Manchester has a number of formal sister relationships.

Here’s the current list:

* Amsterdam, Netherlands

* Chemnitz, Germany

* Córdoba, Spain

* Faisalabad, Pakistan

* Los Angeles, USA

* Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua

* Rehovot, Israel

* Saint Petersburg Russia;

* Wuhan, China

For reasons we’ve stated elsewhere, it makes sense for Manchester to have an ongoing cultural relationship with its real sister city, New Orleans.