International Cooperation and Honours
List of Belgrade's sister cities, and other forms of city cooperation and friendship:
| Country | City | Year | Form |
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| Corfu | 2010 |
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| Coventry | 1957 | ||
| Chicago | 2005 | ||
| Lahore | 2007 | ||
| Ljubljana | 2010 | ||
| Skopje | 2012 | ||
| Tel Aviv | 1990 | ||
| Vienna | 2003 | ||
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| Athens | 1966 | Agreement on Friendship and Cooperation | |
| Banja Luka | 2005 | Agreement on Cooperation | |
| Prnjavor | 2005 | Agreement on Cooperation | |
| Beijing | 1980 | Agreement on Cooperation | |
| Berlin | 1978 | Agreement on Friendship and Cooperation | |
| Düsseldorf | 2004 | Agreement on Cooperation | |
| Kiev | 2002 | Agreement on Cooperation | |
| Madrid | 2001 | Agreement on Cooperation | |
| Milan | 2000 | Memorandum of Agreement, City to City Programme | |
| Moscow | 2002 | Programme of Cooperation | |
| Rome | 1971 | Agreement on Friendship and Cooperation | |
| Shenzhen | 2009 | Agreement on Cooperation | |
| Havana | Agreement on Friendship | ||
Some of the city's municipalities are also twinned to small cities or districts of other big cities, for details see their respective articles.
Belgrade has received various domestic and international honours, including the French Légion d'honneur (proclaimed 21 December 1920; Belgrade is one of four cities outside France, alongside Liège, Luxembourg and Volgograd, to receive this honour), the Czechoslovak War Cross (awarded 8 October 1925), the Yugoslavian Order of the Karađorđe's Star (awarded 18 May 1939) and the Yugoslavian Order of the People's Hero (proclaimed on 20 October 1974, the 30th anniversary of the overthrow of Nazi German occupation during World War II). All of these decorations were received for the war efforts during the World War I and World War II. In 2006, Financial Times' magazine Foreign Direct Investment awarded Belgrade the title of City of the Future of Southern Europe.
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