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Bitgoeul-daero

It opened on December 29, 2004 and the name was Sendai-ro Road(Hangul : 센다이로, Hanja or Japanese : 仙臺路), to celebrate forming a sister city between Gwangju, Korea and Sendai, Japan.

Bridie O'Flaherty

Her achievements as Mayor included signing the official charter twinning Galway and Seattle, been guest of honor at the Saint Patrick's Day Parade in 1981 in South Boston and in 1986 in Memphis, Tennessee, and representing Galway during visits to L'Orient, Amsterdam, and Jerusalem.

City of Whitehorse

On 12 May 1971, the City of Box Hill established a sister city relationship with Matsudo, in Chiba, Japan.

Crespano del Grappa

On September 29, 2000 the city of Folsom, Folsom, California in the USA and Crespano del Grappa, Italy signed the "Declaration of Friendship" at an official ceremony in Crespano del Grappa and entered into a Sister City relationship.

Katedralskolan, Linköping

In accordance with its commitment to international cooperation, the school also maintains exchange programmes with schools in Herborn, Germany, the lycée de l'Elorn, Landerneau, France and Scarborough, England, Linköping's sister city Joensuu, Finland, and Spain.

Kisumu

The city has "Friendship" status with Cheltenham, UK and "sister city" status with Roanoke, Virginia and Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Laurens, Iowa

Laurens, France, became a sister city to Laurens, Iowa during the preparations for the 2007 quasquicentennial (125th anniversary).

Mino, Kagawa

Mino had a sister city relationship with Evansville (Indiana), Unadilla (New York State), Sanyuan County in the city of Xianyang (Shaanxi China) and Florenville (Belgium).

Neyagawa, Osaka

Neyagawa entered a Sister City relationship with Newport News, Virginia (US), in 1982, and with Oakville, Ontario (Canada), in 1984, where a boulevard is named after the city.

Ostróda

The knights named the new town Osterode after Osterode am Harz in Lower Saxony, Germany (now a sister city with Ostróda).

Richard Walton

With the Providence-Niquinohomo Sister City Project he had been to Nicaragua many times where the project built a health center and a school, and he twice served on medical teams in Guatemala.

Xuchang

On 18 December 2006, the Oromia Region government in Ethiopia signed an agreement with Henan Province to establish a sister city program with Ambo.


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145th Air Refueling Squadron

This aircraft became involved in a "Sister City" ceremony with Zeppelinheim, Germany - a small town near Rhein-Main AB - near the end of the Creek Party operation.

Bamyan

According to Sister Cities International, Bamyan has established a sister city relationship with Gering, Nebraska, United States.

Blaine, Washington

In 2006, a local group called the Blaine Peace Alliance unsuccessfully solicited City Council support to formalize a sister-city relationship with Pugwash, Nova Scotia, where promotion of world peace had been an ongoing effort for 50 years.

Chinese Garden of Friendship

The Chinese Garden of Friendship was designed by Sydney's Chinese sister city, Guangzhou in China.

Como Park Zoo and Conservatory

Japanese Garden - sansui style, mountain and water landscape, as a sign of friendship with Saint Paul's sister city of Nagasaki, Japan.

Emile D. Beaulieu

During the latter part of the 1980s, Beaulieu visited Neustadt an der Weinstraße in Germany and Taichung in Taiwan, establishing sister city relationships between these two cities and Manchester.

Fraze Pavilion

The Lincoln Park Civic Commons, just outside the Pavilion Gates, is home to several local festivals and music events, including the Swamp Romp Cajun-Zydeco Festival; Blues Fest; Festival of the Vine, a wine and jazz festival; Spass Nacht, an Austrian Festival in honor of Kettering's Sister City, Steyr, Austria, and Art on the Commons & a juried art festival.

Freiburger FC

The club has strong connections to English football club Guildford City F.C., with Guildford being a sister city of Freiburg, and publishes news and results of the later club on its website.

Fremont-Elizabeth City High School

The name 'Fremont' was taken from Elizabeth's sister city in California, which in turn was named after the American explorer John C. Frémont.

Gdynia Film Festival

The Polish Film Festival awards the Golden Lion, which is different from the Golden Eagle, awarded at the Polish Film Awards and the Seattle Polish Film Festival (Seattle is the sister city of Gdynia).

