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Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais is a state in 's region. Minas Gerais is a large state with a valuable 18th-century cultural heritage, originated in the Brazilian gold mining era.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Belo Horizonte and Ouro Preto.

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is 's sixth largest city and the capital of the state of Minas Gerais. With its orderly grid plan and tree-lined avenues, it's a pleasant metropolis.

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, in , is one of 's best-preserved colonial towns and a UNESCO world heritage site. Among other historical and colonial cities of Minas Gerais, is one of the most popular travel destinations in Brazil.

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is a colonial city in , . Its 17th-century streets and buildings are witnesses to the country's diamond and gold digging ages, and its historic center has been listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Central Minas Gerais and Southern Minas Gerais.

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The Central region of Minas Gerais.

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Vale do Rio Doce is one of the twelve mesoregions of the state of Minas Gerais. It is composed of 102 municipalities, distributed across 7 microregions.

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The region of Minas Gerais…
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Minas Gerais

Latitude of center
-18° or 18° south
Longitude of center
-44° or 44° west
Population
21,400,000
Elevation
1,193 metres (3,914 feet)
Abbreviation
“MG”
Geo­Names ID
3457153
Wiki­data ID
Q39109
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Minas Gerais” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Minas Gerais”
  • Albanian: “Minas Gerais”
  • Arabic: “ميناس جرايس”
  • Arabic: “مينس جيرايس”
  • Arabic: “ولاية ميناس جيرايس”
  • Aragonese: “Estato de Minas Gerais”
  • Aragonese: “Minas Gerais”
  • Armenian: “Մինաս Ժերաիս”
  • Armenian: “Մինաս Ժերայս”
  • Asturian: “Minas Gerais”
  • Aymara: “Minas Gerais Istadu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Minas-Jerays”
  • Basque: “Minas Gerais”
  • Belarusian: “Мінас-Жэрайс”
  • Belarusian: “штат Мінас-Жэрайс”
  • Bengali: “মিনাস জেরাইস”
  • Bishnupriya: “মিনাস জেরায়িস”
  • Bosnian: “Minas Gerais”
  • Breton: “Minas Gerais”
  • Bulgarian: “Минас Жераис”
  • Bulgarian: “Минас Жерайс”
  • Bulgarian: “Минаш Жерайш”
  • Catalan: “Estat de Minas Gerais”
  • Catalan: “Minas Gerais”
  • Cebuano: “Minas Gerais”
  • Chinese: “Minas Gerais”
  • Chinese: “米納吉拉斯州”
  • Chinese: “米納斯吉拉斯州”
  • Chinese: “米纳斯吉拉斯”
  • Chinese: “米纳斯吉拉斯州”
  • Cornish: “Minas Gerais”
  • Corsican: “Minas Gerais”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Minas Jerays”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Minas-Jerays”
  • Croatian: “Minas Gerais”
  • Czech: “Minas Gerais”
  • Danish: “Minas Gerais”
  • Dutch: “Minas Gerais”
  • Dzongkha: “མི་ནས་ཞེ་རའིས་”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميناس جرايس”
  • Esperanto: “Minas Gerais”
  • Esperanto: “Minas-Ĝerajso”
  • Esperanto: “Minasĝerajso”
  • Estonian: “Minas Gerais”
  • Estonian: “Minas Geraisi osariik”
  • Finnish: “Minas Gerais”
  • French: “État du Minas Gerais”
  • French: “Minas Gerais”
  • Galician: “Minas Gerais”
  • Galician: “Minas Xerais”
  • Georgian: “მინას ჟერაისი”
  • Georgian: “მინას-ჟერაისი”
  • German: “Bundesstaat Minas Gerais”
  • German: “MG”
  • German: “Minas Gerais”
  • Greek: “Μίνας Ζεράις”
  • Guarani: “Minas Gerais”
