"SISTER CITIES OF DAEGU"
Atlanta, USA
As the capital city of Georgia, Atlanta is the hometown of Martin Luther King Jr. and is famous for being home to the headquarters of CNN and the Coca Cola company. Atlanta was the background for the famous movie "Gone with the Wind”. As a cultural city, it has huge parks, several music halls and theaters. Atlanta hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1996, and acts as a principal trade and transportation center for the southeastern United States as well as the largest city in Georgia. The city's main industries are machinery, automotive, electronics and steel.
- Location : Southeastern part of the United States
- Population : 4.75 million
- Area : 5,084㎢
- Website : http://www.atlantaga.gov/
- Sisterhood relationship established on November 10, 1981
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Almaty was previously the capital of Kazakhstan. As a center of politics and culture, it is famous for its machine processing and steel industry. It produces 25% of the consumption goods for the Republic of Kazakhstan. About 7,000 Koreans reside in Almaty. They have kept their national pride through Gorye Ilbo, a Korean Daily newspaper, Korean theater and culture centers for Koreans living overseas.
- Location : Northern part of Tensan Mountains, Central Asia
- Population : 1.42 million
- Area : 325㎢
- Website : http://www.almaty.kz/
- Sisterhood relationship established on November 26, 1990
Qingdao, China
As the largest manufacturing industrial & commercial city of Shantung Sheng (province), China, Qingdao is famous for its wonderful landscape, beautiful beach, and its rich historic sites. It is a cultural city as well as a port city with well-developed air, ground and sea transportation networks. . Beer is the most important export in China. The International Beer Festival, which is held annually in August, is world-renowned.
- Location : Eastern marine city in China
- Population : 7.90 million
- Area : 11,282㎢
- Website : http://www.qingdao.gov.cn/
- Sisterhood relationship established on December 4, 1993
Minas Gerais, Brazil
Minas Gerais, an inland estado (state), is the center of industry, economy and distribution in Brazil and its capital is Belo Horizonte. Minas Gerais forms a strong economic belt with Sao Paulo and Rio De Janeiro. The main industries are mining, machinery, munitions, and textiles, There is an abundance of natural resources, such as gold, steel, aluminum and coal.
- Location : Southeastern area of Brazil
- Population : 20.5 million
- Area : 586,528㎢
- Website : http://www.mg.gov.br/
- Sisterhood relationship established on June 21, 1994
Hiroshima, Japan
Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima-ken (prefecture) in southwest Honshu, Japan and famous for the Mazda automobile factory and its machine industry. The downtown area was destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945. After restoration, the city was called "City of Water, Bridges and Forest." 100 bridges were constructed to connect six rivers and a network of roads. With the city philosophy of "International Peace, Cultural City”, Hiroshima has steadily promoted cooperation with many international cities. We expect that cooperation in various fields including the economy with our city will be further developed
St. Petersburg, Russia
Once the capital of Tsarist Russia, St. Petersburg was then called "Leningrad" after the Bolshevik Revolution. It is a culture & arts city with loads of cultural relics, which are recognized worldwide. St. Petersburg is famous for the Winter Palace museum, one of three famous museums in the world and the Marinskii Theater. Its main industries are machinery, chemistry, electricity and information & communication, and it’s finance sector is also developing quickly. - Location : Northwest Russia
- Population : 4.88 million
- Area : 1,439㎢
- Website : http://eng.gov.spb.ru/
- Sisterhood relationship established on November 3, 1997
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Plovdiv is the second largest city in Bulgaria after the capital Sofia. Its location is 42 9' N and 24 45' E, and has 53 districts that is 160 meters above sea level. Around 370,000 people live in Plovdiv, 230,000 of whom are economically active. The unique natural and economic characteristics have made it a center of culture and commerce. The Old Plovdiv has a rich architectural heritage and in 1979 it was awarded a European gold medal for preservation of the monuments of the past.- Location : East Europe
- Population : 400 thousand
- Area : 102㎢
- Website : http://www.plovdiv.bg/
- Website(English) : www.plovdiv.org(English)
- Sisterhood relationship established on October 14, 2002
Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei is the capital of Taiwan, which makes it the political, administrative, economic and cultural center of this island.
