Salvador

Salvador is the capital of the state of , . With a charming Old Town, a vibrant musical scene and popular Carnaval celebrations, it is considered one of the birthplaces of Brazilian culture.
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  • Type: City with 2,420,000 residents
  • Description: municipality of Bahia state, Brazil
  • Also known as: “Bahia”, “Baía”, “Salvador, Bahia”, “Sao Salvador”, and “São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia and Elevador Lacerda.

Protected area
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The Historic Center or Centre of Salvador de Bahia in , also known as the Pelourinho or Pelo, is a historic neighborhood in western Salvador, Bahia.

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The Lacerda Elevator is a public urban elevator located in Salvador, , connecting the lower city to the upper city. The 72 metres elevator was built between 1869 and 1873; it was named after Antônio de Lacerda, director of the Commercial Association of Bahia.

Church
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The , officially dedicated to the Transfiguration of Christ and named Primatial Cathedral Basilica of the Transfiguration of the Lord is the seat of the Archbishop of the city of Salvador, in the State of Bahia, in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Graça and Água de Meninos.

Suburb
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is a neighborhood located in the southern zone of Salvador, Bahia. It is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Salvador. The Church and Monastery of Our Lady of Grace is located in .

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Salvador

Latitude
-12.9705° or 12° 58′ 14″ south
Longitude
-38.5117° or 38° 30′ 42″ west
Population
2,420,000
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
IATA airport code
SSA
United Nations Location Code
BR SSA
Open location code
59V32FHQ+Q8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 34593849
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3450554
Wiki­data ID
Q36947
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Salvador” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Salvador”
  • Afrikaans: “Salvador da Bahia”
  • Afrikaans: “Salvador”
  • Amharic: “ሳልቫዶር”
  • Amharic: “ሳውቫዶር ዳ ባዒየ”
  • Arabic: “سالفادو”
  • Arabic: “سالفادور، باهيا”
  • Arabic: “سالفادور”
  • Arabic: “سلفادور”
  • Aragonese: “Salvador (Brasil)”
  • Aragonese: “Salvador”
  • Armenian: “Բահիա Սալվադոր”
  • Armenian: “Սալվադոր”
  • Asturian: “Salvador de Bahia”
  • Asturian: “Salvador”
  • Asturian: “São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos”
  • Aymara: “Salvador”
  • Azerbaijani: “Salvador, Baiya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Salvador”
  • Balinese: “Salvador, Bahia”
  • Balinese: “Salvador”
  • Basque: “Salvador da Bahia”
  • Basque: “Salvador de Bahia”
  • Basque: “Salvador”
  • Belarusian: “Салвадор”
  • Belarusian: “Сальвадор”
  • Belarusian: “Сан-Салвадор-да-Баія-ды-Тодус-ус-Сантус”
  • Bengali: “সালভাদোর, বাইয়া”
  • Bengali: “সালভাদোর”
  • Bosnian: “Salvador”
  • Breton: “Salvador da Bahia”
  • Breton: “Salvador”
  • Bulgarian: “Салвадор”
  • Burmese: “ဆာလ်ဗဒေါမြို့ ၊ ဘာဟီယာ”
  • Burmese: “ဆာလ်ဗဒေါမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Salvador da Bahia”
  • Catalan: “Salvador de Badia”
  • Catalan: “Salvador de Bahia”
  • Catalan: “Salvador”
  • Cebuano: “Salvador”
  • Chechen: “Салвадор”
  • Chinese: “Salvador, Bahia”
  • Chinese: “萨尔瓦多”
  • Chinese: “薩爾瓦多”
  • Croatian: “Salvador da Bahia”
  • Croatian: “Salvador”
  • Czech: “Salvador”
  • Danish: “Salvador”
  • Dutch: “Bahia”
  • Dutch: “Salvador (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Salvador da Bahia”
  • Dutch: “Salvador de Bahia”
  • Dutch: “Salvador de Bahía”
  • Dutch: “Salvador”
