Oxford, UK is twinned with several world wide towns (Leiden -
Netherlands, Bonn - Germany, Leon - Nicaragua, Grenoble - France and
Perm - Russia).

Is there a web site or other refernce detailing all the town twinnings
across the world (or maybe just the UK?)

Thanks

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 05 Nov 2002 06:00 PST

Is this the kind of thing you need?

http://www.sister-cities.org/sci/directory/index

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Clarification of Question by keithyb-ga on 05 Nov 2002 06:56 PST

Thanks

This is the KIND of thing I need - although this is based for the US -
if there was a similar site for the UK then that would be brilliant -
as this one lists only towns in the UK twinned (or sistered) with the
US.

Hi Keith

I've managed to find you a UK only list on the site of the Local
Government International Bureau.

The link for it is on the page with a searchable database. You'll find
the actual list - from Abbotskerwell to York - if you click on 'Full
listing of all UK towns'.

LGIB Database of twinning links and formalised international
partnerships
http://www.lgib.gov.uk//intcoop/intcoop_f4_3_1b.htm

If that link doesn't work for you go to the International Cooperation
Page and click the 'LGIB twinning database' link on the right of the
page:

LGIB International Cooperation
http://www.lgib.gov.uk/intcoop/

I spent some time searching the EU website for more lists of twinnings
as they have a lot of general material on the subject. Maybe a list
will appear after the big EU conference on town twinning and other
kinds of 'twin' partnerships scheduled for next year.

European Commission town twinning
http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/education_culture/towntwin/faq_en.html

I hope this helps. Please feel free to 'request clarification' if
anything is unclear.

Regards - Leli

local government UK search
://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=local+government+twinning&btnG=Google+Search&meta=cr%3DcountryUK%7CcountryGB

EU search
://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=twinning+site%3A.europa.eu.int&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Ta very much - oh great use and interest!