North Region, Brazil

The **North Region of Brazil** () is one of the five geographical subdivisions of Brazil. It is the largest region, corresponding to 45.27% of the national territory but is the least inhabited region of the country and the lowest population density.

## Geography

The North Region has an area of . In this region are the two largest Brazilian states: Amazonas and Pará, and also the three largest Brazilian municipalities: Altamira, Barcelos and São Gabriel da Cachoeira, with more of  each one.

The region is between the Guiana Shield (to the north), the central plateau of Brazil (to the south), the Andes mountain range (to the west) and the Atlantic Ocean (to the northeast). The climate in the region is a tropical climate. Most of the region is part of the Amazon rainforest ecoregion but most of the Tocantins state is in a tropical savanna ecoregion known as the **Cerrado**.

The North Region borders to the south with the Mato Grosso and Goiás states; to the southwest with Bolivia; to the west with Peru and Colombia; to the north with Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana; and to the east with the Maranhão, Piauí and Bahia states.

The main regions rivers in the region are the Amazon, the Tocantins and the Araguaia; they have many tributaries.

### Mountains

The highest point in the North Region is Pico da Neblina () at . Pico da Neblina is the highest summit of the larger _Serra do Imeri_, a plateau on the Venezuela-Brazil border; it is also the highest mountain in Brazil.

The highest point of the different states of the North Region are:
|Department|Mountain|Elevation|
| --- | --- | --- |
|Acre|Loma Alta (Serra do Divisor)||
|Amapá|Pico 701 (Serra Tumucumaque)||
|Amazonas|Pico da Neblina||
|Pará|Pico 906 (Serra do Acari)||
|Rondônia|Pico 1126 (Serra dos Pacaás)||
|Roraima|Monte Roraima-Triple Country Point||
|Tocantins|Pico 1340 (Serra Traíras)||

## States

This region is formed of seven states: Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima and Tocantins.

|State|Capital|Municipalities|Population <small>(2016)</small> !! width=100px | Area <small>(km<sup>2</sup>)</small> !! Density <small>(inh./km<sup>2</sup>)</small>|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Acre|Rio Branco|22|816,687|164,123.04||
|Amapá|Macapá|16|782,295|142,828.52||
|Amazonas|Manaus|62|4,001,667|1,559,159.15||
|Pará|Belém|144|8,272,724|1,247,954.67||
|Rondônia|Porto Velho|52|1,787,279|237,590.54||
|Roraima|Boa Vista|15|514,229|224,300.51||
|Tocantins|Palmas|139|1,532,902|277,620.91||
|**Total**|450|17,707,783|3,853,577.34|||

## Population

, the North region had a population of 17,707,783, for a population density of  inhabitants/km<sup>2</sup>.

The most important municipalities of the North Region are:

|Rank|Municipality|State|Population|Rank|City|State|Population|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|**Manaus**|Amazonas|2,094,391|11|**Parauapebas**|Pará|196,259|
|2|**Belém**|Pará|1,446,042|12|**Castanhal**|Pará|192,571|
|3|**Porto Velho**|Rondônia|511,219|13|**Araguaína**|Tocantins|173,112|
|4|**Ananindeua**|Pará|510,834|14|**Abaetetuba**|Pará|151,934|
|5|**Macapá**|Amapá|465,495|15|**Cametá**|Pará|132,515|
|6|**Rio Branco**|Acre|377,057|16|**Ji-Paraná**|Rondônia|131,560|
|7|**Boa Vista**|Roraima|326,419|17|**Marituba**|Pará|125,435|
|8|**Santarém**|Pará|294,447|18|**Bragança**|Pará|122,881|
|9|**Palmas**|Tocantins|279,856|19|**São Félix do Xingu**|Pará|120,580|
|10|**Marabá**|Pará|266,932|20|**Barcarena**|Pará|118,537|

## Economy

The economy of the North Region is essentially based on the plantations and the use of natural resources, such as latex, açaí, woods and nuts; and mineral extraction of gold, cassiterite and tin (metal); as well as mining exploitation, mainly iron in Pará and manganese in Amapá.

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: North Region
- **native name**: _Região Norte_
- **native name lang**: pt
- **settlement type**: Regions of Brazil, Region
- **image map**: North Region in Brazil.svg
- **subdivision type**: List of sovereign states, Country
- **parts type**: States of Brazil, States
- **parts style**: para
- **p1**: Acre (state), Acre, Amapá, Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima and Tocantins (state), Tocantins
- **seat type**: Largest cities
- **seat**: Manaus
 Belém
- **unit pref**: Metric
- **area total km2**: 3853676.9
- **area rank**: Regions of Brazil#Area, 1st
- **population total**: 18672591
- **pop est as of**: 2013
- **population rank**: Regions of Brazil#Population, 4th
- **population urban**: 75.6%
- **population density km2**: auto
- **population density rank**: Regions of Brazil#Population density, 5th
- **demographics type1**: Gross domestic product, GDP
- **demographics1 title1**: Year
- **demographics1 info1**: 2014
- **demographics1 title2**: Total
- **demographics1 info2**: R$387,5 billion (Regions of Brazil#GDP, 5th)
- **demographics1 title3**: Per capita
- **demographics1 info3**: R$17,879 (Regions of Brazil#GDP per capita, 4th)
- **demographics type2**: Human Development Index, HDI
- **demographics2 title1**: Year
- **demographics2 info1**: 2014
- **demographics2 title2**: Category
- **demographics2 info2**: 0.730 – <span style="color:#0c0">high</span> (Regions of Brazil#Human Development Index, 4th)
- **demographics2 info3**: 71 years (Regions of Brazil#Life expectancy, 4th)
- **demographics2 info4**: 25.8 per 1,000 (Regions of Brazil#Infant mortality, 2nd)
- **demographics2 title5**: Literacy
- **demographics2 info5**: 88.7% (Regions of Brazil#Literacy rate, 4th)
- **timezone1**: Time in Brazil, BRT
- **utc offset1**: −3
- **timezone2**: Time in Brazil, AMT
- **utc offset2**: −4
- **timezone3**: Time in Brazil, ACT
- **utc offset3**: −5