some reason I remembered about quad cities, Google it and hours later this video was posted. Get out my head Geography King.
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Very informative!
Consider doing one on international cross-border cities. I live in Vancouver, BC, on the border with Blaine, WA. Tonnes of Canadians go to Blaine everyday to shop and work.
Niagara Falls Ontario and New York.
Delta is actually the Canadian city next to Blaine.
Mileage Mike has a RUclips video about Texarkana. He focused on how empty and derelict both towns were, especially the Texas side. But he also pointed out that when certain interstate highways are completed Texarkana has the potential to grow substantially as it will then be a major crossroads metropolitan area. Things can change for better or worse in any of these twin/tri/quad cities regions.
I watch his videos. Good content.
Yeah, that was a very good video.
Hey Kyle, how about a diversion into physical geography do some in-depth looks at river drainages in the US?
I've got some physical geography stuff coming up, including drainage and groundwater. I'm considering doing more physical geography in general on the channel, depending on reception of the next couple of ones I do.
I first came to know of the CCR song with Texarkana being a mile from Louisiana when I was a kid. I told my mom about it, and even showed her a map. She didn't care much for that kind of music. She was a music major and was more into classical music, but she understood the concept of artistic license and helped me to see it on those terms.
I'm surprised you did not cover Greenville-Spartanburg, SC. I'll bet you could easily do a part 2 with another dozen or so cities. Thanks!
I think that’s a pretty similar situation to Dallas-Fort Worth, San Francisco-San Jose, Washington-Baltimore, etc
Greenville and Spartanburg are no where near enough to be called twin cities.
Spartanburg is closer to Jamestown 🍑, um. I mean, Gaffney.
Love this channel! Great detailed information!
You should've included the Quad cities of North West Alabama: Florence, Muscle Shoals, Tuscumbia & Sheffield. As far as twin cities separated by state lines and a river, there is also Augusta, GA & North Augusta/Aiken, SC separated by the Savannah river: Augusta on the southwestern bank and North Augusta/Aiken on the Northeastern bank.
Would Duluth MN and Superior WI be considered Twin Cities? They share a port.
They are called the twin ports, one of the most important ports on the Lakes.
That's definitely one that fits for this topic. I plan on a follow up on video this later on.
In between the yellow lines in the center of State Street in Bristol are small brass markers that say “Tennessee” and “Virginia” on their respective halves. Lovely touch.
Thank you for making this video! I enjoy these type of comparisons. I actually live just outside of Bristol, VA and have lived here most of my life. Living in a city that is split between two states is a unique environment but also can be a little complicated as the cities sometimes disagree with each other over policies, and such. Having two different sets of state laws to deal with can complicate things as far as city planning... But most of the time they can get it worked out.
Isn't that the truth! I live in Lewiston, Idaho and work in Clarkston, Washington. We have 2 different sales taxes, minimum wages, and laws of all kinds. Idaho has a state income tax; Washington does not. Washington had strict Covid laws; Idaho did not. Most lawyers and doctors get licensed in both states. There are separate hospitals in each city. Everyone here in the Lewis-Clark Valley learns 2 sets of laws. Fortunately we are in the same time zone (Pacific) and not the time zone of our evil Republican overseers in Boise (Mountain).
I have never lived more than a 1 hour drive from the hospital where I was born. I never regretted this until I started watching this channel. I’ve been missing out on some neat places.
I grew up in Culdesac, ID, a small farming town about 30 minutes outside of Lewiston.
There were a number of small farming towns around that area that helped Lewiston and Clarkston economically.
Same for Moscow and Pullman.
As when we needed to do any type of shopping, we would go to “town.”
Mostly in Lewiston, but once Clarkston got a Costco my parents would do their bulk shopping there.
Before that they would make a monthly trip to Spokane, WA to Costco (in the 90’s) and buy like $1,000 worth of groceries to stock up, I guess with gas at $1.00 a gallon and no low cost grocery stores (like Walmart Supercenter) in the area was probably worth the trip.
And we had 8 kids in our family.
Interesting that WA has no state income tax, but Lewiston is bigger.
