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Rio Grande do Sul

Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost state in , bordering and . It is in some sense a unique region that merges clearly identifiable elements of culture, the culture of Pampas region which also includes and a large portion of , as well as the culture of and immigrants.
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is the capital city and the most populous city of the state Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state in . With 4.4 million people in its metropolitan area, it is the 4th largest city of the country.

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is the second largest city in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul after the capital city of . It is a major industrial center in the region dealing mostly in metallurgy, bus manufacturing, and grape production.

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is a municipality in the extreme south of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, 's southernmost state, on the west of Lagoa dos Patos. The city is known as the National Capital of Sweets and has important European-style buildings.

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Metropolitan Porto Alegre is one of the seven Mesoregions of the state of Rio Grande do Sul in . It consists of 98 municipalities, grouped in 6 Microregions:…

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Sudeste Rio-Grandense is one of the seven Mesoregions of the state of Rio Grande do Sul in . It consists of 25 municipalities, grouped in four Microregions:…

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Noroeste Rio-Grandense was one of the seven Mesoregions on the state of Rio Grande do Sul in . It included 216 municipalities grouped in thirteen microregions.

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The is a region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in the of .

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The Centro Ocidental Rio-Grandense is one of the seven mesoregions of the state of Rio Grande do Sul in . It consists of 31 municipalities, grouped in three microregions: Restinga Seca, Santa Maria and Santiago…

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Sudoeste Rio-Grandense is one of the seven mesoregions of the state of Rio Grande do Sul in . It consists of 19 municipalities, grouped in three microregions:…

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The is a region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in the of .
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Rio Grande do Sul

