Recife

Recife, the capital of , is one of the largest and most important cities on the northeastern coast of . This lively state capital, founded by Dutch colonizers, is brimming with a vibrant culture, an interesting old town and some nice beaches.
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  • City with about 1,490,000 residents
  • …has the IATA airport code REC
  • Description: municipality of Pernambuco state, Brazil
  • Also known as
    “Arrecife”
    “Mauricéa”
    “Pernambuco”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estádio do Arruda and Saint Isabel Theather.
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Stadium
Estádio José do Rego Maciel, also known as Estádio…
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Theater building
Santa Isabel Theater is located in the Brazilian city of Recife, capital of state.
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Museum
The is housed in a 19th-century mansion on the Av.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Recife Antigo and Casa Forte.
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Suburb
is the historical section of central Recife, .
Suburb
is a neighborhood in the North Zone of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.

Recife

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Latitude
-8.05° or 8° 3′ south
Longitude
-34.9° or 34° 54′ west
UN/LOCODE
BR REC
Open location code
6937X32X+2X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 655122109
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3390760
Wiki­data ID
Q48344

Satellite Map

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

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Recife” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Recife”
  • Afrikaans: “Recife”
  • Albanian: “Resife”
  • Amharic: “ሬሲፌ”
  • Arabic: “ريسيفي”
  • Aragonese: “Recife”
  • Armenian: “Ռեսիֆի”
  • Asturian: “Recife”
  • Azerbaijani: “Recife”
  • Azerbaijani: “Resifi”
  • Balinese: “Recife”
  • Basque: “Recife”
  • Belarusian: “Рэсіфі”
  • Belarusian: “Рэсыфі”
  • Bengali: “রেসিফি”
  • Bengali: “হেসিফি”
  • Bishnupriya: “রেসিফে”
  • Bosnian: “Recife”
  • Breton: “Recife”
  • Bulgarian: “Ресифе”
  • Bulgarian: “Ресифи”
  • Burmese: “ရီစီဖီမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Recife”
  • Cebuano: “Recife”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕێسیفی”
  • Chechen: “Ресифи”
  • Chinese: “勒西腓”
  • Chinese: “勒西菲”
  • Chinese: “李斯腓”
  • Chinese: “海息飞”
  • Chinese: “累西腓”
  • Corsican: “Recife”
  • Croatian: “Recife”
  • Czech: “Recife”
  • Danish: “Recife”
  • Dutch: “Recife”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ريسيفى”
  • Emilian: “Recife”
  • Erzya: “Ресифи ош”
  • Esperanto: “Recife”
  • Esperanto: “Recifo”
  • Estonian: “Recife”
  • Fijian: “Recife”
  • Finnish: “Recife”
  • French: “Récife”
  • Galician: “Recife”
  • Georgian: “რესიფე”
  • Georgian: “რესიფი”
  • German: “Recife”
  • Greek: “Ρεσίφε”
  • Guarani: “Recife”
  • Gujarati: “રેસીફે”
  • Hausa: “Recife”
  • Hebrew: “ריסיפי”
  • Hebrew: “רסיפה”
  • Hebrew: “רסיפי”
  • Hindi: “रिसीफ़ी”
  • Hungarian: “Recife”
  • Icelandic: “Recife”
  • Ido: “Recife”
  • Indonesian: “Recife”
  • Interlingua: “Recife”
  • Interlingue: “Recife”
  • Irish: “Recife”
  • Italian: “Recife”
  • Japanese: “ヘシフェ”
  • Japanese: “レシーフェ”
  • Japanese: “レシフェ”
  • Javanese: “Recife”
  • Kannada: “ರೆಸಿಫೀ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Resife”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Ресифи”
  • Kazakh: “Ресифи қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Ресифи”
  • Kirghiz: “Ресифи”
  • Korean: “레시페”
  • Korean: “헤시피”
  • Ladino: “Rezife”
  • Latin: “Fernambucum”
  • Latin: “Pernambucum”
  • Latvian: “Recife”
  • Latvian: “Resife”
  • Latvian: “Resifi”
  • Lithuanian: “Recife”
  • Lithuanian: “Resifė”
  • Luxembourgish: “Recife”
  • Macedonian: “Ресифе”
  • Malagasy: “Recife”
  • Malay: “Recife”
  • Malayalam: “റെസിഫ്”
  • Maltese: “Recife”
  • Marathi: “रेसिफे”
  • Mazanderani: “ریسیف”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Recife”
  • Mirandese: “Recife”
  • Mongolian: “Ресифи”
  • Nauru: “Recife”
  • Neapolitan: “Recife”
  • Northern Frisian: “Recife”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Recife”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Recife”
  • Norwegian: “Recife”
  • Nyanja: “Recife”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Recife”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Riffstrand”
  • Oromo: “Recife”
  • Ossetian: “Ресифи”
  • Panjabi: “ਰੇਸਿਫੇ”
  • Persian: “رسیف”
  • Persian: “رسیفی”
  • Persian: “ریسیف”
  • Polish: “Recife”
  • Portuguese: “Recife”
  • Pushto: “ريسيفي”
  • Quechua: “Recife”
  • Romanian: “Recife”
  • Russian: “Ресифе”
  • Russian: “Ресифи”
  • Scots: “Recife”
  • Serbian: “Recife”
  • Serbian: “Ресифе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Recife”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းရၸီးၾီႇ”
  • Silesian: “Recife”
  • Sinhala: “රෙසිෆි”
  • Slovak: “Recife”
  • Slovenian: “Recife”
  • Somali: “Recife”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ریسیف”
  • Spanish: “Recife”
  • Swahili: “Recife”
  • Swedish: “Recife”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Recife”
  • Tajik: “Ресифи”
  • Tamil: “ரிஸிஃபி”
  • Tamil: “ரெசிஃபி”
  • Tatar: “Ресифи”
  • Telugu: “రెసీఫీ”
  • Thai: “เรซีฟี”
  • Thai: “เรซีเฟ”
  • Turkish: “Recife”
  • Turkmen: “Resife”
  • Twi: “Recife”
  • Ukrainian: “Ресіфе”
  • Ukrainian: “Ресіфі”
  • Urdu: “ریسیف”
  • Uzbek: “Resife”
  • Uzbek: “Resifi”
  • Veps: “Resifi”
  • Vietnamese: “Recife”
  • Volapük: “Recife”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Recife”
  • Welsh: “Recife”
  • Western Panjabi: “ریسیف”
  • Wu Chinese: “累西腓”
  • Yue Chinese: “利斯菲”
  • Yue Chinese: “李斯腓”

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