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Rio Grande do Sul
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Rio Grande

Rio Grande is the oldest city in the Brazilian state of , the most important port city in the state and has one of the most important maritime ports in Brazil. It's also the former state capital from 1835 to 1845.
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  • Type: City with 192,000 residents
  • Description: municipality of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil
  • Also known as: “Rio Grande do Sul”, “Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul”, “San Pedro do Rio Grande”, and “São Pedro do Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Prédio da Alfândega.

Public building
Photo: Eugenio Hansen, OFS, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a public building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include São José do Norte.

Photo: Scheridon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the state of , . As of 2020, the estimated population was 27,721.

Rio Grande

Latitude
-32.0334° or 32° 2′ 0″ south
Longitude
-52.0991° or 52° 5′ 57″ west
Population
192,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
RIG
United Nations Location Codes
BR GSU, BR RIG, and BR SDS
Open location code
48V9XW82+J8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 406093463
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3451138
Wiki­data ID
Q869571
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Rio Grande” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ريو غراندي، ريو غراندي دو سول”
  • Asturian: “Rio Grande”
  • Azerbaijani: “Rio Grande”
  • Basque: “Rio Grande (Rio Grande do Sul)”
  • Basque: “Rio Grande”
  • Belarusian: “Рыу-Гранды”
  • Belarusian: “Рыю-Грандзі”
  • Bengali: “রিও গ্রান্ডে, রিও গ্রান্ডে দ্য সুল”
  • Bishnupriya: “রিও গ্রান্ডে”
  • Catalan: “Rio Grande”
  • Cebuano: “Rio Grande (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Rio Grande”
  • Chechen: “Риу-Гранди”
  • Chinese: “Rio Grande”
  • Chinese: “里奧格蘭”
  • Chinese: “里奧格蘭德”
  • Danish: “Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Dutch: “Rio Grande”
  • Esperanto: “Rio Grande”
  • Estonian: “Rio Grande”
  • Finnish: “Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul”
  • French: “Rio Grande”
  • Georgian: “რიუ-გრანდი”
  • German: “Rio Grande (RS)”
  • German: “Rio Grande”
  • Greek: “Ρίο Γκράντε”
  • Guarani: “Rio Grande”
  • Gujarati: “રિયો ગ્રાન્દે, રિયો ગ્રાન્દે દો સુલ”
  • Hausa: “Rio Grande”
  • Hindi: “रियो ग्रांडे”
  • Hungarian: “Rio Grande”
  • Ido: “Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Indonesian: “Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Irish: “Rio Grande”
  • Italian: “Rio Grande”
  • Japanese: “リオ・グランデ (リオ・グランデ・ド・スル)”
  • Japanese: “リオ・グランデ・デ・ソル”
  • Kannada: “ರಿಯೊ ಗ್ರಾಂಡೆ, ರಿಯೊ ಗ್ರಾಂಡೆ ಡು ಸುಲ್”
  • Kazakh: “Rïw-Grandï”
  • Kazakh: “Риу-Гранди”
  • Kazakh: “رىيۋ-گراندىي”
  • Korean: “리우그란데”
  • Korean: “히우 그란지”
  • Korean: “히우그란지”
  • Latvian: “Riugrandi”
  • Lithuanian: “Rio Grandė”
  • Malagasy: “Rio Grande”
  • Malay: “Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Marathi: “रिओ ग्रान्दे, रिओ ग्रांदे डो सुल”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rio Grande”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rio Grande”
  • Norwegian: “Rio Grande”
  • Polish: “Rio Grande”
  • Portuguese: “Papareia”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Grande de São Pedro”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Grande”
  • Portuguese: “Vila de Rio Grande”
  • Romanian: “Rio Grande, Brazilia”
  • Romanian: “Rio Grande”
  • Russian: “Рио-Гранде”
  • Russian: “Риу-Гранди (штат Риу-Гранди-ду-Сул)”
  • Russian: “Риу-Гранди”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Sinhala: “රියෝ ග්‍රන්ඩේ ,රියෝ ග්‍රන්ඩේ ඩො සල්”
  • Spanish: “Rio Grande”
  • Spanish: “Río Grande”
  • Spanish: “San Pedro del Rio Grande”
  • Spanish: “San Pedro del Río Grande”
  • Swedish: “Rio Grande (kommun)”
  • Swedish: “Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Swedish: “Rio Grande”
  • Tamil: “ரியோ கிராண்ட் ரியோ டூ சூல்”
  • Tatar: “Риу-Гранди (Риу-Гранди-ду-Сул)”
  • Tatar: “Риу-Гранди”
  • Telugu: “రియో గ్రాండే, రియో గ్రాండే దో సుల్”
  • Thai: “ริโอ กรันเจ”
  • Turkish: “Rio Grande, Rio”
  • Ukrainian: “Ріу-Гранді”
  • Urdu: “ریو جراندی ، ریو جراندی دو سول”
  • Venetian: “Rio Grande”
  • Vietnamese: “Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Volapük: “Rio Grande”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul”

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