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The name Brazil is a shortened form of Terra do Brasil ("Land of Brazil"), a reference to the brazilwood tree. The name was given in the early 16th century to the territories leased to the merchant consortium led by Fernão de Loronha, to exploit brazilwood for the production of wood dyes for the European textile industry.
City formed by combining the towns of Christianburg, MacKenzie, and Wismar. 1970: Cancún: Quintana Roo: Mexico: Development of the area as a resort was started on April 20, 1970 1974: Inírida: Guainía: Colombia: 1989: Palmas: Tocantins: Brazil: Founded one year after the creation of the State of Tocantins.
"River of January"; the city harbor was discovered on January 1, 1502, and was believed to be the mouth of a river (such as the Tagus estuary which forms a bay by Lisbon). The state was named after the city, now its capital. Rio Grande do Norte: Portuguese "Great River of the North"; Rio Grande was the original Portuguese name of the Potenji River
Moscow: The city is named after the river (old гра́д Моско́в, literally "the city by the Moskva River"). The origin of the name is unknown, although several theories exist. [67] One theory suggests that the source of the name is an ancient Finnic language, in which it means "dark" and "turbid".
In 2013, São Paulo was the most populous city in Brazil and in South America. [98] According to the 2010 IBGE Census, there were 11,244,369 people residing in the city of São Paulo. [99] Portuguese remains the most widely spoken language and São Paulo is the largest city in the Portuguese speaking world. [100]
Brazil, [b] officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, [c] is the largest and easternmost country in South America. It is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh largest by population, with over 212 million people. The country is a federation composed of 26 states and a Federal District, which hosts the capital, Brasília.
The Landing of Cabral in Porto Seguro; oil on canvas by Oscar Pereira da Silva, 1904.Collection of the National Historical Museum of Brazil. The first arrival of European explorers to the territory of present-day Brazil is often credited to Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral, who sighted the land later named Island of Vera Cruz, near Monte Pascoal, on 22 April 1500 while leading an ...
Unlike many areas of Spanish America, there was no dense, sedentary indigenous population which had already created settlements, but cities and towns in Brazil were similar to those in Spanish Colonial Venezuela. Port cities allowed Portuguese trade goods to enter, including African slaves, and export goods of sugar and later gold and coffee to ...