This is a list of places in the continent of Asia which have standing links to local communities in other countries. In most cases, the association, especially when formalised by local government, is known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world), and while most of the places included are towns, the list also includes villages, cities, districts, and counties with similar links.
Afghanistan Asadabad Union City, United States
Ghazni
Hayward, United States Nishapur, Iran
Herat
Council Bluffs, United States Nishapur, Iran
Jalalabad San Diego, United States
Kabul
Ankara, Turkey Kazan, Russia
Kandahar Council Bluffs, United States
Mazar-i-Sharif
Dushanbe, Tajikistan Mashhad, Iran
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bahrain Manama
Ankara, Turkey Karachi, Pakistan
Bangladesh
Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Nanjing, China
Cambodia Phnom Penh
Bangkok, Thailand Beijing, China Busan, South Korea Chongqing, China Hanoi, Vietnam Hefei, China Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Incheon, South Korea Kitakyushu, Japan Kunming, China Long Beach, United States Lowell, United States Shanghai, China Shenzhen, China
Sihanoukville
Maardu, Estonia Nanning, China Seattle, United States
China
Georgia
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan Aktobe
Karamay, China Orenburg, Russia
Almaty
Alexandria, Egypt Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Daegu, South Korea Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Istanbul, Turkey Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Malatya, Turkey Modena, Italy Moscow, Russia Nusantara, Indonesia Rennes, France Riga, Latvia Rosario, Argentina Saint Petersburg, Russia San José, Costa Rica Tashkent, Uzbekistan Tel Aviv, Israel Tucson, United States Ürümqi, China Vilnius, Lithuania
Astana
Amman, Jordan Ankara, Turkey Ashgabat, Turkmenistan Bangkok, Thailand Beijing, China Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Damascus, Syria Gdańsk, Poland Hanoi, Vietnam Islamabad, Pakistan Kazan, Russia Kyiv, Ukraine Moscow, Russia Nice, France Oulu, Finland Putrajaya, Malaysia Riga, Latvia Saint Petersburg, Russia Seoul, South Korea Tashkent, Uzbekistan Tbilisi, Georgia Ufa, Russia Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Uşak, Turkey Vilnius, Lithuania Warsaw, Poland
Karaganda
Cluj-Napoca, Romania Songpa (Seoul), South Korea
Kokshetau Waukesha, United States
Kostanay Kirklees, England, United Kingdom
Kyzylorda
Arvada, United States Bolu, Turkey Bursa, Turkey
Oral
Kostroma, Russia Manisa, Turkey Orenburg, Russia Ostrava, Czech Republic
Oskemen
Babruysk, Belarus Barnaul, Russia Tacheng, China
Petropavl Omsk, Russia
Shymkent
Acharnes, Greece Baiyin, China Khujand, Tajikistan Pattaya, Thailand Stevenage, England, United Kingdom Vanadzor, Armenia
Kuwait Ahmadi Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Kuwait City
Ankara, Turkey Florence, Italy Gaziantep, Turkey Guangzhou, China Mexico City, Mexico Rosario, Argentina Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Tunis, Tunisia
Kyrgyzstan Bishkek
Almaty, Kazakhstan Ankara, Turkey Ashgabat, Turkmenistan Astana, Kazakhstan Colorado Springs, United States Doha, Qatar Gumi, South Korea İzmir, Turkey Kyiv, Ukraine Lianyungang, China Qazvin, Iran Samsun, Turkey Shenzhen, China Tashkent, Uzbekistan Tehran, Iran Tianjin, China Trabzon, Turkey Ufa, Russia Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Ürümqi, China Wuhan, China Yinchuan, China
