This is a list of municipalities in Brazil 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).
A Aquiraz
Frederick, United States São Vicente, Cape Verde
Araçariguama Binhu (Wuxi), China
Assis Chateaubriand Seixal, Portugal
B Balneário Camboriú
Pingdingshan, China Punta del Este, Uruguay
Barra Mansa Bengbu, China
Barueri Ourém, Portugal
Belém
Aveiro, Portugal Campinas, Brazil Fort-de-France, Martinique, France Shaoxing, China
Belmonte Belmonte, Portugal
Belo Horizonte
Cuenca, Ecuador Fort Lauderdale, United States Granada, Spain Havana, Cuba Homs, Syria Jiangyin, China Lagos, Nigeria Luanda, Angola Masaya, Nicaragua Newark, United States Tripoli, Libya Tegucigalpa, Honduras Zahlé, Lebanon
Bento Gonçalves
Brentonico, Italy Cartaxo, Portugal Isera, Italy Luján de Cuyo, Argentina Mori, Italy Nogaredo, Italy Rovereto, Italy Terragnolo, Italy Trambileno, Italy Villa Lagarina, Italy
Blumenau
Campinas, Brazil Osorno, Chile Petrópolis, Brazil
Bragança Paulista Bragança, Portugal
Brasília
Asunción, Paraguay Buenos Aires, Argentina Gaza City, Palestine Havana, Cuba Khartoum, Sudan Kyiv, Ukraine Luxor, Egypt Montevideo, Uruguay Tehran, Iran Xi'an, China
C Cabedelo Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Cabo Frio
Huzhou, China Ílhavo, Portugal
Campinas
Asunción, Paraguay Auroville, India Belém, Brazil Blumenau, Brazil Cabinda, Angola Camanducaia, Brazil Cascais, Portugal Concepción, Chile Córdoba, Argentina Cotorro (Havana), Cuba Daloa, Ivory Coast
Fuzhou, China Gifu, Japan Indianapolis, United States Jericho, Palestine Malito, Italy
Peruíbe, Brazil Salinas, Brazil San Diego, United States Ubatuba, Brazil Viseu, Portugal Zaragoza, Spain
Campo Grande Puerto Tirol, Argentina
Canoas
Morón, Argentina Quilmes, Argentina
Canoinhas Sterling, United States
Cantanhede Cantanhede, Portugal
Caruaru Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal
Caxias do Sul
Changzhou, China Little Rock, United States
Chapecó
Asunción, Paraguay Medellín, Colombia Ninghai, China Pergamino, Argentina
Colombo Heze, China
Congonhas Matosinhos, Portugal
Criciúma
Huaibei, China Vittorio Veneto, Italy
Cubatão
Águas de São Pedro, Brazil Aveiro, Portugal Conchal, Brazil Melipilla, Chile Peruíbe, Brazil Serra Negra, Brazil Taquaritinga, Brazil
Curitiba
Asunción, Paraguay Changzhou, China Coimbra, Portugal Columbus, United States Guadalajara, Mexico Hangzhou, China Himeji, Japan Jacksonville, United States Kraków, Poland Miami-Dade County, United States Montevideo, Uruguay Orlando, United States Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia Suwon, South Korea Treviso Province, Italy
D Diamantina Daytona Beach, United States
Dourados
Iquique, Chile Kearney, United States
E Embu das Artes Hino, Japan
F Farroupilha
Cadaval, Portugal Latina, Italy
Florianópolis
Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal Asunción, Paraguay Córdoba, Argentina Fernando de la Mora, Paraguay Havana, Cuba Luján, Argentina Ponta Delgada, Portugal Praia da Vitória, Portugal Presidente Franco, Paraguay Roanoke, United States
Fortaleza
Ferreira do Alentejo, Portugal Lisbon, Portugal Miami Beach, United States Montese, Italy Natal, Brazil Praia, Cape Verde Sal, Cape Verde Sines, Portugal
Foz do Iguaçu
Hernandarias, Paraguay Jerez de la Frontera, Spain Jericho, Palestine Yichang, China
Franco da Rocha Stepanakert, Azerbaijan
G Goiânia
Chittagong, Bangladesh Uberaba, Brazil Xinzhou, China