  • Dutch: “Sao Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos”
  • Dutch: “São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos”
  • Erzya: “Салвадор”
  • Esperanto: “Salvador de Bahio”
  • Esperanto: “Salvador”
  • Esperanto: “Salvadoro de Bahio”
  • Esperanto: “Salvadoro”
  • Estonian: “Salvador da Bahia”
  • Estonian: “Salvador”
  • Estonian: “São Salvador”
  • Faroese: “Salvador”
  • Fijian: “Salvador”
  • Finnish: “Salvador da Bahia”
  • Finnish: “Salvador”
  • French: “Salvador da Bahia”
  • French: “Salvador de Bahia”
  • French: “Salvador do Bahia”
  • French: “Salvador”
  • Galician: “Salvador, Baía”
  • Galician: “Salvador”
  • Georgian: “სალვადორი”
  • German: “Salvador”
  • German: “Sao Salvador da Baia de Todos os Santos”
  • German: “São Salvador da Baía de Todos os Santos”
  • Greek: “Σαλβαδόρ”
  • Guarani: “Salvador de Bahía”
  • Guarani: “Salvador”
  • Gujarati: “સાલ્વાડોર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Salvador, Bahia”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Salvador”
  • Hausa: “Salvador”
  • Hawaiian: “Salvador”
  • Hebrew: “סלבדור”
  • Hebrew: “סלוודור דה באהיה”
  • Hebrew: “סלוודור”
  • Hindi: “साल्वाडोर, बाहिया”
  • Hindi: “साल्वाडोर”
  • Hindi: “साल्वेडोर”
  • Hungarian: “Salvador da Bahia”
  • Hungarian: “Salvador”
  • Icelandic: “Salvador”
  • Ido: “Salvador, Bahia”
  • Ido: “Salvador”
  • Indonesian: “Salvador, Brasil”
  • Indonesian: “Salvador”
  • Interlingua: “Salvador”
  • Interlingue: “Salvador de Bahia”
  • Irish: “Salvador”
  • Italian: “Bahía de Todos los Santos”
  • Italian: “Salvador de Bahia”
  • Italian: “Salvador de Bahía”
  • Italian: “Salvador di Bahia”
  • Italian: “Salvador”
  • Italian: “San Salvador di Bahia”
  • Italian: “São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos”
  • Japanese: “サウヴァドール”
  • Japanese: “サルヴァドール・ダ・バイーア”
  • Japanese: “サルヴァドール・デ・バイア歴史地区”
  • Japanese: “サルヴァドール”
  • Japanese: “サルヴァドル”
  • Japanese: “サルバドール”
  • Japanese: “サルバドル”
  • Japanese: “サン・サルヴァドール・ダ・バイーア・ジ・トードス・オス・サントス”
  • Japanese: “サン・サルバドール・ダ・バイーア・ヂ・トードス・オス・サントス”
  • Javanese: “Salvador”
  • Kalaallisut: “Salvador”
  • Kannada: “ಸಾಒ ಸ್ಯಾಲ್ವಡೋರ್ ದ ಬಹಿಯ ದೆ ಟೊಡೊಸ್ ಓಸ್ ಸ್ಯಾನ್ಟೊಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಯಾಲ್ವಡೋರ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Салвадор (шахар)”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Салвадор”
  • Kazakh: “Салвадор”
  • Kirghiz: “Салвадор”
  • Kirghiz: “Сальвадор”
  • Korean: “사우바도르 데 바이아”
  • Korean: “사우바도르 지 바이아”
  • Korean: “사우바도르”
  • Korean: “사우바도르지바이아”
  • Korean: “살바도르 데 바이아”
  • Ladino: “Salvador de Bahia”
  • Latin: “Sanctus Salvator Bahiae”
  • Latin: “Soteropolis”
  • Latin: “Urbs Sancti Salvatoris in Brasilia”
  • Latvian: “Salvador”
  • Latvian: “Salvadora”
  • Ligurian: “Salvador, Brasî”
  • Ligurian: “Salvador”
  • Lithuanian: “Baija”
  • Lithuanian: “Salvadoras”
  • Lithuanian: “San Salvadoras”
  • Macedonian: “Салвадор”
  • Maithili: “साल्भाडोर दे बाहिया”
  • Malagasy: “Salvador da Bahia”
  • Malay: “Salvador, Brazil”
  • Malay: “Salvador”
  • Maltese: “Salvador da Bahia”
  • Maori: “Salvador, Bahia”
  • Maori: “Salvador”
  • Marathi: “साल्व्हादोर दा बाईया”
  • Mazanderani: “سالوادور (باهیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “سالوادور”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Salvador”
  • Mirandese: “Salvador”
  • Moksha: “Салвадор (Баия)”
  • Moksha: “Салвадор”
  • Mongolian: “Салвадор”
  • Neapolitan: “Salvador”
  • Nepali: “साल्भाडोर दे बाहिया”
  • Nepali: “साल्भादोर, बाहिया”
  • Northern Frisian: “Salvador”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Salvador”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sao Salvador da Bahia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “São Salvador”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Salvador”
  • Norwegian: “Salvador”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Salvador”