Of course more jobs in Lewiston, including the paper mill (always stunk), so if you worked in ID as a WA resident would have to pay income tax anyway.
My mom commuted to Lewiston to work at the hospital, my dad was a teacher in Culdesac.
All my summer jobs when I was in college were in Lewiston, worked on a farm in Culdesac in HS.
Both my parents are alumni of U of I, but I was always a WSU fan for basketball and football.
My grandparents owned a home on Prospect Ave overlooking the Snake river but at a higher elevation.
Fireworks for 4th of July were shot off from the HS football field on the WA side, so we could sit in the front yard and watch them, and then watch all the traffic afterward as it was a prime location, with a big park nearby.
The NAIA World Series was held at LCSC in Lewiston growing up, and was always a big deal for the town.
And LCSC always had a really good baseball team and had many NAIA championships during that era.
When mentioning Washington I fully expected Seattle/Portland or Bellingham/Vancouver xD Thanks for highlighting the lesser known part of the state!
There are so many great twin cities! Would love to see another video like this! Can’t leave out Lewiston-Auburn, ME!
Nice to see Pullman, Washington and Moscow, Idaho get a mention. Anyone who went to Washington State back in the day remembers making that 8-mile beer run to Moscow when the drinking age in Idaho was still just 19…
Your mention of Tri-Cities (and the recent release of Oppenheimer) got me thinking:
What about a video covering the various Manhattan Project cities? Hanford, Oak Ridge, Los Alamos. Many might be interested to learn what remains of the instant-cities they built for all the workers. Maybe discussion about the positive and negative effects of their respective operations to the surrounding communities.
Oooohhh, fascinating idea. I hope he does it.
I love your videos. I watch at least one of them each day. I live in the San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles County. I really find it especially interesting to hear from a Californian now living in Tennessee. I have more to say about this topic, but I will not be long-winded for now. I will tell you the entire story at another time.
Interesting and fun as always, thanks.
I always thought of Clovis as a suburb of Fresno. And when I was in the Air Force, I was based in the Marysville/Yuba City, California area. The people in the area often called them the Twin Cities. Lots of businesses names there have "Twin Cities" in them, e.g., my old gym in Marysville was called the Twin Cities Health Club.
This was so much fun! I learned a lot as usual. So as a suggestion…since Dallas-Fort Worth was not included (and you had great reasons why) perhaps you could do a follow up video on double metros and their rivalries, personalities, and future. You could call the topic Rival Cities and have some fun. As you well know, When you have two powerhouse metros side by side, there’s always the underdog city striving to gain recognition under the shadow of the dominant city. So for example…cow town Fort Worth is always trying to beat glittery glitzy Dallas; poor super rich San Jose can’t hang on to its elite million+ people status on the census count while smaller San Francisco seems to always be “famous” about something. Other examples, Miami always beats little brother Ft. Lauderdale at everything, but rival Saint Petersburg seems to be finally getting some recognition under the dominance of Tampa. I think stipulating that these are cities only 30 or less miles away should be added. Some are so lopsided (like Seattle and Tacoma) that it’s almost painful to talk about. And my advice, Central North Carolina is so confusing that I would just leave it alone! All the best Kyle.
There's Sault Ste Marie Michigan and Sault Ste Marie Ontario, too. Just seperated by the St Mary river. I know these aren't both in the US, but i think it's worth a mention!
Not necessarily twin cities but the Charleston/North Charleston/Mt Pleasant, SC area would be a cool place to check out. You have 10+ small, distinct areas within the region that are all culturally, economically, and demographically somewhat unique compared to the other parts
for not just Canada but for North America, Lloydminster in Alberta-Saskatchewan is the PERFECT example of a "Twin City"
Turner Valley and Black Diamond in Alberta is a good example of a former case of this as this year they merged into one town
Kyle you should do a video about cities named after each other like Portland OR is named after Portland ME
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada are international twin cities, both founded in the 1600s and separated by the St. Mary's River and the Soo Locks.
Here in Wisconsin in the Appleton area are two small cities which are joined at the hip. They are Neenah and Menasha. Basically, they are divided by the Fox River more or less. Neenah is the larger of the two at 27,000 while Menasha has 18,000.
