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Medical records and sonographic reports of 978 diamniotic-dichorionic twin pregnancies delivered at Foshan Maternal and Fetal Health Hospital were reviewed. Pregnancies with congenital malformation, intrauterine death or placenta previa were excluded. The placental location for each twin was determined by last sonographic examination before delivery, and the pregnancies were grouped by different versus same placental location in each pregnancy. Maternal and fetal characteristics were summarized. The primary outcome of interest was birthweight discordance (BWD) \u226520%, and secondary outcomes included small for gestational age (SGA) as a binary outcome and mean value and absolute difference in birthweight as continuous outcomes. Student\u2019s <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic> test and the chi-square test were used for univariate analyses, while multivariate regressions were used to adjust for confounders. General estimated equation (GEE) models were used to address the correlation between fetuses when assessing SGA. A total of 866 eligible subjects were included in the analysis. In total, 460 pregnancies had placentas with different locations, and 406 had placentas with same locations. The gestational age at delivery was slightly younger in the same placental location group than in the different placental location group (35.8\u2009\u00b1\u20090.1 vs. 36.1\u2009\u00b1\u20090.1 weeks, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.067). Other maternal and fetal characteristics were comparable between the two study groups. There was no significant difference in BWD \u226520% (aOR\u2009=\u20091.06; 95% CI: 0.71\u20131.59) or SGA (aOR\u2009=\u20091.32; 95% CI: 0.76\u20132.28) between the same and different placental location groups. Neither the mean value nor the absolute difference in birth weight was associated with placental location combination (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.478 and <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.162, respectively). 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