São Paulo

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.www.lboro.ac.uk  The World According to GaWC 2008 – Retrieved on 2009-07-06

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 an Itália Building.

Wi an estimatit population o 11,037,593 residentsInstituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística; Estimativas das Populações Residentes, em 1o. De Julho de 2008. Zip-file from ftp-archive. Estimated population of municipalities in Brazil on 2008-07-01. Retrieved on 2008-10-14. athin an aurie o 1,523 square kilometers (588.0 sq mi),Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística; Resolução No. 05, de 10 de Outubro de 2002, Área Territorial: UF – São Paulo – SP - 35 Pdf-file from ftp-archive. Areas of municipalities in São Paulo state. Retrieved on 2008-10-14. São Paulo is the maist populous ceety proper in the Americas.

The ceety an aa lies at the centre o the hivily urbanized São Paulo metropolitan aurie, wi an estimatit 19,889,559 fowk in 2009Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística; Estimativas das Populações Residentes, em 1o. De Julho de 2008. Zip-file from ftp-archive. Estimated population of municipalities in Brazil on 2008-07-01. 22,105,060 is the total population of the 39 municipalities within the official metropolitan area of São Paulo. Retrieved on 2008-10-14. ower 7,944 square kilometers (3,067.2 sq mi),Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística; Resolução No. 05, de 10 de Outubro de 2002, Área Territorial: UF – São Paulo – SP - 35 Pdf-file from ftp-archive. Areas of municipalities in São Paulo state. Total area of the 39 municipalities within the official metropolitan area of São Paulo. Retrieved on 2008-10-14. is the lairgest metropolitan aurie in the naition. São Paulo metropolitan aurie is ranked as the seicont maist populous in the Americas.Consejo Nacional de Población, México; Proyecciones de la Población de México 2005-2050  The total population o Zona metropolitana del Valle de México (Distrito Federal plus 60 ither municipalities) wis estimatit tae 19,826,918 in 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-14.

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."

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."São Paulo holds Gay Pride parade," BBC


 Twin touns an sister ceeties 

São Paulo is twinned wi:
 Americas Europe Asie AfricaeBuenos Aires, ArgentinaeParis, FraunceYerevan, ArmenieLuanda, AngolaeLa Paz, BolivieCoimbra, PortugalBeijing, CheenaeBamako, MaliToronto, CanadaeMilan, ItalySeoul, Sooth KoreaJohannesburg, Sooth AfricaeMexico Ceety, MéxicoFunchal, PortugalTel Aviv, IsraelChicago, Unitit StatesLisbon, PortugalAmman, JordanAsunción, ParaguayPorto, PortugalDamascus, SirieMontevideo, UruguayBucharest, RomanieOsaka, JapanLima, PeruCluj-Napoca, RomanieNingbo, CheenaeMendoza, ArgentinaeBarcelona, SpainMacauCórdoba, SpainNew Delhi, IndieSantiago de Compostela, SpainNaha, Japan

 References 


Category:Municipalities in São Paulo (state)
Category:State caipitals in Brazil