twin cities

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   nickname for Saint Paul and Minneapolis

   Broaderurban area

   Part ofMinnesota

Questions about twin cities

What does twin cities mean?

twin cities means "nickname for Saint Paul and Minneapolis".

Is twin cities a common word?

twin cities is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.