Tornio vs Val-d'Or

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Tornio (Swedish: Torneå; Northern Sami: Duortnus) is a city and municipality in Lapland, Finland. The city forms a cross-border twin city together with Haparanda on the Swedish side. The municipality covers an area of 1,348.83 square kilometres (520.79 sq mi), of which 161.59 km2 (62.39 sq mi) is water. The population density is 18.18 inhabitants per square kilometre (47.1/sq mi), with a total population of 21,573 (31 July 2020).

It borders the Swedish municipality of Haparanda (in Finnish: Haaparanta). In spite of being a border city Tornio is unilingually Finnish with a negligible number of native Swedish speakers, although this does not count vast numbers of bilinguals who speak Swedish as a second language, with an official target of universal working bilingualism for both border municipalities.

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Val-d'Or (, French: [val dɔʁ], locally [val dɑɔ̯ʁ]; "Golden Valley" or "Valley of Gold") is a city in Quebec, Canada with a population of 32,491 inhabitants according to the Canada 2016 Census.

The city is located in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region near La Vérendrye Wildlife Reserve.

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