Discovering Brazil
Geographic Overview Brazil is divided into five regions and has 26 states, as well as one Federal District.
Regions (With each state, per region) North : Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima, Sergipe, and Tocantins Northeast : Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Maranhão, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, and Rio Grande do Norte Mid-West : Distrito Federal , Goiás, Matogrosso, and Mato Grosso do Sul
Southeast : Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, and Brazil South : Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul
Major Cities +
Brasilia : Brasilia is the capital of the country, designated in the First Constitution of Brazil (1891). Its bold and contemporary architecture was created by the architects and urbanists Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer and was inaugurated in 1960 + Belo Horizonte : Inaugurated in December of 1897, Belo Horizonte was the first planned city of Brazil. Currently, it is the fourth-largest urban center of the country
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Rio de Janeiro : Discovered by the first
Portuguese expedition that explored the coast in 1502. Today, Rio is the second major economical city of the country and one of the most fascinating tourist cities in the world with its exuberant landscapes and beautiful shores, frantic nightlife, delicious restaurants, and fantastic hotels
+ Sao Paulo : São Paulo is truly a cosmopolitan city with a multi-ethnic population and a more international and business environment than any other Brazilian city. São Paulo is a city of great wealth, wide boulevards, contemporary skyscrapers, sophisticated international boutiques, fabulous restaurants, state of the art hotels, and huge traffic jams
Other major cities: Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Recife, and Salvador
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