Brazil
Northeast
Ceará

Fortaleza

Fortaleza is a major city on 's northeast coast, and the capital of state. It is one of the largest cities in Brazil and certainly one of the most vibrant.
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  • Type: City with 2,430,000 residents
  • Description: municipality of Ceará state, Brazil
  • Also known as: “Ceara”, “Ceará”, “Fortaleza de Nova Bragança”, and “Fortaleza Nova de Bragança”
  • Neighbors: and
Photo: Esquilo, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ceará State Library and Fortaleza Central Market.

Library
Photo: Ruan moreira, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Marketplace
Photo: Joelkaula, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a marketplace.

Cathedral
Photo: Joelkaula, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The St. Joseph's Cathedral also called Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Joseph is a Catholic church, home of the Archdiocese of Fortaleza, located in Fortaleza in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rodolfo Teófilo and Jardim América.

Suburb
Photo: Claudio Oliveira Lim…, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rodolfo Marcos Teófilo is one of the neighborhoods of Fortaleza, the capital of the state of in northeastern . is home to the Universidade Federal do Ceará's school of medicine and hospital.

Suburb
Photo: Porto Neto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb.

Fortaleza

Latitude
-3.7192° or 3° 43′ 9″ south
Longitude
-38.5431° or 38° 32′ 35″ west
Population
2,430,000
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
IATA airport code
FOR
United Nations Location Code
BR FOR
Open location code
69837FJ4+8Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 210738427
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3399415
Wiki­data ID
Q43463
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Fortaleza” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Fortaleza”
  • Arabic: “فورتاليزا”
  • Armenian: “Ֆորտալեզա”
  • Asturian: “Fortaleza”
  • Aymara: “Fortaleza”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fortaleza”
  • Balinese: “Fortaléza”
  • Basque: “Fortaleza”
  • Belarusian: “Фарталеза”
  • Belarusian: “Форталеза”
  • Bengali: “ফর্তালিজা”
  • Bishnupriya: “ফোর্টআলেজা”
  • Bishnupriya: “ফোর্টালেজা”
  • Bosnian: “Fortaleza”
  • Breton: “Fortaleza”
  • Bulgarian: “Форталеза”
  • Burmese: “ဖော်တာလီဇာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Fortaleza”
  • Cebuano: “Fortaleza”
  • Chechen: “Форталеза”
  • Chinese: “Fortaleza”
  • Chinese: “福塔莱萨”
  • Chinese: “福塔莱萨市”
  • Chinese: “福塔萊薩”
  • Chinese: “福塔雷萨”
  • Chinese: “福塔雷薩”
  • Corsican: “Fortaleza”
  • Croatian: “Fortaleza”
  • Czech: “Fortaleza”
  • Danish: “Fortaleza”
  • Dutch: “Fortaleza”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فورتاليزا”
  • Erzya: “Форталеза”
  • Esperanto: “Fortaleza”
  • Esperanto: “Fortalezo-Cearao”
  • Esperanto: “Fortalezo”
  • Estonian: “Fort Schoonenborch”
  • Estonian: “Fortaleza”
  • Finnish: “Fortaleza”
  • French: “Fortaleza”
  • Galician: “Fortaleza, Ceará”
  • Galician: “Fortaleza”
  • Georgian: “ფორტალეზა”
  • German: “Fortaleza”
  • Greek: “Φορταλέζα”
  • Guarani: “Fortaleza”
  • Gujarati: “ફોર્તાલેઝા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Fortaleza”
  • Hausa: “Fortaleza”
  • Hebrew: “פורטלזה”
  • Hindi: “फोर्टलेज़ा”
  • Hindi: “फोर्तालेजा”
  • Hungarian: “Fortaleza”
  • Icelandic: “Fortaleza”
  • Ido: “Fortaleza, Ceará”
  • Ido: “Fortaleza”
  • Indonesian: “Fortaleza”
  • Interlingua: “Fortaleza”
  • Interlingue: “Fortaleza”
  • Irish: “Fortaleza”
  • Italian: “Fortaleza”
  • Japanese: “ファルタレーザ”
  • Japanese: “フォルタレーザ”
  • Japanese: “フォルタレザ”
  • Kannada: “ಫೋರ್ಟಾಲೆಜಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Fortoleza”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Форталеза”
  • Kazakh: “Форталеза”
  • Kirghiz: “Форталеза”
  • Korean: “포르탈레자”
  • Latin: “Fortalaetia”
  • Latin: “Fortalætia”
  • Latin: “Fortalexia”
  • Latin: “Fortaleza”
  • Latvian: “Fortaleza”
  • Latvian: “Fortalēza”
  • Lithuanian: “Fortaleza”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Fortaleza”
  • Macedonian: “Форталеза”
  • Malagasy: “Fortaleza”
  • Malay: “Fortaleza”
  • Malayalam: “ഫോർട്ടാലേസ”
  • Maltese: “Fortaleza”
  • Marathi: “फोर्तालेझा”
  • Mazanderani: “فورتالزا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Fortaleza”
  • Mongolian: “Форталеза”
  • Nauru: “Fortaleza”
  • Neapolitan: “Fortaleza”
  • Northern Frisian: “Fortaleza”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fortaleza”
  • Norwegian: “Fortaleza”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Fortaleza”
  • Ossetian: “Форталезæ”
  • Persian: “فورتالزا”
  • Polish: “Fortaleza”
  • Portuguese: “FOR”
  • Portuguese: “Fortal”
  • Portuguese: “Fortaleza”
  • Portuguese: “Terra da Luz”
  • Quechua: “Fortaleza”
  • Romanian: “Fortaleza”
  • Russian: “Fortaleza”
  • Russian: “Форталеза”
  • Scots: “Fortaleza”
  • Serbian: “Форталеза”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fortaleza”
  • Silesian: “Fortaleza”
  • Sinhala: “ෆොර්ටලීසා, බ්‍රසීලය”
  • Sinhala: “ෆොර්ටලීසා”
  • Slovak: “Fortaleza”
  • Slovenian: “Hortaleza”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فورتالزا”
  • Spanish: “Fortaleza”
  • Swahili: “Fortaleza”
  • Swedish: “Fortaleza”
  • Tajik: “Форталеза”
  • Tamil: “போர்த்தலேசா”
  • Tatar: “Форталеза”
  • Telugu: “ఫార్టలీస”
  • Tetum: “Fortaleza”
  • Thai: “ฟอร์ตาเลซา”
  • Thai: “โฟร์ตาเลซา”
  • Turkish: “Fortaleza”
  • Twi: “Fortaleza”
  • Ukrainian: “Форталеза”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Fortaleza”
  • Urdu: “فورٹالیزا”
  • Uzbek: “Fortaleza”
  • Veps: “Fortalez”
  • Vietnamese: “Fortaleza”
  • Volapük: “Fortaleza”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Fortaleza”
  • Welsh: “Fortaleza”
  • Western Panjabi: “فورتالزا”
  • Wu Chinese: “福塔莱萨”
  • Yue Chinese: “福塔雷薩”
  • “Fortaleza”

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