Latitude of center
-30° or 30° south
Longitude of center
-53.5° or 53° 30′ west
Population
11,400,000
Elevation
121 metres (397 feet)
Abbreviation
“RS”
Geo­Names ID
3451133
Wiki­data ID
Q40030
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Rio Grande do Sul” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “BR-RS”
  • Afar: “BR-RS”
  • Afrikaans: “Rio Grande do Sol”
  • Afrikaans: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Albanian: “BR-RS”
  • Arabic: “ريو جراندي دو سول”
  • Arabic: “ريو غراندي دو سول”
  • Aragonese: “BR-RS”
  • Armenian: “Ռիու Գրանդի դու Սուլ”
  • Arpitan: “BR-RS”
  • Asturian: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Asturian: “Río Grande do Sul”
  • Aymara: “Rio Grande do Sul Istadu”
  • Aymara: “Rio Grande do sul”
  • Azerbaijani: “Riu-Qrandi-du-Sul”
  • Bambara: “BR-RS”
  • Banjar: “BR-RS”
  • Basque: “Hegoaldeko Rio Grande”
  • Basque: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Batak Toba: “BR-RS”
  • Bavarian: “BR-RS”
  • Belarusian: “Рыу-Гранды-ду-Сул”
  • Belarusian: “Рыю-Грандзі-ду-Сул”
  • Belarusian: “штат Рыу-Гранды-ду-Сул”
  • Bengali: “রিও গ্রান্ডে দু সোল”
  • Bishnupriya: “রিও গ্রান্ডে ডো সুল”
  • Bislama: “BR-RS”
  • Bosnian: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Breton: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Buginese: “BR-RS”
  • Bulgarian: “Рио Гранде до Сул”
  • Bulgarian: “Рио Гранди до Сул”
  • Bulgarian: “Риу Гранди ду Сул”
  • Burmese: “ရီယိုဂရန်းဒေးဒိုဆူလ်ပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Cebuano: “Rio Grande do Sul (estado sa Brasil)”
  • Cebuano: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Central Bikol: “BR-RS”
  • Central Kanuri: “BR-RS”
  • Chamorro: “BR-RS”
  • Chavacano: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Cheyenne: “BR-RS”
  • Chinese: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Chinese: “北大河州”
  • Chinese: “南大河州”
  • Chinese: “南里奥格兰德州”
  • Chinese: “南里約格蘭德”
  • Choctaw: “BR-RS”
  • Cornish: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Corsican: “Rio Grande di u Sudu”
  • Corsican: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Cree: “BR-RS”
  • Creek: “BR-RS”
  • Crimean Tatar: “BR-RS”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Riu Grandi du Sul”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Riu-Grandi-du-Sul”
  • Croatian: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Czech: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Dagbani: “Suda Rio-Grando”
  • Danish: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Dimli (individual language): “BR-RS”
  • Dutch: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Eastern Canadian Inuktitut: “BR-RS”
  • Erzya: “BR-RS”
  • Esperanto: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Esperanto: “Sud-Riogrando”
  • Esperanto: “Suda Rio-Grando”
  • Esperanto: “Suda Riogrando”
  • Esperanto: “Sudriogrando”
  • Estonian: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Estonian: “Rio Grande do Suli osariik”
  • Extremaduran: “BR-RS”
  • Faroese: “BR-RS”
  • Fiji Hindi: “BR-RS”
  • Fijian: “BR-RS”
  • Finnish: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • French: “État du Rio Grande du Sud”
  • French: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • French: “Rio Grande du Sud”
  • Friulian: “BR-RS”
  • Fulah: “BR-RS”
  • Gagauz: “BR-RS”
  • Galician: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Galician: “Río Grande do Sur”
  • Ganda: “BR-RS”
  • Georgian: “რიუ გრანდი დუ სული”
  • Georgian: “რიუ-გრანდი-დუ-სული”
  • German: “BR-RS”
  • German: “Estado do Rio Grande do Sul”
  • German: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • German: “RS”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Goan Konkani: “BR-RS”
  • Gorontalo: “BR-RS”
  • Greek: “Ρίο Γκράντε ντο Σουλ”
  • Greek: “Ρίο Γκράντε ντο Σουρ”
  • Guarani: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Guarani: “Río Grande”
  • Guarani: “RS”
  • Gujarati: “રિયો ગ્રાન્દે દો સુલ”
  • Haitian: “BR-RS”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nàm-thai-hò-chû”
  • Hawaiian: “BR-RS”
  • Hebrew: “ריו גראנדה דו סול”
  • Hebrew: “ריו גראנדי דו סול”
