A church on Avenida Brasil

Sao Paulo

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June 20th 2010
If Buenos Aires is the Paris of South America, then Sao Paulo is the New York. This immense metropolis, with over 20 million inhabitants, is not only the largest in South America, but is also the largest in the Southern Hemisphere and the third largest in the world overall. Sao Paulo is the industrial and financial centre of Brazil, with Sao Paulo State producing half of all of Brazil’s GDP, a ... read more

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Following three centuries under the rule of Portugal, Brazil became an independent nation in 1822. By far the largest and most populous country in South America, Brazil overcame more than half a century of military intervention in the governance of t... ... read more