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The Twin Cities

• Minneapolis
• St. Paul

In the United States, the "Twin Cities" is most commonly used to refer to Minneapolis-St. Paul in the state of Minnesota. The nickname of the region's professional baseball team is the Minnesota Twins.

There are many other paired cities in the U.S. and indeed throughout the world that are also referred to as "Twin Cities."

How It's Used

Now we're in Twin Cities
Where the Mississippi rises and then falls.
One is Minneapolis
And the other no less famous is St. Paul.

"In light of all these data, can we now explain why the nonprofit community thrived? While we cannot test why the Twin Cities and Minnesota were more 'charitable' or had more nonprofits than other parts of the country, because we do not have comparable data on other states and cities, we can speculate. One explanation is that the area’s economic prosperity helped to bolster philanthropic and nonprofit activity.”

"Twenty of so Somali-American youngsters from the Twin Cities have gone missing only to surface in Somalia, fighting for the Shabaab. They are thought to have been recruited through mosques and Islamic Web sites. Three months ago, a Somali-American from Seattle drove a truck bomb into an AMISOM base in Mogadishu, killing twenty-one peacekeepers and himself. This fall, when Sharif [Ahmed, president of Somalia] made his first trip to America, he stopped in New York, to attend the U.N. General Assembly, and in Minneapolis-St. Paul. There he met Senator Al Franken, and he promised the parents of the runaways that he would his utmost to 'bring them all home.'"

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