Meet North Carolina's Sister Cities
Asheville
With a population of just under 100,000, Asheville has seven sister city partnerships across Europe, Africa and Central America and Asia.
Cary
Cary has a population of over 200,000 and has six sister city partnerships across North America, Europe and the Middle East.
Carthage
Carthage has one sister city partnership that grew out of a WWI fighter pilot's experience over France.
Charlotte
Charlotte is the largest city in North Carolina and has six active sister city partnerships in Latin America, Europe, and China and Africa plus one dormant sister city partnership.
Durham
Durham has nine sister city partnerships in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
Fayetteville
Fayetteville has one sister city, Saint Avold, France .
Fuquay-Varina
Fuquay is one of our newest sister cities and is still considering several cities in Europe for their first partnership.
Gastonia
Gastonia is the county seat of Gaston County, North Carolina, United States. Gastonia has two sister cities: Gotha, Germany and Santiago de Surco, Peru.
Hickory-Western Piedmont
Hickory-Western Piedmont has one sister city partnership with the Alternburg Land region of Germany. They recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of the partnership.
Laurinburg
Laurinburg has one sister city partnership in Scotland
Mooresville
Mooresville has one sister city partnership with Hockenheim Germany that has a similar auto racing focus.
Raleigh
Raleigh has four active sister city partnerships across Europe and Africa with three more partnerships pending with cities around the world.
Meet Our Sister Cities - Continued
Reidsville
Reidsville is the newest city to join us and is looking for their first sister city partnership.
Saluda
Located in Western North Carolina, Saluda has one sister city partnership with a city in Italy.
Wilmington
Located on the coast, Wilmington has four sister city partnerships in Central America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia.
Winston-Salem
Winston-Salem is located in the central part of North Carolina and has sister city partnerships with cities in the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and Asia.