Bahia
Bahia is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population and the 5th-largest by area.
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Bahia Interior
Bahia
- Type: State with 14,100,000 residents
- Description: state in the Northeast Region of Brazil
- Also known as: “BA”, “Bahia (estáu de Brasil)”, “Bahia (eyalet)”, “Bahia eyaleti”, “Bahianais”, “Bahianaise”, “Baja”, “BR-BA”, “Estado da Baía”, “Estado de Bahia”, “estáu de Bahia”, “Etat de Bahia”, “État de Bahia”, “ma Bahia”, “ma Paja”, “provincia Bahiensis”, “provincia Baiae”, “State of Bahia”, “Stato di Bahia”, “Баиа”, “Баійя”, “Байя”, “Штат Баїя”, “Штат Байя”, “Штат Бая”, “बहिया”, “बाइया”, “バイア州”, “巴伊亚”, and “巴伊亞”
- Neighbors: Alagoas, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Minas Gerais, Pernambuco, Piauí, Sergipe, and Tocantins
- Categories: federative unit of Brazil and locality
- Location: Northeast, Brazil, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
-12.2853° or 12° 17′ 7″ south
Longitude of center
-41.9295° or 41° 55′ 46″ west
Population
14,100,000
Elevation
838 metres (2,749 feet)
Abbreviation
“BA”
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Bahia” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bahia”
- Albanian: “Bahia”
- Amharic: “ባህያ”
- Arabic: “باهيا”
- Aragonese: “Estau de Bahia”
- Armenian: “Բահիա”
- Armenian: “Իտամարաժու”
- Asturian: “Bahia”
- Aymara: “Bahia Istadu”
- Azerbaijani: “Bahiya”
- Azerbaijani: “Baiya”
- Basque: “Bahia”
- Basque: “Bahiako estatua”
- Belarusian: “Баія”
- Belarusian: “штат Баія”
- Bengali: “বাহিয়া”
- Bishnupriya: “বাহিয়া”
- Bosnian: “Bahia”
- Breton: “Bahia”
- Bulgarian: “Баия”
- Burmese: “ဘာဟီယာပြည်နယ်”
- Catalan: “Estat de Bahia”
- Cebuano: “Bahia (estado)”
- Cebuano: “Bahia”
- Central Kurdish: “باھیا”
- Chavacano: “Bahía”
- Chinese: “巴伊亚州”
- Chinese: “巴伊亞州”
- Cornish: “Bahia”
- Crimean Tatar: “Baiya”
- Croatian: “Bahia”
- Czech: “Bahia”
- Dagbani: “Bahia State”
- Danish: “Bahia”
- Dutch: “Bahia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باهيا”
- Emilian: “Bahia”
- Esperanto: “Bahio”
- Estonian: “Bahia osariik”
- Fijian: “Bahia”
- Finnish: “Bahia”
- French: “Bahia”
- Galician: “Baía, Brasil”
- Galician: “Baía”
- Georgian: “ბაია”
- German: “Bahia”
- Greek: “Μπαΐα”
- Guarani: “Bahia”
- Gujarati: “બહિઆ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Bahia-chû”
- Hausa: “Bahiya”
- Hebrew: “באהיה”
- Hindi: “बाहिया”
- Hungarian: “Bahia”
- Icelandic: “Bahia”
- Ido: “Bahia”
- Indonesian: “Bahia”
- Interlingua: “Bahia”
- Irish: “Bahia”
- Italian: “Bahia”
- Japanese: “バイーア”
- Japanese: “バイーア州”
- Javanese: “Bahiya”
- Kannada: “ಬಹಿಯ”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Баия”
- Kazakh: “Баия”
- Kirghiz: “Баия”
- Korean: “바이아”
- Korean: “바이아주”
- Ladino: “Bahia”
- Latin: “civitas Bahiensis”
- Latin: “Civitas Bahiensis”
- Latvian: “Baija”
- Limburgan: “Bahia”
- Lithuanian: “Bahija”
- Macedonian: “Баија”
- Malagasy: “Bahia”
- Malay: “Bahia”
- Malayalam: “ബാഹിയ”
- Marathi: “बाईया”
- Mazanderani: “باهیا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bahia”
- Minangkabau: “Bahia”
- Mirandese: “Bahia”
- Mirandese: “Baía”
- Northern Frisian: “Bahia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bahia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bahia”
- Norwegian: “Bahia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bahia”
- Oromo: “Bahiya”
- Ossetian: “Баия”
- Panjabi: “ਬਾਹੀਆ”
- Persian: “باهیا”
- Piemontese: “Bahia”
- Polish: “Bahia”
- Portuguese: “Bahia”
- Portuguese: “Baía”
- Portuguese: “Estado da Bahia”
- Pushto: “باهيا”
- Pushto: “باهیا”
- Quechua: “Bahia suyu”
- Romanian: “Bahia”
- Russian: “Баия”
- Scots: “Bahia”
- Serbian: “Баија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bahia”
- Sinhala: “බහියා ප්රාන්තය, බ්රසීලය”
- Sinhala: “බහියා”
- Slovak: “Bahia”
- Slovenian: “Bahia”
- Somali: “Bahiya”
- Spanish: “Bahía”
- Spanish: “Estado de Bahía”
- Swahili: “Bahia”
- Swahili: “Bahiya”
- Swedish: “Bahia”
- Tagalog: “Bahia”
- Tajik: “Баия”
- Tamil: “பாகையா”
- Tatar: “Bahiya”
- Tatar: “Баия”
- Telugu: “బాహియా”
- Tetum: “Bahia”
- Thai: “รัฐบาเยีย”
- Turkish: “Bahia”
- Ukrainian: “Баїя”
- Urdu: “باہیا”
- Uzbek: “Bahia”
- Uzbek: “Bahiya”
- Uzbek: “Baiya”
- Venetian: “Bahia”
- Vietnamese: “Bahia”
- Volapük: “Bahia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bahia”
- Welsh: “Bahia”
- Western Frisian: “Bahia”
- Western Panjabi: “باہیا”
- Wu Chinese: “巴伊亚州”
- Yoruba: “Bahia”
- Yue Chinese: “巴伊亞州”
- “Bahia”
- “ma Pawija”
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