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São Paulo

São Paulo, or Sampa as it is also called, is the largest city in , with a municipality population of 12.1 million, and about 21.3 million in its metropolitan region - the most populous of the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Paulista and Downtown São Paulo.

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region is commonly used by people of São Paulo to refer to the area around Avenida . The term is subjective, as Av. crosses different neighborhoods, districts, and even different regions.

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São Paulo's city downtown area is where the city was founded, in 1554. It contains many historical buildings and areas which are protected by the municipality.

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West is a region in São Paulo. If the Downtown represents the São Paulo of the past, probably no other region represents the São Paulo of present day as well as the West.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Northeast São Paulo and South Central.

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Northeast is a region of São Paulo. A rural area turned residential, it is now known for its large exposition and event centers, and many of the city's largest events, including the São Paulo Carnaval Parade, happen here.

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is a region of São Paulo. It is the wealthiest region of the city on average, although it does contain some poorer areas, especially in the extreme south.

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is a region of São Paulo. With about 2.7 million people, it is the most populous region and the main reduct of São Paulo's working classes, a true "City of Workers".

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Southeast is a region of São Paulo. It can be described as a "transition zone" between its three surrounding regions: the Historic Center, the "City of New Rich" and the "City of Workers", mixing characteristics of these three regions.

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is a region of São Paulo. It is the largest region of the municipality of São Paulo, and although the second most populous, it is by far the least densely populated.

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Northwest is a region of São Paulo. It is mostly suburban and residencial similar to the Far East, with the difference that considerable portions of the region remain rural or unoccupied.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Mirante do Vale and São Paulo Museum of Art.

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Building, commonly called , is a 170-metre office skyscraper located in São Paulo, Brazil, in the area of Downtown São Paulo and .

Museum
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The is an art museum in São Paulo, Brazil. It is well known for the architectural significance of its headquarters, a 1968 concrete and glass structure designed by Lina Bo Bardi.

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The Altino Arantes Building, also known as the Banespa Building and most popularly by Banespão, is an important Art Deco skyscraper located in São Paulo, Brazil.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Santana and Bela Vista.

Suburb
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is a metro station on São Paulo Metro Line 1-Blue, located in the district of , in São Paulo. It was opened on 26 September 1975. For more than 20 years, it was the terminus for the line in its north branch.

Suburb
is one of the most traditional neighborhoods in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. It belongs to the borough of Sé, and it has been a mixed neighborhood since its beginning, where free African-Brazilians and/or a mixture of Native-Brazilians, Blacks and Portuguese descendants lived.

Suburb
Southeast is a region of São Paulo. It can be described as a "transition zone" between its three surrounding regions: the Historic Center, the "City of New Rich" and the "City of Workers", mixing characteristics of these three regions.