Özgön
Bolu, Turkey Yıldırım, Turkey
Laos Champasak
Da Nang, Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Nanning, China
Luang Prabang Chengdu, China
Vientiane
Beijing, China Elgin, United States Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Kunming, China
Lebanon Baalbek
Bergama, Turkey Isfahan, Iran Qom, Iran Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Beirut
Aleppo, Syria Dubai, United Arab Emirates Istanbul, Turkey Karachi, Pakistan Los Angeles, United States Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Yerevan, Armenia
Sidon Gaza City, Palestine
Malaysia
Maldives Malé
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Suzhou, China
Mongolia Darkhan
Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria Irving, United States Kaposvár, Hungary Ulan-Ude, Russia Zeitz, Germany
Erdenet
Edremit, Turkey Fairbanks, United States Székesfehérvár, Hungary Ulan-Ude, Russia
Kharkhorin Bolu, Turkey
Ölgii Giresun, Turkey
Ulaanbaatar
Ankara, Turkey Astana, Kazakhstan Bangkok, Thailand Beijing, China Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Bonn, Germany Chongqing, China Denver, United States Elista, Russia Gaziantep, Turkey Havana, Cuba Hohhot, China Incheon, South Korea Irkutsk, Russia Moscow, Russia Novosibirsk, Russia
Seoul, South Korea Taipei, Taiwan Ulan-Ude, Russia
Myanmar Mandalay Kunming, China
Yangon
Busan, South Korea Fukuoka, Japan Haikou, China Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Kathmandu, Nepal Kunming, China Nanning, China Quezon City, Philippines Yangzhou, China
Nepal Banepa Shigatse, China
Bharatpur Golmud, China
Gorkha Rushmoor, England, United Kingdom
Indrawati Jersey City, United States
Janakpur Ayodhya, India
Kathmandu
Boulder, United States Chengdu, China Eugene, United States Fredericksburg, United States Lhasa, China Matsumoto, Japan Pyongyang, North Korea Rochester, United States Varanasi, India Xi'an, China Yangon, Myanmar
Lalitpur
Broomfield, United States Ulan-Ude, Russia
Pokhara
Barnet, England, United Kingdom Guangzhou, China Ithaca, United States Kunming, China Nyingchi, China Princes' Islands, Turkey
Siddharthanagar Baoji, China
Tukuche Nanto, Japan
North Korea Chongjin Changchun, China
Haeju Ulan-Ude, Russia
Hamhung Shanghai, China
Kaesong Cusco, Peru
Nampo
Saint Petersburg, Russia Weihai, China
Pyongsong Pernik, Bulgaria
Pyongyang
Baghdad, Iraq Chiang Mai, Thailand Dubai, United Arab Emirates Jakarta, Indonesia Kathmandu, Nepal Moscow, Russia Tianjin, China
Sariwon Lahore, Pakistan
Wonsan
Puebla, Mexico Vladivostok, Russia
Oman Muscat
Cairo, Egypt Casablanca, Morocco Tunis, Tunisia
Pakistan
Palestine
Philippines
Qatar Doha
Ankara, Turkey Banjul, Gambia Beijing, China Beit Sahour, Palestine Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Charleston, United States Libertador (Caracas), Venezuela Marbella, Spain Mogadishu, Somalia Nicosia, Cyprus Port Louis, Mauritius Quito, Ecuador San Salvador, El Salvador Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Sofia, Bulgaria Tbilisi, Georgia Tirana, Albania Tunis, Tunisia
Al Wakrah Djougou, Benin
Russia
Saudi Arabia Jeddah
Almaty, Kazakhstan Baku, Azerbaijan Istanbul, Turkey Jakarta, Indonesia Karachi, Pakistan Kuching, Malaysia Marbella, Spain Oran, Algeria Plovdiv, Bulgaria Taipei, Taiwan
South Korea
Sri Lanka Colombo
Malé, Maldives Saint Petersburg, Russia Shanghai, China
Galle Velsen, Netherlands
Hambantota Guangzhou, China
Jaffna
