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brəˈzɪl yəbrasil·i·a

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Brasilia, Brazilian capital, capital of Brazilnoun

    the capital of Brazil; a city built on the central plateau and inaugurated in 1960

Wiktionary

  1. Brasilianoun

    The capital of Brazil, located in its Distrito Federal.

  2. Brasílianoun

    Alternative spelling of Brasilia (the capital of Brazil)

Wikipedia

  1. brasilia

    Brasília (; Portuguese: [bɾaˈziljɐ]) is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District. The city is located high in the Brazilian highlands in the country's Central-West region. It was founded by President Juscelino Kubitschek on 21 April 1960, to serve as the new national capital. Brasília is estimated to be Brazil's third-most populous city. Among major Latin American cities, it has the highest GDP per capita.Brasília was a planned city developed by Lúcio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer and Joaquim Cardozo in 1956 in a scheme 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 inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987 due to its modernist architecture and uniquely artistic urban planning. It was named "City of Design" by UNESCO in October 2017 and has been part of the Creative Cities Network since then.All three branches of Brazil's federal government are centered in the city: executive, legislative and judiciary. Brasília also hosts 124 foreign embassies. The city's international airport connects it to all other major Brazilian cities and some international destinations, and it is the third-busiest airport in Brazil. It was one of the main host cities of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and hosted some of the football matches during the 2016 Summer Olympics; it also hosted the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup. The city has a unique status in Brazil, as it is an administrative division rather than a legal municipality like other cities in Brazil. Although Brasília is used as a synonym for the Federal District through synecdoche, the Federal District is composed of 33 administrative regions, only one of which is the area of the originally planned city, also called Plano Piloto. The rest of the Federal District is considered by IBGE to make up Brasília's metro area.

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  1. brasilia

    Brasília is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of the government of the Federal District. The city is located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It was founded on April 21, 1960 and officially became Brazil's capital that same day. The city's design, by Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa, is in the shape of an airplane, with separate zones for various functions such as government, culture, commerce, and residential.

Wikidata

  1. Brasília

    Brasília is the federal capital of Brazil and the seat of government of the Federal District. Administratively, the city is located in the Federal District which is in the Central-West Region. Physically, it is located in the Brazilian Highlands. It has a population of about 2,562,963 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the fourth largest city in Brazil. However, as a metropolitan area, it ranks lower at sixth in population. Brasília is the largest city in the world that did not exist at the beginning of the 20th century. Brasília has the fifth largest GDP among Latin American cities and the third in Brazil. At around R$62,000 Brazilian reais, the city's per capita income is the highest among Brazil's largest cities. As the national capital, Brasília is the seat of all three branches of the federal government of Brazil. The city also hosts the headquarters of many Brazilian companies. Planning policies such as the location of residential buildings around expansive urban areas, as well as building the city around large avenues and dividing it into sectors, have sparked a debate and reflection on life in big cities in the 20th century. The city's design divides it into numbered blocks as well as sectors for specified activities, such as the Hotel Sector, the Banking Sector or the Embassy Sector. Brasília hosts 124 foreign embassies.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Brasilia in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Brasilia in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Brasilia in a Sentence

  1. Andre Wagner:

    Our method for fighting slavery is good, but we have very few inspectors, when the complaints are received at our headquarters in Brasilia, we can't go immediately. The delays mean the conditions might have changed.

  2. Sonia Guajajara:

    We are in Brasilia to show that our resistance is strong and that our compromise with our peoples is bigger than any imposition. We are not going to accept these attacks with our arms crossed.

  3. Jair Bolsonaro:

    There is no justification, here in Brasília, for this … terrorist act, here in the region of the Brasília airport. Nothing justifies it.

  4. Luiz Inacio:

    The Brasilia police neglected [ the attack threat ], Brasilia’s intelligence neglected it, it is easy to see in the footage the police officers talking to the attackers. There was an explicit connivance of the police with the demonstrators.

  5. Mato Grosso:

    It's a truce due to the meeting this Tuesday in Brasilia.

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