Is your city twinned with any others in the world?
>Oxford
Is twinned with quite a few cities:
> Bonn, Germany
> Perm, Russia
> Grenoble, France
> Leon, Nicaragua
> Leiden, Netherlands
Of those, I think Bonn is probably the top one. We have a small square in the centre of town named after the city. Also, these guys (Bonner Stadtsoldaten Corps) turn up for the Lord Mayor's parade.
What about your city?
Buenos Aires, Argentina (since 1988)
Vienna, Austria (since 2005)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (since 2006)[27]
São Paulo, Brazil (since 2004)[28]
Sofia, Bulgaria (since 1992)
Beijing, China (since 1995)
New York City, United States (since 1996)
Ottawa, Canada (since 2010)
Limassol, Cyprus (since 2000)
Cannes, France (since 1993)
Toulouse, France (since 1962)
Bonn, Germany (since 1983)
Cologne, Germany (since 1979)
Essen, Germany (since 1992)[29]
Frankfurt, Germany (since 1980)[30]
Thessaloniki, Greece (since 1994)[31]
Budapest, Hungary (since 1989)[32]
Milan, Italy (since 1994)[33]
Almaty, Kazakhstan (since 1999)
Chişinău, Moldova (since 2000)
Łódź, Poland (since 1994)[34]
Warsaw, Poland (since 1992)[35]
Moscow, Russia (since 2000)
Belgrade, Serbia (since 1990)
Incheon, South Korea (since 2000)
Barcelona, Spain (since 1998)[36]
İzmir, Turkey (since 1998)
Kiryas Joel, United States (since 2013)
Philadelphia, United States (since 1967)
>>51076310
What's the point of being twinned with another city?
Harrisburg - North Ma'alot-Tarshiha, Israel (1998)
Kaliningrad
Denmark Aalborg, Denmark [39][40]
Poland Białystok, Poland[41]
Republic of Ireland Cork, Ireland[38][42]
Poland Elbląg, Poland[43][44]
Poland Gdańsk, Poland (since 1993)[45]
Poland Gdynia, Poland
Netherlands Groningen, Netherlands[38][46]
Sweden Kalmar, Sweden [47]
Germany Kiel, Germany
Lithuania Klaipėda, Lithuania
Poland Łódź, Poland (since 1992)[48]
Sweden Malmö, Sweden[49]
Mexico Mexico City, Mexico
Russia Murmansk, Russia
United States Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Poland Olsztyn, Poland
Russia Omsk, Russia
Lithuania Šiauliai, Lithuania
Poland Toruń, Poland[50]
Poland Zabrze, Poland
Netherlands Zwolle, Netherlands
Bretty useless conception desu
>>51076451
Usually it's a pointless diplomatic nicety, a 'show of friendship'. Very occasionally the twinned towns actually have some similarities.
Oxford was twinned with Bonn in 1947, a couple of years before it became the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, so I always thought of it as a big fuck you to the Communist east.
My city/town is twinned with some town in france (there's a park here called "la fleur France" or something i forgot)
my neighbors town Soest has a twincitie called Zoest in germany
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Braunschweig
Bath, Uk
Magdeburg, Germany
Kiriyat Tivon, Israel
Omaha, USA
Those are only the ones I know, the others are apperently not that important. Magdeburg is is the closest. During the 2013 flooding in Magdeburg our city sent more than 10,000 volunteers for the defence of the city. I was there two days filling sandbags and loading them on trucks. If I wasn't a /fit/izen, it would've been pretty exhausting.
The other partnerships aren't nearly as important, there is just some student exchange etc.
Saint Paul
Japan Nagasaki (Japan) (1955) the oldest sister city in Japan
El Salvador Ciudad Romero (El Salvador)
Mexico Culiacán (Mexico)
China Changsha (China)
Russia Novosibirsk (Russia)
Mexico Manzanillo (Mexico)
Germany Neuss (Germany)
South Africa Lawaaikamp (South Africa)
pretty rude to pair us up with a city that had been nuked 10 years prior imo
>>51076676
Is Novosibirsk any good?
Woah, that's a lot.
>>51081247
Well it's third largest city in Russia after Moscow and SPB. Good enough. For Russia.
