Recife
Recife, the capital of Pernambuco, is one of the largest and most important cities on the northeastern coast of Brazil. This lively state capital, founded by Dutch colonizers, is brimming with a vibrant culture, an interesting old town and some nice beaches.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Estádio do Arruda and Saint Isabel Theather.
Estádio do Arruda
Stadium
Photo: LeRoc, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Estádio José do Rego Maciel, also known as Estádio do Arruda, is a multi-purpose stadium in Recife, Brazil. It is currently used mostly for football matches.
Saint Isabel Theather
Theater building
Photo: Rodrigojordy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Santa Isabel Theater is located in the Brazilian city of Recife, capital of Pernambuco state. It was inaugurated on 18 May 1850, and seats 850 in the audience.
Museu do Estado de Pernambuco
Museum
Photo: Francisco Dsb, CC BY 2.0.
The Museu do Estado de Pernambuco is housed in a 19th-century mansion on the Av. Rui Barbosa in Recife, capital of Pernambuco state, Brazil. It was opened in 1929.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Recife Antigo.
Recife Antigo
Suburb
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Recife Antigo is the historical section of central Recife, Brazil. It is located on the Island of Recife, near the Recife harbor. This historic area has been recently recovered and now holds several clubs, bars and a high-tech center called Porto Digital.
Recife
- Categories: municipality of Brazil and locality
- Location: Grande Recife, Pernambuco, Northeast, Brazil, South America
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Latitude
-8.05° or 8° 3′ southLongitude
-34.9° or 34° 54′ westPopulation
1,490,000Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)IATA airport code
RECUnited Nations Location Code
BR RECOpen location code
6937X32X+2XOpenStreetMap ID
node 655122109OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3390760Wikidata ID
Q48344
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Recife” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Recife”
- Afrikaans: “Recife”
- Albanian: “Resife”
- Arabic: “ريسيفي”
- Armenian: “Ռեսիֆի”
- Asturian: “Recife”
- Azerbaijani: “Resifi”
- Balinese: “Recife”
- Basque: “Recife”
- Belarusian: “Рэсіфі”
- Belarusian: “Рэсыфі”
- Bengali: “রেসিফ”
- Bengali: “রেসিফি”
- Bengali: “হেসিফি”
- Bishnupriya: “রেসিফে”
- Bosnian: “Recife”
- Breton: “Recife”
- Bulgarian: “Ресифе”
- Bulgarian: “Ресифи”
- Burmese: “ရီစီဖီမြို့”
- Catalan: “Recife”
- Cebuano: “Recife”
- Chechen: “Ресифи”
- Chinese: “Recife”
- Chinese: “利斯菲”
- 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”
- Erzya: “Ресифи ош”
- Esperanto: “Recife”
- Esperanto: “Recifo”
- Estonian: “Recife”
- Fijian: “Recife”
- Finnish: “Recife”
- French: “Recife”
- French: “Récife”
- Galician: “Recife”
- Georgian: “რესიფე”
- Georgian: “რესიფი”
- German: “Recife”
- Greek: “Ρεσίφε”
- Guarani: “Recife”
- Gujarati: “રેસીફી”
- Gujarati: “રેસીફે”
- Hausa: “Recife”
- Hebrew: “ריסיפי”
- Hebrew: “רסיפה”
- Hebrew: “רסיפי”
- Hindi: “रिसीफ़ी”
- Hindi: “रेसिफे”
- Hungarian: “Recife”
- Icelandic: “Recife”
- Ido: “Recife, Pernambuco”
- 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”
- Kannada: “ರೆಸಿಫೀ”
- Kannada: “ರೆಸಿಫೆ”
- 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”
- Ossetian: “Ресифи”
- Persian: “رسیف”
- Persian: “رسیفی”
- Persian: “ریسیف”
- Polish: “Recife”
- Portuguese: “Recife”
- Quechua: “Recife”
- Romanian: “Recife”
- Russian: “Ресифе”
- Russian: “Ресифи”
- Scots: “Recife”
- Serbian: “Recife”
- Serbian: “Ресифе”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Recife”
- Silesian: “Recife”
- Sinhala: “රෙසිෆි”
- Slovak: “Recife”
- Slovenian: “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: “เรซิฟี”
- 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: “李斯腓”
- “Recife”
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