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A transborder agglomeration is an agglomeration or conurbation that extends into multiple countries (sovereign states or dependent territories). It included city states that agglomerate with its neighbouring countries.
List of transborder agglomerations[edit]
Americas[edit]
| Main municipalities
|
Countries
|
Total population
|
| Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni - Albina
|
French Guiana (France), Suriname
|
|
| Saint-Georges-de-l'Oyapock - Oiapoque
|
French Guiana (France), Brazil
|
|
| Santana do Livramento - Rivera
|
Brazil, Uruguay
|
|
| Chuí - Chuy
|
Brazil, Uruguay
|
15,592[1][2]
|
| Corumbá - Puerto Suárez
|
Brazil, Bolivia
|
|
| Leticia - Tabatinga - Santa Rosa
|
Colombia - Brazil - Peru
|
|
| Ponta Porã - Pedro Juan Caballero
|
Brazil, Paraguay
|
|
| Foz do Iguaçu - Ciudad del Este - Puerto Iguazu
|
Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
|
800,000
|
| Bernardo de Irigoyen - Barracão - Dionísio Cerqueira
|
Argentina, Brazil
|
|
| Uruguaiana - Paso de los Libres
|
Brazil, Argentina
|
|
| Cúcuta - San Antonio del Táchira
|
Colombia, Venezuela
|
700,000 [3]
|
| Metro Vancouver - Fraser Valley - Whatcom County
|
United States, Canada
|
3,050,000
|
| Detroit-Windsor
|
United States, Canada
|
5,700,000
|
| Port Huron - Sarnia/Point Edward
|
United States, Canada
|
105,776
|
| International Falls - Fort Frances
|
United States, Canada
|
15,000
|
| Greater Golden Horseshoe (Toronto - Hamilton - St. Catharines-Niagara) - Buffalo-Niagara Falls
|
United States, Canada
|
10,382,294
|
| Sault Ste. Marie - Sault Ste. Marie
|
United States, Canada
|
93,944
|
| San Diego–Tijuana
|
United States, Mexico
|
5,105,769[4]
|
| Calexico - Mexicali
|
United States, Mexico
|
|
| San Luis - San Luis Río Colorado
|
United States, Mexico
|
|
| Lukeville - Sonoyta
|
United States, Mexico
|
|
| Sasabe - Sáric
|
United States, Mexico
|
|
| Nogales - Nogales
|
United States, Mexico
|
|
| Naco - Naco
|
United States, Mexico
|
|
| Douglas - Agua Prieta
|
United States, Mexico
|
|
| El Paso–Juárez
|
United States, Mexico
|
2,500,000[5]
|
| Presidio - Ojinaga
|
United States, Mexico
|
|
| Del Rio - Ciudad Acuña
|
United States, Mexico
|
|
| Eagle Pass - Piedras Negras
|
United States, Mexico
|
|
| Laredo–Nuevo Laredo
|
United States, Mexico
|
775,481[6]
|
| Rio Grande City - Camargo
|
United States, Mexico
|
|
| Reynosa–McAllen Metropolitan Area
|
United States, Mexico
|
1,500,000[7]
|
| Matamoros–Brownsville Metropolitan Area
|
United States, Mexico
|
1,136,995[8]
|
| Main municipalities
|
Countries
|
Total population
|
| Astara - Astara
|
Iran, Azerbaijan
|
100,000
|
| Basra - Khorramshahr - Abadan
|
Iraq - Iran
|
2,000,000
|
| Blagoveshchensk - Heihe
|
Russia - China
|
400,000
|
| Dandong - Sinuiju
|
China, North Korea
|
1,000,000
|
| Dhahran - Jubail - Manama
|
Saudi Arabia - Bahrain
|
2,000,000
|
| Fergana - Kyzyl-Kiya
|
Uzbekistan - Tajikistan
|
300,000
|
| Hong Kong - Shenzhen - Guangzhou
|
Hong Kong - China
|
46,000,000
|
| Sijori (Singapore - Johor Bahru - Batam - Bintan)
|
Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia
|
9,000,000
|
| Kara-Suu - Qorasuv
|
Kyrgyzstan - Uzbekistan
|
40,000
|
| Lahore - Amritsar
|
Pakistan - India
|
12,000,000
|
| Macau - Zhuhai - Jiangmen
|
Macau - China
|
3,000,000
|
| Mukdahan - Savannakhet
|
Thailand - Laos
|
200,000
|
| Padang Besar - Padang Besar
|
Malaysia, Thailand
|
20,000
|
| Tashkent - Saryagash
|
Uzbekistan - Kazakhstan
|
3,000,000 [9]
|
| Vientiane - Nong Khai
|
Laos - Thailand
|
900,000
|
| Main municipalities
|
Countries
|
Total population[citation needed]
|
| Greater Copenhagen
|
Denmark, Sweden
|
3,964,522
|
| Baarle-Hertog - Baarle-Nassau
|
Belgium, Netherlands
|
9,262
|
| Basel - Huningue - Weil am Rhein (Regio TriRhena)
|
Switzerland, France, Germany
|
2,400,000
|
| Bourg-Madame - Puigcerdà
|
France, Spain
|
|
| Como - Chiasso
|
Italy, Switzerland
|
|
| Saarbrücken - Forbach
|
France, Germany
|
700,000
|
| Geneva - Annemasse - Ferney-Voltaire - Nyon (France-Vaud-Geneva basin or Grand Genève)
|
Switzerland, France
|
890,000
|
| Gorizia - Nova Gorica
|
Italy, Slovenia
|
|
| Görlitz - Zgorzelec
|
Germany, Poland
|
85,000
|
| Guben - Gubin
|
Germany, Poland
|
35,000
|
| Hendaye - Irun
|
France, Spain
|
|
| Ivangorod - Narva
|
Russia, Estonia
|
69,000
|
| Katowice - Ostrava (the Upper Silesian metropolitan area)
|
Poland, Czech Republic
|
5,300,000
|
| Komárno - Komárom
|
Slovakia, Hungary
|
56,000
|
| Le Perthus - Els Límits
|
France, Spain
|
700
|
| Lille - Roubaix - Tourcoing - Mouscron - Tournai - Kortrijk
|
France, Belgium
|
1,850,000
|
| Longwy - Aubange - Pétange
|
France, Belgium, Luxembourg
|
80,000
|
| Strasbourg - Kehl
|
France, Germany
|
700,000
|
| Konstanz - Kreuzlingen
|
Germany, Switzerland
|
110,000
|
| Kerkrade - Herzogenrath
|
Netherlands, Germany
|
95,000
|
| Frankfurt (Oder) - Słubice
|
Germany, Poland
|
75,000
|
| Haparanda - Tornio
|
Sweden, Finland
|
32,000
|
| Pello - Pello
|
Sweden, Finland
|
4,500
|
| Karesuando - Karesuvanto
|
Sweden, Finland
|
500
|
| Imatra - Svetogorsk
|
Finland, Russia
|
45,000
|
| Rousse - Giurgiu
|
Bulgaria, Romania
|
250,000
|
| Lifford - Strabane
|
Ireland, United Kingdom
|
18,500
|
| Valka - Valga
|
Latvia, Estonia
|
20,000
|
| Slavonski Brod - Brod
|
Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
110,000
|
| Szczecin
|
Poland, Germany
|
763,321
|
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