São Paulo

Latitude
-23.5484° or 23° 32′ 54″ south
Longitude
-46.6388° or 46° 38′ 20″ west
Population
11,500,000
Elevation
769 metres (2,523 feet)
Inception
January 25th, 1554
IATA airport code
SAO
United Nations Location Code
BR SAO
Open location code
588MF926+JF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30674098
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3448439
Wiki­data ID
Q174
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zhuang—“São Paulo” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Сан-Паулу”
  • Achinese: “São Paulo”
  • Afrikaans: “São Paulo”
  • Albanian: “Sao Paolo”
  • Albanian: “São Paulo”
  • Amharic: “ሳው ፓውሉ”
  • Arabic: “سان باولو”
  • Arabic: “ساو باولو”
  • Arabic: “ساو بولو”
  • Arabic: “ساوباولو”
  • Aragonese: “São Paulo”
  • Armenian: “Սան Պաուլո”
  • Armenian: “Սան Պաուլու”
  • Arpitan: “Sant-Pol”
  • Arpitan: “São Paulo”
  • Assamese: “চাও পাওল‘”
  • Assamese: “চাও পাওল’”
  • Asturian: “São Paulo”
  • Aymara: “San Pauluw”
  • Azerbaijani: “San-Paulo”
  • Azerbaijani: “San-Paulu”
  • Balinese: “São Paulo”
  • Bambara: “São Paulo”
  • Bashkir: “Сан-Паулу”
  • Basque: “Sao Paulo”
  • Basque: “São Paulo”
  • Bavarian: “São Paulo”
  • Belarusian: “Сан-Паўлу”
  • Bengali: “সাঁউ পাউলু”
  • Bengali: “সাও পাওলো”
  • Bengali: “সাওপাউলো”
  • Bhojpuri: “साओ पाउलो”
  • Bhojpuri: “साओ पाओलो”
  • Bhojpuri: “साओ पालो”
  • Bhojpuri: “साओ पॉलो”
  • Bhojpuri: “साओ पौलो”
  • Bishnupriya: “সাও পাউলো”
  • Bosnian: “Sao Paulo”
  • Bosnian: “São Paulo”
  • Breton: “São Paulo”
  • Buginese: “Sao Paulo”
  • Buginese: “Saopaulo”
  • Buginese: “ᨔᨕᨚ ᨄᨕᨘᨒᨚ”
  • Buginese: “ᨔᨕᨚᨄᨕᨘᨒᨚ”
  • Bulgarian: “Сао Пауло”
  • Burmese: “ဆောပိုလိုမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Sant Pau”
  • Catalan: “São Paulo”
  • Cebuano: “São Paulo”
  • Central Bikol: “São Paulo”
  • Central Kurdish: “ساوپاولۆ”
  • Chavacano: “São Paulo”
  • Chechen: “Сан-Паулу”
  • Cherokee: “ᏌᎣ-ᏉᎶ”
  • Cheyenne: “São Paulo”
  • Chinese: “São Paulo”
  • Chinese: “圣保罗”
  • Chinese: “圣保罗州”
  • Chinese: “聖保羅/圣保罗”
  • Chinese: “聖保羅”
  • Chuvash: “Сан-Паулу”
  • Cornish: “São Paulo”
  • Corsican: “San Paulu di u Brasile”
  • Corsican: “San Paulu”
  • Corsican: “São Paulo”
  • Cree: “ᓴᐅ ᐸᐅᐅ”
  • Crimean Tatar: “San Paulu”
  • Croatian: “Sao Paulo”
  • Croatian: “São Paulo”
  • Czech: “São Paulo”
  • Dagbani: “São Paulo”
  • Danish: “São Paulo”
  • Dhivehi: “ސައޮ ޕައުލޯ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “São Paulo”
  • Dotyali: “साओ पाउलो”
  • Dutch: “Sao Paulo”
  • Dutch: “São Paulo”
  • Eastern Mari: “Сан-Паулу”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ساو باولو”
  • Erzya: “Сан-Паулу”
  • Esperanto: “San-Paŭlo”
  • Esperanto: “Sanpaŭlo”
  • Esperanto: “Sanpaŭlurbo”
  • Estonian: “São Paulo”
  • Extremaduran: “São Paulo”
  • Faroese: “São Paulo”
  • Fiji Hindi: “São Paulo”
  • Fijian: “São Paulo”
  • Finnish: “Sao Paulo”
  • Finnish: “São Paulo”
  • French: “Sao Paulo”
  • French: “São Paulo”
  • Galician: “San Paulo”
  • Galician: “São Paulo”
  • Gan Chinese: “聖保羅”
  • Georgian: “სან-პაულუ”
  • German: “Município de São Paulo”
  • German: “Sao Paulo”
  • German: “São Paulo”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “São Paulo”
  • Greek: “Σαν Πάουλο”
  • Greek: “Σάο Πάολο”
  • Guarani: “São Paulo”
  • Guianese Creole French: “São Paulo”
  • Gujarati: “સાઉ પાઉલો”
  • Haitian: “São Paolo”
  • Hakka Chinese: “São Paulo”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sṳn Pó-lò”
  • Hausa: “São Paulo”
  • Hawaiian: “San Paulu”
  • Hebrew: “סאו פאולו”
  • Hindi: “साओ पाउलो”
  • Hungarian: “São Paulo”
  • Icelandic: “São Paulo”
