This is a list of municipalities in Iran which have standing links to local communities in other countries known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).

A Abadan Taormina, Italy

B Bostanabad Konya, Turkey

D Delijan Dilijan, Armenia

G Gorgan

Aktau, Kazakhstan Samsun, Turkey

H Hamadan

Bam, Iran Bukhara, Uzbekistan Isparta, Turkey Kulob, Tajikistan

I Isfahan

Baalbek, Lebanon

Dakar, Senegal Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Havana, Cuba Iași, Romania Kazan, Russia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Lahore, Pakistan Porto, Portugal Samarkand, Uzbekistan Xi'an, China

K Kazerun Al-Mada'in, Iraq

Kermanshah Gaziantep, Turkey

Khoy Konya, Turkey

Kish Island Langkawi, Malaysia

M Maragheh Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mashhad

Karachi, Pakistan Karbala, Iraq Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Lahore, Pakistan Matera, Italy Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan Najaf, Iraq Santiago de Compostela, Spain Ürümqi, China

N Nishapur

Baghdad, Iraq Balkh, Afghanistan Basra, Iraq Bukhara, Uzbekistan Ghazni, Afghanistan Herat, Afghanistan Kairouan, Tunisia Karbala, Iraq Khiva, Uzbekistan Khoy, Iran Khujand, Tajikistan Konya, Turkey Kulob, Tajikistan Merv, Turkmenistan Samarkand, Uzbekistan Shahin Shahr, Iran

Q Qazvin Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Qom

Baalbek, Lebanon Karachi, Pakistan Karbala, Iraq Konya, Turkey Linxiang, China Santiago de Compostela, Spain

R Rasht

Astrakhan, Russia Moscow, Russia Multan, Pakistan

Trabzon, Turkey

S Sari Astrakhan, Russia

Shiraz

Chongqing, China Dushanbe, Tajikistan Nanjing, China Nicosia, Cyprus Pécs, Hungary

T Tabriz

Baku, Azerbaijan Erzurum, Turkey Ganja, Azerbaijan Gaza City, Palestine Istanbul, Turkey Karbala, Iraq Kazan, Russia Khujand, Tajikistan Mogilev, Belarus Shanghai, China

Tehran

Ankara, Turkey Baghdad, Iraq Beijing, China Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Brasília, Brazil Budapest, Hungary Caracas, Venezuela Dushanbe, Tajikistan East Jerusalem, Palestine Havana, Cuba Kabul, Afghanistan Khartoum, Sudan Minsk, Belarus Moscow, Russia Pretoria, South Africa Sanaa, Yemen Tbilisi, Georgia

U Urmia

Erzurum, Turkey Fujian, China Varna, Bulgaria

Y Yazd

Gyumri, Armenia Homs, Syria Jászberény, Hungary Poti, Georgia

Z Zanjan Trabzon, Turkey

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