Our Sister Cities

Sister Cities

For almost 60 years San Diego been part of Sister Cities International and has always strived to create peace and understanding. Currently San Diego has 15 different Sister Cities though we are always growing.

Alcala De Henares, Spain

Sister City since: 1982

Location: 35 km northeast of the city of Madrid

Climate: Mediterranean

Population: 203,645

Other Sister Cities: Alba lulia, Romania; Fort Collins, USA; Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico; Lublin, Poland; Peterborough, United Kingdom; Talence, France.

Campinas, Brazil

Sister City since: 1995

Location: the coastal interior of the state of São Paulo

Climate: Tropical Wet and Dry

Population: 1,080,999

Other Sister Cities: Asunción, Paraguay;Auroville, India; Belém, Brazil; Blumenau, Brazil; Cabinda, Angola; Camanducaia, Brazil;Concepción, Chile; Córdoba, Argentina; Cotorro, Cuba; Daloa, Ivory Coast; Durban, South Africa; Fuzhou, China; Gifu, Japan;Jericho, Palestine; Malito, Italy; Novi Sad,Serbia; Peruíbe, Brazil; Ubatuba, Brazil.

Sister City since: 1969

Location: a peninsula bounded on the north and west by Manila Bay, in the province of Cavite

Climate:

Population: 106,824

Other Sister Cities: Tainan, Taiwan.

Cavite, Philippines

Edinburgh, Scotland

Jalalabad, Afganistan

Sister City since: 1977

Location: North of England, bounded by the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean

Climate: Temperate, maritime

Population: 448,624

Other Sister Cities: Aalborg, Denmark; Dunedin, New Zealand; Florence, Italy; Kraków, Poland; Kiev, Ukraine; Kyoto Prefecture, Japan; Munich, Germany; Nice, France; Vancouver, Canada; Xi'an, China.

Sister City since: 2004

Location: eastern Afghanistan, located at the juncture of the Kabul River and Kunar River near the Laghman Valley

Climate: Subtropical steppe

Population: 205, 423

Society Website:www.sandiegojalalabadsistercities.org

Sister City since: 1982

Location: the Honam Plain in North Jeolla Province, in western South Korea

Climate: Humid continental

Population: 649,500

Other Sister Cities: Kanazawa, Japan; Suzhou, China.

Sister City since: 1969

Location: the state of Guanajuato in central Mexico

Climate: Mid-latitude steppe

Population: 1,436,733

Other Sister Cities: Bogota, Columbia; Cangas de Onis, Spain; Fermo, Italy; Irving, USA; La Habana, Cuba; Laredo, USA; Las Vegas, USA; Leon, Nicaragua; Leon, Spain; Los Angeles, USA; Lubbock, USA; Novo Hamburgo, Brazil; Suzhou, China; Tijuana, Mexico.

Sister City since: 1986

Location: the South West Division of Western Australia, between the Indian Ocean and a low coastal escarpment known as the Darling Range

Climate: Mediterranean

Population: 1,696,065

Other Sister Cities: Grenoble, France; Houston, Texas; Kagoshima, Japan; Nanjing, China; Rhodes, Greece; Seocho City, South Korea; Taipei, Taiwan; Vasto, Italy.

Sister City since: 1983

Location: West-central Taiwan

Climate: Humid subtropical

Population: 2,639,323

Other Sister Cities: Austin, Texas; Tacoma, Washington; Tuscon, Arizona; Reno, Nevada.

Sister City since: 1976

Location: on the Atlantic Coast, in the region of Greater Accra

Climate: Tropical wet and dry

Population: 209,000

Other Sister Cities: Greenwich, United Kingdom; Roanoke, USA.

León, Mexico

Perth, Australia

Taichung, Taiwan

Tema, Ghana

Jeonju, South Korea

Sister City since: 1993

Location: North-western corner of Mexico, along the U.S.-Mexico border, just south of San Diego

Climate: Semi-arid

Population: 1,300,983

Other Sister Cities: Busan, South Korea;Havana, Cuba; La Paz, Mexico; Laredo, USA; León, Mexico; Mazatlán, Mexico; Panjin, China; Slubice, Poland; Zaragoza, Spain.

Interesting External Link: http://youtu.be/aG-ZeDqG8Zk

Sister City since: 1991

Location: Surrounding the Golden Horn Bay on the Sea of Japan, in Russia's far-eastern province of Primorsky Krai

Climate: Humid continental

Population: 592,100

Other Sister Cities: Akita, Japan; Busan, South Korea; Dalian, China; Hakodate, Japan; Juneau, USA; Niigata, Japan; Shanghai, China; Tacoma, USA; Juneau, USA; Yantai, China.

website: http://www.sandiego-vladivostok.org/

Sister City since: 1996

Location: on the Vistula River in the heartland of the Mazovian Plain in east-central Poland.

Climate: Humid continental

Population: 1,716,855 (Warsaw)

Sister City since: 1985

Location: Southern coast of the Bohai Sea and eastern coast of the Laizhou Sea in northeastern Shandong province.

Climate: Hot summer continental

Population: 6,516,900

website: http://www.sandiegoyantai.org/

Sister City since: 1957

Location: Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in theKantō region of the main island of Honshū