Twin Towns
The Metropolitan Borough of Tameside has formal twinning links with places in China, France, Germany and Zimbabwe. The arrangement with Mutare in Zimbabwe has been suspended due to the political unrest in that country. Some localities were originally twinned with a place within the Metropolitan Borough prior to its creation in 1974. In the list below the brackets show where the place was twinned with before 1974 and since when.
- Bengbu, China, (Tameside 1995)
- Colmar, France, (Municipal Borough of Hyde, 1963)
- Champagnole, France (Municipal Borough of Dukinfield, 1958)
- Chaumont, France, (Municipal Borough of Ashton-under-Lyne, 1956)
- Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France, and Kierspe, Germany (Denton Town Twinning Association, 1992 and 2012)
- Villemomble, France, (Droylsden Town Twinning Association, 1983)
- Armentières, France, (Municipal Borough of Stalybridge, 1955)
- Hem, France, (Municipal Borough of Mossley, 1972)
- Ruppichteroth, Germany, (Longdendale Urban District, 1974)
- Mutare, Zimbabwe, (Tameside, 1989)
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