Manchester

==International relations==
Manchester has formal [[Town twinning|twinning]] arrangements (or "friendship agreements") with several places.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/100004/the_council_and_democracy/5903/international_civic_links |title=International Civic Links |publisher=[[Manchester City Council]] |location=Manchester|access-date=3 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221155306/http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/100004/the_council_and_democracy/5903/international_civic_links |archive-date=21 February 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Manchester">{{cite news |url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/twinning-link-with-la-925445 |title=Twinning link with LA |newspaper=Manchester Evening News |access-date=28 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130731001604/http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/twinning-link-with-la-925445 |archive-date=31 July 2013}}</ref> In addition, the [[British Council]] maintains a metropolitan centre in Manchester.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britishcouncil.org/organisation/transparency/reports-documents |title=British Council Annual Report 2013–14 |access-date=16 March 2015 |publisher=[[British Council]] |date=31 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402121131/http://www.britishcouncil.org/organisation/transparency/reports-documents |archive-date=2 April 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Amsterdam]], Netherlands<ref name=Jayne /> (2007)
* [[Bilwi]], Nicaragua<ref name=Jayne>{{cite journal |last1=Jayne |first1=Mark |last2=Hubbard |first2=Philip |last3=Bell |first3=David |title=Twin Cities: Territorial and Relational Geographies of 'Worldly' Manchester |journal=Urban Studies |date=2013 |volume=50 |issue=2 |pages=239–254 |doi=10.1177/0042098012450480 |jstor=26144203 |bibcode=2013UrbSt..50..239J |s2cid=146405719 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/26144203.pdf |issn=0042-0980}}</ref>
* [[Chemnitz]], Germany (1983)<ref>At the time of the agreement, it was in the [[East Germany|German Democratic Republic]] and named Karl-Marx-Stadt.</ref>
* [[Córdoba, Spain|Córdoba]], Spain<ref name=Jayne />
* [[Faisalabad]], Pakistan (1997)<ref name=Jayne />
* [[Los Angeles]], United States (2009)
* [[Rehovot]], Israel<ref name=Jayne />
* [[Saint Petersburg]], Russia<ref name=Jayne /> (1962)
* [[Wuhan]], People's Republic of China (1986)<ref>{{cite web |title=International civic links {{!}} International civic links {{!}} Manchester City Council |url=https://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/100004/the_council_and_democracy/5903/international_civic_links |website=www.manchester.gov.uk |access-date=10 March 2022 |archive-date=11 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221111025743/https://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/100004/the_council_and_democracy/5903/international_civic_links |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Melbourne]], Australia {{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}
* [[Osaka]], Japan<ref name=Jayne />

Manchester is home to the largest group of [[consul (representative)|consuls]] in the UK outside London. The expansion of international trade links during the Industrial Revolution led to the introduction of the first consuls in the 1820s and since then over 800, from all parts of the world, have been based in Manchester. Manchester hosts consular services for most of the north of England.<ref>{{cite book |author=Fox, David |title=Manchester Consuls |year=2007 |publisher=Carnegie Publishing |location=Lancaster |isbn=978-1-85936-155-9 |pages=vii–ix}}<br />{{cite web |title=Manchester Consular Association |url=https://www.manchesterconsularassociation.com/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119230017/https://www.manchesterconsularassociation.com/ |archive-date=19 January 2019 |url-status=live}}<br />{{cite web |url=http://mca.group.shef.ac.uk/index_Page320.htm |title=List of Consulates, Consulate Generals and High Commissioners |publisher=MCA (subsidiary of Sheffield University) |access-date=5 January 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212001011/http://mca.group.shef.ac.uk/index_Page320.htm |archive-date=12 December 2013}}</ref>