Cork (city) - Twinning

Twinning

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in the Republic of Ireland

Cork is a member of the Most Ancient European Towns Network and also twinned with the following places:

City Nation Since
Coventry England, UK 1969
Rennes France 1982
San Francisco United States 1984
Cologne Germany 1988
Swansea Wales, UK 1994
Shanghai China 1994

Twinning with Shanghai has led to controversy, as the Green Party called on Cork's local, national and European elected representatives to withdraw the city's twinning with Shanghai due to reports of human rights violations in China. Since then, parties from both Cork and Shanghai have visited their counterparts on trade related missions.

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