São Paulo is the lairgest ceety o Brazil, the lairgest ceety in the soothren hemisphere, an the warld's 7t lairgest metropolitan aurie. The ceety is the caipital o the state o São Paulo, the maist populous Brazilian state. The name o the ceety honors Saunt Paul. São Paulo exerts strang regional influence in commerce an finance as well as airts an entertainment. São Paulo is considered an Alpha - Warld Ceety.[3]
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São Paulo | |
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Município de São Paulo Municipality o São Paulo | |
![]() Photo montage o the ceety o São Paulo. Frae the top, left tae richt: São Paulo Cathedral; Unitit Naitions Business Center; São Paulo Museum o Airt on Paulista Avenue; Paulista Museum; Bandeiras Monument; Octávio Frias de Oliveira Brig; an owerview o the historic dountoun frae Altino Arantes Biggin. | |
Eik-name(s): Terra da Garoa (Land o Drizzle) an Sampa | |
Motto(s): | |
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Coordinates: 23°33′S 46°38′W | |
Kintra | ![]() |
Region | Sootheast |
State | ![]() |
Foondit | 1554 |
Govrenment | |
• Mayor | Gilberto Kassab (Democrats) |
Area | |
• Municipality | 1522.986 km2 (588.028 sq mi) |
• Metro | 7943.818 km2 (3,067.125 sq mi) |
Elevation | 760 m (2493.4 ft) |
Population | |
• Municipality | 11,316,149(1st) |
• Density | 7216.3/km2 (18,690/sq mi) |
• Metro | 19,889,559 |
• Metro density | 2469.35/km2 (6,395.6/sq mi) |
Demonym(s) | Paulistano |
Time zone | UTC-3 (UTC-3) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-2 (UTC-2) |
Postal Code (CEP) | 01000-000 |
Website | Ceety o São Paulo |
The ceety haes mony laundmerks, sic as the Paulista Museum, the neo-gothic Metropolitan Sé Cathedral, the São Paulo Museum o Airt (MASP), the Monumento às Bandeiras (Portuguese for Monument tae the Banner) an Niemeyer's Ibirapuera Bienal Complex; an mair recently the Octávio Frias de Oliveira Bridge (Estaiada Bridge) in the Sooth Side. Paulista Avenue, in Midtoun, is the ceety´s maist important financial center.
The ceety is hame tae the São Paulo Stock Exchynge, or BOVESPA, the Future Markets, an the Cereal Market Stock Exchynges, the seicont lairgest stock exchynge in the Americas. São Paulo haes been hame tae several o the tallest buildins in Brazil, includin the Mirante do Vale Building[4] an Itália Building.[5]
Wi an estimatit population o 11,037,593 residents[6] athin an aurie o 1,523 square kilometers (588.0 sq mi),[7] São Paulo is the maist populous ceety proper in the Americas.[8]
The ceety an aa lies at the centre o the hivily urbanized São Paulo metropolitan aurie, wi an estimatit 19,889,559 fowk in 2009[9] ower 7,944 square kilometers (3,067.2 sq mi),[10] is the lairgest metropolitan aurie in the naition. São Paulo metropolitan aurie is ranked as the seicont maist populous in the Americas.[11]
Fowk frae the ceety o São Paulo are kent as paulistanos, while paulistas designates onyane frae the whole o São Paulo state, includin the paulistanos. The ceety's Latin motto, which it haes shared wi the battleship an the aircraft carrier named efter it, is Non dvcor, dvco, which translates as "A am no led, I lead."[12]
A famous nickname for the ceety is "Sampa." São Paulo is kent for its unreliable wather, the size o its helicopter fleet, airchitectur, gastronomy, an multitude o skyscrapers an aw.[13]
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Twin touns an sister ceeties
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Buenos Aires, Argentinae | ![]() |
Paris, Fraunce[15] | ![]() |
Yerevan, Armenie | ![]() |
Luanda, Angolae |
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La Paz, Bolivie | ![]() |
Coimbra, Portugal | ![]() |
Beijing, Cheenae[16] | ![]() |
Bamako, Mali |
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Toronto, Canadae | ![]() |
Milan, Italy[17] | ![]() |
Seoul, Sooth Korea[18] | ![]() |
Johannesburg, Sooth Africae |
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Mexico Ceety, México | ![]() |
Funchal, Portugal | ![]() |
Tel Aviv, Israel[19] | ||
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Chicago, Unitit States | ![]() |
Lisbon, Portugal | ![]() |
Amman, Jordan | ||
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Asunción, Paraguay | ![]() |
Porto, Portugal | ![]() |
Damascus, Sirie | ||
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Montevideo, Uruguay | ![]() |
Bucharest, Romanie | ![]() |
Osaka, Japan | ||
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Lima, Peru | ![]() |
Cluj-Napoca, Romanie | ![]() |
Ningbo, Cheenae | ||
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Mendoza, Argentinae | ![]() |
Barcelona, Spain[20] | ![]() |
Macau | ||
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Córdoba, Spain[21] | ![]() |
New Delhi, Indie | ||||
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Santiago de Compostela, Spain | ![]() |
Naha, Japan[22] |
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