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São José

São José is a city of 270,000 people in the region of . The city was mainly settled by Azoreans, and has been populated since the 18th century. This article also covers the neighboring city of Palhoça.
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  • Type: City with 270,000 residents
  • Description: municipality of Santa Catarina state, Brazil
  • Also known as: “São José, Santa Catarina”
  • Neighbors: and

São José

Latitude
-27.6158° or 27° 36′ 57″ south
Longitude
-48.6276° or 48° 37′ 40″ west
Population
270,000
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
Open location code
584H99MC+MW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 415523574
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3448744
Wiki­data ID
Q173849
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“São José” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ساو خوسيه”
  • Asturian: “São José (Santa Catarina)”
  • Asturian: “São José”
  • Basque: “São José”
  • Bengali: “স্যান জোসে”
  • Bishnupriya: “সাও জোসে”
  • Catalan: “São José”
  • Cebuano: “São José”
  • Chechen: “Сан-Жозе”
  • Chinese: “São José”
  • Chinese: “圣若泽”
  • Danish: “Sao Jose”
  • Dutch: “São José”
  • Esperanto: “São José”
  • Finnish: “São José”
  • French: “São José”
  • Georgian: “სან-ჟოზე”
  • German: “Município de São José”
  • German: “São José”
  • Greek: “Σάο Χοσέ”
  • Gujarati: “સાઓ જોસ, સાન્તા કેટરીના”
  • Hindi: “सो जोसे”
  • Hungarian: “São José”
  • Ido: “São José, Santa Catarina”
  • Ido: “São José”
  • Indonesian: “São José”
  • Interlingua: “São José”
  • Irish: “São José”
  • Italian: “São José”
  • Japanese: “サンジョゼ”
  • Japanese: “サンホセ”
  • Kannada: “ಸಾವೊ ಜೋಸ್, ಸಂತ ಕ್ಯಾಟರಿನಾ”
  • Korean: “상조제”
  • Latvian: “Sanžozē”
  • Lithuanian: “San Chosė”
  • Lithuanian: “San Žozė”
  • Malagasy: “São José”
  • Malay: “Sao Jose”
  • Marathi: “साओ जोस, सांता केटरीना”
  • Mazanderani: “سائو خوزه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “São José”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “São José”
  • Norwegian: “São José”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “São José”
  • Polish: “São José”
  • Portuguese: “São José”
  • Romanian: “São José”
  • Russian: “Сан-Жозе”
  • Sinhala: “සාඕ ජෝස් ,සැන්ටා කැතරිනා”
  • Slovenian: “São José”
  • Spanish: “São José”
  • Swedish: “São José, Santa Catarina”
  • Swedish: “São José”
  • Tamil: “சோ ஜோஸ் , சாண்டா கட்ரினா”
  • Tatar: “Сан-Жозе”
  • Telugu: “సావో జోస్, శాంటా కాతరినా”
  • Thai: “เซา โชเซ”
  • Turkish: “São José, Santa Catarina”
  • Turkish: “Sao Jose”
  • Ukrainian: “Сан-Жозе”
  • Urdu: “ساؤ جوسی ، سنتا کاتارینا”
  • Venetian: “São José”
  • Vietnamese: “São José”
  • Volapük: “São José”
  • Waray (Philippines): “São José, Santa Catarina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “São José”

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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 “São José”. Photo: Madrerosa, Public domain.