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Originally Posted by Yuri
I'd phrase the question differently, and then we could have lots of countries with a pair of cities being powerful culturally: São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro; Toronto and Montreal; Madrid and Barcelona; Milan and Rome; Sydney and Melbourne; Shanghai and Beijing; Tokyo and Osaka.
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This seems like a pretty good list to me. China is tricky, as they are somewhat culturally cut off from much of the world, so it's hard to say they're comparable to the NY-LA dynamic when it comes to cultural impact. They also now can claim Hong Kong, which does play in that same global cultural scene, but obviously has a tenuous relationship to the rest of China.
All the other pairings you mentioned definitely hold up though. Sydney/Melbourne is what immediately came to mind, but the Brazil, Spain, and Canada pairings also check out. If California was its own country, it would be the clearest example of this in the world.