Bahia
Appearance
Bahia Estado da Bahia | |
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State o Bahia | |
Location o the State o Bahia in Brazil | |
Kintra | Brazil |
Caipital an lairgest ceety | Salvador |
Govrenment | |
• Govrenor | Jaques Wagner |
• Vice Govrenor | Edmundo Pereira Santos |
Area | |
• Total | 564692 km2 (218,029 sq mi) |
Area rank | 5t |
Population (2010 census)[1] | |
• Total | 14,021,432 |
• Rank | 4t |
• Density | 25/km2 (64/sq mi) |
• Density rank | 12t |
Demonym(s) | Baiano |
GDP | |
• Year | 2006 estimate |
• Total | R$ 96,559,000,000 (6th) |
• Per caipita | R$ 6,922 (19t) |
HDI | |
• Year | 2005 |
• Category | 0.742 – medium (19t) |
Time zone | UTC-3 (BRT) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-2 (BRST) |
Postal code | 40000-000 to 48990-000 |
ISO 3166 code | BR-BA |
Website | bahia.ba.gov.br |
Bahia (Portuguese pronunciation: [baˈi.ɐ])[2] is ane o the 26 states o Brazil, an is locatit in the northeastren pairt o the kintra on the Atlantic coast. It is the fowert maist populous Brazilian state efter São Paulo, Minas Gerais an Rio de Janeiro, an the fift-lairgest in size. Bahia's caipital is the ceety o Salvador, or mair properly, São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos, an is locatit at the junction o the Atlantic Ocean an the Bay o Aw Saunts, first seen bi European sailors in 1501. The name "bahia" is an airchaic spellin o the Portuguese wird baía, meanin "bay".
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Censo 2010: população do Brasil é de 190.732.694 pessoas
- ↑ In Brazilian Portuguese. In European Portuguese the pronunciation is [bɐˈi.ɐ]. The H is no pronooncit, an the stress is on the i.
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- (in Portuguese) History o Bahia Archived 2011-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
- (in Portuguese) Geography o Bahia Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine
- (in Portuguese) Population o Bahia