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Tocantins

Palmas

Palmas is the capital of the State of . Like the country's capital, , and several other state capitals, it was built out of nowhere to house the government of its new-born state.
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  • Type: City with 303,000 residents
  • Description: municipality of Tocantins state, Brazil
  • Also known as: “Palmas, Tocantins”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Araguaia Palace and Museu Histórico do Tocantins (Palacinho).

Public building
Photo: Renato A. Costa, CC BY 2.0.
The is the seat of government of the Brazilian state of . It is located in the city of Palmas, the state capital and its largest city.

Museum
Photo: Túllio F, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a museum.

Palmas

Latitude
-10.1838° or 10° 11′ 2″ south
Longitude
-48.3336° or 48° 20′ 1″ west
Population
303,000
Elevation
271 metres (889 feet)
IATA airport code
PMW
United Nations Location Code
BR PMW
Open location code
58XHRM88+FG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 342039019
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3474574
Wiki­data ID
Q178993
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Satellite Map

Discover Palmas from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Palmas” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بالماس”
  • Arabic: “بلمس”
  • Aragonese: “Palmas”
  • Armenian: “Պալմաս”
  • Basque: “Palmas”
  • Belarusian: “Палмас”
  • Bengali: “পালমাস”
  • Bishnupriya: “পালমাস”
  • Bulgarian: “Палмас”
  • Bulgarian: “Палмаш”
  • Catalan: “Palmas”
  • Cebuano: “Palmas”
  • Chechen: “Палмас”
  • Chinese: “Palmas, Tocantins”
  • Chinese: “帕尔马斯”
  • Chinese: “帕爾馬斯”
  • Czech: “Palmas”
  • Danish: “Palmas”
  • Dutch: “Palmas”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بالماس”
  • Esperanto: “Palmas”
  • Finnish: “Palmas”
  • French: “Palmas”
  • Galician: “Palmas”
  • Georgian: “პალმასი”
  • German: “Palmas”
  • Greek: “Πάλμας”
  • Gujarati: “પાલ્માસ”
  • Hebrew: “פאלמאס”
  • Hebrew: “פלמס”
  • Hindi: “पाल्मास, टोकाचिस”
  • Hindi: “पाल्मास”
  • Hungarian: “Palmas”
  • Ido: “Palmas, Tocantins”
  • Ido: “Palmas”
  • Indonesian: “Palmas, Tocantins”
  • Indonesian: “Palmas”
  • Interlingua: “Palmas”
  • Irish: “Palmas”
  • Italian: “Palmas”
  • Japanese: “パウマス”
  • Japanese: “パルマス”
  • Kannada: “ಪಾಲ್ಮಾಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Palmas”
  • Kazakh: “Палмас”
  • Kazakh: “پالماس”
  • Korean: “파우마스 도 소코로”
  • Korean: “파우마스”
  • Latvian: “Palmasa”
  • Lithuanian: “Palmasas”
  • Malagasy: “Palmas”
  • Malay: “Palmas”
  • Malayalam: “പാൽമാസ്”
  • Marathi: “पाल्मास”
  • Mazanderani: “پالماس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Palmas”
  • Northern Frisian: “Palmas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Palmas”
  • Norwegian: “Palmas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Palmas”
  • Ossetian: “Палмас”
  • Persian: “پالماس”
  • Polish: “Palmas”
  • Portuguese: “Palmas”
  • Romanian: “Palmas”
  • Russian: “Палмас”
  • Samoan: “Palmas”
  • Scots: “Palmas, Tocantins”
  • Scots: “Palmas”
  • Serbian: “Палмас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Palmas, Tocantins”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Palmas”
  • Sinhala: “පල්මාස්”
  • Slovak: “Palmas”
  • Slovenian: “Palmas”
  • Spanish: “Palmas (Tocantins)”
  • Spanish: “Palmas”
  • Swahili: “Palmas, Tocantins”
  • Swahili: “Palmas”
  • Swedish: “Palmas, Tocantins”
  • Swedish: “Palmas”
  • Tajik: “Palmas”
  • Tajik: “Палмас”
  • Tamil: “பால்மாஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Палмас”
  • Telugu: “పాల్మాస్”
  • Tetum: “Palmas”
  • Thai: “เปามัช”
  • Turkish: “Palmas, Tocantins”
  • Turkish: “Palmas”
  • Ukrainian: “Палмас”
  • Urdu: “پالماس، توکانتینس”
  • Urdu: “پالماس”
  • Uzbek: “Palmas”
  • Venetian: “Palmas”
  • Vietnamese: “Palmas, Tocantins”
  • Vietnamese: “Palmas”
  • Volapük: “Palmas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Palmas, Tocantins”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Palmas”
  • Western Panjabi: “پالماس”
  • Wu Chinese: “帕尔马斯（托坎廷斯州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “帕尔马斯”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Palmas”. Photo: Just a Brazilian man, CC BY 2.0.