Name of city: Brasília.
Population : 2,789,761 (4th).
Area: 5,802 km2 (2,240.164 sq mi).
Location: Brasília, Federal District, Brazil.
Website: Officialsite.
Brasília is the federal capital of Brazil and the
seat of government of the Federal District. The city is located along the
Brazilian Highlands in the country's Central-West region. It was founded on
April 21, 1960, to serve as the new national capital. Brasília, easily the
fastest growing major city in the country, had an estimated population of
2,852,372 in 2014, just 50,000 residents shy of Salvador, placing it as the 4th
most populous city in Brazil. Among major Latin American cities, Brasília has
the highest GDP per capita at R$61,915 (US$36,175). Brasília was planned and
developed by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer in 1956 in order to move the
capital from Rio de Janeiro to a more central location. The landscape architect
was Roberto Burle Marx. The city's design divides it into numbered blocks as
well as sectors for specified activities, such as the Hotel Sector, the Banking
Sector and the Embassy Sector. Brasília was chosen as a UNESCO World Heritage
Site due to its modernist architecture.
The city has a unique status in Brazil, as it
is an administrative division rather than a legal municipality like other
cities in Brazil. Nationally, the term is almost always used synonymously with
the Federal District, which constitutes an indivisible Federative Unit. Several
satellite cities are also part of the Federal District. The centers of all
three branches of the federal government of Brazil are in Brasília, including
the Congress, President, and Supreme Court. The city also hosts 124 foreign
embassies.[6] Brasília International Airport connects the capital to all major
Brazilian cities and many international destinations, and is the third busiest
airport in Brazil.
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The city was one of the main host cities of
the 2014 FIFA World Cup and will be the host city of 2019 Summer Universiade.
Additionally, Brasília hosted the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup.
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