Vassouras
Vassouras is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Its population was 37,083 and its area is 552 km2. Vassouras was the setting for the Bangu neighborhood portrayed in the 1970 Brazilian film My Sweet Orange Tree, as well as the fictional town of "Florença" depicted in the 2001 miniseries Presença de Anita.- Town with about 34,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 430 metres (1,420 feet)
- Description: municipality of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil
- Neighbors: Miguel Pereira
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Latitude
-22.4094° or 22° 24′ 34″ south
Longitude
-43.6609° or 43° 39′ 39″ west
Open location code
589RH8RQ+6J
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Waray—“Vassouras” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Վասորաս”
- Basque: “Vassouras”
- Bishnupriya: “ভাসসৌরাস”
- Catalan: “Vassouras”
- Cebuano: “Vassouras”
- Chechen: “Васорас”
- Chinese: “瓦索拉斯”
- Danish: “Vassouras”
- Dutch: “Vassouras”
- Esperanto: “Vassouras”
- French: “Vassouras”
- Georgian: “ვასორასი”
- German: “Vassouras”
- Greek: “Βασσούρας”
- Hungarian: “Vassouras”
- Irish: “Vassouras”
- Italian: “Vassouras”
- Japanese: “ヴァソウラス”
- Japanese: “ヴァッソウラス市”
- Kazakh: “Vasoras”
- Kazakh: “Васорас”
- Kazakh: “ۆاسوراس”
- Malagasy: “Vassouras”
- Mazanderani: “واسسووراس”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vassouras”
- Norwegian: “Vassouras”
- Polish: “Vassouras”
- Portuguese: “Vassouras”
- Romanian: “Vassouras”
- Russian: “Васорас”
- Sardinian: “Vassouras”
- Spanish: “Vassouras”
- Swedish: “Vassouras”
- Tatar: “Васорас”
- Turkish: “Vassouras”
- Ukrainian: “Вассорас”
- Urdu: “واسوراش، برازیل”
- Vietnamese: “Vassouras”
- Volapük: “Vassouras”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vassouras”
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