Interesting table you put together Dan.
The population of Nogales, Sonora, so the mayor says, is somewhere near one million. This does not seem too far fetched if you have ever visited the place and driven through the entire community. From the border southward it takes well over 40 minutes to drive through, and it is populated by huge masses of people who have come from other parts of Mexico to work in the Maquiladoras. This is as with all, or at least nearly all, of the US-Mexico border towns, where the Mexican side is usually two or several times larger than its US counterpart.
Dallen Timothy
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From: djtilque [mailto:dtilque@...]
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:54 PM
To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Towns across borders
When a border splits a municipal area, the towns on either side
usually have different names. But sometimes they have the same name.
As far as I can tell, this is purely a North American phenomenon, but
if not, I'm sure someone will tell me so.
Anyway, I've compiled a list of these border towns that have the same
name. I've only included those where both towns are incorporated.
There's some others where one or both are not incorporated, such as
Marydel, MD/DE. And I'm not sure about Flin Flon MB/SK. The large
part in MB is incorporated, but I can't find any evidence that the
small bit in SK is.
The list is at the link below. If anyone knows of additions, please
let me know.
http://www.nwlink.com/~dtilque/Split_towns.html
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Dan Tilque
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