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A street sign indicating a Brazilian Postal Code (13010-111) at its bottom, in Campinas. Código de Endereçamento Postal (Postal Addressing Code) is the Brazilian postal code system commonly known as CEP. Introduced in 1972 as a sequence of five digits, it was expanded to eight digits in 1992 to allow for more precise localization.
Florianópolis (Portuguese pronunciation: [floɾiaˈnɔpolis]) is the capital and second largest city of the state of Santa Catarina, in the South region of Brazil.The city encompasses Santa Catarina Island and surrounding small islands, as well as part of the mainland.
The current capital of Brazil, since its construction in 1960, is Brasília. Rio de Janeiro was the country's capital between 1763 and 1960. The city of Salvador served as the seat for the Portuguese colonial administration in Brazil for its first two centuries and is usually called the "first capital of Brazil."
Belém (1737–1772) - seat city for the State of Grão-Pará and Maranhão; Belém (1772–1822) - seat city for the State of Grão-Pará and Rio Negro; Belém (1822–1850) - seat city for the Province of Grão-Pará; Belém (1850–1889) - seat city for the Province of Pará; Belém (1889–present) - seat city for the State of Pará
The state's largest city, Joinville, has a population of 616,317, making it the 34th most populous city in Brazil. [53] Meanwhile, its capital, Florianópolis , which is the state's second-largest city, has a population of 537,211, ranking it 39th among Brazilian municipalities by population.
Political map of Brazil, showing the division by states and regions This page was last edited on 1 November 2023, at 07:52 (UTC). Text is ... Code of Conduct;
Population distribution in Brazil. Brazil has a high level of urbanization with 87.8% [1] of the population residing in urban and metropolitan areas. The criteria used by the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) [2] in determining whether households are urban or rural, however, are based on political divisions, not on the developed environment.
Brazil, [b] officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, [c] is the largest and easternmost country in South America. It is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh largest by population, with over 203 million people. The country is a federation composed of 26 states and a Federal District, which hosts the capital, Brasília.