open-index/open-wikipedia-markdown huggingface dataset:
New Sooth Wales

**New Sooth Wales** (abbreviatit as **NSW**), is Australie's maist populous state, an is locatit in the sooth-east o the kintra, north o Victoria, sooth o Queensland, east o Sooth Australie, wast o Jervis Bay Territory an encompasses the whole o the Australian Caipital Territory. The colony o New Sooth Wales wis foondit in 1788 an oreeginally comprised muckle o the Australian mainland, as well as Van Diemen's Land, Lord Howe Island an Norfolk Island in addition tae the aurie currently referred tae as the state o New Sooth Wales, which wis formed during the Federation in 1901.

When Breetain annexed New Zealand in 1840, it briefly became a pairt o New Sooth Wales. Durin the 19t century lairge auries wur successively separatit tae form the Breetish colonies o Tasmanie (established as a separate colony named Van Diemen's Land in 1825), Sooth Australie (1836), Victoria (1851) an Queensland (1859).

Inhabitants o New Sooth Wales are referred tae as *New Sooth Welsh* or *New Sooth Welshmen*. New Sooth Wales's lairgest ceety an caipital is Sydney.

New Sooth Wales conteens ane third (33%) o Australie's population.

## References
Athens, Georgie

**Athens**, formally **Athens-Clarke Coonty**, is a unified ceety-coonty in Georgie, U.S., in the northeastren pairt o the state. The Varsity o Georgie is locatit in this college toun an is responsible for the initial growthe o the ceety. In 1991, efter a vote the precedin year, the oreeginal ceety abandoned its chairter in order tae form a unified govrenment wi Clarke County, referred tae collectively as Athens-Clarke Coonty. As o the 2000 census, the consolidatit ceety-coonty (includin aw o Athens-Clarke Coonty except Winterville an a pairt o Bogart) haed a total population o 100,266. The maist recent US Census estimate (2009) placed the population at 114,983. Athens-Clarke Coonty is the fift-lairgest ceety in Georgie an the principal ceety o the Athens-Clarke Coonty, Georgie Metropolitan Statistical Aurie, which haed a population o 189,264 as o the 2008 Census Bureau estimate.

## Sister ceeties

Athens haes three sister ceeties.
*  Athens, Greece
*  Cortona, Italy
*  Iaşi, Romanie

## References
Naples

**Naples** ( , , Neapolitan: *Napule*) is a ceety in Italy; it is the caipital o the region o Campanie an o the province o Naples. Kent for its rich history, airt, cultur, airchitecture, muisic, an gastronomy, Naples haes played an important role in the Italian peninsula an ayont for muckle o its existence, which began mair nor 2,800 year ago. Situatit on the wast coast o Italy bi the Gulf o Naples, the ceety is locatit haufway atween twa volcanic auries, Munt Vesuvius an the Phlegraean Fields.

## Twin touns — sister ceeties

Naples is involved in toun twinnin (kent as *gemellaggio* in Italian), a mutual pairtnership wi several ceeties. Belaw are pairtner ceeties leetit on the offeecial wabsteid o the ceety o Naples;

*  Kagoshima, Japan
*  Lunnon, Unitit Kinrick
*  Miami, Unitit States
*  Baku, Azerbaijan
*  Athens, Greece
*  Budapest, Hungary
*  Călăraşi, Romanie
*  Gafsa, Tunisie
*  Kolkata, Indie
*  Nablus, Palestine
*  Nosy Be, Madagascar
*  Palma de Mallorca, Spain
*  Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
*  Santiago de Cuba Province, Cuba
*  Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela
*  Sarajevo, Bosnie an Herzegovinae, syne 1964

## References

## Freemit airtins
* Ceety Cooncil's wabsteid
*See pictures frae the Antonio Mucherino's wabsteid
Arequipa

**Arequipa** () is the caipital ceety o the Arequipa Region in soothren Peru. Wi a population o 904,931 it is the seicont maist populous ceety o the kintra. Arequipa lies in the Andes muntains, at an altitude o 2,335 meters (7,661 feet) abuin sea level; the umwhile snaw-capped volcano El Misti owerleuks the ceety.

The ceety haes mony colonial-era Spainyie biggins biggit o *[[sillar]]*, a pearly white volcanic rock, frae which it gets the nickname *La Ciudad Blanca* ("The White Ceety").  Reportedly, it first acquired this nickname in the colonial era, acause maist o its indwallers wur Creole o Iberian strynd.  The historic centre o Arequipa wis named a UNESCO Warld Heritage Site in 2000, in recognition o its airchitecture an historic integrity.

Suin efter its foondin, the ceety became a major commercial hub o soothren Peru, accumulatin commercial an admeenistrative functions. In times o the Viceroyalty o Peru it wis an important economic hub in soothren Peru. It played a significant role in the history o the Republic o Peru, declarin itsel "Caipital o the Republic" durin the govrenment o Montero. Arequipa haes an aa been hame o mony o the ootstaundin intellectual an poleetical figures, as well as releegious icons, in the kintra. In recent decades it haes acome an important industrial an commercial centre in Peru, nou bein the seicont maist industrialized ceety in Perú.

It haes several industrial pairks, as the ceety haes close tred ties wi Chile, Bolivie an Brazil; it an aa haes links wi ceeties connectit bi the Soothren Railway an wi the port o Matarani.

## Name
Thare are various tradeetions aboot the name, said tae come frae the Quechua or Aymara leids. Ane tradeetion says that the Inca *Mayta Capac* received a petition frae his subjects tae reach the valley o the Chili.  Thay requestit permission tae stay in the region, acause thay wur amazed bi the bonnie scenery an mild climate.  The Inca respondit, "Ari qhipay" (in Quechua: "Yes, stay").  This wis the etymology describit bi a Calancha faither, which wis translatit bi J. Ignacio Gamio. It wis named efter a donkey.

Anither version wis that o the missionary *Padre* *[[Blas Sailing]]* an the 16t century Peruvian historian, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.  Thay said that the name came frae an auld dialect o Aymara.  *Ari qquepan* (literally, wey o war horn) wis named efter a marine snail which the Indians uised as a horn.  In Scots the phrase means "trumpet soond".

