Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the second-most populous city in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas.
Rio de Janeiro is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s third-most populous state, after São Paulo and Minas Gerais.
Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named “Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea”, by UNESCO on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape.
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