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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
ISO 3166-2:BR is the entry for Brazil in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g. provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
Brazil is geopolitically divided into five regions (also called macroregions), by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, which are formed by the federative units of Brazil. Although officially recognized, the division is merely academic, considering geographic, social and economic factors, among others, and has no political ...
Federative unit Urban Rate Rural Rate 1 Rio de Janeiro: 96.71 3.29 2 Federal District: 96.62 3.38 3 São Paulo: 95.88 4.12 4 Goiás: 90.29 9.71 5 Amapá: 89.81 10.19 6 Mato Grosso do Sul: 85.64 14.36 7 Paraná: 85.31 14.49 8 Espírito Santo: 85.29 14.51 9 Rio Grande do Sul: 85.10 14.90 10 Santa Catarina: 83.99 16.01 11 Minas Gerais: 83.38 16.62 ...
The methodology used by the UNDP to measure the HDI of all 5,565 Brazilian municipalities and 27 federative units differs from that used for countries. Although it has the same three dimensions of the global HDI—education, income and longevity—it adapts the global methodology to the Brazilian context and the availability of national indicators. [15]