Sister Areas
Kyoto Prefecture has sister relationships with these places:
- Shaanxi Province, China
- Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia
- Oklahoma, United States
- Leningrad Oblast, Russia
- Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Tuscany, Italy
These relationships are distinct from those of cities in Kyoto Prefecture with other cities.
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