While diplomatic instruments, agreements with Sisters Cities can provide knowledge exchange on public policies and projects in various areas, such as health programs and cultural policies, in addition to other possible changes concerning the interests of cities. Moreover the agreements represent formal basis for the realization of any agreements, exchange and economic development programs, public policy and services to population. In the long list of cities that have agreements with São Paulo, some should be considered as potential references, subjected to stringent analysis in the future, to the development forms of cooperation or exchange.
Sister Cities
| Angola | Luanda | 1993 |
| Argentina |
1999 1998 1988 |
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| Armenia | Yerevan | 1999 |
| Bolivia | La Paz | 1999 |
| Canada | Toronto | 1999 |
| Chile | Santiago | 1998 |
| China |
2002 1999 1999 1988 |
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| Cote D'Ivoire | Abidjan | 1981 |
| Costa Rica | San Jose | - |
| Cuba | Havana | 1997 |
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Germany |
Hamburg | 2005 |
| Israel | Tel Aviv | 2004 |
| Italy | Milan | 1962 |
| Japan |
1998 1985 |
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| Jordan | Amman | 1997 |
| Mali | Bamako | 2000 |
| Paraguay |
Presidente Franco |
1998 1944 |
| Peru | Lima | 2002 |
| Portugal |
2000 1998 1996 1996 1995 |
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| Romania |
2000 2000 |
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| South Korea | Seoul | 1997 |
| Spain |
2001 2000 1990 1985 |
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| Syria | Damascus | 1999 |
| United States |
2005 1988 |
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| Uruguay | Montevideo | 2001 |