George Hassell

After Hassell confessed, a short trial was convened, and Farwell and its sister city of Texico, New Mexico took on a carnival atmosphere.

Hofbräuhaus

Hofbräuhaus franchises have been opened in the several places in the United States of America, including the first in Newport, Kentucky, next to Munich's sister city of Cincinnati, Ohio, which opened in 2003.

Horseheads, New York

Starting in 1990, Horseheads was the sister city of Bato in Tochigi Prefecture in Japan, a town that could be translated as Horseheads.

Ikeda, Fukui

The affiliation with wine is shared with their sister-city of Penticton, British Columbia, Canada.

Jasper, Indiana

The "Fest" is a celebration between Jasper and its German sister-city Pfaffenweiler, a small village in southwest Germany.

Kakogawa, Hyōgo

The city currently has a sister city relationship with Maringá, in Brazil, and Waitakere City, in New Zealand.

Kornelimünster/Walheim

Montebourg (France), a sister city of Walheim since 1960, which was carried over to the district after Kornelimünster and Walheim were merged in 1972.

Lathrop, California

Lathrop participates in the Sister City program and is tied to Bacarra, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.

Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays

In a response to the disaster, all the adults of Springfield who do not have children (single people, the elderly, couples who do not have children, teenagers, and homosexuals) are up in arms, because Kabul has declared they will no longer be Springfield's sister city and Mayor Quimby forcibly takes $1 million from the audience to cover the damages.

Morogoro

The city of Milwaukee in the state of Wisconsin in the United States is a sister city of Morogoro as designated by Sister Cities International.

Neil Tetkowski

The Kanazawa Project, 2002, titled “Generations in Time” was sponsored by the city government of Kanazawa, Japan to mark the 40th anniversary of its sister-city program with Buffalo, New York.

Nevada City, Montana

Nevada City was one of the two major centers of Commerce in what was known as one of the "Richest Gold Strikes in the Rocky Mountain West", it shared that role with its sister city Virginia City.

Obuasi

As of September 13, 2008, Obuasi was signed in as another Sister City of Riverside, California, USA.

Ōtsuchi, Iwate

As a youth Ken Sasaki noted that his home of Ōtsuchi is located on the same latitude as Fort Bragg, California and in 2001 he contacted then Mayor Lindy Peters and visited with a delegation to open discussions on a sister city agreement.

Pont De Rennes bridge

The bridge was renamed the Pont De Rennes for Rochester's sister city Rennes in France

Pratt's Bottom

Pratt's Bottom was declared to be the 'sister city' of Wellington, New Zealand in 2009 by then-Mayor, Kerry Prendergast.

Ruthlane Uy Asmundson

Since her election, she had inked sister city relations with 4 cities in Asia, two of which are in the Philippines Los Baños, Laguna and Muñoz, Nueva Ecija. The strong research and academic communities in both cities closely mirror that of the city of Davis.

San José de Bocay

Since 1989 San José de Bocay has had a sister-city relationship with Blacksburg, Virginia.

Shimizu, Hokkaido

In 1993, Shimizu and the town of Chelsea, Michigan began a sister city exchange program, where groups of 7th and 8th graders from Chelsea visit Japan and stay with a host family for just under two weeks.

Shimukappu

Shimukappu and Tomamu have a student exchange/sister city program with Aspen, Colorado.

Sinagra, Western Australia

The City of Wanneroo established a sister city relationship with Sinagra, Sicily as a large number of families migrated from there to make a new home in Wanneroo.

Steven Choi

During the course of new sister city negotiations, he successfully opposed the One-China principle demanded by Shanghai's Xuhui government in the People's Republic of China, which would have required Irvine to abandon its existing long-term sister city relationship with Taoyuan, Taiwan.

The Palmetum, Townsville

Townsville’s Japanese sister city Tokuyama funded the initial development of the Licuala Walk and Tokuyama Garden, which was completed in 1996.

Winchester, Virginia

During the Eisenhower administration, Winchester also formalized a sister city relationship with Ambato, Ecuador.

Wolfratshausen

The Japanese garden Yuko Nihon Teien, a gift from the Japanese sister city Iruma.

Yamatotakada, Nara

In 1963, the city of Yamatotakada was established, through the arrangement of an Australian Catholic father, a sister-city relationship with Lismore, New South Wales, Australia.

Yawata, Kyoto

The city was founded on November 1, 1977 and currently has a sister city in Milan, Ohio