Tocantins
Tocantins is one of the 26 states of Brazil. It is the newest state, formed in 1988 and encompassing what had formerly been the northern two-fifths of the state of Goiás.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Palmas and Taquarussu.
Palmas
Palmas is the capital of the Brazilian State of Tocantins. Like the country's capital, Brasilia, and several other state capitals, it was built out of nowhere to house the government of its new-born state.Taquarussu
Taquarussu is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Its population was 3,588 and its area is 1,041 km2. The municipality contains 21% of the 73,345 hectares Rio Ivinhema State Park, created in 1998.Natividade
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Natividade is a city in the Brazilian state of Tocantins. It was founded in the 18th century by miners from the city of Goias.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Jalapão.
Jalapão
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Jalapão is a semi-arid microregion in the state of Tocantins, Brazil. Parts of the microregion have dramatic landscapes with large orange sand dunes, towering rock formations and fast-flowing clear rivers and streams.
Tocantins
- Type: federative unit of Brazil with 1,570,000 residents
- Description: state in the North Region of Brazil
- Also known as: “Tocantins State”
- Neighbors: Bahia, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Pará, and Piauí
- Location: North, Brazil, South America
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tocantins” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tocantins”
- Arabic: “توكانتبنز”
- Arabic: “توكانتينز”
- Arabic: “توكانتينس”
- Armenian: “Տոկանտինս”
- Asturian: “Tocantins”
- Aymara: “Tocantins Istadu”
- Aymara: “Tocantins”
- Azerbaijani: “Tokantins”
- Basque: “Tocantins”
- Belarusian: “Такантынс (штат)”
- Belarusian: “Такантынс”
- Belarusian: “штат Такантынс”
- Bengali: “টোক্যান্টিন”
- Bishnupriya: “টোকানটিনস”
- Bosnian: “Tocantins”
- Breton: “Tocantins”
- Bulgarian: “Токантинс”
- Catalan: “Estat de Tocantins”
- Catalan: “Tocantins”
- Cebuano: “Tocantins (estado)”
- Cebuano: “Tocantins”
- Chinese: “Tocantins”
- Chinese: “托坎廷斯”
- Chinese: “托坎廷斯州”
- Chinese: “托坎廷斯河”
- Chuvash: “Токантинс”
- Cornish: “Tocantins”
- Crimean Tatar: “Tokantins”
- Croatian: “Tocantins”
- Czech: “Tocantins”
- Danish: “Tocantins”
- Dutch: “Tocantins”
- Dzongkha: “ཏོ་ཀན་ཏིནསི་”
- Esperanto: “Tocantins”
- Esperanto: “Tokantinso”
- Estonian: “Tocantinsi osariik”
- Finnish: “Tocantins”
- French: “Tocantins”
- Galician: “Tocantins”
- Georgian: “ტოკანტინსი”
- German: “Bundesstaat Tocantins”
- German: “TO”
- German: “Tocantins”
- Greek: “Τοκαντίνς”
- Guarani: “Tukãtĩ”
- Gujarati: “ટોકેન્ટિન્સ”
- Hebrew: “טוקנטינס”
- Hindi: “टोकाचिस”
- Hindi: “टोकांटिस”
- Hindi: “टोकैनिस”
- Hungarian: “Tocantins”
- Hungarian: “Tocatins”
- Ido: “Tocantins”
- Indonesian: “Negara Bagian Tocantins”
- Indonesian: “Tocantins”
- Interlingua: “Tocantins”
- Irish: “Tocantins”
- Italian: “Stato di Tocantins”
- Italian: “TO”
- Italian: “Tocantins”
- Japanese: “トカンチンス州”
- Japanese: “トカンティンス州”
- Kannada: “ಟೊಕಂಟಿನ್ಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Токантинс”
- Korean: “토칸칭스주”
- Ladino: “Tocantins”
- Latin: “civitas Tocantinensis”
- Latin: “Civitas Tocantinensis”
- Latin: “Tocantins”
- Latvian: “Tokantinsa”
- Limburgan: “Tocantins”
- Lithuanian: “Tokantinsas”
- Lithuanian: “Tokantinso valstija”
- Macedonian: “Токантинс”
- Malagasy: “Tocantins”
- Malay: “Tocantins”
- Marathi: “तोकांतिन्स”
- Marathi: “तोकान्तिन्स”
- Mazanderani: “توکانتینس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tocantins”
- Mingrelian: “ტოკანტინსი”
- Northern Frisian: “Tocantins”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tocantins”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tocantins”
- Norwegian: “Tocantins”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Estat de Tocantins”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tocantins”
- Ossetian: “Токантинс”
- Persian: “توکانتینس”
- Piemontese: “Tocantins”
- Polish: “Tocantins”
- Portuguese: “Estado do Tocantins”
- Portuguese: “TO”
- Portuguese: “Tocantins”
- Quechua: “Tocantins suyu”
- Quechua: “Tocantins”
- Romanian: “Tocantins”
- Russian: “Токантинс”
- Scots: “Tocantins”
- Serbian: “Токантинс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tocantins”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tokantins”
- Sinhala: “ටෝකන්ටින්ස් ප්රාන්තය, බ්රසීලය”
- Sinhala: “ටෝකන්ටින්ස්”
- Slovak: “Tocantins”
- Slovenian: “Estado do Tocantins”
- Slovenian: “TO”
- Slovenian: “Tocantins”
- Slovenian: “Zvezna država Tocantins”
- Spanish: “Estado de Tocantins”
- Spanish: “Estado del Tocantins”
- Spanish: “Tocantins”
- Swahili: “Tocantins”
- Swedish: “Tocantins”
- Tajik: “Токантинс”
- Tajik: “Токантинш”
- Tamil: “டோகாண்டின்ஸ்”
- Tatar: “Токантинс”
- Telugu: “టొకాంటిన్స్”
- Tetum: “Tocantins”
- Thai: “รัฐโตกังจิงช์”
- Thai: “รัฐโตกันชีนส์”
- Turkish: “BR-TO”
- Turkish: “Estado do Tocantins”
- Turkish: “TO”
- Turkish: “Tocantins (eyalet)”
- Turkish: “Tocantins eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Tocantins”
- Ukrainian: “Токантінс”
- Urdu: “توکانتینس”
- Uzbek: “Tokantins”
- Venetian: “Tocantins”
- Vietnamese: “Tocantins”
- Volapük: “Tocantins”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tocantins”
- Welsh: “Tocantins”
- Western Panjabi: “توکانتیس”
- Wu Chinese: “托坎廷斯州”
- Yoruba: “Tocantins”
- Yue Chinese: “托坎廷斯州”
- “BR-TO”
- “ma Tocantins”
- “ma Tokansin”
- “TO”
- “Tocantins”
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