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)

Read more about this topic:  Culture Of Atlanta, Georgia

Famous quotes containing the words sister and/or cities:

    “I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almighty mortal hardly as yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no sister Juno, no Apollo, no Venus, nor Minerva, to intercede for me, thumoi phileousa te, kedomene te.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Satire is born of the cities it denounces.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)