Rio de Janeiro (state)

Rio de Janeiro ( In the variety o Brazilian Portuguese spoken in Rio de Janeiro. The European Portuguese pronunciation is: .) is ane o the 26 states o Brazil.

The state o Rio de Janeiro is locatit athin the Brazilian geopolitical region classified as the Sootheast (assigned bi IBGE) an its boondaries, aw o them wi ither Brazilian states in the Southeast region (Rio de Janeiro is the ae state in the Sootheast tae share borders wi aw ither states in the same macroregion), are wi Minas Gerais (N an NW), Espírito Santo (NE) an São Paulo (SW), an plus its shore line, in the Atlantic Ocean, tae its East an Sooth.

Rio de Janeiro haes an aurie o 43,653 km².  Its caipital is the ceety o Rio de Janeiro, which wis the caipital o the Portuguese Colony o Brazil frae 1763 tae 1806, caipital o the Unitit Kinrick o Portugal, Brazil an the Algarves frae 1806 tae 1822, an caipital o independent Brazil frae 1822 tae 1960.

The state's lairgest ceeties are Rio de Janeiro, Nova Iguaçu, Niterói, Duque de Caxias, São Gonçalo, São João de Meriti, Campos dos Goytacazes, Petrópolis an Volta Redonda.

Its principal rivers are the Guandu, the Piraí, the Paraíba do Sul, the Macaé an the Muriaé. Its climate is considered tae be tropical.

Rio de Janeiro is made up o twa distinct morphological auries: a plain, kent as baixada, an a plateau, which are disposed in parallel fashion frae the shoreline inland (towards Minas Gerais).

In the Brazilian banner, the state is representit bi the Beta star in the Soothren Cross (β = Mimosa).

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