Sao Paulo Brazil

The largest city in Brazil, Sao Paulo is one of 27 units of Brazil. It is located in the south of the Southeast and is limited to the states of Minas Gerais (N and NE), Rio de Janeiro (L), Paraná (SO) and Mato Grosso do Sul (O), and the Atlantic Ocean (SE). It is divided into 645 municipalities and covers an area of 248 square 209.426 km, being slightly larger than the UK. Its capital is the city of Sao Paulo and its current governor is Alberto Goldman.

Nicknamed the “locomotive of Brazil,” [4] the state alone is responsible for 33.9% of Brazilian GDP, [5] being the richest state in the country. In addition to increased GDP, São Paulo also has the third highest Human Development Index, the second highest GDP per capita, the second lowest infant mortality rate and the fourth lowest rate of illiteracy among the units of Brazil.

With over forty million inhabitants, Sao Paulo is the most populous state in Brazil and the third most populous political unit of South America, only surpassed by that country and Colombia, ahead of all other South American countries. Its population is more diverse descends mainly from Brazil and Portuguese who discovered Brazil and installed the first villages in Brazil in exactly the state of Sao Paulo and Italian immigrants, Native Americans, Africans and other large migratory flows, as Arabs, Germans, Spanish and Japanese. Its capital is the city of São Paulo, whose metropolitan population is now 19 million inhabitants, according to last census in 2007.