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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on Apr 23, 2015 11:19:46 GMT -5
A lot of towns and cities in the world received "twin towns/sister cities" in the fallout of WW2 in an effort to promote....uh, something. Friendship, that's it. So, where do you live and which are your cities' sisters? Even if your town or city is fairly small, it still likely has one. Here's where you can find yours: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_twin_towns_and_sister_citiesI live in Birmingham, England. Which has a connection with the following: Chicago, Illinois Frankfurt, Germany Johannesburg, South Africa Leipzig, Germany Lyon, France Milan, Italy I believe you can only have one twin per country but I think Birmingham has two from Germany because of the Eastern/Western divide that it used to have. |
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Apr 23, 2015 11:24:58 GMT -5
From Gillingham, Kent England
We are twinned with Ito and Yokosuka in Japan.
The later being where local man Will adams iss buried.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 11:49:00 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton#Sister_citiesGatineau, Quebec, Canada, since 1967 Harbin, China, since 1985 Nashville, Tennessee, United States, since 1990 Wonju, South Korea, 199 So Edmonton is a sister city of two cities that have an NHL team (Gatineau) is a suburb of Ottawa.
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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on Apr 23, 2015 11:49:45 GMT -5
From Gillingham, Kent England We are twinned with Ito and Yokosuka in Japan. The later being where local man Yokosuka is buried. Somehow I read the first Yokosuka correctly but read the 2nd one as "Yokozuna". And I was thinking, I know Yoko died in England but he's buried in Gillingham?! |
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Apr 23, 2015 11:58:53 GMT -5
Sorry. I'm being a dumbarse
Will Adams who is from Gillingham is buried in Yokosuka Japan.
Nothing to do with Yokozuna
Sorry to confuse you like that.
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Post by 4real on Apr 23, 2015 12:45:42 GMT -5
Horley, England
Twinned with Vimy in France
Wherever that is. Vimy not France.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 14:56:42 GMT -5
our sister cities
Calgary
Catania (Sicily, Italy)
Chengdu (Sichuan Province, China)
Ennis (County Clare, Ireland)
Grenoble, France
Hermosillo, Mexico
Himeji, Japan
Prague
Ramat Gan, Israel
Taipei
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Post by Porky's Butthole on Apr 23, 2015 15:09:51 GMT -5
Ravenna, Italy
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Post by Push R Truth on Apr 23, 2015 20:55:44 GMT -5
Wisconsin
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 21:37:36 GMT -5
NYC: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sister_cities_of_New_York_CityBrooklyn: Bnei Brak, Israel London Borough of Lambeth, Greater London, England Anzio, Italy Gdynia, Poland Beşiktaş, Turkey Leopoldstadt, Austria Konak, Turkey Chaoyang District, Beijing, China Yiwu, China |
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Post by Heartbreaker on Apr 23, 2015 22:09:51 GMT -5
Melbourne:
Osaka, Japan
Tianjin, China
Thessaloniki, Greece
Boston, United States
St Petersburg, Russia
Milan, Italy
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Apr 23, 2015 22:15:41 GMT -5
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Post by Ishmeal Loves Kaseyhausen on Apr 23, 2015 22:18:58 GMT -5
The closest city to me is Albany, NY so...
Nassau, Bahamas
Nijmegen, Netherlands
Quebec City
Tula, Russia
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Post by El Hijo del Havoc on Apr 23, 2015 23:14:24 GMT -5
Cuautla, Mexico
Ensenada, Mexico
Erlangen, Germany
Hyderabad, India
Gangnam, South Korea
Jiangmen, China
Obuasi, Ghana
Sendai, Japan
Can Tho, Vietnam
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Post by The Sam on Apr 23, 2015 23:42:23 GMT -5
Walker, Michigan
Which makes my sister city Robocop
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Post by ayumidah on Apr 24, 2015 1:50:08 GMT -5
Apparently my hometown doesn't have one. Sadness, heh.
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Post by BJ Sturgeon on Apr 24, 2015 6:52:30 GMT -5
Vienna, Austria.
Quite a few, actually:
Belgrade, Serbia
Bratislava, Slovakia
Budapest, Hungary
Brno, Czech Republic
Kiev, Ukraine
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tabriz, Iran
Istanbul, Turkey
Tunis, Tunisia
Prague, Czech Republic
Moscow, Russia
Tel Aviv, Israel
Warsaw, Poland
Zagreb, Croatia
Odessa, Ukraine
Niš, Serbia
One Arab, one northern African, all the others more or less in eastern Europe.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2015 9:48:51 GMT -5
Our (Hammond, IN) sister city is Galaţi, Romania, and has been since 1997. (Romania, sure, but with our ethnic population, not one in...Poland?!)
Could have sworn we were also linked with cities in South Korea and China, but what do I know.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Apr 24, 2015 10:25:29 GMT -5
Saskatoon:
Umeå, Sweden
Shijiazhuang, China
Chernivtsi, Ukraine
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Post by Gecko on Apr 24, 2015 11:17:10 GMT -5
Leicester:
Chongqing, China;
Krefeld, Germany;
Masaya, Nicaragua;
Rajkot, India;
Strasbourg, France
I actually live in Leicestershire but I don't want to risk any of you showing up by saying where. The place I do live is twinned with somewhere and even though I drive past the signs all the time (and I've just looked it up), I couldn't tell you where.
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