This is a list of places in South Africa which have standing links to local communities in other countries. In most cases, the association, especially when formalised by local government, is known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium
Bhubaneswar, India [2] 
Nanjing, China [3] Jinhua, China
Leiden, Netherlands
Milwaukee County, United States
Oldenburg, Germany Qinhuangdao, China Aachen, Germany
Accra, Ghana Antwerp, Belgium
Bujumbura, Burundi Cleveland, United States [7] 
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Funchal, Portugal [8] 
Haifa, Israel [9] Hangzhou, China
Maputo, Mozambique
Malmö, Sweden Miami-Dade County, United States
Monterrey, Mexico
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Varna, Bulgaria Dordrecht, Netherlands
Walvis Bay, Namibia
Alexandria, Egypt Bremen, Germany
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Chicago, United States
Daejeon, South Korea Guangzhou, China
Kaohsiung, Taiwan [13] 
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Libreville, Gabon Maputo, Mozambique
Mersin, Turkey [14] 
Mombasa, Kenya New Orleans, United States
Oran, Algeria
Le Port, Réunion, France Daqing, China Harbin, China Dilbeek, Belgium Saint Paul, United States [18] Tacoma, United States [19] 
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam [23] New York City, United States
Ramallah, Palestine [24] Taipei, Taiwan [25] 
Verona, Italy [26] Windhoek, Namibia Wujiang (Suzhou), China
Denpasar, Indonesia Gothenburg, Sweden Jacksonville, United States Ningbo, China [35] Tainan, Taiwan [36] Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands [39] Hualien, Taiwan [40] Berkeley, United States Reggio Emilia, Italy Oskarshamn, Sweden Berkeley, United States Changsha, China Paju, South Korea
Temora, Australia Aalst, BelgiumHighways in Taiwan are classified into five types:
Tourism in Taiwan is one of the major industries and contributor to the economy of Taiwan. In 2022, Taiwan received under 900,000 international visitors, down from 11.8 million in 2019. Tourism affairs are managed by the Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications of Taiwan.
Longci District, alternatively spelled Longqi. is a rural district of about 3,634 residents in Tainan, Taiwan.
Sigang District, alternatively spelled Xigang, is a rural district of about 24,611 residents in Tainan, Taiwan. It is home to two elementary schools, one junior high school, and one high school.
The Taiwan High Prosecutors Office is located in Taipei, Taiwan. The territorial jurisdiction covers the jurisdictions of Taipei, Shilin, New Taipei, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Keelung and Yilan District Prosecutors Offices. It has branch offices in Taipei, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Hualien and Taichung. It is one of the two high prosecutors offices in Taiwan.
Local elections were held in Taiwan on 5 December 2009 to elect magistrates of counties and mayors of cities, councillors in county/city councils, and mayors of townships and county-administered cities, known as the three-in-one elections. The elections were not held in the special municipalities of Kaohsiung and Taipei as well as the counties and cities that were set to be reform as special municipalities in 2010, including Taipei County, Taichung County, Taichung City, Tainan County, Tainan City, or Kaohsiung County. The new formed municipalities has their elections in 2010.
Events from the year 2011 in Taiwan, Republic of China. This year is numbered Minguo 100 according to the official Republic of China calendar.
The architecture of Taiwan can be traced back to stilt housing of the aborigines in prehistoric times; to the building of fortresses and churches in the north and south used to colonize and convert the inhabitants during the Dutch and Spanish period; the Tungning period when Taiwan was a base of anti-Qing sentiment and Minnan-style architecture was introduced; in Qing dynasty period, a mix of Chinese and Western architecture appeared and artillery battery flourished during Qing's Self-Strengthening Movement; During the Japanese rule of Taiwan, the Minnan, Japanese and Western culture were main influencers in architectural designs and saw the introduction and use of reinforced concrete. Due to excessive Westernization as a colony, after the retrocession of Taiwan to the Republic of China in 1945 from Japan at the end of World War II, Chinese classical style became popular and entered into international mainstream as a postmodern design style. Today, Taiwanese architecture has undergone much diversification, every style of architecture can be seen.
