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The federative units of Brazil (Portuguese: unidades federativas do Brasil) are subnational entities with a certain degree of autonomy (self-government, self-regulation, and self-collection) and endowed with their own government and constitution, which together form the Federative Republic of Brazil.
Federated States of Micronesia: Federal 4 states: 70+ municipalities: Moldova: Regional 32 districts or raions (Romanian: raioane) 3 municipalities : Chișinău, Bălți, and Tighina 2 autonomous territorial units: Gagauzia and Left Bank of the Dniester (claimed but administered as the unrecognized independent country of Transnistria)
Categories by state of Brazil (16 C) * Former states of Brazil (1 C) ... Pages in category "Federative units of Brazil" The following 28 pages are in this category ...
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Brazil is made up of five geographic regions (North, Northeast, Southeast, South and central-West) that comprise 27 federative units and, for their part include 5570 municipalities. In total, the municipalities are distributed in 510 immediate geographic regions, which in turn are grouped into 133 intermediate geographic regions.
There are 5569 municipalities in Brazil, comprising almost the entirety of the country's territory. The only exceptions are the Federal District (not divided into municipalities, but into 35 administrative regions, without any political autonomy) and the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha , which consists in a state district of Pernambuco.
Brazil is formed by the union of 27 federative units—26 states and the Federal District, which contains the capital city, Brasília. Of these, seven states; São Paulo , Rio de Janeiro , Minas Gerais , Rio Grande do Sul , Paraná , Bahia and Santa Catarina ; with the Federal District, constitute almost 80% of the national economy.
Pages in category "Lists of states of Brazil" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... List of Brazilian federative units by urbanization rate;