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São João del Rei

São João del-Rei is a Brazilian municipality in the state of . Founded in 1713 in homage to king John V of Portugal, the city is famed for its historic Portuguese colonial architecture. The current population is estimated at 90,225 inhabitants.
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  • Type: Town with 90,200 residents
  • Description: town and municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil
  • Also known as: “São João del-Rei” and “São José del Rey”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar and Teatro Municipal.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.
The , also known as the São João del Rei Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic Marian Pontifical shrine in São João del-Rei, , .

Theater building
Photo: Wakawakaphoto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a theater building.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.
The is a Catholic temple founded by the Secular Franciscan Order in the Brazilian city of São João del-Rei, in the state of .

São João del Rei

Latitude
-21.1336° or 21° 8′ 1″ south
Longitude
-44.2588° or 44° 15′ 32″ west
Population
90,200
Elevation
911 metres (2,989 feet)
IATA airport code
JDR
United Nations Location Code
BR QSJ
Open location code
58CQVP8R+HF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3474947606
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3448879
Wiki­data ID
Q740965
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Wu Chinese—“São João del Rei” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “São João del-Rei”
  • Bishnupriya: “সাও জোয়াও ডেল রেই”
  • Catalan: “São João del Rei”
  • Catalan: “São João del-Rei”
  • Cebuano: “São João del Rei”
  • Chechen: “Сан-Жуан-дел-Рей”
  • Chinese: “São João del-Rei”
  • Chinese: “圣若昂-德尔雷伊”
  • Chinese: “圣若昂-德雷”
  • Danish: “São João del-Rei”
  • Dutch: “São João del Rei”
  • Dutch: “São João del-Rei”
  • Esperanto: “São João del Rei”
  • Esperanto: “Sao Joao del-Rei”
  • Esperanto: “São João del-Rei”
  • Finnish: “São João del Rei”
  • French: “São João del Rei”
  • French: “Sao Joao del-Rei”
  • French: “São João del-Rei”
  • Galician: “São João del Rei”
  • Georgian: “სან-ჟუან-დელ-რეი”
  • German: “São João del Rei”
  • German: “São João del-Rei”
  • Hungarian: “São João del Rei”
  • Ido: “São João del-Rei”
  • Irish: “São João del-Rei”
  • Italian: “São João del-Rei”
  • Japanese: “サン・ジョアン・デル・レイ”
  • Kazakh: “San-Jwan-del-Reý”
  • Kazakh: “Сан-Жуан-дел-Рей”
  • Kazakh: “سان-جۋان-دەل-رەي”
  • Korean: “상조앙지우레이”
  • Korean: “상주앙델헤이”
  • Korean: “상주앙지우레이”
  • Lithuanian: “San Žuan del Rėjus”
  • Malagasy: “São João del Rei”
  • Mazanderani: “سائو ژواو دل ری”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “São João del-Rei”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “São João del Rei”
  • Norwegian: “São João del Rei”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “São João del Rei”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “São João del-Rei”
  • Polish: “São João del Rei”
  • Polish: “São João del-Rei”
  • Portuguese: “São João del Rei”
  • Portuguese: “São João Del Rei”
  • Portuguese: “São João Del Rey”
  • Portuguese: “São João del-Rei”
  • Portuguese: “São João Del-Rey”
  • Romanian: “Sao Joao del Rei”
  • Romanian: “São João del Rei”
  • Russian: “Сан-Жуан-дел-Рей”
  • Silesian: “São João del Rei”
  • Spanish: “Sao Joao del Rei”
  • Spanish: “Sao João del Rei”
  • Spanish: “São João del Rei”
  • Spanish: “Sao Joao del-Rei”
  • Spanish: “Sao João del-Rei”
  • Spanish: “São João del-Rei”
  • Swedish: “São João del Rei”
  • Tatar: “Сан-Жуан-дел-Рей”
  • Turkish: “São João del-Rei”
  • Ukrainian: “Сан-Жуан-дел-Рей”
  • Uzbek: “São João del-Rei”
  • Vietnamese: “São João del-Rei”
  • Volapük: “São João del-Rei”
  • Waray (Philippines): “São João del Rei”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣若昂-德雷”
  • “São João del Rei”

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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 Wikipedia page “São João del Rei”. Photo: Thais Andressa, CC BY-SA 4.0.