  • Hebrew: “ריו גרנדה דו סול”
  • Herero: “BR-RS”
  • Hindi: “रियो ग्रांड डो सुल”
  • Hindi: “रियो ग्रांडे दो सुल”
  • Hindi: “रियो ग्रांडो दो सुल”
  • Hiri Motu: “BR-RS”
  • Hungarian: “Río Grande del Sur”
  • Hungarian: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Hunsrik: “BR-RS”
  • Icelandic: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Ido: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Igbo: “BR-RS”
  • Iloko: “BR-RS”
  • Indonesian: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Interlingua: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Interlingue: “BR-RS”
  • Inupiaq: “BR-RS”
  • Irish: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Italian: “Rio Grande del Sud”
  • Italian: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Italian: “RS”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “BR-RS”
  • Japanese: “ヒオ・グランジ・ド・スウ州”
  • Japanese: “ヒオ・グランヂ・ド・スウ州”
  • Japanese: “リオ・グランデ・ド・スーウ州”
  • Japanese: “リオ・グランデ・ド・スール州”
  • Japanese: “リオ・グランデ・ド・スル”
  • Japanese: “リオ・グランデ・ド・スル州”
  • Japanese: “リオグランデ・ド・スウ州”
  • Japanese: “リオグランデ・ド・スル州”
  • Japanese: “リオグランデドスール州”
  • Japanese: “リオグランデドスル州”
  • Japanese: “南大河州”
  • Javanese: “BR-RS”
  • Kabyle: “BR-RS”
  • Kalaallisut: “BR-RS”
  • Kannada: “ರಿಯೊ ಗ್ರಾಂಡೆ ಡು ಸುಲ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “BR-RS”
  • Kashubian: “BR-RS”
  • Kazakh: “BR-RS”
  • Kazakh: “Риу-Гранди-ду-Сул”
  • Kikuyu: “BR-RS”
  • Kinyarwanda: “BR-RS”
  • Kölsch: “BR-RS”
  • Kongo: “BR-RS”
  • Korean: “리우그란데두술 주”
  • Korean: “히우 그란지 두 술 주”
  • Korean: “히우그란지두술주”
  • Kuanyama: “BR-RS”
  • Kurdish: “BR-RS”
  • Ladino: “Rio Grande del Sud”
  • Latgalian: “BR-RS”
  • Latin: “civitas Fluvii Magni Australis”
  • Latin: “Civitas Fluvii Magni Australis”
  • Latvian: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Latvian: “Riugrandi du Sula”
  • Ligurian: “BR-RS”
  • Limburgan: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Lingala: “BR-RS”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “BR-RS”
  • Lithuanian: “Pietų Rio Grandė”
  • Lithuanian: “Rio Grandė du Sulas”
  • Lithuanian: “Riu Grandi du Sulis”
  • Liv: “BR-RS”
  • Livvi: “BR-RS”
  • Lojban: “BR-RS”
  • Lombard: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Low German: “BR-RS”
  • Low German: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Lower Sorbian: “BR-RS”
  • Lule Sami: “BR-RS”
  • Luxembourgish: “BR-RS”
  • Macedonian: “Рио Гранде ду Сул”
  • Mainfränkisch: “BR-RS”
  • Malagasy: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Malay: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Maltese: “BR-RS”
  • Manx: “BR-RS”
  • Maori: “BR-RS”
  • Marathi: “रियो ग्रांदे दो सुल”
  • Marshallese: “BR-RS”
  • Mazanderani: “ریوگرانده دو سول”
  • Megleno Romanian: “BR-RS”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “BR-RS”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Minangkabau: “BR-RS”
  • Mirandese: “BR-RS”
  • Narom: “BR-RS”
  • Nauru: “BR-RS”
  • Navajo: “BR-RS”
  • Ndonga: “BR-RS”
  • Neapolitan: “BR-RS”
  • Northern Frisian: “BR-RS”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Northern Sami: “BR-RS”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Río Grande do Sul”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Norwegian: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Novial: “BR-RS”
  • Nyanja: “BR-RS”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “BR-RS”
  • Oromo: “BR-RS”
  • Ossetian: “Риу-Гранди-ду-Сул”
  • Pali: “BR-RS”
  • Pampanga: “BR-RS”
  • Pangasinan: “BR-RS”
  • Papiamento: “BR-RS”
  • Pedi: “BR-RS”
  • Pennsylvania German: “BR-RS”
  • Persian: “ریو گرانده جنوبی”
  • Persian: “ریو گرانده دو سول”
  • Persian: “ریو گراندهٔ دو سول”
  • Persian: “ریوگرانده دو سول”
  • Persian: “ریوگراندهٔ دو سول”
  • Pfaelzisch: “BR-RS”
  • Picard: “BR-RS”
  • Piemontese: “Rio Grande dël Sud”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “BR-RS”
  • Polish: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Portuguese: “Estado do Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Portuguese: “RGS”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Portuguese: “RS”
