São Paulo (state)

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São Paulo (, Portuguese: [sɐ̃w ˈpawlu] ) is one of the 26 states of the Federative Republic of Brazil and is named after Saint Paul of Tarsus. It is located in the Southeast Region and is bordered by the states of Minas Gerais to the north and northeast, Paraná to the south, Rio de Janeiro to the east, and Mato Grosso do Sul to the west, in addition to the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. It is divided into 645 municipalities. The total area is 248,219.481 square kilometres (95,838.077 square miles), comprising 2.9% of Brazil's territory. Its capital is the municipality of São Paulo, which is the most populous city in country. With more than 44 million inhabitants in 2022, São Paulo is the most populous Brazilian state, comprising around 22% of the Brazilian population. It is the world's 28th-most-populous sub-national entity, the most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, and the fourth-most-populous political entity of South America, surpassed only by the rest of the Brazilian...

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