# Direction City \> City **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 20, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/direction-city-city/926049 "2020-11-20T15:30:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/direction-city-city/926049/1 "2020-11-20T15:30:05Z")
What direction cities are significantly bigger than the adjacent or nearby non-direction city they’re named for? Direction city is one with a direction in its name. East St Louis IL and West New York NJ, for examples. They’re adjecent or at least near a city that has the same name except for the direction.[\*] They can be, as in those two examples, across state lines from the non-direction city, but they don’t have to be. Nor do they have to be exactly adjacent. Chicago has three direction cities: North Chicago, West Chicago, and East Chicago, None are adjacent to Chicago but they’re in the Chicago Metro area. Anyway, I’m looking for places where a direction city has outgrown the city its named for. This seems to be an unusual situation and I’ve only found a few examples: - Wendover UT/West Wendover NV - Battleford/North Battleford SK - York/North York ON (these are no longer indepenent cities, but have been assimilated into the Toronto-Borg) [\*] There are cases where there’s no association between a direction city and a non-direction city in the same state. For example, in Oregon there’s a city of Bend and a city of North Bend. They’re no where near each other, separated by a couple hundred miles and two major mountain ranges. Furthermore, North Bend is significantly farther south than Bend. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/direction-city-city/926049)._