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Rio Grande do Norte

Rio Grande do Norte is a state in . It sits on the northeasternmost tip of the South American continent. Rio Grande do Norte is widely famed for its sand dunes and sunny beaches.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Natal and Mossoró.

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, the capital of Rio Grande do Norte, , is a city on the Atlantic coast. has some great beaches, historical sites, and nature areas, and it is a frequently used base for exploring the paradisiac beaches and nature of the Rio Grande do Norte state.

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is the second largest city of the state of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil, economically centred on petrol extraction, agriculture, and salt panning, and lately also shrimp farming and renewable energy.

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is a city in Rio Grande do Norte, in the metropolitan area of . It is frequently considered to be part of Natal by visitors, due to the conurbation between the two cities.

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is a municipality of Rio Grande do Norte, located in the metropolitan area of . Its main attraction are its fields of sand dunes and its beaches, including Genipabu, one of the most famous of the state and easily accessible from Natal.

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is a city in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the of Brazil. With an area of 724.838 square kilometers, of which 28.5233 square kilometres is urban, it is located 30 km from , the state capital, and 1,771 km from , the federal capital.

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is a municipality of Rio Grande do Norte just south of the metropolitan area of in Brazil. It is a popular destination due to its beaches and lakes, the most famous being Búzios and Carcará respectively.

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is a municipality of Rio Grande do Norte. The municipality contains three coastal villages, , Pipa and Sibaúma, and several kilometers of sandy beaches surrounded by cliffs.

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is a beach town in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil, on the border with the state of . It is the main resort for the people of , who head out to the beaches both to the east and west during most weekends.

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is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the of . With an area of 245.485 square kilometers, of which 6.6117 square kilometres is urban, it is located 65 km from , the state capital, and 1,746 km from , the federal capital.

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is the easternmost city of the Brazilian state Rio Grande do Norte and is close to the border with neighbouring . The name literally means "Beautiful Bay" and refers to the particularly scenic location of the main village.

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is one of 's most famous beach towns. Situated on the southern coast of Rio Grande do Norte, it is administratively a part of .

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or Jenipabu is a beach village in Rio Grande do Norte, getting ever more incorporated into Greater , a few kilometres to its south, after the opening of a new bridge in 2009. It is a tourist destination with huge dunes and fresh water lagoons.

