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Sunderland-Washington DC
egon Started conversation Jun 25, 2006
Sunderland has been twined with Washington DC.
Seriously- http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/Public/Editable/banners/friendship/default.asp
It's because Washington in Sunderland was the ancestral home of George Washington's family.
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Hypatia Posted Jun 25, 2006
I've always found things like this a bit silly. Not that there's anything wrong with it. I'm all for promoting friendship and good will whenever possible. I hope the good citizens of Sunderland reap whatever economic or other benefit they expect from the arrangement.
I believe my little city has a sister city someplace in Poland. That no one here has ever even visited. 
And no, we don't have a large Polish population.
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clzoomer- a bit woobly Posted Jun 25, 2006
Vancouver is really a lot of small cities that form the GVRD or Greater Vancouver Regional District. Most of them are sister city mad, with signs and exchanged artwork all over the place. We have a couple with sister cities in England but most are in Japan. Some have more than one like Burnaby-
http://www.cityofmesa.org/youth/sister_cities/burnaby.asp
Along with Gatineau, Quebec and Kushiro, Japan.
Hey, I feel an entry coming on. 
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