São Paulo

[soun pou-loh, sou pou-loh]

noun

1. a state in S Brazil. 95,714 sq. mi. (247,898 sq. km).

2. a city in and the capital of this state.

São Paulo

/ sə̃un ˈpaulu /

noun

1. 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)

2. 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

1. City in southeastern Brazil; the largest city in Brazil and in South America.

Example Sentences

"Namorotukunan offers a rare lens on a changing world long gone -- rivers on the move, fires tearing through, aridity closing in -- and the tools, unwavering. For ~300,000 years, the same craft endures -- perhaps revealing the roots of one of our oldest habits: using technology to steady ourselves against change," said Dan V. Palcu Rolier, corresponding author and a senior scientist at GeoEcoMar, Utrecht University and the University of São Paulo.

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Many of the stones were specially chosen for their quality, suggesting that the makers were skilled and knew exactly what they were looking for, according to the senior geoscientist on the research team, Dr Dan Palcu Rolier of the University of São Paulo in Brazil.

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The operation was Brazil's most lethal to date, surpassing the 1992 Carandiru prison massacre in Sao Paulo, which left 111 inmates dead when military police stormed in to stop a riot.

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The oil blocks are located in Brazil's southeast, off the coast of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

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The number of players from Saudi clubs in the top 10 compared to a year ago has dropped by one as Brazil's Neymar left Al Hilal in January to return to his boyhood club, Santos in Sao Paulo.

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