Juan de la Cruz Salas y Sanchez an the historian Ernst Middendorf proposed an etymology that recognised the aurie wis settled bi fowk o heichland (Aymara) oreegin.  Thay contend the name is derived frae Aymara, wi the phrase *ari qhipaya*; *ari* (acute, sharp or pointit) an *qhipaya* (ahint), meanin "ahint the bill," referrin tae the volcanic cone o El Misti, Arequipa, which dominates the skyline.

The Incas believed Cuzco tae be the centre o the warld.  Thay referred tae the aurie o Arequipa as the "land or place ahint the volcanoes", or ither location ahint the muntains, or *ariq qipao*.

## Sister ceeties

## References
Umm al-Fahm

**Umm al-Fahm** (, **; ) is a ceety in the Haifa Destrict o Israel. In  its population wis , nearly aw o whom are Arab citizens o Israel. The ceety is situatit on the Umm al-Fahm muntain rig, the heichest pynt o which is Mt. Iskander (522 meters abuin sea level), owerleukin Wadi Ara. Umm al-Fahm is the social, cultural an economic centre for residents o the Wadi Ara an Triangle regions.

## History

Accordin tae the Muslim historian al-Maqrizi, Umm al-Fahm wis established in 1265. Its name means "Mither o Charcoal" in Arabic,) the veelage wis surroondit bi naitural forests which wur uised tae produce charcoal. Several archaeological sites aroond the ceety date tae the Iron Age, as well as Muslim, Roman an Hellenistic periods.

In the late 19t century, Umm al-Fahm wis descrived as haein aroond 500 indwallers, o which some 80 fowk wur Christians. The place wis well-biggit o stane, an the veelagers wur descrived as bein vera rich in cattle, goats an horse. A Muqam for a Sheik Iskander wis notit on a hill abuin.

In 1948, thare wur 4,500 indwallers, maistly farmers, in the Umm al-Fahm aurie. Efter the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the Lausanne Conference o 1949 awardit the entire Little Triangle tae Israel, which wantit it for security purposes. On 20 Mey 1949, the ceety's leader signed an oath o alliegiance tae the State o Israel. Follaein its absorption intae Israel, the toun's population grew rapidly. Bi 1960, Umm al-Fahm wis gien local cooncil status bi the Israeli govrenment. In 1965-1985, it wis govrened bi electit cooncils. In 1985, Umm al-Fahm wis gien offeecial ceety status.

## Cultur, sport an tourism
The Umm al-Fahm Airt Gallery wis established in 1996 as a venue for contemporary airt exhibitions an a hame for oreeginal Arab an Palestinian airt. The gallery operates unner the auspices o the El-Sabar Association. Yoko Ono held an exhibition thare in 1999, an some o her airt is still on show. The gallery affers classes tae baith Arab an Jewish childer an exhibits the wirk o baith Arab an Jewish airtists. In 2007, the municipality grantit the gallery a lairge plot o land on which a museum o Arab airt will be biggit.
The architect is Senan Abdelqader.

The ceety haes several fitbaa clubs; Hapoel Umm al-Fahm currently play in Liga Artzit, the third tier o Israeli fitbaa. Ironi Sayid Umm al-Fahm play in Liga Alef (the fowert tier). Maccabi Umm al-Fahm play in Liga Bet (the fift tier), an Beitar Umm al-Fahm play in Liga Gimel (the saxt tier).

*Green Carpet* is an association established bi the residents tae promote local tourism an environmental projects in an aroond Umm al-Fahm.

## References
Durban

**Durban** (, from *itheku* meaning 'bay') is the lairgest ceety in the Sooth African province o KwaZulu-Natal an the third lairgest ceety in the kintra, formin pairt o the eThekwini metropolitan municipality. Durban is famous as the busiest port in Sooth Africae an is an' a' a major centre o tourism acause o the ceety's warm subtropical climate an extensive beaches. The municipality, which includes neighborin touns, haes a population o amaist 3.5&nbsp;million, makin the combined municipality the biggest ceety on the east coast o the African continent. The metro's land aurie o 2,292 square kilometers (884.9 sq mi) is comparatively lairger than ither Sooth African ceeties, resultin in a somewha lawer population density o 1,513 inhabitants per square kilometre (3,918.7/sq mi).

## Internaitional relations
### Twin touns&nbsp;— Sister ceeties
Durban is twinned wi:

## References
Kopys

**Kopys** (, ) (, ) is an urban-teep dounset in Vitebsk Region, Belaroushie. First references are datit bi 1059

It is the birthplace o the current leader o the kintra, Alexander Lukashenko.

The Kapust Hasidic dynasty oreeginates in Kopys. Bi the end o the 18t hunderyear thare wis a Jewish teepografie in Kopys.

A castle stuid in the toun o Kopys.

## Freemit airtins
*Kopys at radzima.org
*Flag of Kopys (2004)
*Coats of Arms of Kopys
Akciabrski

**Akciabrski** (, , **Oktyabrsky**)  is an urban-teep dounset in Gomel Region, in soothren Belaroushie, the admeenistrative centre o Akciabrski Raion.

It wis established bi a decree o August 31, 1954 bi mergin three adjacent dounsets: **Rudobelka, Rudnya, Karpilovka** (Рудобелка, Рудн, Карпиловка), replacin Karpilovka as admeenistrative center.

## References
Aswan Govrenorate

**Aswan Govrenorate** () is ane o the govrenorates o Egyp. It is the soothmaist govrenorate in Upper Egyp. The caipital o the govrenorate is Aswan. It borders Qena Govrenorate tae the north, Red Sea Govrenorate tae the east, New Valley Govrenorate tae the wast, an Sudan tae the sooth. The population o the govrenorate is 1,100,000 (2001). Its aurie is 34,608&nbsp;km².

## Ceeties
*Aswan
*Kom Ombo
*Edfu

## Important sites
*Abu Simbel
*Kalabsha
*Nekheb
*Nekhen

## See an aa
*Aswan
*Govrenorates o Egyp

## Freemit airtins
* Offeecial wabsteid
Toulouse

**Toulouse** (pronoonced  in staundart French an  wi a Toulouse accent; Occitan: *Tolosa*, pronounced , primarily *Tholoza*) is a ceety in Occitanie, soothwast Fraunce on the banks o the River Garonne, 590&nbsp;km (366&nbsp;mi) away frae Paris an hauf-way atween the Atlantic Ocean an the Mediterranean Sea. Wi 1,250,251 inhabitants as of Januar 2011, the Toulouse metropolitan aurie is the fowert-lairgest in Fraunce, efter Paris (12 million), Lyon (1.8 million), an Marseille (1.7 million).

