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In article <C1DzLH.8u7@techbook.com> dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque) writes:
 > An example is Kansas City MO/KS.  The names must be identical so
 > Laredo/Neuvo Laredo does not count.
This is a bit of a set-back.  There are quite a few cities in Europe that
cross borders, but the name on both ends is different.
 > 
 > So far, I've found about half a dozen in North America (some are fairly
 > small though), but none on other continents.
True, except for Berlin upto a few years ago there are no single-named
examples.  But let's take the spirit rather thanm the letter of the question.
I.e. a single city that straddles borders (rather than two cities that
grow together).  I accept different names if they are only due to political
reasons.  In that case I know of two in Europe:
	Kerkrade(NL) - Herzogenrath(D)
here the border is right in the middle of a fairly important street.  It is
two way both at the German and at the Dutch side, with a one foot high
barrier in between (I presume that will change shortly, though I have no
idea what they will do with southbound traffic on the Dutch side and
northbound traffic on the German side, traffic signs depending on direction?).
	Baarle-Nassau(NL) - Baarle Hertog(B)
A village rather than a city, but one of the strangest cases I know off.
There are houses that straddle the border.  There are people with both
a Belgian and a Dutch mailbox.  Moreover, the Belgian parts are enclaves
within the Netherlands, but within the Belgian parts there are Dutch
enclaves again.  Smugglers paradise when the Dutch-Belgian border was
still important, but that is about 35 years ago.
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