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Bahia

Bahia is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population and the 5th-largest by area.
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is the capital of the state of Bahia, . With a charming Old Town, a vibrant musical scene and popular Carnaval celebrations, it is considered one of the birthplaces of Brazilian culture.

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is a city in Bahia, Brazil. It is the second-most populous city in the state, with a population of 616,272 according to IBGE's census in 2022.

is a municipality in Bahia, , that has a population of approximately 398.000 people as of penad 2025, according to the IBGE.

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Southern Bahia is a region of the state of Bahia, in the of .

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is in northern coast of the state of Bahia in .

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The is an inland region in the state of Bahia in . It is famous for being the centre of the diamond rush in the 19th century.

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is a large region that covers the less-developed west and north of the state of Bahia in . It includes the "Coconut Coast", which is the most northern region on the coast of Bahia, .

Bahia

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
node 539691270
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3471168
Wiki­data ID
Q40430
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Bahia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bahia”
  • Albanian: “Bahia”
  • Arabic: “باهيا”
  • Armenian: “Բահիա”
  • Armenian: “Իտամարաժու”
  • Asturian: “Bahia (estáu de Brasil)”
  • Asturian: “Bahia”
  • Asturian: “estáu de Bahia”
  • Aymara: “Bahia Istadu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Baiya”
  • Basque: “Bahia”
  • Basque: “Bahiako estatua”
  • Belarusian: “Баія”
  • Belarusian: “штат Баія”
  • Belarusian: “Штат Байя”
  • Belarusian: “Штат Бая”
  • 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: “Bahia”
  • Chinese: “巴伊亚”
  • Chinese: “巴伊亚州”
  • Chinese: “巴伊亞”
  • Chinese: “巴伊亞州”
  • Cornish: “Bahia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Baiya”
  • Croatian: “Bahia”
  • Croatian: “Bahía”
  • Czech: “Bahia”
  • Czech: “Bahía”
  • Dagbani: “Bahia State”
  • Danish: “Bahia”
  • Dutch: “Bahia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باهيا”
  • Esperanto: “Bahia”
  • Esperanto: “Bahio”
  • Estonian: “Bahia osariik”
  • Estonian: “Bahia”
  • Fijian: “Bahia”
  • Finnish: “Bahia”
  • French: “Bahia”
  • French: “Bahianais”
  • French: “Bahianaise”
  • French: “Etat de Bahia”
  • French: “État de Bahia”
  • Galician: “Bahia”
  • Galician: “Baía, Brasil”
  • Galician: “Baía”
  • Galician: “Estado da Bahia”
  • Georgian: “ბაია”
  • German: “BA”
  • German: “Bahia”
  • Greek: “Μπαΐα”
  • Guarani: “Bahia”
  • Gujarati: “બહિઆ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Bahia-chû”
  • Hebrew: “באהיה”
  • Hindi: “बहिया”
  • Hindi: “बाहिया”
  • Hungarian: “Bahia”
  • Icelandic: “Bahia”
  • Ido: “Bahia”
  • Indonesian: “Bahia”
  • Interlingua: “Bahia”
  • Irish: “Bahia”
  • Italian: “BA”
  • Italian: “Bahia”
  • Italian: “Stato di Bahia”
  • Japanese: “バイーア”
  • Japanese: “バイーア州”
  • Japanese: “バイア州”
  • Kannada: “ಬಹಿಯ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Баия”
  • Kazakh: “Баия”
  • Korean: “바이아주”
  • Ladino: “Bahia”
  • Latin: “civitas Bahiensis”
  • Latin: “Civitas Bahiensis”
  • Latin: “provincia Bahiensis”
  • Latin: “provincia Baiae”
  • Latvian: “Baija”
  • Limburgan: “Bahia”
  • Lithuanian: “Bahija”
  • Lithuanian: “Baja”
  • Macedonian: “Баија”
  • Malagasy: “Bahia”
  • Malay: “Bahia”
  • Malayalam: “ബാഹിയ”
  • Marathi: “बाइया”
  • Marathi: “बाईया”
  • Marathi: “बाहिया”
  • Mazanderani: “باهیا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bahia”
  • Mirandese: “Bahia”
  • Mirandese: “Baía”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bahia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bahia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bahía”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bahia”
  • Norwegian: “Bahia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bahia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Estat de Bahia”
  • Ossetian: “Баия”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਹੀਆ”
  • Persian: “باهیا”
  • Piemontese: “Bahia”
  • Polish: “Bahia”
  • Polish: “Bahía”
  • Portuguese: “BA”
  • Portuguese: “Bahia”
  • Portuguese: “Baía”
  • Portuguese: “BR-BA”
  • Portuguese: “Estado da Bahia”
  • Portuguese: “Estado da Baía”
  • Pushto: “باهيا”
  • Quechua: “Bahia suyu”
  • Romanian: “Bahia”
  • Russian: “Баиа”
  • Russian: “Баия”
  • Scots: “Bahia”
  • Serbian: “Bahia”
  • Serbian: “Баија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bahia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Baija”
  • Sinhala: “බහියා ප්‍රාන්තය, බ්‍රසීලය”
  • Sinhala: “බහියා”
  • Slovak: “Bahia”
  • Slovenian: “BA”
  • Slovenian: “Bahia”
  • Slovenian: “Bahija”
  • Spanish: “Bahia”
  • Spanish: “Bahía”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Bahia”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Bahía”
  • Swahili: “Bahia”
  • Swedish: “Bahia”
  • Tagalog: “Bahia”
  • Tajik: “Баия”
  • Tamil: “பாகையா”
  • Tatar: “Баия”
  • Telugu: “బాహియా”
  • Tetum: “Bahia”
  • Thai: “รัฐบาเยีย”
  • Turkish: “BA”
  • Turkish: “Bahia (eyalet)”
  • Turkish: “Bahia eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Bahia”
  • Turkish: “BR-BA”
  • Turkish: “Estado da Bahia”
  • Ukrainian: “Баійя”
  • Ukrainian: “Баїя”
  • Ukrainian: “Байя”
  • Ukrainian: “Штат Баїя”
  • Urdu: “باہیا”
  • Uzbek: “Bahia”
  • Uzbek: “Baiya”
  • Venetian: “Bahia”
  • Vietnamese: “Bahia”
  • Volapük: “Bahia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bahia”
  • Welsh: “Bahia”
  • Western Panjabi: “باہیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴伊亚州”
  • Yoruba: “Bahia”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴伊亞州”
  • “BA”
  • “Bahia”
  • “BR-BA”
  • “ma Bahia”
  • “ma Paja”
  • “ma Pawija”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bahia”. Photo: Glauco Umbelino, CC BY 2.0.