Toulouse is ane o the bases o the European aerospace industry, wi the heidquarters o Airbus, Galileo positionin seestem, the SPOT satellite seestem, an CNES's Toulouse Space Centre (CST), the lairgest space centre in Europe. Thales Alenia Space, Europe's lairgest  satellite manufacturer, an Astrium Satellites, EADS's satellite seestem subsidiary, an aa hae a significant presence in Toulouse. Its warld renowned university is ane o the auldest in Europe (foondit in 1229) an, wi mair nor 97,000 students, is wi Lille the third-lairgest university campus o Fraunce efter Paris an Lyon.

Toulouse wis the caipital o the umwhile province o Languedoc (provinces wur abolished durin the French Revolution). It is nou the Chef-lieu o the Midi-Pyrénées region, the lairgest region in metropolitan Fraunce. It is an' a' the Chef-lieu o the Haute-Garonne depairtment.

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns — Sister ceeties
Toulouse is twinned wi:

:  Atlanta, Georgie, Unitit States
:  Bologna, Italy
:  Bristol, Ingland, Unitit Kinrick
:  Chongqing, Cheenae

:  Elche, Spain
:  Kiev, Ukraine
:  Tel Aviv, Israel
:  Rosario, Argentina

Toulouse an aa haes accords o cooperation wi the follaein touns:

:  Bydgoszcz, Poland
:  Düsseldorf, Germany
:  Hanoi, Vietnam
:  N'Djamena, Chad

:  Saint-Louis, Senegal
:  São José dos Campos, Brazil
:  Zaragoza, Spain

In addition, Toulouse haes an adoption ceety:
: Câmpia Turzii, Romanie

## References
Gornji Milanovac

**Gornji Milanovac** ( ) is a toun an municipality locatit in Serbie at 44.012691° North, 20.273572° East. Its name means "Upper Milanovac" (there is a Lower Milanovac, as well) while Milanovac stems from name "Milan" in the Serbian leid.  In 2003 the ceety haed a total population o 24,000.

Afore 1859 the oreeginal name o the ceety wis Despotovac, efter the Despotovica river passin bi the ceety. In 1859 the name wis chynged tae Gornji Milanovac at the request o the Prince o Serbie Miloš Obrenović.

## Geography
Gornji Milanovac lies atween muntains Rudnik tae the north an Vujan tae the sooth.

The ceety is situatit alang wastren side o European route E763, atween the ceeties Ljig tae the north an Čačak tae the sooth an the veelages Majdan tae the north an Preljina tae the sooth.

Main ceety crossroad branches:
*Tae the North, ontae road Gornji Milanovac-Kragujevac (see Kragujevac) that crosses wi E763 an turns East; the nearest veelage on the road is Donja Vrbava.
*Tae the East, turns Sooth then East through the ceety, crosses E763 an then goes Sooth through the veelage o Donja Trepca ontae the route 23.
*Tae the Sooth, towards E763.
*Tae the Wast, quickly turns North an efter five kilometers branches intae road Gornji Milanovac-Cestobrodica (see Cestobrodica) tae the Wast; the nearest veelage on the road is Takovo, whaur Takovo Uprising begun; an intae road Gornji Milanovac-Gornji Banjani (see Gornji Banjani) tae the North; the nearest veelage on the road is Kalimanici.

Sooth o Milanovac, veelages Brdjani tae the Wast an Prislonica tae the East are connectit tae E763 wi local roads.

## Twin touns — sister ceeties

Gornji Milanovac is twinned wi:

*  Mosjøen, Norawa
*  Kavadarci, Republic o Macedonie
*  Slovenj Gradec, Slovenie
*  Edessa, Greece
*  Pleven, Bulgarie

## Gallery

Image:Gornji Milanovac Holy Trinity church.jpg|Kirk o Holy Trinity
Image:Gornji Milanovac Old Court.jpg|Auld Court
Image:Gornji Milanovac, panorama.jpg|Winter view o the Gornji Milanovac
Image:BrdoMiraSpomenik.JPG|Monument on the hill o peace
Image:NorveskaKuca.JPG|Hoose o the Serbo-Norse friendship (kol. "Norawa Hoose")
Image:Grbgm.jpg
Image:KnezMihailov trgGM.jpg


## References

## Freemit airtinss

*Offeecial site 
*GM032.net Internet Portal o the Municipality o Gornji Milanovac 
*Tourist Organisation o the Municipality o Gornji Milanovac 
*GornjiMilanovac.org internet Portal  
* http://plavosrce.com /razvojna inicijativa oblasti/
Coimbra

**Coimbra** () is a ceety in the municipality o Coimbra in Portugal. Although it served as the naition's caipital durin the Heich Middle Ages, it is better-kent for its university, the University o Coimbra, which, established in 1290, is ane o the auldest in Europe an the auldest academic institution in the Portuguese-speakin warld. 

There are mony airchaeological structures which date tae the Roman era, when Coimbra wis the settlement o Aeminium, such as its well-preserved aqueduct an cryptoporticus. Similarly, biggins frae the period when Coimbra served as the caipital o Portugal (frae 1139 tae aboot 1260) still remain. Durin the Late Middle-Ages, wi its decline as the poleetical centre o the Kinrick o Portugal, Coimbra began tae evolve intae a major cultural centre, wi the foondation o the University o Coimbra in 1290. The university, ane o the auldest in Europe, apairt frae attractin mony European an internaitional students, is visitit bi tourists for its monuments an history.

## Twin touns — Sister ceeties

Coimbra is twinned wi:


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## References
San Jose, Californie

**San Jose** (; meanin St. Joseph in Spaingie) is the third-lairgest ceety in Californie, the tent-lairgest in the US, an the coonty seat o Santa Clara Coonty. It is locatit at the soothren end o San Francisco Bay. The San Jose/Silicon Valley aurie is a major component o the greater San Francisco Bay Area Combined Statistical Aurie (CSA), a region o nearly 7.5&nbsp;million fowk.

Ance a smaw fermin ceety, San Jose experienced rapid growth frae the 1950s tae the present. San Jose is nou the lairgest ceety in the San Francisco Bay Area in terms o population, land aurie, an industrial development. The US Census Bureau estimatit the population at 964,695 as o 2009.

