Southeast
Southeast Brazil is the cultural and economic hub of the country, and contains three of the four largest cities: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
Rio de Janeiro
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Rio de Janeiro is the second largest city in Brazil, on the South Atlantic coast. Rio is famous for its breathtaking landscape, its laid-back beach culture and its annual carnival.
São Paulo
São Paulo, or Sampa as it is also called, is the largest city in Brazil, 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.
Osasco
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Osasco is a city in the state of São Paulo, located in the metropolitan area of the city of São Paulo. Fully conurbated with São Paulo and other cities, the dense Osasco is an important industrial district and an emerging business destination, although it has not much to offer to the casual tourist.
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São Paulo
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São Paulo is a state in the southeast of Brazil. It is undoubtedly the country's economic powerhouse, contributing alone to one third of the Brazilian GDP.
Rio de Janeiro
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Rio de Janeiro is a state in the Southeast of Brazil. It is a small coastal state wedged between São Paulo to the west, Espírito Santo to the northeast, and Minas Gerais to the north.
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is a state in Brazil's Southeast region. Minas Gerais is a large state with a valuable 18th-century cultural heritage, originated in the Brazilian gold mining era.
Espírito Santo
Espírito Santo is a state in southeastern Brazil. Its capital is Vitória, and its largest city is Serra. With an extensive coastline, the state hosts some of the country's main ports, and its beaches are significant tourist attractions.
Southeast
- Type: Region with 80,000,000 residents
- Description: region of Brazil
- Also known as: “Grande Regiao Sudeste”, “Grande Região Sudeste”, “Southeast Region”, and “Southeast Region, Brazil”
- Neighbors: Central West, Northeast, and South
- Category: region of Brazil
- Location: Brazil, South America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Southeast” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المنطقة الجنوبية الشرقية”
- Armenian: “Հարավարևելյան տարածաշրջան (Բրազիլիա)”
- Armenian: “Հարավարևելյան տարածաշրջան”
- Azerbaijani: “Cənub-şərq regionu (Braziliya)”
- Azerbaijani: “Cənub-şərq regionu”
- Belarusian: “Паўднёва-Ўсходні рэгіён (Бразылія)”
- Belarusian: “Паўднёва-Ўсходні рэгіён”
- Bishnupriya: “খামুঙ, ব্রাজিল”
- Bishnupriya: “খামুঙ”
- Bishnupriya: “ব্রাজিলর খামুঙ লয়া”
- Bosnian: “Jugoistočna regija”
- Bulgarian: “Югоизточен регион на Бразилия”
- Bulgarian: “Югоизточен регион”
- Catalan: “Regió Sud-est de Brasil”
- Catalan: “Regió Sud-est del Brasil”
- Chinese: “东南巴西”
- Chinese: “巴西东南部”
- Chinese: “巴西东南部地区”
- Chinese: “巴西東南部”
- Chinese: “巴西東南部地區”
- Czech: “Jihovýchodní region”
- Danish: “Brasil”
- Danish: “Sudeste”
- Dutch: “Regio Zuidoost”
- Dutch: “Zuidoost-Brazilië”
- Esperanto: “Sudorienta regiono de Brazilo”
- Estonian: “Kagupiirkond”
- Finnish: “Kaakkoinen alue”
- French: “Brésil du Sud-Est”
- French: “Region Sud-Est”
- French: “Région Sud-Est”
- French: “Sudeste”
- Galician: “Rexión Sueste do Brasil”
- Georgian: “სამხრეთ-აღმოსავლეთი რეგიონი”
- German: “Região Sudeste”
- German: “Südosten”
- Greek: “Νότιο-ανατολική Βραζιλία”
- Hebrew: “דרום-מזרח ברזיל”
- Hebrew: “האזור הדרום-מזרחי של ברזיל”
- Hebrew: “האזור הדרום-מזרחי”
- Hindi: “दक्षिण पूर्व क्षेत्र (ब्राज़ील)”
- Hindi: “दक्षिण पूर्व क्षेत्र”
- Ido: “Sud-estala regiono”
- Indonesian: “Region Tenggara, Brasil”
- Indonesian: “Region Tenggara”
- Interlingua: “Region Sud-est”
- Italian: “Brasile del sudest”
- Italian: “Regione Sud-est del Brasile”
- Italian: “Regione Sudest del Brasile”
- Italian: “Regione Sudeste del Brasile”
- Japanese: “南東伯”
- Japanese: “南東部”
- Japanese: “南東部地域”
- Kirghiz: “Түштүк-Чыгыш аймагы (Бразилия)”
- Kirghiz: “Түштүк-Чыгыш аймагы”
- Korean: “남동부 지방”
- Korean: “수데스치 지방”
- Latvian: “Dienvidaustrumu reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Brazilijos Pietryčių regionas”
- Macedonian: “Југоисточен регион”
- Macedonian: “Југоисточен Регион”
- Northern Frisian: “Região Sudeste do Brasil”
- Northern Frisian: “Süüduast Regiuun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brasil”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sudeste”
- Norwegian: “Sudeste”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Region Sud-Èst”
- Persian: “منطقه جنوب شرقی برزیل”
- Polish: “Region Południowo-Wschodni”
- Portuguese: “Região Sudeste do Brasil”
- Portuguese: “Região Sudeste”
- Portuguese: “Sudeste (Brasil)”
- Portuguese: “Sudeste brasileiro”
- Portuguese: “Sudeste do Brasil”
- Portuguese: “Sudeste”
- Romanian: “Sud-Est”
- Russian: “Юго-Восточный регион Бразилии”
- Russian: “Юго-восточный регион”
- Scots: “Sootheast Region”
- Sinhala: “අග්නිදිග කලාපය, බ්රසීලය”
- Slovenian: “Jugovzhodna regija”
- Spanish: “Region Sudeste de Brasil”
- Spanish: “Región Sudeste de Brasil”
- Turkish: “Güneydoğu bölgesi, Brezilya”
- Ukrainian: “Південно-східний регіон Бразилії”
- Ukrainian: “Південно-східний регіон”
- Urdu: “جنوب مشرقی علاقہ، برازیل”
- Uzbek: “Janubi-sharqiy hudud”
- “Sudeste do Brasil”
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