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Rio de Janeiro

Niterói

Niterói is the former capital of state, in southeastern . Nicknamed "The Smile City", "NKT" and "Nikiti", it is just a short ferry ride from downtown Rio across Guanabara Bay.
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  • Type: City with 482,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Also known as: “Nictheroi”, “Niteroi”, and “Villa Real da Praia Grande”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Niterói Contemporary Art Museum and Fluminense Federal University.

Museum
Photo: Phx de, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The is situated in the city of Niterói, , , and is one of the city’s main landmarks. It was completed in 1996.

University
Photo: Diego Baravelli, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a Brazilian public higher education institution located mainly in Niterói and in other cities of .

Arts center
Photo: Mircezar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an arts center.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ilha da Conceição and Gragoatá.

Suburb
is an , and one of the 48 administrative districts in which the city of Niterói, in is divided. It lies in the northern zone of the city, in the .

Suburb
Photo: Mircezar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is one of the 48 administrative districts in the city Niterói, in . It lies in the southern zone of the city, on the coast of the . It holds the main campus of the .

Suburb
is a hill and one of the 48 administrative districts in the city of Niterói, , . The neighborhood lies in the southern zone of the city, neighboring and .

Niterói

Latitude
-22.8884° or 22° 53′ 18″ south
Longitude
-43.1147° or 43° 6′ 53″ west
Population
482,000
Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BR NTR
Open location code
589R4V6P+J4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 173453728
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3456283
Wiki­data ID
Q178725
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Niterói” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Niterói”
  • Albanian: “Niteroi”
  • Arabic: “نيتيروي”
  • Armenian: “Նիտերոյ”
  • Asturian: “Niterói”
  • Basque: “Niterói”
  • Belarusian: “Нітэрой”
  • Bengali: “নিতেরিও”
  • Bishnupriya: “নিটেরোই”
  • Breton: “Niterói”
  • Bulgarian: “Нитерой”
  • Catalan: “Niterói”
  • Cebuano: “Niterói”
  • Chinese: “Niterói”
  • Chinese: “尼泰罗伊”
  • Chinese: “尼泰羅伊”
  • Chuvash: “Нитерой”
  • Croatian: “Niteroi”
  • Croatian: “Niterói”
  • Czech: “Niterói”
  • Danish: “Niteroi”
  • Danish: “Niterói”
  • Dutch: “Niteroi”
  • Dutch: “Niterói”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيتيروى”
  • Esperanto: “Niteroi”
  • Esperanto: “Niterói”
  • Esperanto: “Niterojo”
  • Estonian: “Nictheroy”
  • Estonian: “Niteroi”
  • Estonian: “Niterói”
  • Estonian: “Vila de São Lourenço dos Índios”
  • Estonian: “Vila Real da Praia Grande”
  • Finnish: “Niteroi”
  • Finnish: “Niterói”
  • French: “Niteroi”
  • French: “Niterói”
  • French: “Niteròi”
  • Galician: “Niterói”
  • Georgian: “ნიტეროი”
  • German: “Município de Niterói”
  • German: “Nictheroy”
  • German: “Niteroi”
  • German: “Niterói”
  • German: “Vila Real da Praia Grande”
  • Greek: “Νιτερόι”
  • Guarani: “Yetero’y”
  • Gujarati: “નિટેરોઈ”
  • Hebrew: “ניטרוי”
  • Hindi: “नीतेरोई”
  • Hungarian: “Niterói”
  • Ido: “Niterói”
  • Indonesian: “Niterói”
  • Irish: “Niterói”
  • Italian: “Niteroi”
  • Italian: “Niterói”
  • Japanese: “ニテロイ”
  • Kannada: “ನಿಟೈರೋ”
  • Kazakh: “Nïteroý”
  • Kazakh: “Нитерой”
  • Kazakh: “نىيتەروي”
  • Korean: “니테로이”
  • Latvian: “Niteroja”
  • Lithuanian: “Niterojus”
  • Luxembourgish: “Niterói”
  • Macedonian: “Нитерој”
  • Malagasy: “Niterói”
  • Malay: “Niteroi”
  • Maltese: “Niterói”
  • Marathi: “निटेरोई”
  • Mazanderani: “نیتروی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Niterói”
  • Moksha: “Нитэрой”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Niteroi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Niterói”
  • Norwegian: “Niterói”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Niterói”
  • Ossetian: “Нитерой”
  • Persian: “نیتروی”
  • Polish: “Niteroi”
  • Polish: “Niterói”
  • Portuguese: “Marrecas”
  • Portuguese: “Nictheroy”
  • Portuguese: “Niteroi”
  • Portuguese: “Niterói”
  • Portuguese: “Vila Real da Praia Grande”
  • Portuguese: “Werneck”
  • Romanian: “Niteroi”
  • Romanian: “Niterói”
  • Romansh: “Niterói”
  • Russian: “Нитерой”
  • Scots: “Niterói”
  • Serbian: “Niteroi”
  • Serbian: “Niterói”
  • Serbian: “Niteroj”
  • Serbian: “Нитерој”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Niterói”
  • Silesian: “Niterói”
  • Sinhala: “නයිටරෝයි”
  • Slovak: “Niterói”
  • Slovenian: “Niterói”
  • Spanish: “Nictheroy”
  • Spanish: “Niteroi”
  • Spanish: “Niterói”
  • Spanish: “São Lourenço dos Índios”
  • Swedish: “Niterói”
  • Tagalog: “Niteroi”
  • Tagalog: “Niterói”
  • Tamil: “நிடேரோய்”
  • Tatar: “Нитерой”
  • Telugu: “నీతే రోయి”
  • Thai: “นิเทอรอย”
  • Turkish: “Niteroi”
  • Turkish: “Niterói”
  • Ukrainian: “Нітерой”
  • Urdu: “نیتیروی”
  • Venetian: “Niterói”
  • Vietnamese: “Niterói”
  • Volapük: “Niterói”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Niterói”
  • Welsh: “Niterói”
  • Wu Chinese: “尼泰罗伊”
  • “Niterói”

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