Sister cities
Twinned with Brussels
14 of 19 in this atlas
Brussels maintains twinning links with municipalities across several continents, from Beijing and Lagos to Brasília and Montréal, alongside a cluster of European partners including Berlin, Prague, Sofia, Ljubljana, Tirana, and Vilnius. Most of these pairings are mutual, with both sides naming each other. Moscow and Washington appear here as one-sided cases, named by Brussels but not reciprocated in kind.
In this atlas14
Twinned in total19
Not reciprocated2
Twinned with Brussels
| City | Country | Distance | Lists back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beijing | CN | 7,961 km | yes |
| Berlin | DE | 651 km | yes |
| Brasília | BR | 8,979 km | yes |
| Kyiv | UA | 1,836 km | yes |
| Lagos | NG | 4,938 km | yes |
| Ljubljana | SI | 919 km | yes |
| Madrid | ES | 1,316 km | yes |
| Montréal | CA | 5,536 km | yes |
| Moscow | RU | 2,253 km | not listed |
| Prague | CZ | 717 km | yes |
| Sofia | BG | 1,698 km | yes |
| Tirana | AL | 1,589 km | yes |
| Vilnius | LT | 1,465 km | yes |
| Washington | US | 6,217 km | not listed |
2 of these do not list Brussels back. Twinning is declared independently by each municipality, so one-sided pairs are common — and usually more interesting than the mutual ones.