Palmas
Palmas is the capital of the Brazilian State of Tocantins. Like the country's capital, Brasilia, and several other state capitals, it was built out of nowhere to house the government of its new-born state.
- Type: City with 303,000 residents
- Description: municipality of Tocantins state, Brazil
- Also known as: “Palmas (Tocantins)”, “Palmas, Tocantins”, “Палмаш”, “פאלמאס”, “파우마스 도 소코로”, and “パウマス”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Araguaia Palace and Museu Palacinho Walfredo Antunes.
Araguaia Palace
Public building
Palmas
- Categories: municipality of Brazil, big city, and locality
- Location: Tocantins, North, Brazil, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
UN/LOCODE
BR PMW
Open location code
58XHRM88+FG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Palmas” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ፓልማስ”
- Arabic: “بالماس”
- Arabic: “بلمس”
- Aragonese: “Palmas”
- Armenian: “Պալմաս”
- Azerbaijani: “Palmas”
- Basque: “Palmas”
- Belarusian: “Палмас”
- Bengali: “পালমাস”
- Bishnupriya: “পালমাস”
- Bulgarian: “Палмас”
- Catalan: “Palmas”
- Cebuano: “Palmas”
- Chechen: “Палмас”
- 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”
- Hausa: “Palmas”
- Hebrew: “פלמס”
- Hindi: “पालमास”
- Hindi: “पाल्मास, टोकाचिस”
- Hindi: “पाल्मास”
- Hungarian: “Palmas”
- Ido: “Palmas, Tocantins”
- Ido: “Palmas”
- Indonesian: “Palmas, Tocantins”
- Indonesian: “Palmas”
- Interlingua: “Palmas”
- Irish: “Palmas”
- Italian: “Palmas”
- Japanese: “パルマス”
- Javanese: “Palmas”
- Kannada: “ಪಾಲ್ಮಾಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Palmas”
- Kazakh: “Палмас”
- Kazakh: “پالماس”
- Kirghiz: “Палмас”
- Korean: “파우마스”
- Latvian: “Palmasa”
- Lithuanian: “Palmasas”
- Malagasy: “Palmas”
- Malay: “Palmas”
- Malayalam: “പാൽമാസ്”
- Marathi: “पाल्मास”
- Mazanderani: “پالماس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Palmas, Tocantins”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Palmas”
- Northern Frisian: “Palmas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Palmas”
- Norwegian: “Palmas”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Palmas”
- Oromo: “Palmas”
- Ossetian: “Палмас”
- Panjabi: “ਪਾਲਮਾਸ”
- Persian: “پالماس”
- Polish: “Palmas”
- Portuguese: “Palmas”
- Pushto: “بالماس”
- Romanian: “Palmas”
- Russian: “Палмас”
- Samoan: “Palmas”
- Scots: “Palmas”
- Serbian: “Палмас”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Palmas, Tocantins”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Palmas”
- Sinhala: “පල්මාස්”
- Slovak: “Palmas”
- Slovenian: “Palmas”
- Somali: “Palmas”
- Spanish: “Palmas”
- Swahili: “Palmas, Tocantins”
- Swahili: “Palmas”
- 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”
- “Palmas”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: 103 Norte and 104 Sul (ACSE 1).
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