Sister Cities
Norfolk has seven sister cities:
- Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan (1963)
- Wilhelmshaven, Lower Saxony, Germany (1976)
- Norfolk (County), United Kingdom (1986)
- Cagayan de Oro, Philippines (2008)
- Toulon, France (1989) (Europe's largest military harbour)
- Kaliningrad, Russia (1992)
- Halifax, Nova Scotia (2006)
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Famous quotes containing the words sister and/or cities:
“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)
“Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)