South
Santa Catarina
Grande Florianópolis

Florianopolis

Florianópolis is a coastal city in , the capital of the state of . Most of the city's area consists of the island of Santa Catarina, connected to the mainland by two bridges, and only a small part of the island can really be called urban—the rest is full of gorgeous beaches and nature, including a large lagoon.
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  • Type: City with 537,000 residents
  • Description: municipality of Santa Catarina state, Brazil
  • Also known as: “Destero”, “Desterro”, “Florianópolis”, “Florianópolis, Brazil”, and “Florianópolis, Santa Catarina”
  • Historically known as: “Santa Catherina”
  • Neighbors: and
Photo: Herr stahlhoefer, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hercílio Luz Bridge and Teatro Álvaro de Carvalho.

Photo: Rodrigo Soldon, CC BY 2.0.
The , located in Florianópolis, the capital city of Santa Catarina State in southern , is the first bridge constructed to link the Island of Santa Catarina to the mainland.

Theater building
Photo: Eugenio Hansen, OFS, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a theater building.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Our Lady of Exile and St. Catherine of Alexandria Cathedral Also Florianópolis Cathedral It is a Catholic church dedicated to Our Lady of the Exile, which functions as the cathedral of the archdiocese of Florianópolis, since its creation on March 19, 1908.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Trindade and Saco dos Limões.

Suburb
Photo: Boaventuravinicius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb.

Suburb
Photo: Janko Hoener, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a suburb.