Kingston upon Thames, England, United Kingdom Sterling Heights, United States
Moratuwa Suita, Japan
Nuwara Eliya
Uji, Japan Vidnoye, Russia Yongzhou, China
Polonnaruwa Kunming, China
Syria Aleppo
Beirut, Lebanon Gaziantep, Turkey Kilis, Turkey Osmangazi, Turkey
Damascus
Ankara, Turkey Astana, Kazakhstan Bucharest, Romania Buenos Aires, Argentina Córdoba, Spain Dubai, United Arab Emirates Istanbul, Turkey Toledo, Spain Yerevan, Armenia
Homs
Belo Horizonte, Brazil Kayseri, Turkey Yazd, Iran
Latakia
Afyonkarahisar, Turkey Yalta, Ukraine
Safita Marrickville (Inner West), Australia
Tartus
Kütahya, Turkey Piraeus, Greece Tortosa, Spain
Taiwan
Tajikistan Dushanbe
Ankara, Turkey Ashgabat, Turkmenistan Boulder, United States Hainan, China Klagenfurt, Austria Lahore, Pakistan Lusaka, Zambia Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan Minsk, Belarus Monastir, Tunisia Qingdao, China Reutlingen, Germany Saint Petersburg, Russia Sanaa, Yemen Shiraz, Iran Tehran, Iran Ürümqi, China Xiamen, China
Istaravshan Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Khujand
Ağstafa, Azerbaijan Lincoln, United States Nishapur, Iran Samarkand, Uzbekistan Orenburg, Russia Shymkent, Kazakhstan Tabriz, Iran Vladimir, Russia
Kulob
Hamadan, Iran Konya, Turkey Nishapur, Iran
Thailand
Timor-Leste Dili
Coimbra, Portugal Darwin, Australia
Turkey
Turkmenistan Arkadag
Kazan, Russia Telavi, Georgia
Ashgabat
Aktau, Kazakhstan Albuquerque, United States Ankara, Turkey Astana, Kazakhstan Athens, Greece Bamako, Mali Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Dushanbe, Tajikistan Kyiv, Ukraine Lanzhou, China Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Mary
Istanbul, Turkey Oryol, Russia Samarkand, Uzbekistan Xi'an, China
Türkmenabat İzmir, Turkey
Türkmenbaşy Astrakhan, Russia
United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi
Bethlehem, Palestine Brisbane, Australia Cairo, Egypt Houston, United States Madrid, Spain Minsk, Belarus
Dubai
Amman, Jordan Beirut, Lebanon Busan, South Korea Cape Town, South Africa Casablanca, Morocco Damascus, Syria Detroit, United States
Frankfurt am Main, Germany Gaza City, Palestine Gold Coast, Australia Guangzhou, China Istanbul, Turkey Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Moscow, Russia Pyongyang, North Korea San Juan, Puerto Rico San Salvador, El Salvador Shanghai, China
Sharjah Granada, Spain
Uzbekistan Bukhara
Bonn, Germany Córdoba, Spain Hamadan, Iran İzmir, Turkey Lahore, Pakistan Malatya, Turkey Nishapur, Iran Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Russia Rueil-Malmaison, France Santa Fe, United States Słupsk, Poland Vladimir, Russia Yıldırım, Turkey
Samarkand
Agra, India Balkh, Afghanistan Banda Aceh, Indonesia Cusco, Peru Isfahan, Iran Jūrmala, Latvia Kairouan, Tunisia Khujand, Tajikistan Krasnoyarsk, Russia Lahore, Pakistan Liège, Belgium Mary, Turkmenistan Merv, Turkmenistan Mexico City, Mexico New Delhi, India Nishapur, Iran Plovdiv, Bulgaria Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Samara, Russia Xi'an, China
Tashkent
Almaty, Kazakhstan Ankara, Turkey Ashgabat, Turkmenistan Astana, Kazakhstan Berlin, Germany Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Cairo, Egypt Dnipro, Ukraine Karachi, Pakistan Kyiv, Ukraine Moscow, Russia Riga, Latvia Seattle, United States Seoul, South Korea Shanghai, China Sverdlovsk, Ukraine
Vietnam
Yemen Aden Shanghai, China
Sanaa
Ankara, Turkey Cairo, Egypt Dushanbe, Tajikistan Tehran, Iran
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