San Jose wis foondit on November 29, 1777, as *El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe*, the first toun in the Spaingie colony o Nueva Californie, which later became Alta Californie. The ceety served as a farmin community toae support Spaingie militar installations at San Francisco an Monterey. When Californie gained statehuid in 1850, San Jose servit as its first caipital.

Efter mair nor 150&nbsp;years as an agricultural center, San Jose experienced increased demand for hoosin frae sodgers an veterans returnin frae Warld War II. San Jose continued its aggressive expansion durin the 1950s an 1960s bi annexing mair land aurie. The rapid growth o the heich-technology an electronics industries further acceleratit the transition frae an agricultural center, tae an urbanized metropolitan aurie.

The Santa Clara Valley wis the last (an lairgest) contiguous aurie o undeveloped land surroondin the San Francisco Bay. Bi the 1990s, San Jose's location athin the booming local technology industry earned the ceety its nickname, *Caipital o Silicon Valley*.

## References
Ranchi

**Ranchi**  (, , ) is the caipital o the Indian state o Jharkhand. Jharkhand accoonts for 40% o the mineral resources o Indie. Ranchi accoonts for 50% mineral production o the state, nearin aboot 18% o naition's mineral production. For this reason Ranchi is cried the Manchester o the East an aw. Ranchi wis the centre o the Jharkhand movement for a separate state for the tribal regions o Sooth Bihar, northren Orissa, Wastren Wast Bengal an the present eastren Chhattisgarh. Jharkhand State wis formed on 15 November 2000 bi carvin the Bihar diveesions o Chota Nagpur an Santhal Parganas.

## Etymology
The name Ranchi comes frae the oreeginal Oraon veelage Archi at the site. Archi derives frae the Oraon wird for bamboo grove or stave. Accordin tae legend, efter an altercation wi a spirit, a farmer beat the spirit wi his bamboo stave or *archi*. The spirit shoutit *archi, archi, archi* an vanished; Archi became Rachi, and Rachi became Ranchi. Up tae 1927, the place wis kent as Rachi. Ane historically significant neighborhuid is Doranda ('duran' 'दुरङ' means sang an 'daah' 'दअः' means water in the Mundari leid), atween the Hinoo & Harmoo Rivers, whaur the ceevil station, treasury an kirk established bi the Breetish Raj wur destroyed bi rebel forces durin the Sepoy Mutiny. The present Purani (auld) Ranchi marks the site o the auld veelage o Archi.

## References
Ciudad Juárez

**Ciudad Juárez** (), abbreviatit **Cd. Juárez**, forby kent as **Juárez**, an umwhile kent as **El Paso del Norte**, is a ceety an seat o the municipality o Juárez in the Mexican state o Chihuahua. Juárez's estimatit population is 1.5 million fowk. The ceety lies on the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte), sooth o El Paso, Texas. El Paso an Ciudad Juárez comprise ane o the lairgest bi-naitional metropolitan auries in the warld wi a combined population o 2.4 million fowk.

Ciudad Juárez is ane o the fastest growin ceeties in the warld despite being cried "the maist violent zone in the warld ootside o declared war zones."  In 2001 the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas published a report statin that in Ciudad Juárez “the average annual growth ower the 10-year period 1990-2000 wis 5.3 percent. Juárez experienced muckle heicher population growth than the state o Chihuahua an than Mexico as a whole.”

## References
Puerto Rico

**Puerto Rico** ( or ), offeecially the **Commonweel o Puerto Rico** (, —literally **Associatit Free State o Puerto Rico**), is an unincorporatit territory o the Unitit States, locatit in the northeastren Caribbean Sea, east o the Dominican Republic an wast o the Virgin Islands.

## Name
Puerto Rico (Spaingie for "rich port") comprises an archipelago that includes the main island o Puerto Rico an a nummer o smawer islands, the lairgest o which are Vieques, Culebra, an Mona. The main island o Puerto Rico is the smawest bi land aurie o the Greater Antilles. It, housomeivver, ranks third in population amang that group o fower islands, which an aa include Cuba, Hispaniola, an Jamaica.

Puerto Ricans eften caw the island *Borinquen*, frae *Borikén*, its indigenous Taíno name, which means "Land o the Valiant Lord". The terms *boricua* an *borincano* derive frae *Borikén* an *Borinquen* respectively, an are commonly uised tae identify someane o Puerto Rican heritage. The island is an aa popularly kent in Spaingie as "*La Isla del Encanto*" which means "The Island o Enchantment" in Inglis.

## References

## Notes
Maribor

**Maribor** ( ) is the seicont lairgest ceety in Slovenie wi aboot 114,487 indwallers  in 2013. Maribor is the lairgest ceety o the tradeetional region o Lawer Stirie an the seat o the Ceety Municipality o Maribor an aw.

In addition tae its Slovene an German names, the ceety is kent as  an  an aw.

## History

In 1164 a castle kent as the *Marchburch* (Middle Hie German for "Mairch Castle") wis documentit in Stirie.  It wis first biggit on Piramida Hill, juist abuin the ceety. Maribor wis first mentioned as a mercat near the castle in 1204, an received toun privileges in 1254. It began tae grow rapidly efter the victory o Rudolf I o Habsburg ower Otakar II o Bohemie in 1278. Maribor athstuid sieges bi Matthias Corvinus in 1480 an 1481 an bi the Ottoman Empire in 1532 an 1683, an the ceety remained unner the control o the Habsburg Monarchy till 1918.

Maribor, previously in the Catholic Diocese o Graz-Seckau, became pairt o the Diocese o Lavant on 1 Juin 1859, an the seat o its Prince-Bishop. The name o the diocese (efter a river in Carinthie) wis later chynged tae the Diocese o Maribor on 5 Mairch 1962. It wis elevatit tae an airchdiocese bi Pape Benedict XVI on 7 Aprile 2006.

## Ceety destricts
The ceety destricts ()

The ceety o Maribor haes 12 destricts as leetit belaw, but the whole Municipality o Maribor an aa includes Kamnica, Pekre, Limbuš, Razvanje, Malečnik-Ruperče an Brestrenica-Gaj.

The river Drava divides the destricts Center, Koroška Vrata, Melje an Ivan Cankar frae the ither destricts o the ceety. Thay are aw connectit wi 4 traffic brigs, 1 train brig an 1 pedestrian brig.

