Twin Towns-Sister Cities
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in LatviaRiga maintains sister city relationships with the following cities:
- Aalborg, Denmark
- Almaty, Kazakhstan
- Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
- Astana, Kazakhstan
- Beijing, China
- Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France
- Bremen, Bremen (state), Germany
- Cairns, Queensland, Australia
- Calais, Nord, France
- Dallas, Texas, United States
- Florence, Tuscany, Italy
- Kiev, Ukraine
- Kobe, Japan
- Minsk, Belarus
- Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia
- Norrköping, Sweden
- Pori, Finland
- Providence, Rhode Island, United States
- Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
- Saint Petersburg, Russia:
- Santiago, Chile
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Taipei, Taiwan
- Tallinn, Estonia
- Tashkent, Uzbekistan
- Tartu, Estonia
- Tbilisi, Georgia
- Vilnius, Lithuania
- Warsaw, Poland
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