São Paulo

[ soun pou-loh; English sou pou-loh ]

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São Paulo

/ sə̃un ˈpaulu /

a state of SE Brazil: consists chiefly of tableland draining west into the Paraná River. Capital: São Paulo. Pop: 38 177 742 (2002). Area: 247 239 sq km (95 459 sq miles)
a city in S Brazil, capital of São Paulo state: the largest city and industrial centre in Brazil, with one of the busiest airports in the world; three universities. Pop: 25 000 (1874); 2 017 025 (1950); Pop: 18 333 000 (2005 est)

São Paulo

“There are more Japanese restaurants than any other kind of non-Brazilian food, even Italian, in São Paulo,” he says.

The year after his return, Onoda relocated to a Japanese colony in São Paulo, Brazil, where he became a cattle farmer.

Once the bluest chip on the São Paulo bourse, worth $35 billion in 2011, OGX is trading at a few cents a share.

His emerging mining and energy conglomerate rocketed to the top of the São Paulo stock market.

Foster made headlines in 2009, when she traveled to São Paulo, Brazil, for a liposuction procedure after giving birth to her sons.

Approximately twenty-five percent of the São Paulo plantations are cultivated by machinery.

The preponderance of the coffee over other industries in São Paulo is shown in many ways.

Most of this São Paulo coffee is exported through the port of Santos, which is consequently the leading coffee port of the world.

The state of São Paulo is the chief producing state, and supplies practically half the world's annual output.

It was announced also that São Paulo was about to double its tax contribution to the national advertising campaign.

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