Ceará
State o Ceará | |
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Motto(s): Terra da Luz (Land of Light) | |
Location o State o Ceará in Brazil | |
Coordinates: 5°5′S 40°23′W / 5.083°S 40.383°W | |
Kintra | Brazil |
Caipital an Lairgest Ceety | Fortaleza |
Govrenment | |
• Govrenor | Cid Ferreira Gomes |
• Vice Govrenor | Francisco José Pinheiro |
Area | |
• Total | 146348.3 km2 (56,505.4 sq mi) |
Area rank | 17t |
Population (2010 census)[1] | |
• Total | 8,448,055 |
• Rank | 6t |
• Density | 58/km2 (150/sq mi) |
• Density rank | 11t |
Demonym(s) | Cearense |
GDP | |
• Year | 2011 |
• Total | R$ 84,360,000,000 (12t) |
• Per caipita | R$ 9,666 (Leet o Brazilian states bi gross domestic product) |
HDI | |
• Year | 2005 |
• Category | 0.523 |
Time zone | UTC-3 (BRT) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-02 (Brasília Summer) |
Postal Code | 60000-000 to 63990-000 |
ISO 3166 code | BR-CE |
Website | ceara.gov.br |
Ceará (Portuguese pronunciation: [siaˈɾa][2]) is ane o the 27 states o Brazil, locatit in the northeastren pairt o the kintra, on the Atlantic coast. It is currently the 8t lairgest Brazilian state bi population an the 17t bi aurie. It is ane o the main touristic destinations in Brazil an aw. The state caipital is the ceety o Fortaleza.
Literally, the name Ceará means "sings the jandaia".[3] Accordin tae José de Alencar, ane o the maist important writers o Brazil an an authority in Tupi Guaraní, Ceará means turquoise or green watters. Thare are theories that the state name wad derive frae Siriará an aw, a reference tae the crabs frae the seashore.
The state is best kent for its extensive coastline, wi 600 kilometer (370 mi) o sand. Thare are muntains an valleys producin tropical fruits an aw. Tae the sooth, on the mairch o Paraíba, Pernambuco an Piauí, is the Naitional Forest o Araripe.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Censo 2010: população do Brasil é de 190.732.694 pessoas
- ↑ In Brazilian Portuguese variant spoken in Ceará. The European Portuguese pronunciation is [siɐˈɾa].
- ↑ "Língua Indígena. O nome Ceará" (PDF). Revista do Instituto do Ceará. 1999. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 3 October 2008. Retrieved 6 September 2007."Archived copy" (PDF). Archived frae the original (PDF) on 20 Mairch 2009. Retrieved 4 October 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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