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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 34,000 residents
- Description: municipality of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil
- Neighbors: Miguel Pereira
Vassouras
- Categories: municipality of Brazil and locality
- Location: Rio de Janeiro, Southeast, Brazil, South America
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Latitude
-22.4094° or 22° 24′ 34″ southLongitude
-43.6609° or 43° 39′ 39″ westPopulation
34,000Elevation
517 metres (1,696 feet)Open location code
589RH8RQ+6JOpenStreetMap ID
node 338515482OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6322083Wikidata ID
Q1806430
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Vietnamese: “Vassouras”
- Volapük: “Vassouras”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vassouras”
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