  • Prussian: “BR-RS”
  • Quechua: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Quechua: “Uralan Hatunmayu”
  • Quechua: “Urin Hatunmayu suyu”
  • Quechua: “Urin Hatunmayu”
  • Romagnol: “BR-RS”
  • Romanian: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Romansh: “BR-RS”
  • Rundi: “BR-RS”
  • Russian: “Рио Гранде ду Сул”
  • Russian: “Риу-Гранде-ду-Сул”
  • Russian: “Риу-Гранди-ду-Сул”
  • Samoan: “BR-RS”
  • Sango: “BR-RS”
  • Sardinian: “BR-RS”
  • Saterfriesisch: “BR-RS”
  • Scots: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “BR-RS”
  • Serbian: “BR-RS”
  • Serbian: “Рио Гранде до Сул”
  • Serbian: “Рио Гранди ду Сул”
  • Serbian: “Рио Гранђи ду Сул”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rio Grandi du Sul”
  • Shona: “BR-RS”
  • Sicilian: “BR-RS”
  • Silesian: “BR-RS”
  • Sinhala: “රියෝ ග්‍රන්ඩේ ඩු සල් ප්‍රාන්තය, බ්‍රසීලය”
  • Sinhala: “රියෝ ග්‍රන්ඩේ ඩු සල්”
  • Slovak: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Slovenian: “BR-RS”
  • Slovenian: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Slovenian: “RS”
  • Somali: “BR-RS”
  • Southern Sami: “BR-RS”
  • Southern Sotho: “BR-RS”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Rio Grande del Sur”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Río Grande del Sur”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Spanish: “Rio Grande de San Pedro”
  • Spanish: “Río Grande de San Pedro”
  • Spanish: “Rio Grande del Sur”
  • Spanish: “Río Grande del Sur”
  • Spanish: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Spanish: “Río Grande do Sul”
  • Sranan Tongo: “BR-RS”
  • Sundanese: “BR-RS”
  • Swahili: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Swati: “BR-RS”
  • Swedish: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Tachelhit: “BR-RS”
  • Tagalog: “BR-RS”
  • Tahitian: “BR-RS”
  • Tajik: “BR-RS”
  • Tajik: “Риу Гранди ду Сул”
  • Tajik: “Риу-Гранди-ду-Сул”
  • Tamil: “இரியோ கிராண்டு டொ சுல்”
  • Tamil: “ரியோ கிராண்டே டூ சூல்”
  • Tatar: “BR-RS”
  • Tatar: “Риу-Гранди-ду-Сул”
  • Telugu: “రియో గ్రాండ్ డు సల్”
  • Tetum: “Riu Grande do Sul”
  • Thai: “รัฐรีอูกรันดีดูซูล”
  • Thai: “รัฐฮิวกรังจีดูซูว”
  • Tok Pisin: “BR-RS”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “BR-RS”
  • Tsonga: “BR-RS”
  • Tswana: “BR-RS”
  • Tumbuka: “BR-RS”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “BR-RS”
  • Turkish: “BR-RS”
  • Turkish: “Estado do Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Turkish: “Rio Grande do Sul (eyalet)”
  • Turkish: “Rio Grande do Sul eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Turkish: “RS”
  • Twi: “BR-RS”
  • Uighur: “BR-RS”
  • Ukrainian: “Ріо-Гранде-ду-Сул”
  • Ukrainian: “Ріу-Гранді-ду-Сул”
  • Ukrainian: “Ріу-Ґранді-ду-Сул”
  • Upper Sorbian: “BR-RS”
  • Urdu: “جنوبی ریو گرانڈی”
  • Uzbek: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Uzbek: “Riu Grandi du Sul”
  • Venda: “BR-RS”
  • Venetian: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Venetian: “Rio Grando do Sul”
  • Veps: “BR-RS”
  • Vietnamese: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Vlaams: “BR-RS”
  • Vlax Romani: “BR-RS”
  • Volapük: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Võro: “BR-RS”
  • Votic: “BR-RS”
  • Walloon: “BR-RS”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Welsh: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Western Armenian: “Հայոց Միջագետքի Տլուք գաւառի Մարաթա գիւղ”
  • Western Frisian: “BR-RS”
  • Western Panjabi: “ریو گراند دو سول”
  • Wolof: “BR-RS”
  • Wu Chinese: “南里奥格兰德州”
  • Xhosa: “BR-RS”
  • Yoruba: “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Yue Chinese: “南大河州”
  • Zeeuws: “BR-RS”
  • Zhuang: “BR-RS”
  • Zulu: “BR-RS”
  • “BR-RS”
  • “ma Kiju Kansi lete”
  • “ma Kiju Kansi Tu Su”
  • “ma Kiju Kante lete”
  • “ma Kiju Kante Tu Su”
  • “ma Kijukansi lete”
  • “ma Kijukante lete”
  • “ma Kijukantusu”
  • “ma Ku Kansi lete”
  • “ma Ku Kansi Tu Su”
  • “ma Ku Kante lete”
  • “ma Ku Kante Tu Su”
  • “ma Kukansi lete”
  • “ma Kukante lete”
  • “ma Kukantusu”
  • “ma Rio Grande do Sul”
  • “Rio Grande do Sul”
  • “RS”

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