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Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro is a state in the of . It is a small coastal state wedged between to the west, to the northeast, and to the north.
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is the second largest city in , on the South Atlantic coast. Rio is famous for its breathtaking landscape, its laid-back beach culture and its annual carnival.

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is a city in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Nestled among the forested hills of the Serra dos Órgãos, in the valley of the Quitandinha and Piabanha rivers, is a popular summer holiday spot.

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is the former capital of Rio de Janeiro state, in southeastern . Nicknamed "The Smile City", "NKT" and "Nikiti", it is just a short ferry ride from downtown Rio across Guanabara Bay.

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is a region of the state of Rio de Janeiro including its eponymous and the 20 other surrounding cities to which it has expanded. It borders on the region to the west, the and regions to the north, and the to the east.

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The is a region of the state of Rio de Janeiro, in the of . It is bordered by to the west and the and region of the state to the north.

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The , also known as the Serra Fluminense is a mountainous region of the state of Rio de Janeiro, in the of . It borders on the to the west, and the to the south, the and Northeast regions of the state, and the Zona da Mata region of to the north.

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is a region of the state of Rio de Janeiro. It is bordered by the and to the north, and to the east.

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The is in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in the of . It is bordered by the and regions to the south, the Southern and Zona da Mata regions of to the north, and the region of to the west.

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The of the state of Rio de Janeiro is the region furthest from the state . It borders the so-called region to the southeast, the to the southwest, the state of to the northeast, and the Zona da Mata region of to the north and west.

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The region of the state of Rio de Janeiro, while not the northernmost part of the state, is nevertheless called "northern" due to the tendency for coastal Brazilians to refer to as "along the coast towards the northern end of the continent".
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Rio de Janeiro

