Gainesville has several sister cities:
1965 Tegucigalpa, Honduras
1977 Manizales, Colombia
1980 Cumbernauld, Scotland
1982 Novorossiisk, Russia
1987 Matagalpa, Nicaragua
1988 Jacmel, Haiti
2005 Duhok, Iraq
2013 Rzenzow, Russia
2015 Deir Alla, Jordan
2015 Mejdlaya, Labanon