Florianopolis

Latitude
-27.5973° or 27° 35′ 50″ south
Longitude
-48.5501° or 48° 33′ 1″ west
Population
537,000
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
IATA airport code
FLN
United Nations Location Code
BR FLN
Open location code
584HCC3X+3W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 90200226
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3463237
Wiki­data ID
Q132997
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Florianopolis” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Florianopolis”
  • Afrikaans: “Florianópolis”
  • Arabic: “فلوريانوبوليس”
  • Armenian: “Ֆլիրիանոպոլիս”
  • Armenian: “Ֆլորիանոպոլիս”
  • Asturian: “Florianópolis”
  • Azerbaijani: “Florianopolis”
  • Azerbaijani: “Florianópolis”
  • Basque: “Florianópolis”
  • Belarusian: “Фларыянопаліс”
  • Bengali: “ফ্লরিয়ানোপলি”
  • Bengali: “ফ্লোরিয়ানোপোলিস”
  • Bishnupriya: “ফ্লোরিয়ানোপোলিস”
  • Bosnian: “Florianópolis”
  • Breton: “Florianópolis”
  • Bulgarian: “Флорианополис”
  • Catalan: “Florianópolis”
  • Catalan: “Floripa”
  • Cebuano: “Florianópolis”
  • Central Kurdish: “فلۆریانۆپۆلیس”
  • Chechen: “Флорианополис”
  • Chinese: “Florianópolis”
  • Chinese: “弗洛里亚诺波利斯”
  • Chinese: “弗洛里亞諾波利斯”
  • Croatian: “Florianópolis”
  • Czech: “Florianapolis”
  • Czech: “Florianópolis”
  • Czech: “Floripa”
  • Danish: “Florianopolis”
  • Danish: “Florianópolis”
  • Dutch: “Florianópolis”
  • Esperanto: “Florianopolis”
  • Esperanto: “Florianópolis”
  • Esperanto: “Florianopolo”
  • Estonian: “Florianópolis”
  • Finnish: “Florianopolis”
  • Finnish: “Florianópolis”
  • French: “Florianopolis”
  • French: “Florianópolis”
  • French: “Floripa”
  • French: “Nossa Senhora do Desterro”
  • Galician: “Florianópolis”
  • Georgian: “ფლორიანოპოლისი”
  • German: “Florianopolis”
  • German: “Florianópolis”
  • German: “Floripa”
  • Greek: “Φλοριανόπολις”
  • Guarani: “Florianópolis”
  • Gujarati: “ફ્લોરિયાનોપોલીસ”
  • Hebrew: “פלוריאנופוליס”
  • Hindi: “फ्लोरिआनोपोलिस”
  • Hungarian: “Florianópolis”
  • Icelandic: “Florianópolis”
  • Ido: “Florianópolis”
  • Indonesian: “Florianopolis”
  • Indonesian: “Florianópolis”
  • Interlingua: “Florianopolis”
  • Interlingua: “Florianópolis”
  • Interlingue: “Florianópolis”
  • Irish: “Florianópolis”
  • Italian: “Florianopolis”
  • Italian: “Florianópolis”
  • Japanese: “フロリアーノポリス”
  • Japanese: “フロリアノーポリス”
  • Japanese: “フロリアノッポリス”
  • Japanese: “フロリアノポリス”
  • Kannada: “ಫ್ಲೋರಿಯಾನೋಪೊಲಿಸ್”
  • Korean: “플로리아노뽈리스”
  • Korean: “플로리아노폴리스”
  • Latin: “Florianopolis”
  • Latvian: “Florianopolisa”
  • Latvian: “Floriānopolisa”
  • Latvian: “Florjanopolisa”
  • Lithuanian: “Florianopolis”
  • Lombard: “Florianópolis”
  • Malagasy: “Florianópolis”
  • Malay: “Florianopolis”
  • Marathi: “फ्लोरियानोपोलिस”
  • Mazanderani: “فلوریانوپلیس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Florianópolis”
  • Mirandese: “Florianópolis”
  • Northern Frisian: “Florianópolis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Florianopolis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Florianópolis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Florianópolis”
  • Norwegian: “Florianópolis”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Florianópolis”
  • Ossetian: “Флорианополис”
  • Persian: “فلوریانوپلیس”
  • Polish: “Florianopolis”
  • Polish: “Florianópolis”
  • Portuguese: “Florianopolis”
  • Portuguese: “Florianópolis”
  • Portuguese: “Florianopolitano”
  • Portuguese: “Floripa”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha da Magia”
  • Portuguese: “Nossa Senhora de Desterro”
  • Portuguese: “Vila de Nossa Senhora do Desterro”
  • Portuguese: “Nossa Senhora do Destêrro” (historical)
  • Quechua: “Florianópolis”
  • Romanian: “Florianopolis”
  • Romanian: “Florianópolis”
  • Russian: “Флорианополис”
  • Scots: “Florianópolis”
  • Serbian: “Florianópolis”
  • Serbian: “Florijanopolis”
  • Serbian: “Флоријанополис”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Florianópolis”
  • Silesian: “Florianópolis”
  • Sinhala: “ෆ්ලොරියනෝපොලිස්”
  • Slovak: “Florianópolis”
  • Slovenian: “Florianópolis”
  • Spanish: “Florianapolis”
  • Spanish: “Florianópolis”
  • Spanish: “Floripa”
  • Spanish: “Nossa Senhora do Desterro”
  • Swahili: “Florianopolis”
  • Swahili: “Florianópolis”
  • Swedish: “Florianopolis”
  • Swedish: “Florianópolis”
  • Swiss German: “Florianópolis”
  • Tajik: “Florianopolis”
  • Tajik: “Флорианополис”
  • Tamil: “பிளோரியானோபோலிஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Флорианополоис”
  • Telugu: “ఫ్లోరియానోపోలిస్”
  • Thai: “โฟลรียานอโปลิช”
  • Thai: “โฟลเรียนอโปลิส”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Florianópolis”
  • Turkish: “Florianopolis”
  • Turkish: “Florianópolis”
  • Turkish: “Floripa”
  • Ukrainian: “Флоріанополіс”
  • Urdu: “فلوریانوپولس”
  • Uzbek: “Florianopolis”
  • Venetian: “Florianópolis”
  • Vietnamese: “Florianópolis”
  • Volapük: “Florianópolis”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Florianópolis, Santa Catarina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Florianópolis”
  • Western Panjabi: “فلوریانوپولس”
  • Wu Chinese: “弗洛里亚诺波利斯”

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