St-Petersburg
lmaty, Kazakhstan
Azerbaijan Baku, Azerbaijan
Tajikistan Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Armenia Yerevan, Armenia
Lithuania Vilnius, Lithuania
Latvia Riga, Latvia
Russia/Ukraine Sevastopol, Disputed
Latvia Daugavpils, Latvia
Estonia Tallinn, Estonia
Aarhus, Denmark
Turkey Adana, Turkey
Belgium Antwerp, Belgium
Thailand Bangkok, Thailand
Spain Barcelona, Spain
State of Palestine Bethlehem, Palestine
France Bordeaux, France
South Africa Cape Town, South Africa
Sri Lanka Colombo, Sri Lanka
China Chengdu, China
South Korea Daegu, South Korea
Germany Dresden, Germany
Spain Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
United Kingdom Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Pakistan Faisalabad, Pakistan
Poland Gdańsk, Poland
Austria Graz, Austria
Sweden Göteborg, Sweden
Germany Hamburg, Germany
Cuba Havana, Cuba
Finland Helsinki, Finland
Vietnam Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Iran Isfahan, Iran
Turkey İstanbul, Turkey
Finland Kotka, Finland
France Le Havre, France
United States Los Angeles, United States
France Lyon, France
United Kingdom Manchester, United Kingdom
Australia Melbourne, Australia
Finland Mikkeli, Finland
Uruguay Montevideo, Uruguay
India Mumbai, India
France Nice, France
Japan Osaka, Japan
France Paris, France
Greece Piraeus, Greece
Bulgaria Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Czech Republic Prague, Czech Republic
Canada Québec City, Canada
Brazil Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Netherlands Rotterdam, Netherlands
Cuba Santiago, Cuba
China Shanghai, China
Sweden Stockholm, Sweden (
Finland Tampere, Finland
Greece Thessaloniki, Greece
Finland Turku, Finland
Poland Warsaw, Poland
Croatia Zagreb, Croatia United States St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
Bulgaria Sofia, Bulgaria
>curitiba
Akureyri, Iceland[111]
Asunción, Paraguay[112]
Coimbra, Portugal[113]
Guadalajara, Mexico[112][114]
Hangzhou, China[112]
Himeji, Japan[112]
Treviso, Italy[112]
Kraków, Poland[115][116]
Lyon, France[112]
Montevideo, Uruguay[112]
Orlando, Florida, United States[117]
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia[112]
Suwon, South Korea[112]
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Funny, one of my best friends is actually from Treviso.
>New York City
Most notable sister cities are:
>Tokyo, Japan
>Beijing, China
>London, Britbongistan
>Rome, Italy
>Cairo, Egypt
>Brasilla District, Brazil
Newcastle, Australia
威海市, China
Vienna:
Budapest
Moskow
Kiew
Bratislava
Zagreb
Brno
Warsaw
Belgrade
Tel Aviv
Istanbul
Tunis
Additionally, some of our districts are twined with other towns/districts:
1st district (Innere Stadt) with Taito (special ward of Tokyo)
2nd district (Leopoldstadt) with Brooklyn
8th District (Josefstadt) ist with Józsefváros (a district of Budapest) and Iosefin (a district of Timișoara, Romania), because their names all mean the same in different languages.
9th district (Alsergrund) with Takarazuka (Japan) and Dongcheng (distict of Bejing)
12th district (Meidling) with Gifu (Japan)
13th district (Hietzing) with Habikino (Japan)
17th district (Hernals) with Fuchu (Japan)
19th district (Döbling) with Setagaya (special ward of Tokyo)
21st district (Floridsdorf) with Angyalföld (part of Budapest) and Katsushika (special ward of Tokyo)
22nd district (Donaustadt) with Arakawa (special ward of Tokyo)
23rd district (Liesing) with Ulcinj (Montenegro)
We're twinned with a small town in the Netherlands called Nijkerk.
Changsha
Gumi, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea (October 19, 1998)
Kagoshima,Kyushu Island, Japan (October 30, 1982)
Bukit Timah,Central Region, Singapore (April 10, 1994)
City of Auburn,New South Wales, Australia (March 20, 2006)
Fribourg,Sarine District, Switzerland (June 10, 1994)
Mons,Hainaut Province, Belgium (May 14, 1998)
San Francisco, California, United States (June 26, 2014)
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States (May 9, 1988)
Annapolis, Maryland, United States (October 25, 2008)
Entebbe,Wakiso District, Uganda (April 14, 2003)
Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo (August 9, 1982)
Francisco Beltrão,Paraná State, Brazil (October 25, 2000)
Bordeaux
Israel Ashdod
Spain Bilbao
Azerbaijan Baku
United Kingdom Bristol
Morocco Casablanca
Japan Fukuoka
Peru Lima
United States Los Angeles,
Spain Madrid
Germany Munich
Algeria Oran
Portugal Porto
Canada Quebec City
State of Palestine Ramallah
Latvia Riga
Russia Saint Petersburg
China Wuhan
>>51076310
>Phoenix Arizona
is twinned with;
Calgary- Alberta, Canada
Hermosillo- Sonora, Mexico
Chengdu- Sichuan, China
Ennis- Co. Clare, Ireland
Grenoble- Rhone-Alpez, France
Prague- Czechia
Himeji- Hyogo, Japan
Ramat Gan- Israel
Taipei- Taiwan
Catania -Sicily , Italy
>>51081247
St. Paul Academy students just visited our city last year, I teach at a high school they stopped by see. They were alright kids.
>>51082939
>Fuchu (Japan)
we have two 府中 (Fuchu)city.
Tokyo's Fuchu and Hiroshima's Fuchu.
which one?
>>51076676
>United States Norfolk, Virginia
>Bretty useless
Gjovik, Norway
Næstved Municipality, Denmark
Gävle Municipality, Sweden
Kolpino, Russia
Kaposvár, Hungary
Some of those are literal shitholes. I am offended.
Bulgaria Cherven Bryag, Bulgaria
Germany Lüdenscheid, Germany
Ukraine Mariupol, Ukraine
Ukraine Odessa, Ukraine
Germany Badenweiler, Germany
China Jining, Shandong, China
Belarus Pinsk, Belarus
Ukraine Khartsyzk, Ukraine
Ukraine Antratsyt, Ukraine
>>51082994
Apparently, this is because the person who founded our city is from there. I'm sure them being the origin of the van Rensselaer family helps too.
Linköping, Ruotsi
Tonsberg, Norway
Ísafjörður, Iceland
Hof, Germany
Vilna, Lithua
