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This is a list of sister cities in the United States state of Arizona. Sister cities, known in Europe as town twins, are cities which partner with each other to promote human contact and cultural links, although this partnering is not limited to cities and often includes counties, regions, states and other sub-national entities.
Many Arizona jurisdictions work with foreign cities through Sister Cities International, an organization whose goal is to "promote peace through mutual respect, understanding, and cooperation." [1]
Tullamore, Ireland
Blue Mountains, Australia
Manzanillo, Mexico Navojoa, Mexico
Concepción de Ataco, El Salvador
Dierdorf, Germany
Zamość, Poland
Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Leshan, China
Burnaby, Canada
Caraz, Peru Guaymas, Mexico Kaiping, China
Upper Hutt, New Zealand Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Spišské Podhradie, Slovakia Magdalena de Kino, Mexico San Luis Río Colorado, Mexico Álamos, Mexico Cairns, Australia Haikou, China
Interlaken, Switzerland Killarney, Ireland Kingston, Canada
Marrakech, Morocco
Uasin Gishu, Kenya Spišské Podhradie, Slovakia
Agra, India
Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France Carlow, Ireland
Cuenca, Ecuador Cusco, Peru Hutt, New Zealand Regensburg, Germany
Skopje, North Macedonia
Timbuktu, Mali
Trollhättan, Sweden Zhenjiang, China Ciudad Obregón, Mexico Guadalajara, Mexico Mazatlán, Mexico
Pécs, Hungary Puerto Peñasco, Mexico Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany
Phoenix is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona, with 1,608,139 residents as of 2020. It is the fifth-most populous city in the United States and the most populous state capital in the country.
Pima County is a county in the south central region of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,043,433, making it Arizona's second-most populous county. The county seat is Tucson, where most of the population is centered. The county is named after the Pima Native Americans, also known as Tohono O'odham, who are indigenous to this area.
Glendale is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. Located about nine miles northwest of the state capital Phoenix, Glendale is known for State Farm Stadium, which is the home of the Arizona Cardinals football team. The city also contains the Arrowhead Towne Center shopping mall. As of the 2020 census, Glendale had a population of 248,325.
Tempe is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, with the Census Bureau reporting a 2020 population of 180,587. The city is named after the Vale of Tempe in Greece. Tempe is located in the East Valley section of metropolitan Phoenix; it is bordered by Phoenix and Guadalupe on the west, Scottsdale and the Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community on the north, Chandler on the south, and Mesa on the east. Tempe is the location of the main campus of Arizona State University.
Yuma is a city in and the county seat of Yuma County, Arizona, United States. The city's population was 95,548 at the 2020 census, up from the 2010 census population of 93,064.
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The Zipser Germans, Zipser Saxons, or, simply, just Zipsers are a German-speaking sub-ethnic group in Central-Eastern Europe and national minority in both Slovakia and Romania. Along with the Sudeten Germans, the Zipser Germans were one of the two most important ethnic German groups in the former Czechoslovakia. An occasional variation of their name as 'Tzipsers' can also be found in academic articles. Former Slovak President Rudolf Schuster is partly Zipser German and grew up in Medzev.
The Arizona Rugby Union (ARU) is the Local Area Union (LAU) for rugby union teams in Arizona. ARU is part of the Southern California Rugby Football Union (SCRFU), which is one of several Geographical Unions (GUs) that comprise USA Rugby.
Bennie M. Gonzales FAIA was an American architect known for a distinctive style of Southwestern architecture which has since been widely copied. Gonzales designed most of Scottsdale, Arizona's, major municipal buildings including Scottsdale City Hall, the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts and the Civic Center Library. His resume also included hundreds of private homes and residences throughout Arizona.
Arizona is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States. It is part of the Four Corners region with Utah to the north, Colorado to the northeast, and New Mexico to the east; its other neighboring states are Nevada to the northwest, California to the west and the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California to the south and southwest. It is the 6th-largest and the 14th-most-populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix, which is the most populous state capital in the United States.
Frank Earle Shankwitz was an American philanthropist who was the creator and a co-founder of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. He has received the President's Call to Service Award, the Making a Difference in the World, the Making a World of Difference and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor awards. In 2019, a full-length film titled Wish Man was released. It tells the story of Shankwitz, his life and the Make-A-Wish Foundation's founding.
Edward Leighton Varney Jr. (1914–1998) was an American Modernist architect working in Phoenix, Arizona from 1937 until his retirement in 1985. He designed the Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale, and Sun Devil Stadium at Arizona State University. In 1941, he began his career, which would extend to his retirement in 1985. His firm would continue designing buildings into the 1990s.
