List of twin towns and sister cities in South Africa
This is a list of places in South Africa which have standing links to local communities in other countries. In most cases, the association, especially when formalised by local government, is known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
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Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium
Bhubaneswar, India[2]
Nanjing, China[3]
- Jinhua, China
Leiden, Netherlands
Milwaukee County, United States
Oldenburg, Germany- Qinhuangdao, China
C
[edit]- Aachen, Germany
Accra, Ghana- Antwerp, Belgium
Bujumbura, Burundi- Cleveland, United States[7]
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Funchal, Portugal[8]
Haifa, Israel[9]- Hangzhou, China
Maputo, Mozambique
Malmö, Sweden- Miami-Dade County, United States
Monterrey, Mexico
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Varna, Bulgaria
D
[edit]- Dordrecht, Netherlands
Walvis Bay, Namibia
Alexandria, Egypt- Bremen, Germany
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe- Chicago, United States
Daejeon, South Korea- Guangzhou, China
Kaohsiung, Taiwan[13]
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Libreville, Gabon- Maputo, Mozambique
Mersin, Turkey[14]
Mombasa, Kenya- New Orleans, United States
Oran, Algeria
Le Port, Réunion, France
E
[edit]- Daqing, China
- Harbin, China
F
[edit]- Dilbeek, Belgium
G
[edit]- Saint Paul, United States[18]
- Tacoma, United States[19]
I
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia- Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam[23]- New York City, United States
Ramallah, Palestine[24]- Taipei, Taiwan[25]
Verona, Italy[26]- Windhoek, Namibia
M
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- Wujiang (Suzhou), China
Denpasar, Indonesia
N
[edit]- Gothenburg, Sweden
- Jacksonville, United States
- Ningbo, China[35]
- Tainan, Taiwan[36]
O
[edit]- Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands[39]
- Hualien, Taiwan[40]
- Berkeley, United States
P
[edit]- Reggio Emilia, Italy
R
[edit]- Oskarshamn, Sweden
- Berkeley, United States
S
[edit]- Changsha, China
- Paju, South Korea
U
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Temora, Australia
W
[edit]- Aalst, Belgium
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