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Rio de Janeiro (; Portuguese: [ˈʁi.u d(ʒi) ʒɐˈnejɾu]; River of January), or simply Rio, is the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas. The metropolis is anchor to the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area, the second-most populous metropolitan area in Brazil and sixth-most populous in the Americas. Rio de Janeiro is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's third-most populous state. Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea, by UNESCO on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape.Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire. Later, in 1763, it became the capital of the State of Brazil, a state of the Portuguese Empire. In 1808, when the Portuguese Royal Court transferred itself from Portugal to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the chosen seat of the court of Queen Maria I of Portugal, who subsequently, in 1815, under the leadership of her son, the Prince Regent, and future King João VI of Portugal, raised Brazil to the dignity of a kingdom, within the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and Algarves. Rio stayed the capital of the pluricontinental Lusitanian monarchy until 1822, when the War of Brazilian Independence began. This is one of the few instances in history that the capital of a colonising country officially shifted to a city in one of its colonies. Rio de Janeiro subsequently served as the capital of the independent monarchy, the Empire of Brazil, until 1889, and then the capital of a republican Brazil until 1960 when the capital was transferred to Brasília.
Rio de Janeiro has the second largest municipal GDP in the country, and 30th largest in the world in 2008, estimated at about R$343 billion (IBGE, 2008) (nearly US$201 billion). It is headquarters to Brazilian oil, mining, and telecommunications companies, including two of the country's major corporations – Petrobras and Vale – and Latin America's largest telemedia conglomerate, Grupo Globo. The home of many universities and institutes, it is the second-largest center of research and development in Brazil, accounting for 17% of national scientific output according to 2005 data. Despite the high perception of crime, the city has a lower incidence of crime than Northeast Brazil, but it is far more criminalized than the south region of Brazil, which is considered the safest in the country.Rio de Janeiro is one of the most visited cities in the Southern Hemisphere and is known for its natural settings, Carnival, samba, bossa nova, and balneario beaches such as Barra da Tijuca, Copacabana, Ipanema, and Leblon. In addition to the beaches, some of the most famous landmarks include the giant statue of Christ the Redeemer atop Corcovado mountain, named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World; Sugarloaf Mountain with its cable car; the Sambódromo (Sambadrome), a permanent grandstand-lined parade avenue which is used during Carnival; and Maracanã Stadium, one of the world's largest football stadiums. Rio de Janeiro was the host of the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Paralympics, making the city the first South American and Portuguese-speaking city to ever host the events, and the third time the Olympics were held in a Southern Hemisphere city. The Maracanã Stadium held the finals of the 1950 and 2014 FIFA World Cups, the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, and the XV Pan American Games.
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Sailing fron Southhampton, Going to South America, South Americans Homeward Bound, Father and Daughters, Brasileras and Portenas, Brazilian Children, Young Republicans of many young Republics, Spar-Boxing, A French dramatic Company, Equatorial Seas, The Port of Pernambuco, Disembarkation by basket, Inside the Basket, The Lighthouse on the Reef of Recife, Customs at Recife, The Law School of Pernambuco, Bahia from the Bay, Uptown and Downtown, The Third City of Brazil, Lower Town, A Terrace of the Upper Town, All Saints Day, The Old Fort, Bahia, Brazilian Boats, Officers of the Royal Mail, The Fantastic Rocks of Rio, Approaching Rio de Janeiro, The Pao de Assucar and the Distant Corcovado, The SugarLoaf and the Sunset, Brazilian Dreadnaughts, Naval Arsenal in the Island of Cobras, Rio Bay, Harbor Customs (formerly the Island Palace of Dom Pedro), Mosaic Sidewalks, The Morow Palace, Hotel Avenida, Tram-Car Station, Avenida Rio Branco, Looking North, Praia de Gloria, Along the Beira Mar, The Hill of Glory, Bayside Boulevard, The First Mile of the Beira Mar, Coffee Kiosk, Residential Rio and the Corcovado, Parisian Architecture, Gardens of the Presidential Palace, Old Down-Town District, Narrow Streets, Hotel Dos Estrangeiros, Hill-Climbing Cars, Hotel Internacional and the Corcovado Peak, The Old Carioca Aqueduct, Arches of the Old Water Bridge, The Mangue Canal, Royal Palms, Sanitation and Beautification, Wavy Pavements of Lisbon Reproduced in Rio, Grand Opera House and Municipal Theater, National Library, Architecture in the Avenida, Dom Pedro's Palace, Emperors Garden, Boa Vista Park, A Fire Engine House, Botanical Gardens of Rio, Jack Fruit, The Gavea or Topsoil Mountain, Botafogo Bay, The Aerial Cable Line to the Top of the Sugar Loaf, Top of the Sugar Loaf, Botafogo and the Sugar Loaf, Pao de Assucar, The Light and Power Plant at Lages, Electric Transmission Line, To Petrololis, Diplomatic Palace in Petropolis, The American Embassy, Railway Station in Rio, Railway station in Sao Paulo, Down-Town in Sao Paulo, A Coffee Magnate's Mansion in Sao Paulo, Portuguese Architecture, Teutonic Architecture, Opera House of Sao Paulo, Coffee Plantation , Drying Coffee, Some of the Seven Hundred Million Coffee Trees, Sacking the Beans, Coffee in Storage, Santos City, Approaching Uruguay, Montevideo, Cathedral of Montevideo, Old Cabildo, Solis Theatre, Grand Hotel, The Passenger Port of Buenos Aires, Six miles of Docks, Plaza San Martin, Plaza Hotel, Buenos Aires, The First First-Class Hotel in South America, View towards the Capital and the Teatro Colon, An Argentine Interior, Police, Colonial Buenos Aires, Metropolitan Buenos Aires, Beauty Parlors, Calle Callao, The Capital, City Reservoir and Purification Plant, Argentine Cavalry, The Catholic cathedral, Plaza de Mayo, Cas Rosada, In a Public School, The Museum of La Plata, Cemetery, Palermo Park, George Washington in Buenos Aires, Zoological Garden, The Hippodrome at Palermo, Jockey Club, Argentine Beef, The Buenos Aires Pacifico Railway, Mendoza Vineyards, An Andean Station, Approaching the Andes, Puente del Inca in Summer, The Inca Bridge in Winter, Railway hotel at Puente del Inca, The Highest Mountain in the Western Hemisphere, Aconcagua Mountian, Chileans,The Uspallata Pass, The Christ of the Andes, Great Tunnel of the Andes, Alpine Lake, Los Andes, The Flower Girl, Chile-Con Carne, The Transcontinental Terminal at Valparaiso, The Great Pacific Port, Monument of Admiral Prat, Valparaiso Town, Trolley Cars, Women Conductors, After the Earthquuake in 1906, During one of the many Hurricanes, The Race Course at Vina Del Mar, A Villa, Railway Station at Santiago, Parisian Architecture, Department Stores, Las Cuevas, The Steel Railway Ferry on the Parana River, Passengers, The Porter, Trekkers, A Town consisting of a Freight Car, Posadas, The Big Store of Posadas, Landing in Paraguay, Orphans, On the Upper Parana, Of the Guaqui Tribe, Sunset on the Paraguayan Shore, En Route to the Cataracts, First Glimpse of The Falls From the Hotel, Looking up the Gorge Toward the Great Falls, The Argentine Falls, Drying Film, The Bossetti Cascade, Shacks of the Indian Guides, The Three Musketeers, The Canyon of the Iguassu, and many more.