See soorce fer Rio de Janeiro

{{Infobox settlement
|name = Rio de Janeiro
|settlement_type = [[Municipalities o Brazil|Municipality]]
|official_name = ''Município do Rio de Janeiro''<br>The Municipality o Rio de Janeiro
|image_skyline =Montagem Rio de Janeiro.jpg
|image_caption = Frae the top, left tae richt: [[Christ the Redeemer (statue)|Christ the Redeemer]], [[Rio–Niterói brig]], Dountoun frae the [[Guanabara Bay]], [[Estádio do Maracanã|Maracanã Stadium]], [[Sugarloaf Muntain (Brazil)|Sugarloaf]] [[cable caur]], the pavement o [[Copacabana Beach]], an panorama o the ceety taken frae [[Corcovado]].
|nickname = '''''Cidade Maravilhosa''''' ("The Marvelous Ceety") or simply '''Rio'''
|denonym = CariocaLUAN E UM IDIOTA RETARDADO
|image_flag = Rio de Janeiro (RJ) - Bandeira.svg
|image_seal = Rio de Janeiro (RJ) - Brasao.svg
|image_map = RiodeJaneiro Municip RiodeJaneiro.svg
|mapsize = 250px
|map_caption = Location in the [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|State o Rio de Janeiro]]
|pushpin_map=Brazil
|pushpin_map_size=250
|pushpin_map_caption=Location in Brazil
|coordinates            = {{coord|22|54|30|S|43|11|47|W|region:BR|display=inline,title}}
|subdivision_type = Kintra
|subdivision_type1 = [[Regions o Brazil|Region]]
|subdivision_type2 = [[States o Brazil|State]]
|subdivision_name = {{flag|Brazil}}
|subdivision_name1 = [[Sootheast Region, Brazil|Sootheast]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[File:Bandeira Estado RiodeJaneiro Brasil2.svg|border|22px]] [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|Rio de Janeiro]]
|government_type = [[Mayor–cooncil govrenment|Mayor-cooncil]]
|governing_body = Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro
|leader_title = [[Leet o mayors o Rio de Janeiro|Mayor]]
|leader_name = [[Eduardo Paes]]
|leader_party = [[Brazilian Democratic Muivement Pairty|PMDB]]
|established_title = Foondit
|established_date = 1 Mairch 1565
|area_total_km2         = 1221
|area_total_sq_mi       = 486.5
|area_metro_sq_mi       = 1759.6
|population_as_of       = 2015
|population_metro       = 12,280,702 (2nt)
|area_metro_km2         = 4539.8
|population_footnotes   = <ref>{{cite web|url=ftp://ftp.ibge.gov.br/Estimativas_de_Populacao/Estimativas_2013/estimativa_2013_dou.pdf |title=2013 population estimates. Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) (1 July 2013). |publisher=Ibge.gov.br |date= |accessdate=22 July 2014}}</ref>
|population_total       = 6,453,682
|population_rank        = [[Leet o lairgest ceeties in Brazil|2nt]]
|population_urban       = 11,616,000
|population_density_km2 = 
|population_density_metro_km2 = 2705.1
|population_demonym = ''carioca''
|timezone = [[Time in Brazil|BST]]
|utc_offset = -3
|timezone_DST = [[Time in Brazil|BDT]]
|utc_offset_DST = -2
|elevation_m = frae 0 tae 1021
|elevation_ft = frae 0 tae 3349
|area_code = +55 21
|postal_code_type = Postal Code
|postal_code = 20000-000
|blank_name =
|blank_info =
|website = [http://www.rio.rj.gov.br/ Ceety o Rio de Janeiro]
}}

'''Rio de Janeiro''' ("River o Januar", {{IPA-en|ˈriːoʊ deɪ dʒəˈnɛəroʊ}}; {{IPA-pt|ˈʁiu dʒi ʒaˈnejɾu}}), commonly referred tae simply as '''Rio''', is the caipital ceety o the [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|State o Rio de Janeiro]], the seicont lairgest ceety o [[Brazil]] an the third [[Leet o metropolitan auries bi population|lairgest metropolitan aurie]] an [[Urban agglomeration|agglomeration]] in [[Sooth Americae]], [[Lairgest ceeties in the Americas|6t lairgest]] in the Americaes.