  • Ido: “Sao Paulo”
  • Iloko: “São Paulo”
  • Indonesian: “São Paulo”
  • Ingush: “Сан-Паулу”
  • Interlingua: “São Paulo”
  • Interlingue: “São Paulo”
  • Inuktitut: “ᓴᐆ ᐸᐆᓘ”
  • Inupiaq: “São Paulo”
  • Inupiaq: “Sau Paulu”
  • Irish: “São Paulo”
  • Italian: “San Paolo del Brasile”
  • Italian: “San Paolo”
  • Italian: “Sao Paulo”
  • Italian: “São Paulo”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Sou Paalo”
  • Japanese: “S.Paulo”
  • Japanese: “SP”
  • Japanese: “サンパウロ”
  • Japanese: “聖市”
  • Javanese: “São Paulo”
  • Kabiyè: “Sao Paolo”
  • Kabiyè: “Sao Poolo”
  • Kabyle: “São Paulo”
  • Kabyle: “Saw Pawlu”
  • Kalaallisut: “São Paulo”
  • Kalmyk: “Сан-Паулу”
  • Kannada: “ಸಾವೊ ಪಾಲೊ”
  • Kannada: “ಸಾವೊ ಪೌಲೊ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “San Paulo”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Сан-Паулу”
  • Kazakh: “Сан-Паулу қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Сан-Паулу”
  • Khmer: “សាវប៉ូលឡូ”
  • Komering: “São Paulo”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Сан Павлу”
  • Komi: “Сан-Паулу”
  • Korean: “상파올로”
  • Korean: “상파올루”
  • Korean: “상파울로”
  • Korean: “상파울루”
  • Kurdish: “Sao Paolo”
  • Kurdish: “São Paulo”
  • Ladin: “São Paulo”
  • Ladino: “São Paulo”
  • Lao: “ຊາວເປົາໂລ”
  • Latin: “Paulopolis”
  • Latin: “Urbs Paulistana”
  • Latvian: “Sanpaulu”
  • Lezghian: “Сан-Паулу”
  • Ligurian: “São Paulo”
  • Limburgan: “São Paulo”
  • Lingala: “São Paulo”
  • Lithuanian: “San Paulas”
  • Lojban: “sankt. paulos”
  • Lombard: “São Paulo”
  • Low German: “São Paulo”
  • Lower Sorbian: “São Paulo”
  • Luxembourgish: “São Paulo”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “São Paulo”
  • Macedonian: “Сао Паоло”
  • Macedonian: “Саун Пауло”
  • Maithili: “साओ पाउलो”
  • Malagasy: “São Paulo”
  • Malay: “Sao Paulo”
  • Malay: “São Paulo”
  • Malayalam: “സാവോ പോളോ”
  • Maltese: “Sao Paolo”
  • Maltese: “São Paulo”
  • Manx: “São Paulo”
  • Maori: “Hao Pāora”
  • Maori: “São Paulo”
  • Marathi: “साओ पाउलो”
  • Mazanderani: “سائوپائولو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “São Paulo”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “São Paulo”
  • Mingrelian: “სან-პაულუ”
  • Mirandese: “San Poulo”
  • Mongolian: “Сан-Паоло”
  • Mongolian: “Сан-Паулу”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ساو پاولو”
  • N'Ko: “ߛߊߥߏ߫ ߔߟߏ߫”
  • Narom: “San Paulu”
  • Nauru: “São Paulo”
  • Neapolitan: “San Paulo”
  • Nepali: “साओ पाउलो”
  • Northern Frisian: “São Paulo”
  • Northern Sami: “São Paulo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “São Paulo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “São Paulo”
  • Norwegian: “São Paulo”
  • Novial: “São Paulo”
  • Nyanja: “São Paulo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “São Paulo”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܣܐܘ ܦܐܘܠܘ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “São Paulo”
  • Ossetian: “Сан-Паулу”
  • Pampanga: “São Paulo”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਓ ਪਾਉਲੋ”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਓ ਪਾਓਲੋ”
  • Papiamento: “São Paulo”
  • Pennsylvania German: “São Paulo”
  • Persian: “سائو پائولو”
  • Persian: “سائوپائولو”
  • Picard: “Saint-Pol”
  • Picard: “São Paulo”
  • Piemontese: “San Pàul ëd Brasil”
  • Polish: “Sao Paulo”
  • Polish: “São Paulo”
  • Portuguese: “cidade de São Paulo, Brasil”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de São Paulo, São Paulo”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de São Paulo, SP”
  • Portuguese: “cidade de São Paulo”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de São Paulo”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de SP”
