City of Melbourne - Sister Cities

Sister Cities

Melbourne Boston Milan Saint Petersburg Thessaloniki Tianjin Osaka

The City of Melbourne has six sister cities. They are:

  • Osaka, Japan (1978)
  • Tianjin, China (1980)
  • Thessaloniki, Greece (1984)
  • Boston, Massachusetts, United States (1985)
  • Saint Petersburg, Russia (1989)
  • Milan, Italy (2004)

Some other local councils in the Melbourne metropolitan area have sister city relationships; see Local Government Areas of Victoria.

Read more about this topic:  City Of Melbourne

Famous quotes containing the words sister and/or cities:

    “It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women. The ultimate victory, the ultimate victory of tomorrow is with democracy; and true democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)