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This is a list of sister states, regions, and cities in the U.S. state of Florida. Sister cities, known in Europe as twin towns, are cities which partner with each other to promote human contact and cultural links, although this partnering is not limited to cities and often includes counties, regions, states and other sub-national entities.
Florida jurisdictions often partner with foreign cities through Sister Cities International, an organization whose goal is to "promote peace through mutual respect, understanding, and cooperation".[1] Sister cities interact with each other across a broad range of activities, from health care and education to business and the arts.[2]
The lists below were compiled from the official Sister Cities International website (unless noted),[3] corrected on orthography and region listed. Sister Cities will recognize cities only when the partnership is filed with them and remove relationships when one of the involved cities makes a formal request.[2] Partnerships can be active, inactive (no actions taken from any of the partners for some time) or officially canceled. The list below has relationships in all three statuses. Examples of canceled partnerships are Hialeah-Managua and West Miami-León, Nicaragua, canceled because of political differences during the Sandinista regime;[4]Hollywood-San Salvador, canceled as a protest against the Salvadoran Civil War;[5] and Boca Raton-Spandau Borough, Berlin.[6] Years can be approximate; in this case the number is followed by "~". The year listed will be the first date that the relationship is mentioned in media articles.
^Herald Staff (August 16, 1984). "Sister-City Splits". Miami Herald. pp. 30A. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. On Tuesday, Hialeah severed its 18-year relationship with its sister Managua..
^Paul Saltzman (July 7, 1986). "Exchange Program Ending". Miami Herald. pp. 2B. Retrieved September 8, 2021. An international exchange program that brought the people of Hollywood and San Salvador together is dead...For 24 years, residents of each of the two cities would travel once a year...got
^"Resolution 65-34"(PDF). City of Cocoa Beach. Archived from the original(PDF) on February 11, 2012. Retrieved July 16, 2007.
^Manoucheka Celeste (June 29, 2003). "City Seals Bond With Irish Sister". Miami Herald. p. 1WC. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. After two years of planning, Cooper City and Killarney, Ireland, are finally sister cities.
^Ann Macari (February 12, 1984). "Herald, The: Tale of Two Cities: Gables Hopes to Cultivate..." Miami Herald. p. 7. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Buxton headed a five-member delegation that arrived in Coral GABLES Wednesday ... Its first two sister cities are Cartagena, Colombia, and Quito, Ecuador.
^"Hosts Sought". Daytona Beach News Journal Online. June 24, 1996. p. 05D. Retrieved July 16, 2007. Article ID: 9606240139
^Patricia Maldonado (August 7, 1994). "Deerfield Beach, Israeli City to Enjoy Sisterly Relationship". Miami Herald. p. 2NE. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Deerfield Beach adopted a sister city. Last week, the mayor of Acco, Israel, spent the weekend in Deerfield with other dignitaries from the seaside town to finalize the agreement between the two cities to share information and resources.
^ abDinah Voyles Pulver (November 3, 1996). "Deland Inks Sister Pact with Costa Rican City". Daytona Beach News Journal Online. p. 01A. Retrieved July 16, 2007. ...the heads of DeLand and Belen, Costa Rica, signed a sister city agreement Thursday...A similar liaison was formed between Volusia County and Campeche, Mexico, last year...
^"Too Tough To Pronounce". Miami Herald. Associated Press. January 6, 1995. p. 5B. Archived from the original on July 7, 2012. Retrieved July 16, 2007. Six months of mispronouncing and misspelling "Rue St. Jean de Luz" has been enough for Destin officials. The city council voted Tuesday night to return the street, which had been renamed in honor of Destin's sister city in France, to its original designation: Two Trees Road. For many residents of this Florida Panhandle resort town it became simply "that road" after the street in front of the new city hall received its French...
^"Sister Cities". Modesto Bee. April 13, 1976. p. a Washington-based organization ... Ind., to Mbassa, Kenya; Eatonville, Fla., to Bamenda, Cameroon; Mankato. Retrieved July 16, 2007. Under The aegis of[dead link]
^ ab"GFLSCI". Archived from the original on October 1, 2011. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
^Johannes Werner (April 26, 2001). "City Twinning With A Twist". Miami Daily Business Review. Retrieved July 16, 2007. We're going to announce our 10th sister City, Panama City, Panama.[dead link]
^Ron Ishoy (June 16, 1997). "Keno-Smith Wrangling Is Nothing New". Miami Herald. p. 1BR. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. ... a vacation community off Caracas, IS Fort Lauderdale's latest Sister city.