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns — sister ceeties
Maribor is twinned wi:

## References

## Freemit airtins

* Interactive map o Maribor at Najdi.si
* Offeecial wabsteid  
* Tourism hamepage
* Family travel guide tae Maribor
* Maribor airt gallery
* 
* Maribor at kraji.eu
Slovenj Gradec

**Slovenj Gradec** (; ) is a toun in northren Slovenie. It is the centre of the Ceety Municipality o Slovenj Gradec. It is pairt o the historic Lawer Styrie region, an syne 2005 it haes belangit tae the NUTS-3 Carinthie Statistical Region. The toun is locatit aroond 45 km wast o Maribor an 65&nbsp;km northeast o Ljubljana.

## History
Historically, Slovenj Gradec wis pairt o the Duchy o Styrie athin the Austrian Empire till 1918, when, wi the rest o Lawer Styrie, it wis includit in the new Kinrick o the Serbs, Croats an Slovenes.

Atween the mid 19t century an 1945, the toun wis a German-speakin island in a Slovene-speakin aurie.  In the 1880 census, toun o Slovenj Gradec, or Windischgrätz, as it wis cried, wis 75 percent German-speakin an 25 percent Slovene-speakin, but amang the German speakin population there wur allegedly those - like the faimily o the componer Hugo Wolf- o mixed ethnic oreegin.

Efter the end o Warld War I, mony o the local German speakin inhabitants muivit tae Austrick; those that remained wur gradually assimilatit tae or re-integratit intae the Slovene-speakin majority. Efter Warld War II, aw remainin ethnic Germans wur expelled frae Yugoslavie an Slovenj Gradec lost its tradeetional presence o German speakers.

## Main sichts
The pairish kirk in the toun is dedicatit tae Saunt Elizabeth o Hungary an belangs tae the Roman Catholic Airchdiocese o Maribor. It is first mentioned in written documents datin tae 1235. Richt next tae it is a Gothic chapel dedicatit tae the Holy Spirit wi frescos datin tae the mid-15t century. 

In 2003, an aircheological excavation uncovered the remains o wha is believit tae be the auldest kirk in aw o Styrie, datin tae the Carolingian period.

## Famous fowk
The German/Austrian noble faimily o the Princes o Windisch-Grätz, first mentioned in 1220, haed their oreeginal hame in a castle near the toun  an teuk their name frae the toun's German name.

In 1860, the componer Hugo Wolf wis born in the toun. The hoose in which he wis born is nou a muisic schuil.
Slovenj Gradec is the birthplace o the alpine skiier Tina Maze, Slovenie naitional fitbaa team fitbawers Marko Šuler an Mirnes Šišić, an creetical theorist Renata Salecl.

## Twin touns
*  Gornji Milanovac, Serbie

## References
*Some o the information in this airticle is based on an translatit frae that foond in its German equivalent.



## Freemit airtins
* Offeecial wabsteid  (Slovenie)
* Toun Heraldry 
* Slovenj Gradec municipality on Geopedia
Dolores Hidalgo

**Dolores Hidalgo** (in full, **Dolores Hidalgo Cuna de la Independencia Nacional** () is the name o a ceety an the surroondin municipality in the north-central pairt o the Mexican state o Guanajuato.

It is locatit at , at an elevation o aboot 1,980 meters (6,480 feet) abuin sea level. In the census o 2005 the ceety haed a population o 54,843 fowk, while the municipality haed 134,641 indwallers. The ceety lies directly in the centre o the municipality, which is 1,590&nbsp;km² (613.9 sq mi) in aurie an includes numerous sma ootlyin communities, the lairgest o which is Río Laja.

Dolores Hidalgo wis named a *[[Pueblo Mágico]]* (Magic Toun) in 2002.

## History

The ceety wis oreeginally a sma toun kent simply as **Dolores** when Faither Miguel Hidalgo uttered his famous cry for the unthirldom o Mexico (the *[[Grito de Dolores]]*) thare in the early oors o 16 September 1810, in front o his parish kirk. Efter Mexico achieved unthirldom, the toun wis renamed *Dolores Hidalgo* in his honour. On September 28, 1810, Hidalgo's forces killed mair nor 500 Spaniard an Creole loyalist sodgers durin the battle for Dolores; 2,000 Indigenous Mexicans dee'd in the fechtin. The day Dolores Hidalgo is kent primarily for its ceramics industry, which provides income tae well ower hauf the ceety's population. The inexpensive an mass-produced ootput o the toun is mercatit throughoot Laitin Americae an the Unitit States. The central square o the toun, in front o Fr Hidalgo's historic kirk, is a popular tourist spot.

Anither place o pilgrimage in Dolores Hidalgo, this time for fans o ranchera an popular muisic, is the tomb o José Alfredo Jiménez, ane o the kintra's maist beloved sangsters an sangwriters, as well as ane o the maist prolific popular composers in the history o wastren muisic.  He is buried in the toun cemetery.
An aa Adolfo "El Bofo" Bautista an Agustin Palomares wur born here.

## Twinned Ceeties
*  Lexington, Massachusetts, United States.
*  Mexico Ceety, Mexico.
*  Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico.

## References

*Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005  INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
*Guanajuato  Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

## Freemit airtins
*Dolores Hidalgo Cuna de la Independencia Nacional offeecial wabsteid
*San Luis De La Paz, Guanajuato  Nearby colonial toun.
*Dolores Hidalgo eGuide to Dolores Hidalgo
*Bibliography and Hemerography: Miguel Hidalgo and Costilla. 
*Miguel Hidalgo and Costilla - Documents of 1810 and 1811. 
*Chronology of Miguel Hidalgo and Costilla.
Nagoya

is the third-lairgest incorporatit ceety an the fowert maist populous urban aurie in Japan.

Locatit on the Paceefic coast in the Chūbu region on central Honshū, it is the caipital o Aichi Prefectur an is ane o Japan's major ports alang wi those o Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Chiba, an Moji. It is an aa the centre o Japan's third lairgest metropolitan region, kent as the Chūkyō Metropolitan Aurie.

## Sister ceeties
Nagoya haes five twin touns an sister ceeties aroond the warld:

*  Los Angeles, Unitit States
*  Mexico Ceety, Mexico
*  Nanjing, Cheenae
*  Sydney, Australie
*  Turin, Italy

The Nagoya International Center promotes internaitional exchynge in the local community.

