São Paulo (bra)

São Paulo

São Paulo ranks 28th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Boston, Munich, and Washington, D.C.. Memorable people born in São Paulo include Ayrton Senna, Rivellino, and Emerson Fittipaldi. Memorable people who died in São Paulo include Pelé, Sócrates, and Paulo Freire. São Paulo has been the birth place of many soccer players and racing drivers and the death place of many soccer players and writers. São Paulo is located in Brazil.

São Paulo is the most populous city in Brazil and the capital of the state of São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as an alpha global city, São Paulo is the most populous city outside of Asia and the world's 20th-largest city proper by population. Additionally, São Paulo is the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world. It exerts strong international influences in commerce, finance, arts, and entertainment. The city's name honors the Apostle, Saint Paul of Tarsus. The city's metropolitan area, the Greater São Paulo, ranks as the most populous in Brazil and the 12th-most-populous on Earth. The process of conurbation between the metropolitan areas around the Greater São Paulo created the São Paulo Macrometropolis, a megalopolis with more than 30 million inhabitants, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. Read more on Wikipedia