Twin Cities
There are 46 other places on six continents named after London. As well as London's twinning, the London boroughs have twinnings with parts of other cities across the world. The Greater London Authority has twinning arrangements with:
- Bogotá, Colombia
- La Paz, Bolivia
- Arequipa, Peru
- Berlin, Germany
- Delhi, India
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Kuwait City, Kuwait
- Moscow, Russia
- New York City, United States
- Oslo, Norway
- Sylhet, Bangladesh
- Shanghai, China
- Seoul, South Korea
- Tehran, Iran
The following cities have a friendship agreement with London:
- Algiers, Algeria
- Baku, Azerbaijan
- Beijing, China
- Bucharest, Romania
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Delhi, India
- Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Los Angeles, United States
- Mumbai, India
- Paris, France
- Podgorica, Montenegro
- Rome, Italy
- Sofia, Bulgaria
- Tokyo, Japan
- Zagreb, Croatia
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Famous quotes containing the words twin and/or cities:
“That Dali is really Norman Rockwells twin brother kidnapped by gypsies in babyhood.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“Like other cities created overnight in the Outlet, Woodward acquired between noon and sunset of September 16, 1893, a population of five thousand; and that night a voluntary committee on law and order sent around the warning, if you must shoot, shoot straight up!”
—State of Oklahoma, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)