## References
Kanpur

**Kanpur**  (, ), spelled as **Cawnpore** afore 1948, is the tent maist populous ceety in Indie an the lairgest athin the state o Uttar Pradesh. It is the lairgest ceety o the Hindi-speakin belt efter Delhi. It remains ane o the auldest industrial towunships o North Indie,  awtho it haes no kept pace wi IT industry growthe in the rest o Indie due tae poleetical indifference.

It haes a metropolitan aurie o ower 1,640 square kilometres (630 sq mi) an a ceety aurie o aroond 829&nbsp;km2 wi an approximate poplation o 5 million indwallers. The status o the ceety wis upgradit when it wis includit in the "Coonter Magnets" o Naitional Caipital Region (NCR).

Kanpur is ane o the fastest growin ceeties in Indie especially the industrial growthe in the first decade o the 21st century is phenomenal supportit bi the fact that the nummer o industrial units that wur aroond 14,000 in the year 1998 haes amaist mair nor doubled tae nearly 29,000 bi 2009 juist in 10 years duration which is exceptional growthe.

## Internaitional relations

### Friendly relations

*Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Unitit States

## References
Municipalities o Slovenie

**[[Slovenie]]** is dividit intae 210 municipalities (*občine*, singular *[[občina]]*), o which 11 hae urban status.

Slovene is an offeecial leid o aw the municipalities. Hungarian is a seicont offeecial leid o 3 municipalities in Prekmurje: Dobrovnik (Dobrónak), Hodoš (Hodos) an Lendava (Lendva). Italian is a seicont offeecial leid of 3 municipalities in the Slovenian Littoral: Izola (Isola), Koper (Capodistrie) an Piran (Pirano).

## Leet o Slovenian municipalities (as o 2006)
In 2006, Slovenie wis dividit intae 210 municipalities, o which 11 haed urban status (written **bauld**).

## Urban municipalities

## See an aa
*ISO 3166-2:SI
Atlanta

**Atlanta** is the caipital an lairgest ceety in the U.S. state o Georgie. In 2010 Atlanta haed a estimatit population o aboot 542,822 fowk. The Atlanta metropolitan aurie, wi mair nor 5.9 million fowk, is the third lairgest in the Sootheastren Unitit States an the nint lairgest in the kintra. The Atlanta Combined Statistical Aurie, a lairger trade aurie, haes a population approachin sax million an is the lairgest in the sootheast. Lik mony urban auries in the Sun Belt, the Atlanta region haes seen increasin growthe syne the 1970s, an it addit aboot 1.1 million residents atween 2000 an 2008.

Atlanta is conseedered tae be a tap business ceety an is a primar transportation hub o the Sootheastren Unitit States—via heich-gate, railwey, an air. Atlanta conteens the warld heidquairters o corporations such as The Coca-Cola Company, The Home Depot, AT&T Mobility, UPS, Delta Air Lines, an Turner Broadcasting. Atlanta haes the kintra's fowert-lairgest concentration o Fortune 500 companies, an mair nor 75 percent o Fortune 1000 companies hae business operations in the metropolitan aurie, helpin Atlanta realize a gross metropolitan product o US$270 billion, accoontin for mair nor twa-thirds o Georgie's economy. Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta Internaitional Airport haes been the warld's busiest airport syne 1998.

Atlanta is the coonty seat o Fulton Coonty an the location o the seat o govrenment o the state o Georgie. A smaw portion o the ceety o Atlanta corporate leemits stends eastwairds intae DeKalb Coonty. Residents o Atlanta an its surroondins are kent as "Atlantans".

## Sister ceeties

Atlanta haes 22 sister ceeties, as designatit bi Sister Cities International, Inc. (SCI):

## References
Most

**Most** (; ) is a the caipital ceety o the Most Destrict, situatit atween the Czech Central Muntains an the Ore Muntains, approximately 77&nbsp;km (48 mile) northwast o Prague alang the Bílina River an soothwast o Ústí nad Labem.

## Etymology
The name Most means "brig" in Czech. The toun wis named efter the seestem o brigs ower swamps that lay in this aurie in 10t century. The German name for Most is Brüx (derived frae the German wird for "brig", *Brücke*).

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns — Sister ceeties
Most is twinned wi:
*  Meppel, Netherlands
*  Marienberg, Germany
*  Ptolemaida, Greece
* Gävle, Swaden
* Kortrijk, Belgium
* Thunder Bay, Canadae
* Ekaterinburg, Roushie
* Ulan Bator, Mongolie
* São Paulo, Brazil
* Lahti, Finland
* Bucharest, Romanie
* Venice, Italy
* Shanghai, Cheenae
* Osaka, Japan
* Buenos Aires, Argentinae
* Brisbane, Australie
* Kulon Progo, Indonesie
St Helens, Merseyside

**St Helens** () is a lairge toun in Lancashire, Ingland. It is the lairgest dounset an admeenistrative centre o the Metropolitan Borough o St Helens wi a population o juist ower 100,000, pairt o an urban aurie wi a tot population o 176,843 at the time o the 2001 Census. The toun wis offeecially incorporatit as a Municipal Borough in 1868 responsible for the admeenistration o the 4 tounships consistin o Eccleston, Parr, Sutton an Windle, wi the lairger responsibility as a Coonty Borough established in 1887 (supersedit in 1974 bi the lairger still Metropolitan Borough).

St Helens is situatit in the far sooth wast o the historic coonty o Lancashire, in North Wast Ingland, 6 mile (9.7&nbsp;km) north o the River Mersey. The toun historically lay athin the auncient Lancashire diveesion o Wast Derby kent as a "hunder".

The local aurie developed rapidly durin the Industrial Revolution o the 18t an 19t century intae a significant centre for coal minin, an glassmaking. Baith prior an durin this time it wis an aa hame tae a cotton an linen industry (notably sail makin) that lastit till the mid-19t century as well as salt, lime an alkali pits, copper smeltin, an brewin.

The day, St Helens is vera muckle a commercial toun. The main industries hae syne left, acome ootdatit, or hae been ootsourced leavin the float an patterned rolled glass producer Pilkingtons, a warld leader in thair industry, as the toun's ane remainin lairge industrial employer. Previously the toun haed been hame tae Beechams (nou pairt o GlaxoSmithKline), the Gamble faimily o the Alkali Works, Ravenhead glass (bought oot bi the Belgian naitionalised Durobor), United Glass Bottles (U.G.B.), Triplex (awned bi Pilkington, farmed oot tae Indie), Daglish Foundry (closed an demolished 1939), an Greenall's (nou locatit in nearbi Warrington).

