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Stadt Sassnitz


The partnership between the city of Huai’an in the Jiangsu province of the People’s Republic of China and Sassnitz began in 2006 with a visit by schoolchildren. Annual youth exchanges and encounters, along with other cooperation activities, continue to be at the heart of this town twinning. The partnership agreement with the Chinese city of Huaian was signed on 9 June 2007, making the port city one of 16 places worldwide with which Huaian maintains partnership relations.
It is 7916 kilometres as the crow flies from Sassnitz to Huai’an in the People’s Republic of China. 5.2 million inhabitants live in the metropolis of Huai’an in the Chinese province of Jiangsu. Rügen’s port city has around 10000 inhabitants.

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