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Brazil is made up of five geographic regions (North, Northeast, Southeast, South and central-West) that comprise 27 federative units and, for their part include 5570 municipalities. In total, the municipalities are distributed in 510 immediate geographic regions, which in turn are grouped into 133 intermediate geographic regions.
Brazil is geopolitically divided into five regions (also called macroregions), by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, which are formed by the federative units of Brazil. Although officially recognized, the division is merely academic, considering geographic, social and economic factors, among others, and has no political ...
The immediate geographic regions are groupings of municipalities whose main reference is the urban network and have a local urban center as a base, through the IBGE analysis. For its elaboration, the connection of nearby cities through dependency relationships and displacement of the population in search of goods, provision of services and work ...
The South of Brazil is the region with the largest percentage of Whites. According to the 2005 census, people of European ancestry account for 79.6% of the population. [2] In colonial times, this region had a very small population. The region what is now Southern Brazil was originally settled by Amerindian peoples, mostly Guarani and Kaingangs. [3]
Southeast Region, Brazil; T. Tres Fronteras This page was last edited on 8 November 2015, at 02:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Since 1942, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics has divided Brazil into five geographic regions. [1] On 23 November 1970, the regions of Brazil were adjusted slightly to the definition that is still in use today. [2] North Region (Região Norte) Northeast Region (Região Nordeste) Central-West Region (Região Centro-Oeste)
The Brazilian Highlands or Brazilian Plateau (Portuguese: Planalto Brasileiro) is an extensive geographical region covering most of the eastern, southern and central portions of Brazil, in all some 4,500,000 km 2 (1,930,511 sq mi) or approximately half of the country's land area.
Brazil in 1534: Western border defined by the 49th meridian west: Brazil in 1572: Western border defined by the 49th meridian west: Brazil in 1709 Brazil in 1750 Brazil in 1817 Brazil in 1822: gained the province of Cisplatina and enlarged the province of Rio Grande do Sul: Brazil in 1889: lost the territory that became Uruguay and enlarged the ...