  • Gujarati: “મિનાસ ગેરઈસ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Minas Gerais-chû”
  • Hebrew: “מינאס ז’ראיס”
  • Hindi: “मिनास जेराईस”
  • Hindi: “मिनास जेरायज़”
  • Hindi: “मिनास जेरेस”
  • Hungarian: “Minas Gerais”
  • Icelandic: “Minas Gerais”
  • Ido: “Minas Gerais”
  • Indonesian: “Minas Gerais”
  • Interlingua: “Minas Gerais”
  • Irish: “Minas Gerais”
  • Italian: “MG”
  • Italian: “Minas Gerais”
  • Italian: “Stato di Minas Gerais”
  • Japanese: “ミナス・ジェライス州”
  • Japanese: “ミナスジェライス州”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿನಾಸ್ ಗೆರೈಸ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Минас-Жерайс”
  • Kazakh: “Минас-Жерайс”
  • Korean: “미나스 제라이스 주”
  • Korean: “미나스 제라이스”
  • Korean: “미나스제라이스주”
  • Ladino: “Minas Gerais”
  • Latin: “civitas Minarum Generalium”
  • Latin: “Civitas Minarum Generalium”
  • Latvian: “Minasžeraisa”
  • Limburgan: “Minas Gerais”
  • Lithuanian: “Minas Gerais”
  • Lithuanian: “Minas Žerais”
  • Lithuanian: “Minas Žeraisas”
  • Macedonian: “Минас Жераис”
  • Malagasy: “Minas Gerais”
  • Malay: “Minas Gerais”
  • Maltese: “Minas Gerais”
  • Marathi: “मिनास गेराईस”
  • Marathi: “मिनास जेराईस”
  • Mazanderani: “میناس گرایس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Minas Gerais”
  • Northern Frisian: “Minas Gerais”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Minas Gerais”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Minas Gerais”
  • Norwegian: “Minas Gerais”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Minas Gerais”
  • Ossetian: “Минас-Жерайс”
  • Papiamento: “Minas Gerais”
  • Persian: “مینا ژرایس”
  • Persian: “میناس گرایس”
  • Piemontese: “Minas Gerais”
  • Polish: “Minas Gerais”
  • Portuguese: “Estado de Minas Gerais”
  • Portuguese: “MG”
  • Portuguese: “Minas Gerais”
  • Quechua: “Minas Gerais suyu”
  • Romanian: “Minas Gerais”
  • Russian: “Минас Жераис”
  • Russian: “Минас Жерайс”
  • Russian: “Минас-Жерайс”
  • Russian: “Минаш-Жераиш”
  • Samoan: “Minas Gerais”
  • Scots: “Minas Gerais”
  • Serbian: “Minas Gerais”
  • Serbian: “Минас Жераис”
  • Serbian: “Минас Жерајс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Minas Gerais”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Minas Žerais”
  • Sinhala: “මිනාස් ගෙරායිස් ප්‍රාන්තය, බ්‍රසීලය”
  • Sinhala: “මිනාස් ගෙරායිස්”
  • Slovak: “Minas Gerais”
  • Slovenian: “Minas Gerais”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Minas Gerais”
  • Spanish: “Minas Generales”
  • Spanish: “Minas Gerais”
  • Swahili: “Minas Gerais”
  • Swedish: “Minas Gerais”
  • Tajik: “Минас Жерайс”
  • Tajik: “Минас-Жерайс”
  • Talysh: “Minas Žerajs”
  • Tamil: “மினாஸ் ஜெரைசு”
  • Tamil: “மினாஸ் ஜெரைஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Минас-Жерайс”
  • Telugu: “మినాస్ జెరాయిస్”
  • Tetum: “Minas Gerais”
  • Thai: “รัฐมีนัชเจไรช์”
  • Thai: “รัฐมีนัสเชไรส์”
  • Turkish: “BR-MG”
  • Turkish: “Estado de Minas Gerais”
  • Turkish: “MG”
  • Turkish: “Minas Gerais (eyalet)”
  • Turkish: “Minas Gerais eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Minas Gerais”
  • Ukrainian: “Мінас-Жерайс”
  • Urdu: “میناس گیرائس”
  • Uzbek: “Minas-jerais”
  • Uzbek: “Minas-Jerais”
  • Venetian: “Minas Gerais”
  • Vietnamese: “Minas Gerais”
  • Volapük: “Minas Gerais”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Minas Gerais”
  • Welsh: “Minas Gerais”
  • Western Panjabi: “مناس گیرائس”
  • Wu Chinese: “米纳斯吉拉斯州”
  • Yoruba: “Minas Gerais”
  • Yue Chinese: “米納吉拉斯州”
  • “BR-MG”
  • “ma Mina Sela”
  • “ma Mina Selasi”
  • “ma Minas Gerais”
  • “ma Minasela”
  • “MG”
  • “Minas Gerais”

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Minas Gerais”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY 2.0.