• Cartagena and Naples ("New City")
• Des Moines and Munich ("Monks")
• Neuchâtel and Newcastle (I think this one is obvious)

A near miss: Trois-Rivières and Sichuan (3.5±0.5 rivers)

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coulda sworn i made a tweet about this but i can't find it rip

i remember

technically both oxford and vancouver are "cow" + "fjord"

OK I had to look this one up and it's close to true! Vancouver is named after a guy whose ancestors were called van Coevorden, Coevorden being a town in the Netherlands whose name means for "cow-ford". So Oxford and Coevorden are synonyms (unless we quibble about "cow" vs "ox"), and Vancouver is more like "from cow ford".

Also, in English a ford is very different from a fjord—a ford is part of a river so shallow you can wade across, and a fjord is an ocean inlet with steep cliffs—although they do apparently share the same root with each other as well as "firth" and (more distantly) "port".

• Cartagena and Naples ("New City")
• Des Moines and Munich ("Monks")
• Neuchâtel and Newcastle (I think this one is obvious)

A near miss: Trois-Rivières and Sichuan (3.5±0.5 rivers)

There must be more of these, please add your own

coulda sworn i made a tweet about this but i can't find it rip

i remember

technically both oxford and vancouver are "cow" + "fjord"

Seoul, Kyoto, Beijing, Nanjing, Tokyo (capital + optionally direction)
Targovishte and Pazardzik (market, both in bulgaria)
Belgorod, Belgrade, Baicheng, Nicosia (white city)
Shumen and Bolivia (after guys named simon)

it's so goofy that “my cup runneth over” is supposed to be the greatest thing like hell yeah buddy enjoy drinking off THE FLOOR