  • Portuguese: “Município de São Paulo”
  • Portuguese: “Sampa”
  • Portuguese: “São Paulo (cidade)”
  • Portuguese: “São Paulo capital”
  • Portuguese: “São Paulo, São Paulo”
  • Portuguese: “São Paulo, SP”
  • Portuguese: “São Paulo”
  • Portuguese: “SP”
  • Portuguese: “Terra da garoa”
  • Prussian: “minas”
  • Pushto: “ساو پاولو”
  • Quechua: “São Paulo”
  • Romanian: “Sao Paulo”
  • Romanian: “São Paulo”
  • Romansh: “São Paulo”
  • Russia Buriat: “Сан-Паулу”
  • Russian: “Сан-Паулу (город)”
  • Russian: “Сан-Паулу”
  • Rusyn: “Сан Пауло”
  • Samogitian: “San Paulos”
  • Sanskrit: “साओ पाओलो”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱟᱣ ᱯᱟᱣᱞᱳ ᱥᱚᱦᱚᱨ”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱟᱣ ᱯᱟᱣᱞᱳ”
  • Sardinian: “Santu Paulu”
  • Sardinian: “Santu Pàulu”
  • Sardinian: “Sao Paulo”
  • Sardinian: “São Paulo”
  • Saterfriesisch: “São Paulo”
  • Scots: “Ceety o São Paulo”
  • Scots: “São Paulo”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “São Paulo”
  • Serbian: “Сао Паоло”
  • Serbian: “Сао Пауло”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sao Paulo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “São Paulo”
  • Sicilian: “San Paulu dû Brasili”
  • Sicilian: “San Paulu”
  • Silesian: “São Paulo”
  • Sindhi: “سائو پالو”
  • Sinhala: “සාවෝ - පෝලෝ”
  • Sinhala: “සාවෝ පෝලෝ”
  • Slovak: “São Paulo”
  • Slovenian: “Sao Paulo”
  • Slovenian: “São Paulo”
  • Somali: “São Paulo”
  • Somali: “Sow Bawlo”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سائو پائولو”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سانپائولو”
  • Spanish: “ciudad de Sao Paulo”
  • Spanish: “San Pablo (Brasil)”
  • Spanish: “San Pablo, SP”
  • Spanish: “San Pablo”
  • Spanish: “Sao Paulo (Brasil)”
  • Spanish: “Sao Paulo, SP”
  • Spanish: “Sao Paulo”
  • Spanish: “São Paulo”
  • Spanish: “SP, Brasil”
  • Spanish: “SP”
  • Sranan Tongo: “São Paulo”
  • Swahili: “São Paulo”
  • Swedish: “Sao Paulo”
  • Swedish: “São Paulo”
  • Swiss German: “São Paulo”
  • Tagalog: “São Paulo”
  • Tahitian: “São Paulo”
  • Tajik: “Сан Паулу”
  • Tajik: “Сан-Паулу”
  • Talysh: “San Paulo”
  • Tamil: “சாவோ பாவுலோ”
  • Tamil: “ஸௌ பௌலோ”
  • Tatar: “Сан-Паулу”
  • Telugu: “శఒ పౌలొ”
  • Telugu: “సావో పాలో”
  • Telugu: “సౌ పౌలో”
  • Tetum: “Saun Paulu”
  • Thai: “เซาเปาลู”
  • Thai: “เซาเปาโล”
  • Tibetan: “སན་པའུ་ལོ་”
  • Tok Pisin: “San Paulu”
  • Tosk Albanian: “São Paulo”
  • Turkish: “Sao Paulo”
  • Turkish: “São Paulo”
  • Turkmen: “San-Paulu”
  • Twi: “São Paulo”
  • Udmurt: “Сан-Паулу”
  • Uighur: “San Pawlo”
  • Ukrainian: “Сан-Паулу”
  • Upper Sorbian: “São Paulo”
  • Urdu: “ساؤ پاؤلو”
  • Urdu: “ساؤ پالو”
  • Uzbek: “San Paulu”
  • Uzbek: “San-Paulu”
  • Venetian: “San Poło del Braxil”
  • Veps: “San Paulu”
  • Vietnamese: “Sao Paulo”
  • Vietnamese: “São Paulo”
  • Vlax Romani: “São Paulo”
  • Volapük: “São Paulo”
  • Võro: “São Paulo”
  • Walloon: “Sawo Pålo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “São Paulo”
  • Welsh: “São Paulo”
  • Western Armenian: “Սան Փաուլօ”
  • Western Frisian: “São Paulo”
  • Western Mari: “Сан-Паулу”
  • Western Panjabi: “ساؤ پولو”
  • Wolof: “São Paulo”
  • Wu Chinese: “聖保羅（巴西）”
  • Wu Chinese: “聖保羅”
  • Yakut: “Сан Паулу”
  • Yiddish: “סאו פאולא”
  • Yoruba: “São Paulo”
  • Yue Chinese: “聖保羅”
  • Zeeuws: “São Paulo”
  • Zhuang: “São Paulo”
  • “ma Sanpalo”
  • “ma Sanpalu”
  • “ma tomo Sanpalo”
  • “ma tomo Sanpalu”
  • “San Pàule”
  • “San Paulos”
  • “São Paulo”
  • “साओ पालो”

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