Friend­ship Cities

Ba­tumi

Friend­ship with Ro­s­tock since 2012

Ba­tumi was founded in an­cient Greece as a colony un­der the name „Batis“. It is de­rived from the Greek words „batis limin“ and means deep har­bour.
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Biz­erte

Friend­ship with Ro­s­tock since 2017

For two thou­sand years the City of Biz­erte has been a ma­jor sea­far­ing and trad­ing cen­ter. 
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Haikou

Friend­ship with Ro­s­tock since 2011

With its ori­gin as early as the Han Dy­nasty the City of Haikou is over 900 years old. It is also known as the “Co­conut City” and is now the cen­ter of Hainan’s pol­i­tics, econ­omy, sci­ence, cul­ture and trans­porta­tion. 
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Hefei

Friend­ship with Ro­s­tock since 2010

Hefei is the cap­i­tal of the East­ern Chi­nese province of An­hui and forms the po­lit­i­cal, eco­nomic and cul­tural cen­ter of the re­gion. If you are in­ter­ested in ex­otic plants
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Kalin­ingrad

Friend­ship with Ro­s­tock since 1991

In 1946 Kalin­ingrad (lit­eral trans­la­tion: City of Kalinin) was re­named af­ter the de­ceased So­viet Head of State Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin with­out any con­nec­tion be­tween the per­son and the city.
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Karl­skrona

Friend­ship with Ro­s­tock since 2000

Karl­skrona an­nu­ally hosts a mar­itime fes­ti­val, which is one of the old­est „sis­ters“ of Ro­s­tock’s in­ter­na­tional mar­itime fes­ti­val „Hanse Sail“.
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Pana­jachel

Friend­ship with Ro­s­tock since 2018

Pana­jachel is lo­cated in a beau­ti­ful and pic­turesque nat­ural land­scape on the shore of the lake Atitlán. This city in Guatemala of­fers many fas­ci­nat­ing at­trac­tions
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