Culture of Atlanta, Georgia - Sister Cities

Sister Cities

See also: List of sister cities in the United States

Atlanta has 18 sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International, Inc. (SCI):

  • Ancient Olympia, Greece (1994)
  • Brussels, Belgium (1967)
  • Bucharest, Romania (1994)
  • Cotonou, Benin (1995)
  • Daegu, South Korea (1981)
  • Fukuoka, Japan (2005)
  • Lagos, Nigeria (1974)
  • Montego Bay, Jamaica (1972)
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom (1977)
  • Nuremberg (Nürnberg), Germany (1998)
  • Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (1987)
  • Ra'anana, Israel (2000)
  • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1972)
  • Salcedo, Dominican Republic (1996)
  • Salzburg, Austria (1967)
  • Taipei, Taiwan (1974)
  • Pekanbaru, Indonesia (1999)
  • Tbilisi, Georgia (1988)
  • Toulouse, France (1974)

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Famous quotes containing the words sister and/or cities:

    “Before any woman is a wife, a sister or a mother she is a human being. We ask nothing as women but everything as human beings.”
    —Ida C. Hultin, U.S. minister and suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 17, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)

    “In bombers named for girls, we burned
    The cities we had learned about in school—
    Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among
    The people we had killed and never seen.”
    —Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)