Sister States and Regions
- Iowa, USA (since 1960)
- Minas Gerais, Brazil (since 1973)
- Sichuan Province, China (since 1985)
- Chungcheongbuk-do, Korea (since 1992)
- Saône-et-Loire, France (since 2000)
- Fairfield, California, USA (since 1970s)
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Famous quotes containing the words sister, states and/or regions:
“I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almighty mortal hardly as yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no sister Juno, no Apollo, no Venus, nor Minerva, to intercede for me, thumoi phileousa te, kedomene te.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)