^ ab"He's a Couple Beats Shy of a Healthy Heart". Miami Herald. July 10, 1995. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. sister city Fort Lauderdale has picked up another sister city -- La Romana, Dominican Republic. the town's mayor, Miguel Ceijas, will arrive here next week...
^Jana Soeldner Danger (May 21, 2000). "Fort Lauderdale Hosts a Couple of Vips from Argentine Sister City". Miami Herald. p. 13M. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Fort Lauderdale has a new sister city: Mar del Plata in Argentina, about 2,500 miles southwest of Buenos Aires. Sister Cities International celebrated the relationship May 9...
^Steve Sonsky (October 17, 1979). "Chorus Is Ready To Hit The Road To Colombia". Miami Herald. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. That trip is to Medellín, Colombia - Fort Lauderdale's designated "sister city" for the last 12 years in the Sister Cities International...
^Laura Misch (April 17, 1985). "Municipal Match Unites Lauderdale With Sister City". Miami Herald. p. 2D. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. In a ceremony high atop Broward's tallest building Tuesday, Fort Lauderdale welcomed its newest sister city -- Rimini, Italy.
^Johannes Werner (April 26, 2001). "City Twinning With A Twist". Miami Daily Business Review. Retrieved July 16, 2007. in the instance of (Sao Sebastiao), our sister City in Brazil, We were deeply involved with the Whitbread [sailing regatta]. that was one of the Cities ...[dead link]
^Mandalit Del Barco (November 1, 1984). "Everyone's Bonkers over Cat's Recovery". Miami Herald. p. 16. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Cartago, Costa Rica, is the official "sister city" of Hialeah, and a group of citizens have been called on by the mayor to initiate ...
^ abCarlos Harrison (October 19, 1986). "Hialeah Goes After A New Sister City". Miami Herald. p. 3. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Hialeah, the city that called Managua, Nicaragua, its sister city for 20 years, ...... Lujan de Cuyo has about 80000 residents and is about 600 miles west of ...
^ abMarcia Freidenreich (July 13, 2003). "Hollywood Welcomes A New Sister City Into A Growing Clan". Miami Herald. p. 6SE. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Credit Hollywood Realtor Monica Dumitrescu - born in Romania - with making her native town a sister city to her adopted community.
^Herald Staff (December 15, 1996). "Hollywood Promotes Sister Cities Program". Miami Herald. p. 3SE. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Hollywood officials have agreed to establish an advisory board to promote the sister ... Guatemala; Herzliyya, Israel; and Ciudad de la Costa, Uruguay
^Herald Staff (December 17, 1998). "Helping Hands". Miami Herald. p. 4SE. Retrieved July 16, 2007. Hollywood and Guatemala City have been Sister Cities for about a decade...
^Carl Goldfrab (May 14, 1990). "Kennedy Might Lose Another Job, But Developer Hedges On Decision". Miami Herald. p. 2B. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. after checking her records, city Clerk Elaine Baker dug up two more sister cities -- Taipei, Taiwan, and Santa Marta, Colombia...Herzila was first proposed as a sister city in 1986, but Baker said, she somehow was proclaimed a brother city in a 1988 resolution. ...
^Ronnie Greene (June 15, 1989). "Mayor Seeks Star System For Tourism". Miami Herald. p. 2BR. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. While there, the mayor linked Hollywood and Romorantin, France as sister cities.
^Herald Staff (January 12, 2003). "Government Action". Miami Herald. p. 4BR. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Sister city: Approved a Sister city partnership with Higuey-Punta Cana, ...
^Rick Dorsey (February 25, 1994). "Atypical Tourist Learns Democracy". Miami Herald. p. 2B. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Mita is the assistant mayor of Vlora,...Hollywood has three other sister cities -- Romorantin, France; Herzliya, Israel; and Guatemala City.
^"Visit to Homestead". Pasadena, California: AP/Star-News. September 1, 1977. Retrieved July 16, 2007. for his first official visit to Liberia's sister city, mayor Manuel Francisco Rojas was rushed off to The Homestead sewage treatment plant, sanitation yard ...
