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Musical twin towns

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Re: Musical twin towns

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I'm a bit perplexed by how the city names were collected. Being Swedish, I'm used to our city names being problematic to fit into the English alphabet. Uusually 'å','ä' => 'a', 'ö' => 'o' works out quite nicely, but on this site, they'd sometimes get translated as 'ö' => 'a' or 'ä' => 'd'. It all just seemed, well, random.

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Are the cities always supposed to be on different continents? Because Perm, Russia and it's "twin" Homyel, Belarus are both in Europe.

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#5
Can it be twins if the relationship is only one way?

For example, New York's twin is Singapore, but Singapore's twin is Tegucigalpa in Honduras.

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post #4

Are the cities always supposed to be on different continents? Because Perm, Russia and it's "twin" Homyel, Belarus are both in Europe.

Moscow's twin is a city in the Ukraine, which I suppose isn't terribly surprising. Homyel seems to come up a lot; it's also the twin of Magnitogorsk.

Someone should write a script to generate a directed graph of all of these cities; I wonder what it would look like.