## Internaitional links
St Helens haes links wi twa twin touns:
*  - Chalon-sur-Saône, Fraunce - twin toun tae St. Helens
*  - Stuttgart, Germany - pairtner toun tae St. Helens

## References
Łódź

**Łódź** ( , *Lodzh*) is the third-lairgest ceety in Poland. Locatit in the central pairt o the kintra, it haed a population of 742,387 in December 2009. It is the caipital o Łódź Voivodeship, an is approximately 135 kilometres (84&nbsp;mi) sooth-wast o Warsaw. The ceety's coat o airms is an example o cantin: depictin a boat, it alludes tae the ceety's name which translates literally as "boat".

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns – sister ceeties

Łódź is twinned wi:

## References
Lagos

** Lagos** ( ; ) is a port an the maist populous conurbation in Nigerie. Wi a population o 7,937,932, it is currently the seicont maist populous ceety in Africae efter Cairo, an is estimatit tae be the fastest growin ceety in Africae (UN-HABITAT, 2008) an the seivent fastest growin in the warld. Lagos is the economic an financial caipital o Nigerie an wis ance the caipital o Nigerie.

Lagos wis oreeginally inhabitit bi the Awori subgroup o the Yoruba fowk. Unner the leadership o thair Olofin the Awori moved tae an island nou cried Iddo an then tae the lairger Lagos Island. In the 15t century the Awori dounset wis attacked bi the Benin Empire follaein a quarrel an the island became a Benin war-camp cried "Eko" unner Oba Orhogba, the Oba o Benin o the time.

Lagos is a huge metropolis which oreeginatit on islands separatit bi creeks sic as Lagos Island that fringe the soothwast mooth o Lagos Lagoon protectit frae the Atlantic Ocean bi lang saund spits sic as Bar Beach which stretch up tae 100&nbsp;km east an wast o the mooth. Frae the beginnin Lagos haes spread on the mainland wast o the lagoon an the conurbation, includin Ikeja an Agege, nou reaches mair nor 40&nbsp;km north-wast o Lagos Island. Thare are suburbs lik Ikorodu, Epe an Badagry an recently mair local cooncils hae been creatit tae bring the tot nummer o local govrenments in Lagos tae 57.

## References
Philadelphia

**Philadelphia** () is the lairgest ceety in Pennsylvanie, saxt-maist-populous ceety in the Unitit States an the fifty-first maist populous ceety in the warld.

In 2008, the population o the ceety proper wis estimatit tae be mair nor 1.54 million, whiles the  metropolitan aurie's population o 5.8 million makkit it the kintra's fift lairgest. The ceety, that lies aboot 80 mile (130&nbsp;km) soothwast o New York Ceety, is the naition's fowert-lairgest urban aurie bi population an its fowert-lairgest consumer media mercat, as ranked bi the Nielsen Media Research.

It is the coonty seat o Philadelphia Coonty, wi whilk it is coterminous. Popular eiknames for Philadelphia include *Philly* an *The Ceety o Britherly Luve*, frae the literal meanin o the ceety's name in Greek ( (, ) "britherly luve", compundit frae *philos* (φίλος) "luve", an *adelphos* (ἀδελφός) "brither").

A commercial, eddicational, an cultural centre, Philadelphia wis ance the seicont-lairgest ceety in the Breetish Empire (after Lunnon), an the social an geographical centre o the oreeginal 13 American colonies.
It wis a centrepiece o early American history, host tae mony o the ideas an actions that gied birth tae the American Revolution an independence. It wis the maist populous ceety o the young Unitit States, although bi the first census in 1790, New York Ceety haed owertaen it. Philadelphia served as ane o the naition's mony caipitals durin the Revolutionary War an efter. Efter the ratification o the U.S. Constitution, the ceety served as the temporary naitional caipital frae 1790 tae 1800 whiles Washington, D.C. wis unner construction.

Philadelphia is central tae African American history; its lairge black population predates the Great Migration.

## Sister ceeties
Philadelphia haes ten sister ceeties, as designatit bi the International Visitors Council of Philadelphia (IVC) :

## References
Cleveland

**Cleveland** () is a city in the U.S. state o Ohio an is the coonty seat o Cuyahoga Coonty, the maist populous coonty in the state. The municipality is locatit in northeastren Ohio on the soothren shore o Lake Erie, approximately 60 mile (97&nbsp;km) wast o the Pennsylvania border. It wis foondit in 1796 near the mooth o the Cuyahoga River, an becam a manufacturin centre awin tae its location at the heid o numerous canals an railwey lines. Wi the decline o hivy manufacturin, Cleveland's businesses hae diversified intae the service economy, includin the financial services, insurance, legal, an healcare sectors. Cleveland is an aa hame tae the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

As o the 2000 Census, the ceety proper haed a tot population o 478,403, an wis the 33rd mucklemaist city in the Unitit States (nou estimatit as the 43rd mucklemaist due tae declines in population) an the seicont mucklemaist ceety in Ohio. The ceety's population haes been shrinkin syne it peaked at 914,808 in 1950. It is the centre o Greater Cleveland, the lairgest metropolitan aurie in Ohio. The Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor Metropolitan Statistical Aurie that in 2000 rankit as the 23rd lairgest in the Unitit States wi 2,250,871 fowk. Cleveland is an aa pairt o the lairger Cleveland-Akron-Elyria Combined Statistical Aurie, that in 2000 haed a population o 2,945,831, an rankit as the kintra's 14t lairgest.

Suburbanisation chynged the ceety in the late 1960s an 1970s, whan financial difficulties an a notorious 1969 fire on the Cuyahoga River challenged the ceety. The ceety haes wirked tae improve its infrastructur, diversify its economy, an invest in the airts iver syne, an nou Cleveland is considered a exemplar for public-private pairtnerships, dountoun revitalisation, an urban renaissance.  In studies conductit bi *[[The Economist]]* in 2005 Cleveland wis rankit as ane o the maist livable ceeties in the Unitit States, an the ceety wis rankit as the best ceety for business meetins in the continental U.S. The ceety faces continuin challenges, in parteecular frae concentratit poverty in some neeburheids an difficulties in the fundin an delivery o heich-quality public education.

