List of twin towns and sister cities in Iran

The following is a list of some cities in Iran and their twin towns or sister cities either in Iran or foreign countries.

Shahr e kord

• Karbala, Iraq
• Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Esfahan

Barcelona, Spain [1] Florence, Italy Freiburg, Germany Baalbek,Lebanon Dakar,Senegal

Havana, Cuba Iaşi, Romania Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia[2] Kuwait City, Kuwait

Lahore, Pakistan Saint Petersburg, Russia[3] Xian, People's Republic of China Yerevan, Armenia[4]

Gorgan

• Aktau, Kazakhstan ^[5]

Hamadan

• Kulyab, Tajikistan

Kashan

• Umeå, Sweden

Kermanshah

• Gaziantep, Turkey (2010)
• Sicily, Italy (2010)
• Split, Croatia (2011)
• Roseburg, United States of America

Khorramabad

• Yamagata, Japan
• Afyonkarahisar, Turkey

Kish Island

• Dubai, United Arab Emirates (since 2002)
• Langkawi, Malaysia (since 2009)^[6]

Maragheh

• Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina,^[7][8]

Mashhad

• Munich, Germany
• Fresno, United States
• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (October 2006)^[9]
• Lahore, Pakistan^[10]
• Karachi, Pakistan^[11] (May 2012)
• Milan, Italy
• Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• Ürümqi, China

Piranshahr

• Orumiyeh, Iran

Qazvin

• Denizli, Turkey

Qom

• Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Rasht

• Kazan, Russia
• Kutaisi, Georgia
• Moscow, Russia
• Rasht district, Tajikistan
• Trabzon, Turkey
• Schwaebisch Hall, Germany
• Astarakhan, Russia
• Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Multan, Pakistan

Sari

• Gomel, Belarus (2009)

Shiraz

Chongqing, China Dushanbe, Tajikistan Nicosia, Cyprus

Weimar, Germany[12]

Tabriz

Baku, Azerbaijan [13] Gaza City, Gaza Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam [14] Istanbul, Turkey Kazan, Russia [15] Konya, Turkey Wuhan, China

Tehran

Beijing, China Caracas, Venezuela Havana, Cuba[16] London, United Kingdom Los Angeles, United States[17] Moscow, Russia

Manila, Philippines[18] Minsk, Belarus[19] Pretoria, South Africa Istanbul, Turkey Seoul, South Korea[20]

Yazd

• Jászberény, Hungary
• Jakarta, Indonesia
• Homs, Syria

Zanjan

• Trabzon, Turkey
• Malacca, Malaysia

References

1. "Barcelona internacional - Ciutats agermanades" (in Spanish). © 2006-2009 Ajuntament de Barcelona. Retrieved 2009-07-13. External link in |publisher= (help)
2. "Sisterhoods". Isfahan Islamic Council. 2005. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
3. "Saint Petersburg in figures - International and Interregional Ties". Saint Petersburg City Government. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
4. "Yerevan Municipality - Sister Cities". © 2005-2009 Yerevan.am. Retrieved 2009-06-22. External link in |publisher= (help)
5. KZ-Today September 11, 2006
6. "Iran, Malaysian islands are 'twinned'". Presstv.com. 2009-08-18. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
7. http://www.bpkgo.ba/stream.php?id=821
8. http://www.gorazde.ba/index.php/images/vijesti/media/system/dokumenti/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=251:naelnik-upriliio-prijem-za-goste-iz-irana-&catid=27:vijesti&Itemid=34
9. "Mashad-Kuala Lumpur Become Sister cities". FARS News Agency. 2006-10-14. Retrieved 2010-09-23.
10. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C03%5C02%5Cstory_2-3-2007_pg7_43
11. "Karachi and Mashhad Declared Sister Cities". Daily Times. 2012-05-12.
13. Baku#cite note-27,
14. Ho Chi Minh city#cite note-26,
15. Tabriz and Kazan sister cities agreement
16. http://www.payvand.com/news/01/mar/1053.html
17. http://www.lacity.org/SisterCities/html/11.htm
18. "Sister Cities of Manila". © 2008-2009 City Government of Manila. Retrieved 2009-09-02. External link in |publisher= (help)
19. http://minsk.gov.by/ru/org/?k_org=3604&mode=doc&doc=3604_2_a&lang=eng
20. http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200707/200707110009.html