List of geographical pairs
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This is a list of geographical pairs. For a complete listing of pairs see lists of pairs. For a list sorted by name see list of pairs by name.
- Aachen & Aix-la-Chapelle (juxtapositions) (German and French names for the same town)
- Antigua & Barbuda (juxtapositions; twin islands)
- American Falls & Horseshoe Falls (juxtapositions)
- Bosnia & Herzegovina (juxtapositions)
- Buda & Pest (two cities joined into one)
- Brighton & Hove - also Brighton & Hove Albion (juxtapositions)
- Dallas & Fort Worth (juxtapositions; twin cities)
- Big Diomede Island & Little Diomede Island
- England & Wales (juxtapositions)
- Hiroshima & Nagasaki (First, and to date only, targets of nuclear attack)
- Hollywood and Vine (intersections)
- Iztaccihuatl &Popocatepetl (juxtapositions) (Mexican volcanos)
- Kosovo & Metohia (juxtapositions)
- Land's End and John O'Groats (promontories at opposite extremities of Great Britain)
- Leicestershire & Rutland (juxtapositions)
- Lower Hutt & Upper Hutt (New Zealand) (juxtapositions; twin cities)
- Mexicali & Calexico (juxtapositions; twin cities)
- Minneapolis & Saint Paul (twin cities)
- Mississippi-Missouri (juxtapositions) Conjoined river systems
- Napier & Hastings (juxtapositions; twin cities)
- Newfoundland & Labrador (juxtapositions)
- North Island & South Island (New Zealand)
- Orkney & Shetland (juxtapositions)
- Orthanc & Minas Morgul (Tolkien's (fictional; juxtapositions; rivals/opponents) Two Towers)
- Pompeii & Herculaneum (juxtapositions) Adjacent cities destroyed in the A. D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius
- Rhode Island & Providence Plantations (juxtapositions) (Rhode Island's official name)
- Rwanda & Burundi (juxtapositions)
- Serbia & Montenegro (juxtapositions)
- St. Kitts & Nevis (juxtapositions)
- St. Pierre & Miquelon (juxtapositions)
- St. Vincent & the Grenadines (juxtapositions)
- San Diego & Tijuana (juxtapositions; twin cities)
- São Tomé and Príncipe (juxtapositions; twin islands)
- Trinidad & Tobago (juxtapositions)
- Turks & Caicos (juxtapositions)
- Tyne and Wear (juxtapositions)
- One and Two World Trade Center, New York (juxtapositions)
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