Latitude of center
-22.2753° or 22° 16′ 31″ south
Longitude of center
-42.4194° or 42° 25′ 10″ west
Population
17,500,000
Elevation
1,109 metres (3,638 feet)
Abbreviation
“RJ”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 504799970
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3451189
Wiki­data ID
Q41428
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Rio de Janeiro” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Afrikaans: “RJ”
  • Arabic: “ريو دي جانيرو”
  • Arabic: “ولاية ريو دي جانيرو”
  • Aragonese: “Estato de Rio de Janeiro”
  • Aragonese: “Estau de Rio de Janeiro”
  • Armenian: “Ռիո դե Ժանեյրո նահանգ”
  • Armenian: “Ռիո դե Ժանեյրո”
  • Asturian: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Aymara: “Rio de Janeiro Istadu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Rio-de-Janeyro ştatı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Rio-de-Janeyro”
  • Basque: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Basque: “Rio de Janeiroko estatua”
  • Bavarian: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Belarusian: “Рыа-дэ-Жанейра”
  • Belarusian: “Рыа-дэ-Жанэйра, штат”
  • Belarusian: “Рыа-дэ-Жанэйра”
  • Belarusian: “Рыю-дэ-Жанэйру (штат)”
  • Belarusian: “Рыю-дэ-Жанэйру”
  • Belarusian: “штат Рыа-дэ-Жанэйра”
  • Belarusian: “штат Рыю-дэ-Жанэйру”
  • Bishnupriya: “রিও ডি জেনিরো (রাজ্য)”
  • Bishnupriya: “রিও ডি জেনিরো”
  • Bosnian: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Breton: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Breton: “Stad Rio de Janeiro”
  • Bulgarian: “Рио де Жанейро”
  • Burmese: “ရီယိုဒီဂျနေးရိုးပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Estat de Rio de Janeiro”
  • Catalan: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Cebuano: “Rio de Janeiro (estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Chavacano: “Río de Janeiro”
  • Chinese: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Chinese: “里約熱內盧州”
  • Chinese: “里约热内卢州”
  • Cornish: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Rio de Janeyro”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Rio-de-Janeyro (ştat)”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Rio-de-Janeyro”
  • Croatian: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Czech: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Danish: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Dutch: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Esperanto: “Rio-de-Ĵanejrio”
  • Esperanto: “Riodeĵanejro”
  • Esperanto: “ŝtato de Rio-de-Ĵanejro”
  • Esperanto: “ŝubstato de Rio-de-Ĵanejro”
  • Estonian: “Rio de Janeiro osariik”
  • Finnish: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • French: “Etat de Rio de Janeiro”
  • French: “État de Rio de Janeiro”
  • French: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Galician: “Estado de Rio de Janeiro”
  • Galician: “Estado de Río de Xaneiro - Rio de Janeiro”
  • Galician: “Estado de Río de Xaneiro”
  • Galician: “Estado do Rio de Janeiro”
  • Galician: “Estado do Río de Xaneiro”
  • Galician: “Río de Xaneiro”
  • Georgian: “რიო-დე-ჟანეირო”
  • Georgian: “რიო-დე-ჟანეიროს შტატი”
  • German: “Bundesstaat Rio de Janeiro”
  • German: “Estado do Rio de Janeiro”
  • German: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • German: “RJ”
  • Greek: “Ρίο ντε Τζανέιρο”
  • Guarani: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Guarani: “Tetãvore Rio de Janeiro”
  • Hebrew: “ריו דה ז’ניירו”
  • Hebrew: “ריו דה ז’נירו”
  • Hebrew: “ריו דה ז’נרו”
  • Hindi: “रियो डि जेनेरो”
  • Hungarian: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Ido: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Indonesian: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Interlingua: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Irish: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Italian: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Italian: “RJ”
  • Italian: “Stato di Rio de Janeiro”
  • Japanese: “ヒオ・ヂ・ジャネイホ州”
  • Japanese: “ヒオ・ヂ・ジャネイロ州”
  • Japanese: “リオ デ ジャネイロ”
  • Japanese: “リオ・デ・ジャネイロ州”
  • Japanese: “リオデジャネイロ州”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Рио-де-Жанейро”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Рио”
  • Korean: “리우 데 자네이루 주”
  • Korean: “리우데자네이루주”
  • Korean: “히우 지 자네이루 주”
  • Korean: “히우지자네이루 주”
  • Kurdish: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Ladino: “Rio de Djenero”
  • Lao: “ລັດຣີໂອເດຈາເນໂຣ”
  • Latin: “Civitas Fluminensis”
  • Latin: “civitas Fluminis Ianuarii”
  • Latin: “Flumen Ianuarii”
  • Latin: “Flumen Januarii”
  • Latvian: “Riodežaneiro”
  • Limburgan: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Lithuanian: “Rio de Žaneiras”
  • Lithuanian: “Rio de Žaneiro valstija”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bundesstaat Rio de Janeiro”
  • Luxembourgish: “Estado do Rio de Janeiro”
  • Luxembourgish: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Macedonian: “Рио де Жанеиро”
  • Malagasy: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Malay: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Maltese: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Marathi: “रियो दि जानेरो”
  • Mazanderani: “ریو دو ژانیرو (ایالت)”
  • Mazanderani: “ریو دو ژانیرو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rio de Janeiro Chiu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Delstaten Rio de Janeiro”
  • Norwegian: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Ossetian: “Рио-де-Жанейро”
  • Persian: “ایالت ریو دو ژانیرو”
  • Persian: “ریو دو ژانیرو”
  • Piemontese: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Polish: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Portuguese: “Estado do Rio de Janeiro”
  • Portuguese: “Estado do Rio”
  • Portuguese: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Portuguese: “RJ”
  • Quechua: “Rio de Janeiro suyu”
  • Romanian: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Russian: “Рио-де-Жанейро”
  • Scots: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Serbian: “Рио де Жанеиро”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rio de Žaneiro”
  • Sinhala: “රියෝ ඩි ජැනයිරෝ ප්‍රාන්තය, බ්‍රසීලය”
  • Slovak: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Slovenian: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Rio de Janeiro”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Río de Janeiro”
  • Spanish: “Estado Rio de Janeiro”
  • Spanish: “Estado Río de Janeiro”
  • Spanish: “Río de Enero (Estado)”
  • Spanish: “Río de Enero”
  • Spanish: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Spanish: “Río de Janeiro”
  • Spanish: “RJ”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Rio de Janeiro”
  • Swahili: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Swedish: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Tajik: “Рио де Жанейро”
  • Tajik: “Рио-де-Жанейро”
  • Talysh: “Rio-de-Žanejro (štat)”
  • Talysh: “Rio-de-Žanejro”
  • Tamil: “இரியோ டி செனீரோ”
  • Tatar: “Рио-де-Жанейро”
  • Tatar: “Риу-де-Жанейру (штат)”
  • Tatar: “Риу-де-Жанейру”
  • Tetum: “Riu de Janeiru”
  • Thai: “รัฐรีอูดีจาเนรู”
  • Thai: “รัฐรีโอเดจาเนโร”
  • Thai: “รัฐฮิวจีจาเนย์รู”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Lio ti Sanelo (siteiti)”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Lio ti Sanelo”
  • Turkish: “BR-RJ”
  • Turkish: “Estado do Rio de Janeiro”
  • Turkish: “Rio de Janeiro (eyalet)”
  • Turkish: “Rio de Janeiro eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Turkish: “RJ”
  • Ukrainian: “Ріо-де-Жанейро”
  • Ukrainian: “Штат Ріо-де-Жанейро”
  • Urdu: “ریو دے جینیرو”
  • Uzbek: “Rio-de-Janeyro”
  • Venetian: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Vietnamese: “Bang Rio de Janeiro”
  • Vietnamese: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Vietnamese: “Tiểu bang Rio de Janeiro”
  • Volapük: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Welsh: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Western Panjabi: “ریو دی جنیرو”
  • Wu Chinese: “里約熱內盧州”
  • Yoruba: “Ìpínlẹ̀ Rio de Janeiro”
  • Yoruba: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • Yue Chinese: “里約熱內盧州”
  • Zhuang: “Rio de Janeiro”
  • “BR-RJ”
  • “ma Kiju”
  • “ma Kijusisanelu”
  • “ma Kijutesanelo”
  • “ma Kijutesanelu”
  • “ma Ku”
  • “ma Kusisanelu”
  • “ma Kutesanelo”
  • “ma Kutesanelu”
  • “ma Rio”
  • “ma Rio de Janeiro”
  • “Rio”
  • “Rio de Janeiro”
  • “RJ”

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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 de Janeiro”. Photo: Halleypo, CC BY-SA 3.0.