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Twinhoods is a free map that translates any city into yours: pick the city you know and the one you’re curious about, and every neighbourhood of the second gets the name of its closest match in the first. Everything you need to write about it is on this page.

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The story

Arriving in a new city, everyone asks a local the same question: “so which part is like…?” Twinhoods answers it for the whole map at once. Tell it you know Istanbul and want to see Berlin, and Charlottenburg becomes Nişantaşı, Neukölln becomes Kadıköy and the Nikolaiviertel becomes Sultanahmet. Each of its 4,467 neighbourhoods in 180 cities has a profile of 17 traits, from nightlife and history to how green or how gritty it is, and Twinhoods pairs them so every name from your city is used once, the way a translator would. Tap a place and it tells you why: what the two have in common, where they differ and how alike they are. It works in the browser, costs nothing and needs no account, and new cities join through Add my city, a daily race where people back the city they want next.

About Twinhoods

Twinhoods (twinhoods.com) is a map that shows any city in the neighbourhood names of a city you already know. It covers 180 cities and 4,467 neighbourhoods on six continents, is free to use with no ads, accounts or tracking cookies, and grows through Add my city, where the most-backed city joins the map at each departure. Twinhoods is made by Kerem Özcan at Space Island Ltd, a small studio registered in England and Wales.

Key facts

How it works

Add my city is a race to decide which city comes next: anyone can back a city that isn’t on the map yet with $5 to $1,000, and at each departure (at least once a day) the most-backed city is added; backers pay only if their city wins. Details in the FAQ.

Example matches

Real results from the app’s matching, each with its “% same vibe” score. Every card opens that match on the map.

Matches can change slightly as neighbourhood profiles are refined. Please check the live map before publishing.

Screenshots

At 2× resolution, free to use with the credit below. Click one for the full-size file; all four are in the press kit.

The Twinhoods start screen: a dark globe dotted with pink city points and a split-flap board reading I know Amsterdam, show me Istanbul.
The start: pick the city you know and one to explore.
A light map of Amsterdam with neighbourhoods coloured by character and labelled with Istanbul names, such as Ortaköy over the Jordaan, with a ranked list beside it.
Amsterdam, translated into Istanbul (light theme).
Berlin translated into London, with Neukölln selected: a ticket says Neukölln is the Dalston of London, 99% same vibe, with trait bars comparing the two.
A place’s ticket: Neukölln is the Dalston of London.
Twinhoods on a phone: London translated into Paris, with a sheet saying Peckham is the Belleville of Paris, 99% same vibe.
On a phone, in the browser.

The mark is two map pins whose tips meet to form a heart; the name is written Twinhoods, one word. Use the files in the press kit as they are: don’t redraw, recolour or rotate them. Colours, type and the full rules are on the brand page.

Press contact

For interviews, data questions or a city pair for your story, write to hello@twinhoods.com. A real person reads every message.

Suggested credit

Image: Twinhoods (twinhoods.com). Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Screenshots include map tiles from OpenFreeMap and OpenMapTiles with data from OpenStreetMap; please keep the OpenStreetMap credit when you use them.