^Roscoe Warren (May 1, 2007). "Words From Your Council"(PDF). Community Newspapers. Archived from the original(PDF) on August 9, 2007. Retrieved July 16, 2007.
^"Machico e Madeira Beach" (in Portuguese). Daily Review, The. May 23, 1974. Retrieved July 16, 2007. da Vila de Machico. llha da Madeira, o convite ali recebido do "Mayor" da cidade de Madeira-Beach, na Florida, propondo Machico Para cidade irma
^John Barry and David Kidwell (April 21, 1995). "Arabs living in U.S. 'Are Caught Between Two Fires'". Miami Herald. p. 18A. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. on May 12, Shihada will accompany Metro Mayor Steve Clark to Jordan to initiate a new sister City connection between Miami and the Jordanian City of Amman. ...
^Elise Ackerman (July 13, 1995). "Everything Is Relative". Miami New Times. Retrieved July 16, 2007.
^ abcdeRobert Barkin (April 7, 1986). "Minority Applicants Trickle Into Bayside". Miami Herald. p. 23BM. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Miami, for example, has eight Sister Cities, including Bogota, Colombia; and Cali, Colombia; Nice, France; Ibiza, Spain; Santiago, Chile; Montes de Oca, Costa Rica; Beersheba, Israel; and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
^Herald Staff (June 24, 1991). "Port-au-Prince also winds sisterhood". Miami Herald. p. 2B. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Sen.... After commissioners voted unanimously to adopt Managua as a sister City...
^Lila Arzua (July 7, 2001). "Miami Now Sister City of the Haitian Capital". Miami Herald. p. 2B. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. ...Miami Mayor Joe Carollo and Port-au-Prince Mayor Marie-Yves Pouponneau Duperval solemnly inked the documents declaring their communities as "sister cities"..
^ abRobert Lohrer (May 14, 1987). "Siblings Dive Into An Italian Swim Adventure". Miami Herald. p. 24. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Asti is one of Dade's sister cities, along with Kingston, Jamaica; Lima, Peru; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; and Cayman Islands.
^Fred Monk (January 10, 1994). "Sister-City Relations". State, The (Columbia, Sc). p. 5. Retrieved July 16, 2007. ... Miami is paired with Varna on Bulgaria's coast; and Pittsburgh is twinned with ...
^Ann Davis (November 15, 1992). "Language Program Speaks For Itself". Miami Herald. p. 4. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. ... of a sister city program between the Mexican resort town and Miami Beach. ...
^Marissa D. Clarke (June 8, 2006). "Harlem Renaissance Brought To Life". Miami Herald. p. 6NW. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Celebrate Miami Beach's sister city Fortaleza, Brazil, ...
^Herald Staff (December 19, 1993). "Sister city in Japan seeks English teacher". Miami Herald. p. 10. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. It has a population of 328000 and became a sister city of Miami Beach in 1959.
^Laura Misch (August 21, 1983). "An Idea whose Time May Never Come". Miami Herald. p. 19. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Santa Marta, Colombia, which happens to be a sister city to Miami Beach...
^ abCharles Strouse (September 14, 1993). "Costs Soar For Sister Cities Program". Miami Herald. United Nations Development Programme. p. 1B. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Cayman Islands;Kingston, Jamaica; Asti Province, Italy; San Jose, Costa Rica; Taipei county, Taiwan; São Paulo, Brazil; Veracruz, Mexico; Rosario, Argentina; And Tenerife, Canary Islands (inactive).
^ abRichard Wallace (June 13, 1990). "Sisterhood Joins Dade, Gdansk". Miami Herald. p. 2B. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Tuesday was a good day in Dade for Gdansk. Gdansk, mother city of Poland's Solidarity reform movement, became a sister city to Metro-Dade. ...the County already is a sister city to Asti, Italy; São Paulo, ... San Jose... Taipei County, Taiwan...
^Mimi Whitefield (July 16, 1988). "Sister Cities Hope For More Than Goodwill". Miami Herald. p. 5D. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Dade County and São Paulo, Brazil, are hoping to become sister cities this month.