Gramado
Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal Levico Terme, Italy Maldonado, Uruguay Óbidos, Portugal Puerto Varas, Chile
Guarapuava Rastatt, Germany
Guararapes Natori, Japan
Guarujá Cascais, Portugal
Guarulhos
Avellaneda, Argentina Boyeros (Havana), Cuba Cuenca, Ecuador Ecatepec, Mexico Maputo, Mozambique
Mejicanos, El Salvador Quito, Ecuador
I Igarassu
Viana do Alentejo, Portugal Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Ilhéus Davenport, United States
Itajaí
Melipilla, Chile Pompano Beach, United States Sodegaura, Japan Viana do Castelo, Portugal Xinxiang, China
Itanhaém Marbella, Spain
Iúna Castelluccio Superiore, Italy
J Jandira Kameoka, Japan
Joinville
Chesapeake, United States Joinville-le-Pont, France
Schaffhausen, Switzerland Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia Zhengzhou, China
Jundiaí
Havana, Cuba Iwakuni, Japan
Rugao, China Tai'an, China Trenton, United States
L Londrina
Guimarães, Portugal Modena, Italy León, Nicaragua Nago, Japan
Toledo, United States Zhenjiang, China
M Macapá
Kourou, French Guiana, France Ouidah, Benin
Mairiporã Stepanakert, Azerbaijan
Manaus Braga, Portugal
Marília Higashihiroshima, Japan
Maringá
Caserta, Italy General San Martín, Argentina Kakogawa, Japan Leiria, Portugal
Mogi das Cruzes
Seki, Japan Tournai, Belgium Toyama, Japan
Mostardas Aprilia, Italy
N Natal
Bethlehem, Palestine Córdoba, Argentina Fortaleza, Brazil Guadalajara, Mexico
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Niterói
Jerusalem, Israel São Gonçalo, Brazil
Nova Friburgo Santo Tirso, Portugal
Nova Odessa
Agugliaro, Italy Jelgava, Latvia Odesa, Ukraine Santa Rita do Passa Quatro, Brazil
Nova Petrópolis Sunchales, Argentina
Nova Prata
Cittadella, Italy Noblesville, United States
Novo Hamburgo
Atlántida, Uruguay Canelones, Uruguay Elda, Spain León, Mexico São João da Madeira, Portugal
O Oeiras Oeiras, Portugal
Olímpia Belmonte, Portugal
Olinda
Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay Vila do Conde, Portugal
Osasco
Gyumri, Armenia Jining, China Osasco, Italy Tsu, Japan Viana, Angola Xuzhou, China
Ouro Preto
Belmonte, Portugal Ourém, Portugal
P Paraíso do Tocantins Tarouca, Portugal
Paraty
Capri, Italy Cunha, Brazil Ílhavo, Portugal
Pelotas
Aracati, Brazil Aveiro, Portugal Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay Suzu, Japan
Petrolina Castelo Branco, Portugal
Petrópolis
Areal, Brazil Blumenau, Brazil Orleans, Brazil Sintra, Portugal
Piracicaba
Amadora, Portugal Seongnam, South Korea
Poços de Caldas Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Pomerode Torgelow, Germany
Porto Alegre
Horta, Portugal Kanazawa, Japan Morano Calabro, Italy Natal, Brazil Newark, United States La Plata, Argentina Punta del Este, Uruguay Portalegre, Portugal Ribeira Grande, Portugal Rosario, Argentina Suzhou, China Tampa, United States
Porto Seguro
Belmonte, Portugal Fafe, Portugal Setúbal, Portugal Trancoso, Portugal Viana do Alentejo, Portugal Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Porto Velho Jinan, China
Promissão Silistra, Bulgaria
Prudentópolis Ternopil, Ukraine
Q Queimados Jiujiang, China
R Recife
Chengdu, China Guangzhou, China
Porto, Portugal
Registro Nakatsugawa, Japan
Ribeirão Preto
Bucaramanga, Colombia San Leandro, United States Teramo, Italy
Rio de Janeiro