They share a fire department, but the rest of their municipal departments are separate, as are their elected officials. Often the towns are simply referred to in toto as Neenah-Menasha.
Kyle, interesting video. In regard to the Quad Cities, although Bettendorf holds claim to a number of stats, including the annual running of the Bix 7 (7 miles) race, it's the Illinois side--Moline, specifically--which is home to the area's international airport.
Another great job, thanks Kyle!
Junction City AR and Junction City LA. Also Ardmore AL and Ardmore TN.
While I would have liked to see Bloomington-Normal make this list, I’m glad IL was at least represented! As always, great content! I was always really confused by Kansas City when I was a kid. I just couldn’t fathom that there were 2 😂
And Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti in Michigan. Both have universities!
Gulfport and Biloxi, MS
Shreveport and Bossier City, LA
At least a third of the St Paul-Mpls border is land. The entrance walk to the KSTP studios straddles two cities, two counties, and two congressional districts.
It would be cool to see a video about cities that punch above their weight - as in have far more recourses and options than they would otherwise based on their size.
I thought about this because you mentioned two sets of twin cities that are the sole real city in their area, but I’m assuming there are a fair amount of people in a surrounding radius that enter those cities for nights on town, groceries, etc.
I was also thinking about the area around Saginaw, Bay City, and Midland as well as Kalamazoo, Portage, and Battle Creek, Michigan. Both aren't really "Twin cities" per-se, but I consider them as Tri-Cities. And seeing how you included the Quad-cities in IA and IL, I think you could've included those two as well
Saginaw, Bay City, and Midland are often referred to as the tri-cities, as well as being referred to as the great lakes bay region
Isn't Saint Joseph and Benton Harbor also called twin cities?
Does the Hampton Roads area of VA count for this? Norfolk, Chesapeake, VA Beach and Newport News all seem like they’re pretty symbiotic
I was going to ask the same thing. Idk specifically what his criteria was, but it seems Hampton Roads would've been included.
I haven't seen anyone mention Columbus, Georgia and Phenix City, Alabama, which are separated by the Chattahoochee River. And within an hour's drive is Auburn and Opelika, Alabama, which function as twin cities.
The KING has come and blessed upon us another of his masterful pieces of geographic artistry!! Oh King, we are not worthy!! You rule with compassion over us plebeians and we will forever call you KING 👑
not nearly as well known but worth talking about is the Triple Cities of Endicott, Johnson City and Binghamton in upstate New York. very interesting history there, from EJ shoe factories all the way to the start of IBM and Dicks Sporting Goods. all 3 cities work together in tandem with each other
A pleasant surprise that you included Grand Forks and East Grand Forks, which is were I currently live. I was thinking about it earlier in the video that it would be cool if you mentioned them, but was starstruck when you did.
Honestly i saw this and as an iowa, instantly thought quad cities, and as the video went on i grew more and more skeptical that it would be mentioned. But then, then, the quad cities closes it and my Iowan heart couldnt have been happier
Champaign-Urbana in Illinois, home of the main campus of University of Illinois, which straddles the border of both cities.
Greetings from Texarkana!!
Love the shoutout to Lewiston/Clarkston...but no potatoes getting on a boat up here, that's a southern Idaho thing. Wheat is the main crop getting shipped out of Lewiston/Clarkston.
My state has Augusta and across the Savanah River is north Augusta SC. It technically is less than 120 years old but the original city of hamburg was older
Hey Geography King! I think a good idea for a video would be places in US where you could build a new city
When I was a kid... 30 years ago the quad cities was called the TriCities. Davenport Moline and rock island
So Bluefield VA/WV gets a mention but no Bryan-College Station, TX????
How about Beloit,WI and South Beloit, IL? Sounds like Part 2 may be in order.
Another good one would be HEB (Hurst, Euless, Bedford) they reside within DFW and all three cities touch each other on all sides and make up a massive amount of population for DFW. Great video!
I was going to think of Dallas-Forth Worth put in the same category of Twin cities like Minneapolis and St. Paul gets.