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The City of Seoul began its sister city program in 1968 with Taipei. Since then the city has signed sisterhood agreements with 22 cities around the world and additionally signed MOUs with six cities for international cooperation.

The main purpose of the sister city program is to strengthen relations between Seoul and other international cities in an effort to establish global cooperation and promote cultural understanding.

Listed below are Seoul's sister cities and MOU cities, their general information, and links to their official website. For more details on Seoul City's sister city program, please contact the International Cooperation Division, Seoul Metropolitan Government.

•  Address: City Hall Annex Building 1, Deoksugung-gil 15, Jung-gu, Seoul, 100-110 Korea

•  Tel: +82.2.3707.9357

•  Fax: +82.2.774.2122

•  Email: inter@seoul.go.kr

 
Sister Cities
 

•  Name of City and Country: Taipei
•  Size (Т): 272
•  Population: 2,680,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: March 23, 1968
•  Website: http://english.taipei.gov.tw/index.jsp (English)

•  Name of City and Country: Ankara, Turkey
•  Size (Т ): 1,204
•  Population: 3,690,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: August 23, 1971
•  Website:http://www.ankara-bel.gov.tr/english/

•  Name of City and Country: Honolulu, USA
•  Size (Т): 1,576
•  Population: 800,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: October 22, 1973
•  Website: http://www.co.honolulu.hi.us

•  Name of City and Country: San Francisco, USA
•  Size (Т): 116
•  Population: 720,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: May 18, 1976
•  Website: http://www.ci.sf.ca.us

•  Name of City and Country: Sao Paulo, Brazil
•  Size (Т): 1,509
•  Population: 11,380,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: April 20, 1977
•  Website: http://www.prefeitura.sp.gov.br (Portuguese)

•  Name of City and Country: Bogota, Colombia
•  Size (Т): 120
•  Population: 6,300,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: June 14, 1982
•  Website: http://www.bogota.gov.co (Portuguese)

•  Name of City and Country: Jakarta, Indonesia
•  Size (Т): 662
•  Population: 8,800,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: July 25, 1984
•  Web site: http://www.jakarta.go.id/v22/home/index.php

•  Name of City and Country: Tokyo, Japan
•  Size (Т ): 2,187
•  Population: 12,378,974 (as of Jan. 2004)
•  Date of Signing Agreements: September 3, 1988
•  Website: http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/ENGLISH/index.htm (English)

•  Name of City and Country: Moscow, Russia
•  Size (Т ): 794
•  Population: 8,600,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: July 13, 1991
•  Website: http://www.mos.ru/ (Russian)

•  Name of City and Country: New South Wales,
-----------------------------Australia
•  Size (Т): 801,600
•  Population: 6,020,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: November 8, 1991
•  Website: http://www.nsw.gov.au (English)

•  Name of City and Country: Paris, France
•  Size (Т): 105
•  Population: 2,170,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: November 12, 1991
•  Website: http://www.paris.fr/en (English)

•  Name of City and Country: Mexico City, Mexico
•  Size (Т): 1,504
•  Population: 8,240,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: October 5, 1992
•  Web site: http://www.mexicocity.com.mx/mexcity.html

•  Name of City and Country: Beijing, China
•  Size (Т): 16,808
•  Population: 10,860,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: October 23, 1993
•  Website: http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/

•  Name of City and Country: Ulaanbaatar,
-----------------------------Mongolia
•  Size (Т): 1,358
•  Population: 630,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: October 6, 1995
•  Website: http://www.ulaanbaatar.net (English)

•  Name of City and Country: Hanoi, Vietnam
•  Size (Т): 927
•  Population: 2,300,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: May 1, 1996
•  Website: http://www.thudo.gov.vn (English)

•  Name of City and Country: Warsaw, Poland
•  Size (Т): 485
•  Population: 1,650,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: June 20, 1996
•  Website: http://www.e-warsaw.pl/index.php (English)

•  Name of City and Country: Cairo, Egypt
•  Size (Т): 1,492
•  Population: 15,000,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: April 27, 1997
•  Website: http://www.cairo.gov.eg

•  Name of City and Country: Rome, Italy
•  Size (Т): 1,508
•  Population: 2,800,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: March 18, 2000
•  Website: http://www.comune.roma.it/eng/index.asp (English)

•  Name of City and Country: Astana, Kazakhstan
•  Size (Т): 300
•  Population: 500,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: November 6, 2004
•  Website: http://www.astana.dan.kz

•  Name of City and Country: Washington, D.C.,
-----------------------------USA
•  Size (Т): 179
•  Population: 572,059
•  Date of Signing Agreements: March 13, 2006
•  Website: http://dc.gov (English)

•  Name of City and Country: Athens, Greece
•  Size (Т ): 450
•  Population: 4,000,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: March 15, 2006
•  Website: http://www.cityofathens.gr/portal/site/
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(English)

•  Name of City and Country: Bangkok, Thailand
•  Size (Т ): 1,568
•  Population: 8,200,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: June 16, 2006



   
MOU Cities
 

•  Name of City and Country: Ottawa, Canada
•  Size (Т ): 110.15
•  Population: 323,340
•  Date of Signing Agreements: January 10, 1997
•  Website: http://www.city.ottawa.on.ca (English and French)

•  Name of City and Country: Berlin, Germany
•  Size (Т ): 885.5
•  Population: 3,500,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: April 23, 1997
•  Website: http://www.berlin.de/english/

•  Name of City and Country: Amsterdam,
-----------------------------The Netherlands
•  Size (Т ): 220.37
•  Population: 718,175
•  Date of Signing Agreements: March 15, 1999
•  Website: http://www.amsterdam.nl

•  Name of City and Country: Budapest, Hungary
•  Size (Т ): 526
•  Population: 31,700,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: July 14, 2005
•  Website: http://english.budapest.hu/Engine.aspx

•  Name of City and Country: Istanbul, Turkey
•  Size (Т ): 5,712
•  Population: 7,500,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: August 24, 2005
•  Website: http://www.ibb.gov.tr

 

•  Name of City and Country: Tashkent,
---------------------------- Uzbekistan
•  Size (Т ): 350
•  Population: 2,500,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: March 30, 2006

•  Name of City and Country: Los Angeles, USA
•  Size (Т ): 1,290
•  Population: 3,850,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: October 16, 2006
•  Website: http://www.lacity.org
•  Name of City and Country: Milano, Italy
•  Size (Т ): 182
•  Population: 1,290,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: February 1, 2007
•  Website: http://www.comune.milano.it
•  Name of City and Country: Minsk, Belarus
•  Size (Т ): 305
•  Population: 1,830,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: July 8, 2008
•  Website: http://www.minsk.gov.by
•  Name of City and Country: Shandong, China
•  Size (Т ): 157,000
•  Population: 92,000,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: July 19, 2008
•  Website: http://www.shandong.gov.cn
•  Name of City and Country: Jiangsu, China
•  Size (Т ): 102,000
•  Population: 74,000,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: July 21, 2008
•  Website: http://www.js.gov.cn
•  Name of City and Country: Guangdong, China
•  Size (Т ): 179,000
•  Population: 94,000,000
•  Date of Signing Agreements: July 22, 2008
•  Website: http://www.gd.gov.cn
 
 
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