With the rapid advancement of modern digitalization and globalization, interactions between cities and those between countries are now more quick and close. This is an important duty for Taipei City to develop relationships with its international counterparts. Taipei City Council values the international friendship very much and strive to expand civil diplomatic relationships via actual and active exchanges with the councils of other foreign cities and promote results of Taipei’s development when visiting other cities to gain more international understanding and support, which the City Council has been committing to do.
To promote international friendship and strengthen cultural exchanges, Taipei City has now established close ties with 49 sister cities,
3 partner cities, and 5 friendship cities. Please see below for the name of the cities and dates of affiliation :
12 sister cities in the US are Huston, San Francisco, Guam, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Marshall, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Oklahoma City, Boston, and Dallas.
13 sister cities in Latin America and the Caribbean region are Santo Domingo, Tegucigalpa, San Jose, Asunción, Panama City, Managua, San Salvador, San Nicolas, La Paz, Guatemala City, Quito, Castries and Belmopan.
4 European sister cities are Versailles, Warsaw, Vilnius, and Riga.
9 sister cities in the Asia Pacific Region are Manila, Seoul, Quezon City, Jeddah, Gold Coast, Ulan-Ude, Ulaanbaatar, Majuro, and Daegu.
11 African sister cities are Lome, Cotonou, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Lilongwe, Dakar, Banjul, Bissau, Mbabane, Monrovia, and Ouagadougou.
ITEM | SISTER CITIES | DATE OF AFFILIATION |
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1. | Houston, Texas, U.S.A. | June 15, 1961 |
2. | Lome, Togo | October 12, 1966 |
3. | Manila, Philippines | December 12, 1966 |
4. | Cotonou, Benie (formerly Dahomey) | June 29, 1967 |
5. | Seoul, Korea | March 23, 1968 |
6. | Quezon City, Philippines | June 29, 1968 |
7. | San Francisco, California, U.S.A. | February 2, 1970 |
8. | Santo Domingo, Dominican Rep. | February 16, 1970 |
9. | Guam, U.S.A. | January 12, 1973 |
10. | Tegucigalpa, Honduras | May 24, 1974 |
11. | Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. | September 25, 1975 |
12. | Jiddah, Saudi Arabia | February 25, 1978 |
13. | Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A. | September 11, 1978 |
14. | Marshall, Texas, U.S.A. | November 29, 1978 |
15. | Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A. | March 13, 1979 |
16. | Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. | May 18, 1979 |
17. | Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. | November 5, 1979 |
18. | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.A. | February 23, 1981 |
19. | Johannesburg, South Africa | October 16, 1982 |
20. | Gold Coast, Australia | October 30, 1982 |
21. | Pretoria (Currently belongs to the City of Tshowane Metropolitan Municipality) , South Africa | October 8, 1983 |
22. | San Jose, Costa Rica | January 11, 1984 |
23. | Lilongwe, Malawi | July 3, 1984 |
24. | Versailles, France | June 21, 1986 |
25. | Asuncion, Paraguay | March 9, 1987 |
26. | Panama City, Panama | February 21, 1989 |
27. | Managua, Nicaragua | May 7, 1992 |
28. | San Salvador, El Salvador | October 9, 1993 |
29. | Warsaw, Poland | September 8, 1995 |
30. | Ulan-Ude, Buryat | August 22, 1996 |
31. | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. | September 3, 1996 |
32. | Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. | November 18, 1996 |
33. | Dakar, Senegal | April 12, 1997 |
34. | Banjul, Gambia | April 14, 1997 |
35. | Bissau, Guinea Bissau | April 15, 1997 |
36. | Mbabane, Swaziland | April 18, 1997 |
37. | Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia | June 20, 1997 |
38. | San Nicolas, Mexico | October 17, 1997 |
39. | La Paz, Bolivia | October 21, 1997 |
40. | Guatemala City, Guatemala | April 7, 1998 |
41. | Monrovia, Liberia | May 28, 1998 |
42. | Vilnius, Lithuania | May 28, 1998 |
43. | Majuro, Marshall Islands | August 3, 1999 |
44. | Riga, Latvia | August 5, 2001 |
45. | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | December 4, 2008 |
46. | Daegu, Korea | November 4, 2010 |
47. | Quito,Republic of Ecuador | January 27, 2016 |
48. | Castries, Saint Lucia | August 23, 2018 |
49. | Belmopan, Belmopan | April 29, 2019 |
ITEM | PARTNER CITIES | DATE OF AFFILIATION |
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1. | Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A. | September 25, 1997 |
2. | Yokohama, Japan | May 22, 2006 |
3. | Wellington, New Zealand | February 12, 2015 |
ITEM | FRIENDSHIP CITIES | DATE OF AFFILIATION |
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1. | Perth, Commonwealth of Australia | April 12, 1999 |
2. | Gyeonggi-do, Korea | June 29, 2000 |
3. | Orange County, California, U.S.A. | October 30, 2000 |
4. | George Town,Malaysia | March 28, 2011 |
5. | Helsinki,Republic of Finland | September 10, 2012 |
ITEM | FORMER SISTER CITY | DATE OF AFFILIATION |
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1. | Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City),Socialist Republic of Vietnam | December 17, 1968 |