Twin Cities

[Mdisch]

I was incredibly bored today - Being sick and tired ; which ended up with me looking at Twin Cities of several Cities.

It sort of got me wondering if there is any importance to what your Twin/Sister cities are?
And also, what are the Twin Cities of your cities?
Since I live in Aalborg ours are ;

Netherlands Almere, Netherlands
France Antibes, France
Turkey Bodrum, Turkey
Germany Büdelsdorf, Germany
Scotland Edinburgh, Scotland (since 1991)
Norway Fredrikstad, Norway
Faroe Islands Fuglafjørður, Faroe Islands
Republic of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Poland Gdynia, Poland
Israel Haifa, Israel
China Hefei, People's Republic of China
Iceland Húsavík, Iceland
Austria Innsbruck, Austria
Russia Kaliningrad, Russia
Sweden Karlskoga, Sweden
United Kingdom Lancaster, United Kingdom
Greenland Nuuk, Greenland
Russia Pushkin, Russia
United States Racine, USA
Switzerland Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
Germany Rendsburg, Germany
Latvia Riga, Latvia
Finland Riihimäki, Finland
Greenland Scoresbysund, Greenland
United States Solvang, USA
Romania Tulcea, Romania
Bulgaria Varna, Bulgaria
Lithuania Vilnius, Lithuania
Germany Wismar

It's actually a rather remarkable list considering the town only has 100'000 citizens - I've looked at several other major cities and only a few come close to having such a great amount of sister cities.

[Roo]

I have been to 4 of our sister cities (as we call them here). Gaoxiong and Kobe when I was too young to remember, and Chongqing and Tashkent within the last 6 years. There are several more I'd love to visit, and many I know nothing about.

Seattle is proud to be a leader in promoting and developing sister city relationships with 21 international communities Beer Sheva, Israel est. 1977 Bergen, Norway est. 1967 Cebu, Philippines est. 1991 Chongqing, China est. 1983 Christchurch, New Zealand est. 1981 Daejeon, Korea est. 1989 Galway, Ireland est. 1986 Gdynia, Poland est. 1993 Haiphong, Vietnam est. 1996 Kaohsiung, Taiwan est. 1991 Kobe, Japan est. 1957 Limbe, Cameroon est. 1984 Mazatlán, Mexico est. 1979 Mombasa, Kenya est. 1981 Nantes, France est. 1980 Pécs, Hungary est. 1991 Perugia, Italy est. 1991 Reykjavik, Iceland est. 1986 Sihanoukville, Cambodia est. 1999 Surabaya, Indonesia est. 1992 Tashkent, Uzbekistan est. 1973

[squeezyjohn]

Oxford certainly cannot boast that number of twin towns!

Ours are:

Bonn in Germany
Grenoble in France
Leiden in Holland
Leon in Nicaragua
and Perm in Russia

Of those I've only ever visited Grenoble - and visited is a slightly strong term for passing through the town when the van broke down and we had to get the clutch changed!

[truthwolf1]

Minneapolis / St. Paul... TWIN CITIES very common saying and is used everywhere in ad/print

[Jan]

Oxford certainly cannot boast that number of twin towns!

Ours are:

Bonn in Germany
Grenoble in France
Leiden in Holland
Leon in Nicaragua
and Perm in Russia

Of those I've only ever visited Grenoble - and visited is a slightly strong term for passing through the town when the van broke down and we had to get the clutch changed!

I am not sure about the last one on your list but the others are university cities like Oxford itself... being a rather exclusive, intellectual place it cannot boast a huge number of twins.

[Reynard]

Leicester is twinned with six cities:

Strasbourg, France (1960)
Krefeld, Germany (1969)
Masaya, Nicaragua (1987)
Chongqing, China (1993)
Rajkot, India (1996)
Haskovo, Bulgaria (2008)

[Mdisch]

I am not sure about the last one on your list but the others are university cities like Oxford itself... being a rather exclusive, intellectual place it cannot boast a huge number of twins.

Are you saying we're not an exclusive, intellectual place?! I mean just look at twin cities like.. Edinburgh..
You know what, actually I get your point.

[squeezyjohn]

Oxford's not an exclusive intellectual place!!!

It's a bustling car manufacturing town that just happens to have been invaded by students :-P

[Skell18]

I am not sure about the last one on your list but the others are university cities like Oxford itself... being a rather exclusive, intellectual place it cannot boast a huge number of twins.

Pretentious and up its own arse you mean I went to Cambridge by the way :P lol

[halocog]

Lexington, KY :

Deauville, France

County Kildare, Ireland

Newmarket, United Kingdom

Shinhidaka, Japan

[Mdisch]

As far as I've heard Cambridge is half chav, and half posh - Basically a crapload of assholes?

[Skell18]

As far as I've heard Cambridge is half chav, and half posh - Basically a crapload of assholes?

It was a bit different when I was at uni there, mostly posh and then scummy studenty, Oxford is just studenty lol

[Skell18]

Lexington, KY :

Deauville, France

County Kildare, Ireland

Newmarket, United Kingdom

Shinhidaka, Japan

A whole county in Ireland, not bad

[squeezyjohn]

Pretentious and up its own arse you mean I went to Cambridge by the way :P lol

I went to Cambridge too Skell! I just come from Oxford.

Both are beautiful to look at .. and both have much more interesting local populations than they have student populations - it's just hard to go out and find that when you're at college.

Cheers

Squeezy

[Skell18]

I went to Cambridge too Skell! I just come from Oxford.

Both are beautiful to look at .. and both have much more interesting local populations than they have student populations - it's just hard to go out and find that when you're at college.

Cheers

Squeezy

Very ture mate, which college did you go to? Caius man here.