List of twin towns and sister cities in Denmark
This is a list of municipalities in Denmark having standing links to local communities in other countries. In most cases, the association, especially when formalised by local government, is known as "town twinning" (though other terms, such as "partner towns" (venskabsbyer) or "sister cities" are sometimes used instead), and while most of the places included are towns, the list also comprises villages, cities, districts, counties, etc. with similar links.
A
Kaltenkirchen, Germany
Almere, Netherlands Antibes, France Büdelsdorf, Germany Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Fredrikstad, Norway Fuglafjørður, Faroe Islands Galway, Ireland Gdynia, Poland Haifa, Israel Hefei, China Innsbruck, Austria Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland Karlskoga, Sweden Lancaster, England Lerum, Sweden Liperi, Finland Norðurþing, Iceland Nuuk, Greenland Orsa, Sweden Orust, Sweden Ośno Lubuskie, Poland Pushkin, Russia Racine, United States Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland Rendalen, Norway Rendsburg, Germany Riga, Latvia Riihimäki, Finland Solvang, United States Tulcea, Romania Varna, Bulgaria Vilnius, Lithuania Wismar, Germany
Bergen, Norway Gothenburg, Sweden Harbin, China Kiel, Germany Kujalleq, Greenland Rostock, Germany Saint Petersburg, Russia Turku, Finland
Borken, Germany Dainville, France East Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom Grabow, Germany Mölndal, Sweden Říčany, Czech Republic Whitstable, England, United Kingdom
B
Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany East Kilbride, Scotland, United Kingdom Prague 10 (Prague), Czech Republic
Hohenwestedt, Germany
Botkyrka, Sweden Dorogomilovo (Moscow), Russia Stange, Norway Steglitz-Zehlendorf (Berlin), Germany
E
Ely, England, United Kingdom Eskilstuna, Sweden Fjarðabyggð, Iceland Güstrow, Germany Jyväskylä, Finland Krems an der Donau, Austria Maniitsoq, Greenland Ratzeburg, Germany Stavanger, Norway Suzhou, China Szczecin, Poland Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
F
Bærum, Norway Hafnarfjörður, Iceland Hämeenlinna, Finland Qeqertarsuatsiaat, Greenland Tartu, Estonia Tórshavn, Faroe Islands Uppsala, Sweden
G
Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (Berlin), Germany Gagny, France Haabersti (Tallinn), Estonia Klagenfurt, Austria Koszalin, Poland Minden, Germany Narsaq, Greenland Neubrandenburg, Germany Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom Pirkkala, Finland Ski, Norway Solna, Sweden Split, Croatia Sutton, England, United Kingdom Taitō (Tokyo), Japan Veszprém, Hungary
Kotka, Finland Landskrona, Sweden
H
Braine, France Sandefjord, Norway Uusikaupunki, Finland Varberg, Sweden Wittenberg, Germany
Harstad, Norway Rueil-Malmaison, France Umeå, Sweden Uummannaq, Greenland Vaasa, Finland
Eberswalde, Germany Gniewkowo, Poland Höganäs, Sweden Lieto, Finland Nesodden, Norway Paamiut, Greenland Seltjarnarnes, Iceland
Arsuk, Greenland Countryside, Åland Islands, Finland Eiði, Faroe Islands Holmestrand, Norway Husby, Germany Kangasala, Finland Siglufjörður, Iceland Vänersborg, Sweden
Kladovo, Serbia
Holstebro is a member of the Douzelage, a town twinning association of towns across the European Union.[31] Holstebro also has one other twin town.[32]
Douzelage
Agros, Cyprus Altea, Spain Asikkala, Finland Bad Kötzting, Germany Bellagio, Italy Bundoran, Ireland Chojna, Poland Granville, France Houffalize, Belgium Judenburg, Austria Kőszeg, Hungary Marsaskala, Malta Meerssen, Netherlands Niederanven, Luxembourg Oxelösund, Sweden Preveza, Greece Rokiškis, Lithuania Rovinj, Croatia Sesimbra, Portugal Sherborne, England, United Kingdom Sigulda, Latvia Siret, Romania Škofja Loka, Slovenia Sušice, Czech Republic Tryavna, Bulgaria Türi, Estonia Zvolen, Slovakia
Other
Brașov, Romania
Leksand, Sweden Lillehammer, Norway Oulainen, Finland
Oppegård, Norway Rydułtowy, Poland Sollentuna, Sweden Tuusula, Finland
J
Lindesberg, Sweden Oppdal, Norway Strzelce Krajeńskie, Poland Tongzhou (Beijing), China Tornesch, Germany
K
Anjō, Japan Delmenhorst, Germany Drammen, Norway Huéscar, Spain Kujalleq, Greenland Lappeenranta, Finland Örebro, Sweden Panevėžys, Lithuania Pisa, Italy Stykkishólmur, Iceland Szombathely, Hungary Wuqing (Tianjin), China
M
Bábolna, Hungary Bolesławiec, Poland Kokemäki, Finland Lier, Norway Falköping, Sweden
Barmstedt, Germany Korsholm, Finland Mandal, Norway Oskarshamn, Sweden
N
Næstved is a member of the Charter of European Rural Communities, a town twinning association across the European Union.[41] Næstved also has four other twin towns.[42]
Charter of European Rural Communities
Bienvenida, Spain Bièvre, Belgium Bucine, Italy Cashel, Ireland Cissé, France Desborough, England, United Kingdom Esch (Haaren), Netherlands Hepstedt, Germany Ibănești, Romania Kandava, Latvia Kannus, Finland Kolindros, Greece Lassee, Austria Medzev, Slovakia Moravče, Slovenia Nagycenk, Hungary Nadur, Malta Ockelbo, Sweden Pano Lefkara, Cyprus Põlva, Estonia Samuel (Soure), Portugal Slivo Pole, Bulgaria Starý Poddvorov, Czech Republic Strzyżów, Poland Tisno, Croatia Troisvierges, Luxembourg Žagarė (Joniškis), Lithuania
Other
O
Columbus, United States Funabashi, Japan Groningen, Netherlands Iksan, South Korea İzmir, Turkey Katowice, Poland Kaunas, Lithuania Kiev, Ukraine Klaksvík, Faroe Islands Kópavogur, Iceland Norrköping, Sweden Östersund, Sweden Schwerin, Germany Shaoxing, China St Albans, England, United Kingdom Tampere, Finland Trondheim, Norway Upernavik, Greenland
R
Akureyri, Iceland Ålesund, Norway Jelenia Góra, Poland Lahti, Finland Västerås, Sweden
S
Silkeborg terminated all its twinnings.[49]
Eisenach, Germany
Arvika, Sweden Kongsvinger, Norway Ylöjärvi, Finland
Eidsvoll, Norway Fljótsdalshérað, Iceland Pruszcz, Poland Skara, Sweden
Höör, Sweden Laukaa, Finland Modum, Norway Östra Göinge, Sweden
Forssa, Finland Sarpsborg, Norway Södertälje, Sweden
T
Alingsås, Sweden Lillestrøm, Norway
V
Vesthimmerlands[64]
Lapinlahti, Finland Rana, Norway Sigulda, Latvia Skellefteå, Sweden
Dalvíkurbyggð, Iceland Hamar, Norway Kecskemét, Hungary Lund, Sweden Lüneburg, Germany Marijampolė, Lithuania Porvoo, Finland
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