The ceety wis the caipital o Brazil for nearly twa centuries, frae 1763 tae 1815 durin the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] [[colony|colonial era]], 1815 tae 1821 as the caipital o the [[Unitit Kinrick o Portugal, Brazil an the Algarves|United Kinrick o Portugal, Brazil an Algarves]], an frae 1822 tae 1960 as an independent naition. Rio is nicknamed ''A Cidade Maravilhosa'' or "The Marvelous Ceety." It is considered a [[Global ceety|Beta- Warld Ceety]].

Rio de Janeiro represents the seicont lairgest [[GDP]] in the kintra (an 30t lairgest in the warld), estimatit at aboot 140 billion reais (IBGE/2007), an is the headquarters o twa major Brazilian companies – [[Petrobras]] an [[Vale (mining company)|Vale]], an major ile companies an telephony in Brazil, besides the lairgest conglomerat o media an communications companies in Latin Americae, the [[Globo Organizations]]. Considered bi mony varsities an institutes, is the seicont lairgest centre o research an development in Brazil, accounting for 17% o naitional scienteefic production – accordin tae 2005 data.

== Internaitional relations ==
{{See an aa|Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Sooth Americae}}

=== Twin touns — Sister ceeties ===
Rio de Janeiro is [[twin touns an sister ceeties|twinned]] wi:

