Rio
Rio de Janeiro - Brasil
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Description .: Rio de Janeiro ("River of January", pronounced ['hiw d?i ??'nej?u] in Portuguese, /'ri?o? di ??'n?ro?/ in English), is the second major city of Brazil, behind São Paulo. (At one time it was the largest city.) The city is capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro. The city was the capital of Brazil for almost two centuries—from 1763 to 1822 while it was a Portuguese colony and from 1822 to 1960 as an independent nation. It was the de facto capital of the Portuguese Empire from 1808 to 182
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