Taipei is one of the five big commercial cities in Asia due to the development of major industries, including IT, textiles, electric machinery, electronics, etc. One of the world’s top four museums, “The National Palace Museum”, is located in Taipei, and it is also home to the “Taipei 101 Building”, which is the world’s second tallest building.
Taipei is one of the five big commercial cities in Asia due to the development of major industries, including IT, textiles, electric machinery, electronics, etc. One of the world’s top four museums, “The National Palace Museum”, is located in Taipei, and it is also home to the “Taipei 101 Building”, which is the world’s second tallest building.
- Location : northern part of Taiwan
- Population : 2.60 million
- Area : 271.8㎢
- Website : http://www.taipei.gov.tw/
- Sisterhood relationship established on November 4, 2010
Ningbo, China
Ningbo with its 7000-year history, is one of the three main trading ports with Yangzhou and Guangzhou. It is well known as the largest sewing & fashion city in the southern part of China as well as the four host cities of textile & fashion expos with Beijing, Shanghai, and Dalian.
- Location : Eastern marine city in China
- Population : 5.96 million
- Area : 9,365㎢
- Website : http://gtog.ningbo.gov.cn/
- Sisterhood relationship established on June 8, 2013
"FRIENDSHIP CITIES OF DAEGU"
Shenyang, China
Shenyang is the largest city in the three northeastern provinces (Liao Ning Sheng, Hei Long Jiang Sheng, and Ji Lin Sheng) of China, and the traditional hometown of the heavy industry such as mechanics, automobile, pharmacy, chemical industry, and aviation, metallurgy, light industry textiles, dried materials and electronic industry are rapidly growing.
- Location : Eastern marine city in China
- Population : 6.85 million
- Area : 12,980㎢
- Website : http://www.shenyang.gov.cn/
- Friendly relationship established on December 9, 2003
Yangzhou, China
With a history of 2500 years, the city of Yangzhou, which is the key point for water and land transportation, is an international trade city. Lying in central Jiangsu Province, the city of Yangzhou has the Changjiang River to the south, the Huaihe River to the north, and the Grand Canal flowing through its urban area. It was built 2,480 years ago
- Location : 300km away from Shanghi, China
- Population : 4.70 million
- Area : 6.638㎢
- Website : http://www.yangzhou.gov.cn/
- Friendly relationship established on March 21, 2003
Yancheng, China
Yancheng: Located in the central part of Jianghuai Plain in northern Jiangsu, the city of Yancheng with the Yellow Sea to the east and vast stretches of marshland in the western suburbs presents an enchanting landscape. Yancheng is well known as a sewing, machine, food, and chemical city in the Central part of China
- Location : Central part of China
- Population : 7.956 million
- Area : 15,000㎢
- Website : http://www.yancheng.gov.cn/
- Friendly relationship established on December 7, 2003
Danang, Vietnam
One of the four largest cities in Vietnam. Danang is located in the central part of Vietnam, which has diverse geographical features such as plains, mountains, forests, rivers, sea and islands. The city has an international airport, seaport, railway and roads. It is also the gateway to the Pacific Ocean from the trans-Asian route. These facilities promote trade within Vietnam with its neighboring countries and with the rest of the world. Major industries are textile, shoes, chemical, iron, etc.
- Location : Central part of Vietnam
- Population : 750 Thousand
- Area : 1,256㎢
- Website : www.danang.gov.vn
- Friendly relationship established on October 21, 2004
Kobe, Japan
Since the opening of the Kobe Port in 1868, the food, fashion, and tourism industries, including Western-style cakes, Kobe beef, alcoholic beverages, etc., have seen considerable development in Kobe. After the Kobe earthquake in 1995, in order to re-establish the infrastructure of the damaged city, the Kobe Medical Industry City Plan was established to create Japan’s largest high-tech medical cluster. Kobe was selected as the Design City by the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in 2008
- Location : located in Osaka Bay in eastern Seto Naikai
- Population : 1.53 million
- Area : 552.8㎢
- Website : www.city.kobe.lg.jp
- Friendly relationship established on July 23, 2010
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