^Rebecca Dellagloria (January 19, 2006). "Together Forever: Sister Cities Will Come Together Today". Miami Herald. p. 3NW. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. On the surface, Miami Lakes and Desamparados, Costa Rica, have little in common... the two municipalities become sister cities. Under the
^Taylor Vernarsky (October 8, 2008). "Overseas visitors visit Mount Dora". Daily Commercial. Archived from the original on November 18, 2008. Retrieved October 13, 2008. In 1990, the association signed a charter to form a sister city affiliation with the Royal Burgh of Forres -- Mount Dora Twinning Association. Under the
^Carli Teproff (March 28, 2008). "North Miami businesses protest water hike". Miami Herald. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. The council signed its first Sister City agreement with Delmas, Haiti, and declared Tuesday as Delmas Day in the city.
^Lia Fish (August 13, 1989). "Driver Grateful Alert Bystander Saw Shaky Tire". Miami Herald. p. 32. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Cheryl Erickson returned Wednesday from a one-month trip to Israel that included a visit to Migdal, Israeli sister city to North Miami Beach. ...
^"San Rossore Officially Sister City To Ocala". Thoroughbred Times. Archived from the original on August 19, 2012. Retrieved July 16, 2007. "This event is just the beginning of a nice relationship between the city of Ocala and the city of Pisa and San Rossore," Fontanelli said in Italian during the ceremony.
^"Let's Adopt A Foreign Sister City". Ocala Star-Banner (FL). September 12, 1997. Retrieved July 16, 2007. While Sincelejo is still listed as Ocala's sister city, The program, which was active from 1967 to 1977, is dormant.
^Teresa Lane (October 30, 2007). "St. Lucie discusses China student-exchange plan". Palm Beach Post. p. 1B. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. ...eight government officials from the island city of Putuo, China spent five hours in their newest sister city today..
^"St. Augustine Tightens Its Ties With History". New York Times. April 14, 1963. Retrieved July 16, 2007. Aviles has invited St. Augustine to become a sister city. this was in response to a similar invitation extended to Aviles by St. Augustine last fall_ and ...
^The Herald Staff (February 20, 1994). "Sunrise Sister Cities". Miami Herald. p. 10CW. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Since 1985, Sunrise has had a Sister-City link with Yavne, Israel. new boards: Considered Mayor Steven Effman's proposal to create four new municipal boards ...
^Herald Staff (December 13, 1990). "Sweetwater Gets Spanish Sister City". Miami Herald. p. 14. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Sweetwater has a new sister. City commissioners approved Guitiriz...
^Cristina I. Pravia (February 11, 1996). "Sweetwater's Second Sister City: La Paz Centro". Miami Herald. p. 6. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Sweetwater has adopted a second sister -- a sister city that is. On Monday, Sweetwater's council members named La Paz Centro in Nicaragua as its sister city.
^Sandra Dibble (January 13, 1983). "Sweetwater Adopts City In Caribbean". Miami Herald. p. 9. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. The city of Sweetwater adopted its first sister city Monday, selecting Puerto Plata, a city on the north coast of the Dominican Republic.
^Tampa-Agrigento Sister Cities Committee. "Agrigento Welcomes Tampa". L'Unione Italiana. Archived from the original on September 11, 2013. Retrieved July 16, 2007.
^"Proclamation"(PDF). City of Tampa. Archived from the original(PDF) on September 30, 2007. Retrieved July 16, 2007.
^Audrey Parente (April 3, 1998). "Volusia Will Get New Sister In France". Daytona Beach News Journal Online. p. 04C. Retrieved July 16, 2007. A new sibling will soon join Sister Cities of Volusia County Inc.Dixie Blake, spokeswoman for the group, said Sister Cities has established a relationship with Bayonne, France. The new contact is an addition to the three-year affiliation with Campeche, Mexico.
^ abYves Colon (February 10, 1985). "W. Miami Lends A Helping Hand To City In War-Torn Guatemala". Miami Herald. p. 2. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Guatemala Si. Nicaragua No. So decreed the people of West Miami, as their commissioners Wednesday night elected to establish a sister city relationship with the town of Santa Cruz del Quiche in war-torn Guatemala...Last August, at Reboredo's urging, West Miami severed A 13-year sister city relationship with Leon, Nicaragua.
^"Briefly". Palm Beach Post. October 19, 1996. p. 2B. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. The visit will also include a stop next week in Israel's northern Tzahar region, chosen as West Palm Beach's first "sister city."