Rio Grande do Norte

Latitude of center
-5.6781° or 5° 40′ 41″ south
Longitude of center
-36.4782° or 36° 28′ 41″ west
Population
3,570,000
Elevation
142 metres (466 feet)
Abbreviation
“RN”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 539830860
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3390290
Wiki­data ID
Q43255
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Rio Grande do Norte” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Albanian: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Arabic: “ريو غراندي دو نورتي”
  • Armenian: “Ռիու Գրանդի դու Նորտի”
  • Asturian: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Asturian: “Río Grande do Norte”
  • Aymara: “Rio Grande do Norte Istadu”
  • Aymara: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Azerbaijani: “Riu-Qrandi-du-Norti”
  • Basque: “Iparraldeko Rio Grande”
  • Basque: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Belarusian: “Рыу-Гранды-ду-Норты”
  • Belarusian: “Рыю-Грандзі-ду-Норці”
  • Bengali: “রিও গ্রান্ডে ডু নর্টে”
  • Bishnupriya: “রিও গ্রান্ডে ডো নর্টে”
  • Bishnupriya: “রিও গ্রান্ডে ডো নোর্টে”
  • Bosnian: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Breton: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Bulgarian: “Рио Гранде до Норте”
  • Bulgarian: “Рио Гранди до Норти”
  • Bulgarian: “Риу Гранди ду Норти”
  • Catalan: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Cebuano: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Chinese: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Chinese: “北大河州”
  • Chinese: “北里奥格兰德州”
  • Chinese: “北里約格朗德州”
  • Chinese: “北里約格朗德州或北大河州”
  • Chinese: “北里约格朗德州”
  • Cornish: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Riu Grandi du Norti”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Riu-Grandi-du-Norti”
  • Croatian: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Czech: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Danish: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Dutch: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ريو جراندى دو نورتى”
  • Esperanto: “Norda Rio-Grando”
  • Esperanto: “Norda Riogrando”
  • Esperanto: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Estonian: “Rio Grande do Norte osariik”
  • Estonian: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Finnish: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • French: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Galician: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Galician: “Río Grande do Norte”
  • Georgian: “რიუ გრანდი დუ ნორტი”
  • Georgian: “რიუ-გრანდი-დუ-ნორტი”
  • German: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • German: “RN”
  • Greek: “Ρίο Γκράντε ντο Νόρτε”
  • Guarani: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Gujarati: “રિયો ગ્રાન્ડે ડો નોર્ટ”
  • Haitian: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Hebrew: “ריו גראנדה דו נורטה”
  • Hebrew: “ריו גראנדי דו נורטי”
  • Hebrew: “ריו גרנד’ה דו נורט’ה”
  • Hindi: “रियो ग्रांडे डो नॉर्ट”
  • Hindi: “रियो ग्रांडे दो नोर्टे”
  • Hindi: “रियो ग्रांडो दो नार्टे”
  • Hungarian: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Icelandic: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Ido: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Indonesian: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Indonesian: “Rio Grande Utara”
  • Interlingua: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Irish: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Italian: “Rio Grande del Nord”
  • Italian: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Italian: “RN”
  • Japanese: “ヒオ・グランジ・ド・ノルチ州”
  • Japanese: “ヒオ・グランヂ・ド・ノルチ州”
  • Japanese: “リオ・グランデ・ド・ノルチ州”
  • Japanese: “リオ・グランデ・ド・ノルテ州”
  • Japanese: “リオグランデ・ド・ノルチ州”
  • Japanese: “リオグランデ・ド・ノルテ”
  • Japanese: “リオグランデ・ド・ノルテ州”
  • Japanese: “リオグランデドノルチ州”
  • Japanese: “リオグランデドノルテ州”
  • Kannada: “ರಿಯೊ ಗ್ರಾಂಡೆ ಡು ನಾರ್ಟೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Риу-Гранди-ду-Норти”
  • Korean: “히우 그란지 두 노르치 주”
  • Korean: “히우그란지두노르치주”
  • Ladino: “Rio Grande del Norte”
  • Latin: “civitas Fluvii Magni Borealis”
  • Latin: “Civitas Fluvii Magni Septentrionalis”
  • Latin: “Flumen Magnum Septentrionale”
  • Latvian: “Riugrandi du Norti”
  • Limburgan: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Lithuanian: “Rio Grandė du Nortė”
  • Lithuanian: “Šiaurės Rio Grandė”
  • Macedonian: “Рио Гранде ду Норте”
  • Malagasy: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Malay: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Marathi: “रियो ग्रांदे दो नॉर्ते”
  • Mazanderani: “ریوگرانده دو نورتی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Norwegian: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Ossetian: “Риу-Гранди-ду-Норти”
  • Persian: “ریو گرانده شمالی”
  • Persian: “ریوگرانده دو نورتی”
  • Persian: “ریوگراندهٔ دو نورتی”
  • Piemontese: “Rio Grande dël Nòrd”
  • Piemontese: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Polish: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Portuguese: “Estado do Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Portuguese: “RN”
  • Quechua: “Chinchay Hatunmayu suyu”
  • Quechua: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Romanian: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Russian: “Риу-Гранди-ду-Норти”
  • Russian: “Северный Риу-Гранде”
  • Scots: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Serbian: “Рио Гранде до Норте”
  • Serbian: “Рио Гранди ду Норти”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rio Grandi du Norti”
  • Sinhala: “රියෝ ග්‍රන්ඩේ ඩු නෝර්ටේ ප්‍රාන්තය, බ්‍රසීලය”
  • Sinhala: “රියෝ ග්‍රන්ඩේ ඩො මොර්ටෙ”
  • Slovak: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Slovenian: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Slovenian: “RN”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Rio Grande del Norte”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Río Grande del Norte”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Río Grande do Norte”
  • Spanish: “Potiguar”
  • Spanish: “Rio Grande del Norte”
  • Spanish: “Río Grande del Norte”
  • Spanish: “Rio grande do norte”
  • Spanish: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Spanish: “Río Grande do Norte”
  • Swahili: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Swedish: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Swedish: “Rio Grando do Norte”
  • Tajik: “Риу Гранди ду Норти”
  • Tajik: “Риу-Гранди-ду-Норти”
  • Tamil: “இரியோ கிராண்டு டோ நார்த்”
  • Tamil: “ரியோ கிராண்டே டூ நோர்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Риу-Гранди-ду-Норти”
  • Telugu: “రియో గ్రాండ్ డు నార్టే”
  • Tetum: “Riu Grande do Norte”
  • Thai: “รัฐรีอูกรันดีดูนอร์ตี”
  • Thai: “รัฐฮิวกรังจีดูนอร์ชี”
  • Turkish: “BR-RN”
  • Turkish: “Estado do Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Turkish: “Rio Grande do Norte (eyalet)”
  • Turkish: “Rio Grande do Norte eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Turkish: “RN”
  • Ukrainian: “Ріо-Гранде-ду-Норте”
  • Ukrainian: “Ріу-Гранді-ду-Норті”
  • Ukrainian: “Ріу-Ґранді-ду-Норті”
  • Urdu: “شمالی ریو گرانڈی”
  • Uzbek: “Riu Grandi du Norti”
  • Venetian: “Rio Grande del Nord”
  • Vietnamese: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Volapük: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Welsh: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Western Panjabi: “ریو گراند دو نورتے”
  • Wu Chinese: “北里约格朗德州”
  • Yoruba: “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • Yue Chinese: “北大河州”
  • “BR-RN”
  • “ma Kiju Kansi seli”
  • “ma Kiju Kansi Tu Nosi”
  • “ma Kiju Kante seli”
  • “ma Kiju Kante Tu Note”
  • “ma Kijukansi seli”
  • “ma Kijukante seli”
  • “ma Kijukantunosi”
  • “ma Ku Kansi seli”
  • “ma Ku Kansi Tu Nosi”
  • “ma Ku Kante seli”
  • “ma Ku Kante Tu Note”
  • “ma Kukansi seli”
  • “ma Kukante seli”
  • “ma Kukantunosi”
  • “ma Kukantunote”
  • “ma Rio Grande do Norte”
  • “Rio Grande do Norte”
  • “RN”

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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 “Rio Grande do Norte”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.