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São Paulo (" Saint Paul " in English ) is a municipality located in the southeast region of ___MASK40___ . The metropolis is an alpha global city  as listed by the GaWC  and is the most populous city in ___MASK40___ , the Americas , and in the Southern Hemisphere . The municipality is also Earth ' s 12th largest city proper by population . The city is the capital of the homonymous state of São Paulo , ___MASK40___ ' s most populous and wealthiest state . It exerts strong international influence in commerce , finance , arts and entertainment . The name of the city honors Saint Paul of Tarsus . The city ' s metropolitan area of Greater São Paulo ranks as the most populous in ___MASK40___ , the 11th most populous on Earth , and largest Portuguese - speaking city in the world . ___MASK40___ , officially the Federative Republic of ___MASK40___ , is the largest country in both South America and Latin America . As the world ' s fifth - largest country by both area and population , it is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas . Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east , ___MASK40___ has a coastline of . It borders all other South American countries except Ecuador and Chile and covers 47 . 3 % of the continent ' s land area . Its Amazon River basin includes a vast tropical forest , home to diverse wildlife , a variety of ecological systems , and extensive natural resources spanning numerous protected habitats . This unique environmental heritage makes ___MASK40___ one of 17 megadiverse countries , and is the subject of significant global interest and debate regarding deforestation and environmental protection . Rio de Janeiro (" River of January "), or simply Rio , is the second - most populous municipality in ___MASK40___ 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 ___MASK40___ and sixth - most populous in the Americas . Rio de Janeiro is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro , ___MASK40___ ' 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 . Nordeste Linhas Aéreas Regionais was a regional airline based in Brotas , Salvador , Bahia , ___MASK40___ which operated scheduled passenger services in northeast and southeast ___MASK40___ . Its main base was Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport , Salvador . Bahia is one of the 26 states of ___MASK40___ and is located in the northeastern part of the country on the Atlantic coast . It is the 4th - largest Brazilian state by population ( after São Paulo , Minas Gerais , and Rio de Janeiro ) and the 5th - largest by area . Bahia ' s capital is the city of Salvador ( formerly known as " Cidade do São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos ", lit . "" City of Holy Savior of All Saints Bay ""), located on a spit of land separating the Bay of All Saints from the Atlantic . Once a monarchial stronghold dominated by agricultural , slaving , and ranching interests , Bahia is now a major manufacturing center whose last three elections have been dominated by the Workers ' Party . Brotas is a neighborhood located in the western zone of Salvador , Bahia . When Nordeste Linhas Aéreas Regionais existed , its headquarters were in Brotas . Salvador , also known as São Salvador , Salvador de Bahia , and Salvador da Bahia , is the capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia . With 2 . 9 million people , it is the largest city proper in the Northeast Region and the 3rd - largest city proper in the country , after São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro . Salvador - Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport , formerly called Dois de Julho International Airport is the airport serving Salvador da Bahia , ___MASK40___ . Since 16 June 1998 the airport is named after ( 1955  1998 ), an influential politician of the state of Bahia .