Editing Dushanbe (section)

===Twin towns – sister cities===
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Asia#Tajikistan|l1=List of twin towns and sister cities in Tajikistan}}
[[File:Boulder Dushanbe table.JPG|thumb|Interior of the [[Boulder Dushanbe teahouse]]]]
Dushanbe is [[Sister city|twinned]] with:<ref>{{cite web |title=Бародаршаҳрҳо|url=https://dushanbe.tj/goroda-pobratimy|website=dushanbe.tj|publisher=Dushanbe|language=tg|access-date=2021-01-19}}</ref>
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*{{flagicon|TUR}} [[Ankara]], Turkey
*{{flagicon|TKM}} [[Ashgabat]], Turkmenistan
*{{flagicon|KAZ}} [[Astana]], Kazakhstan
*{{flagicon|AZE}} [[Baku]], Azerbaijan
*{{flagicon|USA}} [[Boulder, Colorado|Boulder]], United States
*{{flagicon|QAT}} [[Doha]], Qatar
*{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Hainan]], China
*{{flagicon|PAK}} [[Islamabad]], Pakistan
*{{flagicon|AUT}} [[Klagenfurt]], Austria
*{{flagicon|PAK}} [[Lahore]], Pakistan
*{{flagicon|ZMB}} [[Lusaka]], Zambia
*{{flagicon|AFG}} [[Mazar-i-Sharif]], Afghanistan
*{{flagicon|BLR}} [[Minsk]], Belarus
*{{flagicon|TUN}} [[Monastir, Tunisia|Monastir]], Tunisia
*{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Qingdao]], China
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Reutlingen]], Germany
*{{flagicon|RUS}} [[Saint Petersburg]], Russia
*{{flagicon|YEM}} [[Sanaa]], Yemen
*{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Shiraz]], Iran
*{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Tehran]], Iran
*{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Ürümqi]], China
*{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Xiamen]], China
{{div col end}}In 1982, Mary Hey and Sophia Stoller started an initiative to make Dushanbe a sister city of [[Boulder, Colorado|Boulder]] even though during that time they were on opposite sides of the [[Cold War]]. In 1987, the mayor of Dushanbe, [[Maksud Ikramov]], officially made Boulder a sister city of Dushanbe. Exchange students, tourism, and art exchanges began between the two cities. The [[Dushanbe Tea House|Tajik Teahouse]] was sent from Dushanbe to Boulder in 1990. During the [[Tajikistani Civil War|civil war]], Boulder sent humanitarian aid to Dushanbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Boulder Dushanbe Sister Cities|url=https://www.boulder-dushanbe.org/history|access-date=2020-08-05|website=Boulder-Dushanbe Sis|archive-date=8 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408232259/https://www.boulder-dushanbe.org/history|url-status=dead}}</ref>