Federal District
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- Type: federal district of Brazil with 2,650,000 residents
- Description: federal district of Brazil, a federative unit in the Central-West Region of Brazil
- Also known as: “DF”, “Distrito Federal”, “Distrito Federal de Brasília”, “Futuro Distrito Federal”, “Municipio Federal”, and “Novo Distrito Federal”
- Neighbors: Goiás and Minas Gerais
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Paranoá and Itapoã.
Paranoá
Town
Paranoá is an administrative region in the Federal District in Brazil. It is located to the east of Paranoá Lake, being bordered by Lago Norte, Itapoã and Planaltina to the north, São Sebastião and Jardim Botânico to the south.
Itapoã
Town
Itapoã is an administrative region in the Federal District in Brazil. Itapoã was founded on January 3, 2005, receiving the status of administrative region, according to Law 3527, of January 3, 2005.
Federal District
- Categories: capital district or territory and federative unit of Brazil
- Location: Brazil, South America
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Federal District” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “DF”
- Afrikaans: “Distrito Federal”
- Afrikaans: “Federale Distrik”
- Albanian: “Distrikti Federal i Brazilit”
- Arabic: “DF”
- Arabic: “Distrito Federal”
- Arabic: “القطاع الفدرالي”
- Arabic: “ديستريتو فيديرال”
- Aragonese: “Districto Federal (Brasil)”
- Aragonese: “Districto Federal”
- Armenian: “Դաշնային շրջան”
- Asturian: “DF”
- Asturian: “Distrito Federal”
- Asturian: “Distritu Federal”
- Azerbaijani: “DF”
- Azerbaijani: “Distrito Federal”
- Azerbaijani: “Federal dairə”
- Basque: “Barruti Federala”
- Basque: “DF”
- Basque: “Distrito Federal”
- Belarusian: “DF”
- Belarusian: “Distrito Federal”
- Belarusian: “Федэральная акруга”
- Belarusian: “Фэдэральная акруга (Бразылія)”
- Belarusian: “Фэдэральная акруга Бразыліі”
- Belarusian: “Фэдэральная акруга”
- Bengali: “ফেডারেল জেলা”
- Breton: “DF”
- Breton: “Distrig kevreadel”
- Breton: “Distrig Kevreadel”
- Breton: “Distrig kevredadel”
- Breton: “Distrito Federal”
- Bulgarian: “DF”
- Bulgarian: “Distrito Federal”
- Bulgarian: “Федерален окръг”
- Catalan: “DF”
- Catalan: “Districte Federal del Brasil”
- Catalan: “Districte Federal”
- Catalan: “Distrito Federal”
- Cebuano: “Federal District”
- Chavacano: “Distrito Federal”
- Chinese: “联邦区”
- Chinese: “聯邦區”
- Cornish: “DF”
- Cornish: “Distrito Federal”
- Cornish: “Ranndir an Kesunyans Brasilek”
- Crimean Tatar: “Federal bölge”
- Croatian: “Brazilski federalni distrikt”
- Croatian: “DF”
- Croatian: “Distrito Federal”
- Czech: “DF”
- Czech: “Distrito Federal do Brasil”
- Czech: “Distrito Federal”
- Czech: “Federální distrikt Brazílie”
- Czech: “Federální distrikt”
- Danish: “Distrito Federal”
- Dutch: “DF”
- Dutch: “Distrito Federal”
- Dutch: “Federaal District”
- Esperanto: “DF”
- Esperanto: “Distrito Federal”
- Esperanto: “Federacia distrikto”
- Esperanto: “Federacia Distrikto”
- Estonian: “DF”
- Estonian: “Distrito Federal”
- Estonian: “Liiduringkond”
- Finnish: “DF”
- Finnish: “Distrito Federa”
- Finnish: “Distrito Federal”
- French: “DF”
- French: “District fédéral”
- French: “Distrito Federal”
- Galician: “Distrito Federal, Brasil”
- Galician: “Distrito Federal”
- Georgian: “DF”
- Georgian: “Distrito Federal”
- Georgian: “ფედერალური ოლქი”
- German: “DF”
- German: “Distrito Federal do Brasil”
- German: “Distrito Federal”
- Greek: “DF”
- Greek: “Distrito Federal”
- Greek: “Ομοσπονδιακό Διαμέρισμα”
- Guarani: “DF”
- Guarani: “Distrito Federal Vrasil”
- Guarani: “Distrito Federal”
- Gujarati: “DF”
- Gujarati: “Distrito Federal”
- Gujarati: “ફેડરલ જિલ્લો”
- Hebrew: “DF”
- Hebrew: “Distrito Federal”
- Hebrew: “המחוז הפדרלי של ברזיל”
- Hebrew: “המחוז הפדרלי”
- Hindi: “DF”
- Hindi: “Distrito Federal”
- Hindi: “फेडरल डिस्ट्रिक्ट”
- Hungarian: “DF”
- Hungarian: “Distrito Federal”
- Hungarian: “Szövetségi kerület”
- Icelandic: “Distrito Federal”
- Indonesian: “DF”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Federal Brasil”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Federal”
- Indonesian: “Distrito Federal”
- Interlingua: “DF”
- Interlingua: “Districto Federal”
- Interlingua: “Distrito Federal”
- Italian: “DF”
- Italian: “Distretto Federale”
