The Lexington Sister Cities Commission is a non-profit organization that manages and maintains programs and partnerships with Lexington's four Sister Cities.
Lexington has four Sister Cities:
Deauville, France – 1957
County Kildare, Ireland – 1984
Shinhidaka, Japan – 1988
Newmarket, England – 2003
Sister cities international
Sister Cities International was created by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956 as a way to promote peace and prosperity through citizen diplomacy. President Eisenhower reasoned: "If we are going to take advantage of the assumption that all people want peace, then the problem is for people to get together and to leap governments – if necessary to evade governments – to work out not one method but thousands of methods by which people can gradually learn a little bit more of each other." Now, Sister Cities International has united tens of thousands of citizen diplomats and volunteers in 150 countries on six continents.