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< Sister and Friendship Cities/States > < Sister and Friendship Cities/States > City/State Basic Information New York City Country: United States of America Date of agreement: February 29, 1960 Area: 784 ㎢ Signed by: Population: 8.40 million Robert F. Wagner, Jr., Mayor of New York City Ryotaro Azuma, Governor of Tokyo Current mayor: Bill de Blasio (January 2014 –present） New York City website https://www1.nyc.gov/ Beijing Municipal Government Country: People’s Republic of China Date of agreement: March 14, 1979 Area: 16,410 ㎢ Signed by: Population: 21.71 million Lin Hujia, Mayor of Beijing Ryokichi Minobe, Governor of Tokyo Current mayor: Chen Jining (January 2018– present) City of Beijing English website http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/ City of Paris Country: French Republic Date of agreement: July 14, 1982 Area: 105 ㎢ Signed by: Population: 2.30 million Jacques Chirac, Mayor of Paris Shunichi Suzuki, Governor of Tokyo Current mayor: Anne Hidalgo (April 2014 – present) City of Paris website https://www.paris.fr/ Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau English website http://en.parisinfo.com/ ★ City/State Basic Information State of New South Wales Country: Australia Date of agreement: May 9, 1984 Area: 809,400 ㎢ Population: 7.95 million Signed by: Neville. K. Wran, Premier of New South Wales Current premier: Gladys Berejiklian (January 2017 – present) Shunichi Suzuki, Governor of Tokyo New South Wales website https://www.nsw.gov.au/ Official tourism site for New South Wales https://www.sydney.com/ Seoul Metropolitan Government Country: Republic of Korea Date of agreement: September 3, 1988 Area: 605 ㎢ Signed by: Population: 10.29 million Kim Yong-rae, Mayor of Seoul Shunichi Suzuki, Governor of Tokyo Current mayor: Park Won Soon (October 2011 – present) Seoul Metropolitan Government English website http://english.seoul.go.kr/ Official tourism site for Seoul http://english.visitseoul.net/index Special Capital Region of Jakarta Country: Republic of Indonesia Date of agreement: October 23, 1989 Area: 662 ㎢ Signed by: Population: 9.60 million Wiyogo Atmodarminto, Governor of Jakarta Shunichi Suzuki, Governor of Tokyo Current governor: Anies Rasyid Baswedan (October 2017 – present) Jakarta Indonesian website https://www.jakarta.go.id/ City/State Basic Information State of São Paulo Country: Federative Republic of Brazil Date of agreement: June 13, 1990 Area: 248,200 ㎢ Signed by: Population: 45.5 million Orestes Quércia, Governor of São Paulo Shunichi Suzuki, Governor of Tokyo Current governor: João Doria (January 2019 – present) State of São Paulo Portuguese website http://www.saopaulo.sp.gov.br/en/conhecasp/ Cairo Governorate Country: Arab Republic of Egypt Date of agreement: October 23, 1990 Area: 3,085 ㎢ Signed by: Population: 9.69 million Mahmoud Sherif, Governor of Cairo Shunichi Suzuki, Governor of Tokyo Current governor: Khaled Abdel A’al (August 2018 – present) Cairo Governorate Arabic website http://www.cairo.gov.eg/ City of Moscow Country: Russian Federation Date of agreement: July 16, 1991 Area: 2,511 ㎢ Signed by: Population: 12.51 million Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov, Mayor of Moscow Shunichi Suzuki, Governor of Tokyo Current mayor: Sergei Sobyanin (October 2010 – present) Moscow Russian website https://www.mos.ru/ Moscow International Portal English website https://www.mos.ru/en/ City/State Basic Information City of Berlin Country: Federal Republic of Germany Date of agreement: May 14, 1994 Area: 891 ㎢ Signed by: Population: 3.57 million Eberhard Diepgen, Governing Mayor of Berlin Shunichi Suzuki, Governor of Tokyo Current governing mayor: Michael Müller (December 2014 – present) Berlin English website http://www.berlin.de/en/ City of Rome Country: Italian Republic Date of agreement: July 5, 1996 Area: 1,285 ㎢ Signed by: Population: 2.87 million Francesco Rutelli, Mayor of Rome Yukio Aoshima, Governor of Tokyo Current mayor: Virginia Raggi (June 2016 – present) Rome English website http://www.comune.roma.it/pcr/do/jpsite/Site/home.action?reques t_locale=en National Tourism Agency of Italy English website http://www.italia.it/en/home.html Greater London Authority Country： The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Date of agreement: October 14, 2015 Area：1,572 ㎢ Signed by: Boris Johnson, Mayor of London Population：8.79million Yoichi Masuzoe, Governor of Tokyo Current Mayor：Sadiq Khan (May 2016 - present） GLA English website https://www.london.gov.uk/ .
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