User:Jnestorius/Namesake towns

The largest town in a country such that there is a larger town in the country with the same name.

First population figure is for legally incorporated area. Second is for metropolitan area.

Country	Town	Population	Namesake	Population	Notes
Ireland	Carrick-on-Shannon	3,163	Carrick-on-Suir	5,906	Also Carrickmacross (5,066)
England	Newcastle-under-Lyme	73,944	Newcastle-upon-Tyne	271,600 / 799,000
England	Kingston upon Thames	157,900	Kingston upon Hull	257,000	Kingston upon Hull almost always called "Hull"
Germany	Frankfurt an der Oder	58,000	Frankfurt am Main	670,000 / 2.26m
United States	Arlington County, Virginia	367,197	Arlington, Texas	371,038	Part of Washington Metropolitan Area and Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex respectively. Arlington County is not incorporated as a city.
United States	Columbus, Georgia	188,660 / 281,768 / 442,953	Columbus, Ohio	747,755 / 1,754,337 / 1,835,189	proper / MSA / CSA
Italy	Reggio Emilia	167,013	Reggio Calabria	184,504 / 800,000
France	Saint-Denis	95,800 / NA	Saint-Denis, Réunion	133,700	Saint-Denis is in Greater Paris; Réunion is an overseas department
France	Boulogne-sur-Mer	44,859	Boulogne-Billancourt	110,300 / NA	Boulogne-Billancourt is in Greater Paris
France	Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray	29,561	Saint-Étienne	175,700
Russia	Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai	93,875	Zheleznogorsk, Kursk Oblast	96,200
Slovakia	Považská Bystrica	41,989	Banská Bystrica	80,730
Czech Republic	Moravské Budějovice	7,957	České Budějovice	94,747
Albania	Fushë-Arrëz	2,500	Fushë-Krujë	9,600	pop ref
Bulgaria	Byala, Varna Province	2,069	Byala, Rousse Province	11,033
USSR	Petropavl (Kazakhstan)	193,300	Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Russia)	198,028	"Petropavl" (in Kazakh) is "Petropavlovsk" in Russian
Romania	Râmnicu Sărat	38,805	Râmnicu Vâlcea	107,726
Brazil	São José do Rio Preto	446,826	São José dos Campos	610,965
Argentina	Concepción, Tucumán	46,561	Concepción del Uruguay	64,954
Argentina	San Fernando, Buenos Aires	69,110	San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca	140,741	The first is in Greater Buenos Aires
Poland	Tomaszów Lubelski	20,118	Tomaszów Mazowiecki	66,705
Poland	Ostrów Mazowiecka	22,560	Ostrów Wielkopolski	72,577
Japan	Fuchū, Hiroshima	44,212	Fuchū, Tokyo	248,445	kanji names are the same: 府中市
Japan	Sakai, Fukui (坂井市)	92,420	Sakai, Osaka (堺市)	835,333	kanji names are different
Australia	Perth, Tasmania	1,984	Perth, Western Australia	1,554,769
Canada	Saint-Jean, Nouveau Brunswick	68,043 / 122,389	Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec	87,492	Also Saint-Jean de Terre-Neuve (100,646 / 181,113). English names: Saint John; Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu; St. John's
India	Aurangabad, Bihar	79,351	Aurangabad, Maharashtra	1,210,000
Chile	San José de Maipo	14,186	San José de la Mariquina, Chile	18,223	Commune populations
Paraguay	San Pedro del Paraná	34,742	San Pedro de Ycuamandiyú	132,918
Panama	Pocrí, Los Santos	786	Pocrí, Coclé	12,759
Serbia	Bački Petrovac	6,731	Petrovac na Mlavi	7,851
Serbia	Sremska Mitrovica	39,041	Kosovska Mitrovica	110,310	Kosovska Mitrovica is in the de facto independent Republic of Kosovo
New Zealand	Havelock	486	Havelock North	10,176	Havelock North is a suburb of Hastings
Philippines	San Carlos City, Negros Occidental	129,809	San Carlos City, Pangasinan	154,264
Portugal	Vila Real de Santo António	17,956	Vila Real	50,499
Ukraine	Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv Oblast	43,082	Pervomaisk, Luhansk Oblast	70,170
Armenia	Aragats, Armavir	3,206	Aragats, Talin	5,531
South Korea	Gwangju, Gyeonggi (hanja: 廣州 'wide province')	214,498	Gwangju (hanja: 光州 'light province')	1,415,953	Same hangul (광주) both; first hanja character differs
Luxembourg	Reckange-sur-Mess	555	Reckange	587	Both are Reckange in French; Recken in Luxembourgish; Reckingen in German.
China	Tàizhōu, Jiangsu (泰州)	5,031,000 / 605,700	Tāizhōu, Zhejiang (台州)	5,466,200	"Prefecture-level cities" encompassing multiple cities and counties.
Denmark	Nykøbing Mors	9,357	Nykøbing Falster	19,679
El Salvador	Concepción Quezaltepeque	14,400	Concepción de Ataco	18,101
Lithuania	Akademija, Kėdainiai	873	Akademija, Kaunas	4,213	In Kėdainiai district municipality and Kaunas district municipality respectively.
Dominican Republic	Santa Cruz del Seibo	22,489	Santa Cruz de Barahona	74,958
Austria	Sankt Johann in Tirol	8,601	St. Johann im Pongau	10,722	cf also Feldkirchen in Kärnten (14,275) & Feldkirch 30,373
British Raj	Hyderabad, Sindh	1,447,275	Hyderabad, India	8,944,833 / 9,696,939