Bordeaux

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Bordeaux in France

Pont de Pierre

Bordeaux is a city in the south west of France near the Atlantic Ocean. It has about 230,000 inhabitants in the city. About 750,000 people live in the area around the city. Bordeaux is famous for wines made in the region near the city. Bordeaux is also famous for its art.

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Sister cities [change]

Bordeaux is twinned with:

Bristol, United Kingdom, since 1947 Lima, Peru, since 1957 Quebec City, Canada, since 1962 Munich, Germany, since 1964 Los Angeles, United States, since 1968	Porto, Portugal, since 1978 Fukuoka, Japan, since 1982 Bilbao, Spain Madrid, Spain, since 1984 Ashdod, Israel, since 1984	Baku, Azerbaijan, since 1985 Casablanca, Morocco, since 1988 Wuhan, China, since 1998 Oran, Algeria, since 2003 Zahlé, Lebanon, since 2006

Partnerships [change]

Saint Petersburg, Russia, since 1993 Kraków, Poland, since 1993 Riga, Latvia Samsun, Turkey, since 2010

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Overseas departments

Cayenne (French Guiana) • Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe) • Fort-de-France (Martinique) • Mamoudzou (Mayotte) • Saint-Denis (Réunion)

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