Twin Towns and Sister Cities
Jinan is twinned with:
- Wakayama, Japan; since January 14, 1983.
- Coventry, United Kingdom; since October 3, 1983.
- Yamaguchi, Japan; since September 20, 1985.
- Rennes, France; since 1985.
- Kfar Sava, Israel; since 2007.
- Sacramento, United States; since May 29, 1985.
- Regina, Canada; since August 10, 1987.
- Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea; since September 28, 1988.
- Suwon, South Korea; since October 27, 1993.
- Nizhny Novgorod, Russia; since September 25, 1994.
- Vantaa, Finland; since August 27, 2001.
- Joondalup, Australia; since September 4, 2004.
- Augsburg, Germany; since October 10, 2004.
- Praia, Cape Verde; since September 22, 2009.
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Famous quotes containing the words twin, towns, sister and/or cities:
“If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth if th’ other do.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)
“Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today—in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped—always somebody else’s horizon! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!”
—Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932)
“For she has made me the laily worm
That lies at the fit o’ the tree,
An’ my sister Masery she’s made
The machrel of the sea.”
—Unknown. The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea (l. 5–8)
“In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbours. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbour.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)