- Italian: “Distrito Federal”
- Japanese: “DF”
- Japanese: “Distrito Federal”
- Japanese: “ブラジリア連邦直轄区”
- Japanese: “連邦直轄区”
- Kannada: “DF”
- Kannada: “Distrito Federal”
- Kannada: “ಫೆಡರಲ್ ಡಿಸ್ಟ್ರಿಕ್ಟ್”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Бразилияны Федерал округу”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Федерал дистрикт”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Федерал округ”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Федерал Округ”
- Korean: “DF”
- Korean: “Distrito Federal”
- Korean: “연방구”
- Ladino: “Distrito Federal”
- Latin: “DF”
- Latin: “districtus foederalis”
- Latin: “Districtus Foederalis”
- Latin: “Distrito Federal”
- Latin: “Distritum Foederale”
- Latvian: “DF”
- Latvian: “Distrito Federal”
- Latvian: “Federālais apgabals”
- Latvian: “Federālais distrikts”
- Limburgan: “Distrito Federal”
- Limburgan: “Federaol Distrik”
- Lithuanian: “DF”
- Lithuanian: “Distrito Federal”
- Lithuanian: “Federalinė sritis”
- Macedonian: “Федерален округ”
- Malagasy: “Distrito Federal (Brazila)”
- Malagasy: “Distrito Federal”
- Malay: “Daerah Persekutuan”
- Malay: “DF”
- Malay: “Distrito Federal”
- Malay: “Wilayah Persekutuan Brazil”
- Maltese: “Distrett Federali”
- Marathi: “शासकीय जिल्हा”
- Northern Frisian: “Distrito Federal do Brasil”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Distrito Federal”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Det føderale distriktet i Brasil”
- Norwegian: “Distrito Federal”
- Norwegian: “Føderale distrikt”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Districte Federal”
- Ossetian: “Федералон зылд”
- Persian: “ناحیه فدرال”
- Piemontese: “DF”
- Piemontese: “Distret Federal dël Brasil”
- Piemontese: “Distret Federal”
- Piemontese: “Distrito Federal”
- Polish: “DF”
- Polish: “Distrito Federal”
- Polish: “Dystrykt Federalny”
- Portuguese: “DF”
- Portuguese: “Distrito Federal”
- Quechua: “DF”
- Quechua: “Distrito Federal”
- Quechua: “Tantasqap suyun”
- Romanian: “DF”
- Romanian: “Districtul Federal”
- Romanian: “Distrito Federal”
- Russian: “DF”
- Russian: “Distrito Federal”
- Russian: “Федеральный округ”
- Scots: “DF”
- Scots: “Distrito Federal”
- Scots: “Federal Destrict”
- Serbian: “DF”
- Serbian: “Distrito Federal”
- Serbian: “Savezni distrikt Brazila”
- Serbian: “Савезни дистрикт Бразила”
- Serbian: “Савезни дистрикт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “DF”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Distrito Federal”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Federalni distrikt Brazila”
- Sinhala: “ෆෙඩරල් දිස්ත්රික්කය, බ්රසීලය”
- Sinhala: “ෆෙඩරල් දිස්ත්රික්කය”
- Slovak: “Distrito Federal do Brasil”
- Slovak: “Distrito Federal”
- Slovenian: “Zvezno okrožje Brazilija”
- Slovenian: “Zvezno okrožje”
- Spanish: “DF”
- Spanish: “Distrito Federal”
- Swahili: “Distrito Federal”
- Swedish: “Brasiliens federala distrikt”
- Swedish: “Federala distrikt”
- Tajik: “Савезни дистрикт”
- Tajik: “Ҳавзаи федералии Бразилиа”
- Tajik: “Ҳавзаи федералии”
- Tamil: “DF”
- Tamil: “Distrito Federal”
- Tamil: “கூட்டரசு மாநிலம்”
- Tamil: “கூட்டரசு மாவட்டம்”
- Tatar: “Федераль округ”
- Telugu: “ఫెడరల్ జిల్లా”
- Thai: “จิสตรีตูเฟเดรัล”
- Thai: “เฟเดอรัลดิสตริกต์”
- Turkish: “BR-DF”
- Turkish: “DF”
- Turkish: “Distrito Federal”
- Turkish: “Federal Bölge (eyalet)”
- Turkish: “Federal Bölge eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Federal Bölge”
- Ukrainian: “DF”
- Ukrainian: “Distrito Federal”
- Ukrainian: “Федеральний округ Бразилії”
- Ukrainian: “Федеральний округ”
- Urdu: “وفاقی ضلع”
- Uzbek: “Federal okrug”
- Venetian: “Distreto Federal”
- Vietnamese: “DF”
- Vietnamese: “Distrito Federal”
- Vietnamese: “Quận liên bang Brasil”
- Vietnamese: “Quận liên bang”
- Waray (Philippines): “Distrito Federal han Brasil”
- Welsh: “Distrito Federal”
- Western Panjabi: “DF”
- Western Panjabi: “Distrito Federal”
- Western Panjabi: “وفاقی ضلع”
- Wu Chinese: “联邦区（巴西）”
- Wu Chinese: “联邦区”
- Xhosa: “ISithili soMdibaniso (eBrazil)”
- Xhosa: “ISithili soMdibaniso”
- Yoruba: “Brazilian Federal District”
- Yoruba: “Federal District”
- Yue Chinese: “聯邦區”
- “BR-DF”
- “DF”
- “Distrito Federal”
- “Federal District”
- “ma lawa Pasiju”
- “ma lawa pi ma Pasiju”
- “ma Silitupetela”
- “ma Sisitupetela”
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