{| class="wikitable" style="background:#ffffef; float:left;"
|-
! style="background:#811541" | &nbsp;
! style="background:#811541" | <span style="color:white;">Americas</span>
! style="background:#811541" | &nbsp;
! style="background:#811541" | <span style="color:white;">Europe</span>
! style="background:#811541" | &nbsp;
! style="background:#811541" | <span style="color:white;">Asie an Africae</span>
|-
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Mexico}}
| '''[[Mexico Ceety]]''', [[Mexico]]
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Turkey}}
| '''[[Istanbul]]''', [[Turkey]]
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Philippines}}
| '''[[Batangas Ceety]]''', [[Philippines]]
|-
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Nicaragua}}
| '''[[Managua]]''', [[Nicaragua]]
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Russia}}
| '''[[Saunt Petersburg]]''', [[Roushie]]
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Japan}}
| '''[[Kobe]]''', [[Japan]]
|-
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Venezuela}}
| '''[[Caracas]]''', [[Venezuela]]
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Poland}}
|'''[[Warsaw]]''', [[Poland]]<ref name="Warsaw">{{cite web  |author=  |url=http://um.warszawa.pl/v_syrenka/new/index.php?dzial=aktualnosci&ak_id=3284&kat=11  |title=Miasta partnerskie Warszawy  |work=um.warszawa.pl  |publisher=Biuro Promocji Miasta  |pages=  |page=  |date=2005-05-04  |accessdate=2008-08-29  |archive-date=2007-10-11  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011111033/http://um.warszawa.pl/v_syrenka/new/index.php?dzial=aktualnosci&ak_id=3284&kat=11  |url-status=dead  }}</ref>
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Tunisia}}
|'''[[Tunis]]''', [[Tunisie]]
|-
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Chile}}
| '''[[Puerto Varas]]''', [[Chile]]
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Portugal}}
|'''[[Santo Tirso Municipality|Santo Tirso]]''' an '''[[Vila Nova de Gaia]]''', [[Portugal]]
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|South Korea}}
|'''[[Seoul]]''', [[Republic o Korea|Sooth Korea]]
|-
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Bolivia}}
|'''[[La Paz]]''', [[Bolivie]]
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Spain}}
|'''[[Barcelona]]''' an '''[[Santa Cruz de Tenerife]]''', [[Spain]]
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Netherlands}}
|'''[[Amsterdam]]''', [[Netherlands]]
|-
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|United States}}
|'''[[Miami]]''', [[Unitit States]]
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|France}}
|'''[[Montpellier]]''', [[Fraunce]]
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Israel}}
|'''[[Tel Aviv]]''', [[Israel]]
|-
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|United States}}
|'''[[Oklahoma Ceety]]''', [[Unitit States]]
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|UK}}
|'''[[Liverpuil]]''', [[Unitit Kinrick]]
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|India}}
| '''[[Mumbai]]''', [[Indie]]
|-
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|United States}}
|'''[[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]]''', [[Unitit States]]
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|France}}
|'''[[Paris]]''', [[Fraunce]]
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|South Africa}}
|'''[[Durban]]''', [[Sooth Africae]]
|-
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|United States}}
|'''[[Atlanta]]''', [[Unitit States]]
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Portugal}}
|'''[[Lisbon]]''', [[Portugal]]
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Lebanon}}
|'''[[Beirut]]''', [[Lebanon]]
|-
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Canada}}
|'''[[Vancouver]]''', [[Canadae]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rio2016.org.br/pt/Noticias/Noticia.aspx?idConteudo=1138 |title=Rio 2016 |publisher=Rio 2016 |date= |accessdate=2010-06-14 |archive-date=2010-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127083933/http://www.rio2016.org.br/pt/Noticias/Noticia.aspx?idConteudo=1138 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Spain}}
|'''[[Madrid]]''', [[Spain]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.munimadrid.es/portal/site/munimadrid/menuitem.dbd5147a4ba1b0aa7d245f019fc08a0c/?vgnextoid=4e84399a03003110VgnVCM2000000c205a0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=4e98823d3a37a010VgnVCM100000d90ca8c0RCRD&vgnextfmt=especial1&idContenido=1da69a4192b5b010VgnVCM100000d90ca8c0RCRD |title=Mapa Mundi de las ciudades hermanadas |language={{Es icon}} |publisher=www.munimadrid.es |date= |accessdate=2010-06-14}}</ref>
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Morocco}}
|'''[[Casablanca]]''', [[Morocco]]
|-
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Argentina}}
|'''[[Buenos Aires]]''', [[Argentinae]]
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Ukraine}}
|'''[[Kiev]]''', [[Ukraine]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Lei_Municipal_do_Rio_de_Janeiro_4917_de_2008 |title=Lei Municipal do Rio de Janeiro 4917 de 2008 - Wikisource |language={{pt icon}} |publisher=Pt.wikisource.org |date= |accessdate=2010-06-14}}</ref>
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Nigeria}}
|'''[[Lagos]]''', [[Nigerie]]
|-
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Brazil}}
|'''[[Belo Horizonte]]''', [[Brazil]]<ref>http://spl.camara.rj.gov.br/spldocs/pl/2006/pl0980_2006_008195.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425045619/http://spl.camara.rj.gov.br/spldocs/pl/2006/pl0980_2006_008195.pdf |date=2012-04-25 }}</ref>
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Romania}}
|'''[[Bucharest]]''', [[Romanie]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Lei_Municipal_do_Rio_de_Janeiro_3467_de_2002 |title=Lei Municipal do Rio de Janeiro 3467 de 2002 - Wikisource |language={{pt icon}} |publisher=Pt.wikisource.org |date= |accessdate=2010-06-14}}</ref>
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Senegal}}
|'''[[Rufisque]]''', [[Senegal]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Lei_Municipal_do_Rio_de_Janeiro_3152_de_2000 |title=Lei Municipal do Rio de Janeiro 3152 de 2000 - Wikisource |language={{pt icon}} |publisher=Pt.wikisource.org |date= |accessdate=2010-06-14}}</ref>
|-
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Brazil}}
|'''[[Natal, Rio Grande do Norte|Natal]]''', [[Brazil]]<ref>Leis sancionadas e vetos (21 de janeiro de 2008). Lei n.º 4.752/2008. Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro. Página visitada em 26 de outubro de 2008.</ref>
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Portugal}}
|'''[[Guimarães]]''', [[Portugal]]<ref>Lei nº 2.643/1998. Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro. Página visitada em 26 de dezembro de 2008.</ref>
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|China}}
|'''[[Beijing]]''', [[Cheenae]]
|-
| style="background:#ffffcf;"|{{flagicon|Armenia}}
|'''[[Yerevan]]''', [[Armenie]]
|}
{{-}}

== References ==
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[[Category:Rio de Janeiro (ceety)| ]]
[[Category:Carnival ceeties an touns]]
[[Category:Populatit coastal places in Rio de Janeiro (state)]]
[[Category:Umwhile naitional caipitals]]
[[Category:Port ceeties in Brazil]]
[[Category:Populatit places established in 1565]]
[[Category:State caipitals in Brazil]]
[[Category:Warld Heritage Steids in Brazil]]
[[Category:Host ceeties o the Simmer Olympic Gemmes]]