Residents o Cleveland are cried *[[Leet o fowk frae Cleveland, Ohio|Clevelanders]]*.  Nicknames for the ceety include "The Forest Ceety", "Metropolis of the Western Reserve", "Saxt Ceety", an 'The Rock 'n' Roll Caipital o the Warld'.

Due tae Lake Erie's northren mairch wi the ceety, the Cleveland aurie is an aa referred tae bi residents an local businesses as "The North Coast".

## Internaitional relations
### Sister ceeties
Cleveland haes twinty sister ceeties:

## References
Innsbruck

**Innsbruck** is the caipital ceety o the federal state o Tyrol in wastren Austrick. It is locatit in the Inn Valley at the junction wi the Wipptal (Sill River), which provides access tae the Brenner Pass, some 30&nbsp;km (18.64&nbsp;mi) sooth o Innsbruck. Locatit in the broad valley atween heich muntains, the Nordkette (Hafelekar, 2,334 metres (7,657&nbsp;ft) in the north, Patscherkofel (2,246 metres (7,369&nbsp;ft)) an Serles (2,718 metres (8,917&nbsp;ft)) in the sooth, it is an internaitionally renowned winter sports centre, an hostit the 1964 an 1976 Winter Olympics an the 1984 an 1988 Winter Paralympics. It is tae host the 1st Winter Youth Olympics in 2012. The wird *bruck* comes frae the German wird *Brücke* meanin "brig" which leads tae "the brig ower the Inn".  The Pailace o Innsbruck in also here. 

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns — Sister ceeties
Innsbruck is twinned wi:
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### Pairtnerships

*  Krakow in Poland *(since 1998)* 

### Austrian Service Abroad
The Austrian Service Abroad is a NGO, which provides poseetions for an alternative Austrian naitional service at 85 organisations in 35 kintras warldwide in the sectors Holocaust Memorial Service, Social Service an Peace Service. It wis foondit bi Andreas Maislinger an Andreas Hörtnagl in 1998 an is based in Innsbruck.

## References
Pittsburgh

**Pittsburgh** () is the seicont-lairgest ceety in the U.S. Commonweel o Pennsylvanie an the coonty seat o Allegheny Coonty. Regionally, it anchors the lairgest urban aurie o Appalachie an the Ohio River Valley, an naitionally, it is the 22nt-lairgest urban aurie in the Unitit States. The estimatit population o the ceety in 2009 wis 311,647, while the seiven-coonty metropolitan aurie wis estimatit at 2,354,957. Dountoun Pittsburgh retains substantial economic influence, rankin at 25t in the naition for jobs athin the urban core an 6t in job density. The characteristic shape o Pittsburgh's central business destrict is a triangular tract carved bi the confluence o the Allegheny an Monongahela rivers, which form the Ohio River. The ceety features 151 heich-rise biggins, 446 brigs, twa inclined railways, an a pre-revolutionary fortification. Pittsburgh is kent colloquially as "The Ceety o Brigs" an "The Steel Ceety" for its mony brigs an umwhile steel manufacturin base.

## Sister ceeties
Pittsburgh haes seiventeen sister ceeties:

*  Bilbao, Spain
*  Charleroi, Belgium
*  Da Nang, Vietnam
*  Donetsk, Ukraine
*  Fernando de la Mora, Paraguay
*  Karmiel, Israel
*  Matanzas, Cuba
*  Misgav, Israel
*  Ostrava, Czech Republic
*  Prešov, Slovakie
*  Novokuznetsk, Roushie

*  Terrassa, Spain
*  Saarbrücken, Germany
*  Saitama (Omiya-ku, Umwhile Omiya ceety), Japan
*  San Isidro, Nicaragua
*  Sheffield, Unitit Kinrick
*  Skopje, Macedonie
*  Sofia, Bulgarie
*  Wuhan, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae
*  Terrassa, Spain
*  Zagreb, Croatie
*  Rijeka, Croatie
*  Melbourne, Australie

## References
Bilbao

**Bilbao** (; ) is a Spaingie municipality, caipital o the province o Biscay, in the autonomous commonty o the Basque Kintra. Wi a population o 353,187 as o 2010, it is the lairgest ceety o its autonomous commonty an the tent lairgest in Spain. Bilbao lees athin ane o Spain's lairgest metropolitan auries; the comarca o Greater Bilbao haes an estimatit population o 875,552, makin it the fift maist populatit conurbation in the kintra.

Bilbao is situatit in the north-central pairt o Spain, some 14 kilometres (8.7&nbsp;mi) sooth o the Bay o Biscay, where the estuary o Bilbao is formit. Its main urban core is surroondit bi twa sma muntain ranges wi an average elevation o 400 metres (1,300&nbsp;ft).

## Twin ceeties an consulates

Bilbao is twinned wi:

* Buenos Aires, Argentinae
* Rosario, Argentinae
* Medellín, Colombie
* Bordeaux, Fraunce
* Qingdao, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae

* Tbilisi, Georgie
* Pittsburgh, Unitit States
* Sant Adrià de Besòs, Spain
* Iloilo, Philippines
* Surakarta, Indonesie

## References
Bonn

**Bonn** is ae city in Germany. Locatit in the Cologne/Bonn Region, aboot 25 kilometres sooth o Cologne on the river Rhine in the State o North Rhine-Westphalie, it wis the caipital o Wast Germany frae 1949 til 1990 an the offeecial seat o govrenment o unitit Germany frae 1990 til 1999. Stairtin in 1998, mony naitional govrenment institutions flittit frae Bonn til Berlin. Baith hooses o the German naitional parliament, the Bundestag an the Bundesrat, wis flittit alang wi the Chancellery an the residence o the Preses o Germany.

Bonn remains a centre o politics an admeenistration, housomeibver. Aboot hauf o aw govrenment jobs wur retained as mony govrenment depairtments remained in Bonn an numerous sub-ministerial level govrenment agencies relocatit tae the umwhile caipital frae Berlin an ither pairts o Germany. In recognition o this, the umwhile caipital nou hauds the title o Federal City ("Bundesstadt").


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## Internaitional relations
### Twin touns - Sister ceeties
Bonn is twinned wi:

## References