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Mercer Island-Thonon les Bains Sister City Association celebrates its tenth anniversary after establishing a liaison in 2000, which has strengthened the friendship between the two cities.
Mercer Island sits in Lake Washington, east of Seattle and west of Bellevue.
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Thonon les Bains is situated along Lake Geneva in the Haute Savoie region of France.
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Seattle-Nantes Sister City Association marks its thirtieth anniversary this year after subsequently forming in 1980. The association works to increase relationships and understanding between Seattle and Nantes through cultural, educational, and professional exchanges.
Seattle is the largest city in the Pacific Northwest framed by views of the Olympic and Cascade Mountains and bordered by the Puget Sound and Lake Washington. Seattle is a city of 602,000 people with a metropolitan population of 3,340,000.
Nantes is located in northwestern France in the département of Loire-Atlantique along the Loire River. Nantes is connected to the Atlantic by a ship canal to Saint Nazaire. Nantes is the sixth largest city in France with a population of 280,000 and a metropolitan population of 800,000.
France is divided into twenty-two régions, which are subdivided into départements. There are ninety-six départements. Nantes is in the département of Loire-Atlantique and Thonon-les-Bains is in département of Haute-Savoie.