Arganil, Portugal Athens, Greece Atlanta, United States Baku, Azerbaijan Barcelona, Spain Barranquilla, Colombia Beijing, China Beirut, Lebanon Braga, Portugal Buenos Aires, Argentina Busan, South Korea Cape Town, South Africa Caracas, Venezuela Cologne, Germany Cusco, Peru Espinho, Portugal Guimarães, Portugal Guiyang, China Havana, Cuba Hebron, Palestine Istanbul, Turkey Jerusalem, Israel Kyiv, Ukraine Kobe, Japan Lahore, Pakistan Lisbon, Portugal Liverpool, England, United Kingdom Madrid, Spain Managua, Nicaragua Maputo, Mozambique Mar del Plata, Argentina Montevideo, Uruguay Montpellier, France Montreal, Canada Newark, United States Nice, France Oklahoma City, United States Olhão, Portugal Parelhas, Brazil La Paz, Bolivia Praia, Cape Verde Ra'anana, Israel Ramat Gan, Israel Rufisque, Senegal Saint Petersburg, Russia Samarkand, Uzbekistan San José, Costa Rica Santa Comba, Spain Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic São Borja, Brazil Tianjin, China Tunis, Tunisia Viana do Castelo, Portugal Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal Viseu, Portugal Warsaw, Poland
S Salvador
Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal Campobasso, Italy Florence, Italy Harbin, China Havana, Cuba Ifẹ, Nigeria Jerusalem, Israel Kingston, Jamaica Lisbon, Portugal Los Angeles, United States Luanda, Angola Pontevedra, Spain Sciacca, Italy Valparaíso, Chile
Santa Bárbara Jericho, Palestine
Santa Cruz Cabrália
Belmonte, Portugal Felgueiras, Portugal Manteigas, Portugal
Santa Gertrudes Novellara, Italy
Santarém Santarém, Portugal
Santo André
Ribeira Brava, Cape Verde Takasaki, Japan
Santos
Alajuela, Costa Rica Ansião, Portugal Arouca, Portugal Cádiz, Spain Callao, Peru Coimbra, Portugal Colón, Panama Constanța, Romania Fernando de la Mora, Paraguay Funchal, Portugal Havana, Cuba Kenitra, Morocco Nagasaki, Japan Ningbo, China Porto, Portugal Rizhao, China Shimonoseki, Japan
Trieste, Italy Ulsan, South Korea Ushuaia, Argentina Veracruz, Mexico
São Bernardo do Campo
General San Martín, Argentina Havana, Cuba Managua, Nicaragua Marostica, Italy Shūnan, Japan Vittorio Veneto, Italy
São João Nepomuceno Nepomuk, Czech Republic
São José do Belmonte Belmonte, Portugal
São José dos Campos Kadoma, Japan
São José dos Pinhais
Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal Zibo, China
São Luís
Huế, Vietnam Nairobi, Kenya Tramonti, Italy
São Mateus Sondrio, Italy
São Paulo
Abidjan, Ivory Coast Asunción, Paraguay Barcelona, Spain Belmonte, Portugal
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Havana, Cuba
Lima, Peru
Macau, China Miami-Dade County, United States Milan, Italy
Osaka, Japan La Paz, Bolivia
San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain Santiago, Chile Santiago de Compostela, Spain Seoul, South Korea Shanghai, China Yerevan, Armenia
São Sebastião Fort Lauderdale, United States
São Vicente
Ansião, Portugal Asunción, Paraguay Belmonte, Portugal Corrientes, Argentina Havana, Cuba Holguín, Cuba Naha, Japan Resistencia, Argentina Santarém, Portugal Vila Viçosa, Portugal
Sorocaba
Anyang, South Korea Nanchang, China Wuxi, China
Suzano Komatsu, Japan
U Uberaba
Goiânia, Brazil Hyderabad, India Ongole, India Reynosa, Mexico
Umuarama Castelo Branco, Portugal
Urussanga Longarone, Italy
V Viana
Viana do Alentejo, Portugal Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Vila Velha Qingdao, China
Vinhedo Bozhou, China
Vitória
Cascais, Portugal Iquique, Chile Zhuhai, China
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