Twin Towns and Sister Cities
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in FranceStrasbourg is twinned with:
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States, since 1960
- Leicester, East Midlands, England, since 1960
- Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (then West-Germany), since 1962
- Dresden, Saxony, Germany (then East-Germany), since 1990
- Ramat Gan, Israel, since 1991
- Jacmel, Haiti, since 1996 (Coopération décentralisée)
- Veliky Novgorod, Russia, since 1997 (Coopération décentralisée)
- Fes, Morocco (Coopération décentralisée)
- Douala, Cameroon (Coopération décentralisée)
- Bamako, Mali (Coopération décentralisée)
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