  • Oromo: “Salvador”
  • Ossetian: “Салвадор”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਲਵਾਡੋਰ”
  • Papiamento: “Salvador”
  • Persian: “سالوادور، باهیا”
  • Persian: “سالوادور”
  • Polish: “Salvador da Bahia”
  • Polish: “Salvador”
  • Polish: “Sao Salvador da Bahia”
  • Polish: “São Salvador da Bahia”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade da Bahia”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Salvador”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade do Salvador”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Salvador”
  • Portuguese: “Município do Salvador”
  • Portuguese: “Roma Negra”
  • Portuguese: “Salvador da Bahia”
  • Portuguese: “Salvador da Baía”
  • Portuguese: “Salvador-BA”
  • Portuguese: “Salvador”
  • Portuguese: “São Salvador da Bahia”
  • Portuguese: “São Salvador da Baía de Todos os Santos”
  • Portuguese: “São Salvador da Baía”
  • Portuguese: “SSA”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade do São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos” (historical)
  • Pushto: “سالفادور”
  • Quechua: “Salvador”
  • Romanian: “Salvador da Bahia”
  • Romanian: “Salvador, Bahia”
  • Romanian: “Salvador”
  • Romansh: “Salvador da Bahia”
  • Romansh: “Salvador”
  • Russian: “Багиа”
  • Russian: “Баия”
  • Russian: “Салвадор-ди-Баия”
  • Russian: “Салвадор”
  • Russian: “Сальвадор”
  • Russian: “Сан-Салвадор-да-Баия-ди-Тодуш-уш-Сантуш”
  • Scots: “Salvador, Bahia”
  • Scots: “Salvador”
  • Serbian: “Salvador da Bahia”
  • Serbian: “São Salvador da Baía de Todos os Santos”
  • Serbian: “Салвадор де Баија”
  • Serbian: “Салвадор”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Salvador da Bahia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Salvador, Brazil”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Salvador”
  • Sicilian: “Salvador”
  • Silesian: “Salvador”
  • Sinhala: “සැල්වදෝරය”
  • Sinhala: “සැල්වදෝර්, බ්‍රසීලය”
  • Slovak: “Salvador”
  • Slovenian: “Salvador, Bahia”
  • Slovenian: “Salvador”
  • Somali: “Salvador”
  • Spanish: “Salvador de Bahia”
  • Spanish: “Salvador de Bahía”
  • Spanish: “Salvador”
  • Spanish: “San Salvador de Bahia”
  • Spanish: “San Salvador de Bahía”
  • Spanish: “São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos”
  • Spanish: “Sao Salvador de Bahia”
  • Spanish: “Sao Salvador de Bahía”
  • Spanish: “Soteropolitana”
  • Spanish: “Soteropolitano”
  • Swahili: “Salvador (Bahia)”
  • Swahili: “Salvador, Bahia”
  • Swahili: “Salvador, Brazil”
  • Swahili: “Salvador”
  • Swedish: “Salvador de Bahia”
  • Swedish: “Salvador, Brasilien”
  • Swedish: “Salvador”
  • Tagalog: “Salvador”
  • Tajik: “Салвадор”
  • Tamil: “சவ்வாதோர், பாகையா”
  • Tamil: “சவ்வாதோர்”
  • Tatar: “Salvador şähäre”
  • Tatar: “Салвадор”
  • Tatar: “Сальвадор”
  • Telugu: “సాల్వడార్”
  • Tetum: “Salvador”
  • Thai: “ซัลวาดอร์”
  • Turkish: “Salvador da Bahia”
  • Turkish: “Salvador, Bahia”
  • Turkish: “Salvador”
  • Twi: “Salvador”
  • Ukrainian: “Салвадор”
  • Urdu: “سالوادور”
  • Urdu: “سلواڈور، باحیہ”
  • Urdu: “سلواڈور، باہیا”
  • Urdu: “سلواڈور”
  • Uzbek: “Salvador”
  • Venetian: “Salvador”
  • Veps: “Salvador”
  • Vietnamese: “Salvador, Bahia”
  • Vietnamese: “Salvador”
  • Volapük: “Salvador”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salvador, Bahia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salvador”
  • Welsh: “Salvador Bahia”
  • Welsh: “Salvador de Bahia”
  • Welsh: “Salvador, Brasil”
  • Welsh: “Salvador”
  • Western Armenian: “Սալվատոր Տա Պահիա”
  • Western Panjabi: “سلوادور”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨尔瓦多 (巴西)”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨尔瓦多（巴西）”
  • Yoruba: “Salvador, Bahia”
  • Yoruba: “Salvador”
  • Yue Chinese: “薩爾瓦多”
  • “ma tomo Sawato”
  • “Salvador Bahia”
  • “Salvador de Bahia”

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