List of twin towns and sister cities in the Caribbean

List of twin towns and sister cities in the Caribbean

This is a list of "twin towns" or "sister cities" in the region of the Caribbean — that is, pairs of towns or cities in different countries which have town twinning arrangements. Where known, the date of formation of the twinning agreement is included in parentheses.

Note that the list is likely to always remain incomplete, since no canonical list of such arrangements exists; even those towns that are listed may well have arrangements which are not listed here.However, a searchable, interactive list is maintained by Sister Cities International. Note also that any twinning arrangement "should" be listed at two locations in the series of lists: once for each of the towns involved in the arrangement.

Bahamas

*Nassau — Albany, New York, USA — Detroit, Michigan, USA — Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA (October 23, 2006)

Barbados

*Bridgetown — Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, Canada (July 2004 [http://geo.international.gc.ca/latin-america/barbados/news/whatsnew-en.asp?id=3086&content_type=2 twinning] ); Borough of Hackney, London, United Kingdom; Wilmington, North Carolina, USA (June 28, 2004); Speightstown — Reading, UK (January 21, 2003 [http://www.reading.gov.uk/communityandliving/towntwinning/General.asp?id=SX9452-A77F74B8 twinning] )

Cuba

*Banes — Las Vegas, New Mexico, USA
*Camagüey — Madison, Wisconsin, USA
*Cárdenas — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
*Cienfuegos — Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (2002); Kingston, Ontario, Canada (2005)
*Havana — Mobile, Alabama, USA; Glasgow, UK (2002); Isfahan, Iran, Caracas, Venezuela; Cusco, Peru
*Matanzas — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
*Regla — Richmond, California, USA
*Santiago de Cuba — Oakland, California, USA; Maracay, Venezuela (2007)
*Santa Clara — Oviedo, Spain (1995); Bloomington, Indiana, USA (1999)
*Yateras — Boulder, Colorado, USA

Dominican Republic

*Puerto Plata — Rochester, New York, USA (1997)
*Santo Domingo — New York City, New York, USA (1983); Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Miami, Florida, USA; Providence, Rhode Island, USA; Sarasota, Florida, USA; Caracas, Venezuela
*La Romana — Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
*San Pedro de Macorís — Frankfort, Kentucky, USA
*Hermanas Mirabal Province — Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Santiago has twinning agreements with the following sister cities:
*flagicon|Puerto Rico San Juan (Puerto Rico)
*flagicon|Cuba La Habana (Cuba)
*flagicon|USA New York City (United States)

Haiti

*Jacmel — Gainesville, Florida
*Port-au-Prince — Miami, Florida, USA (1991)
*Cap-Haitien — Portland, Maine, USA; Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Jamaica

*Kingston:flagicon|ENG Coventry, England (1962)

*Montego Bay:flagicon|USA Atlanta, United States

*Morant Bay:flagicon|USA Hartford, United States

*Ocho Rios:flagicon|USA Oakland, United States

Puerto Rico

*San Juan — Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

Trinidad and Tobago

*Chaguanas, Trinidad:flagicon|United States Lauderhill, Florida, USA

*Port of Spain, Trinidad:flagicon|United States Atlanta, Georgia, USA:flagicon|Guyana Georgetown, Guyana:flagicon|Canada St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

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