Sister Cities
Mobile has registered sister city arrangements with the following cities:
- Cockburn, Australia
- Heze, Shandong, People's Republic of China
- Tianjin, People's Republic of China
- Havana, Cuba
- Worms, Germany
- Samarinda, Indonesia
- Gaeta, Italy
- Ichihara, Chiba, Japan
- Veracruz, Mexico
- Bolinao, Philippines
- Katowice, Poland
- Constanţa, Romania
- Košice, Slovakia
- King Shaka District, South Africa
- Pyeongtaek, South Korea
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Famous quotes containing the words sister and/or cities:
“England! awake! awake! awake!
Jerusalem thy sister calls!
Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death,
And close her from thy ancient walls?”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“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)