Roraima

2.1 61.39Koordinaten: 2 ° N, 61 ° W

Roraima, officially Estado de Roraima, is the least populated of the 27 states of Brazil, located in the northern part of the Greater Region Norte. First as a set up by the central government in 1943 and her, subordinate to the Federal Territory ( Território Federal) in 1988 elevated to the Roraima State. The capital of Roraima is Boa Vista. It is the only capital of the Brazilian state, lying entirely in the northern hemisphere.

Geography

Roraima borders the Brazilian states of Pará and Amazonas, and in Venezuela and Guyana.

A large part of the state is covered by tropical rainforest. In the east, a small savanna area expands. One of the highest mountains of Brazil and the namesake of the Federal State of Roraima Tepui, located in Roraima National Park.

Demography

Roraima had according to the 2000 census by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística ( IBGE ) 324 397 inhabitants in an area of 224,299 km ². The population density was 1.45 inhabitants per km ².

The last census of 2010 showed a population of 450 479 over an area of ​​approximately 224,301 km ² and a population density of 2.09 inhabitants per km ².

Recent estimates of the population numbers were published July 1, 2012 by the IBGE.

Cities

Roraima has a total of 15 cities, which under Brazilian municipal law have the status of município.

The three largest cities are: Boa Vista (estimated 2012: 296 959 inhabitants) is the only large city and the highest annual growth, Rorainópolis (2012 estimate: 25 319 inhabitants) and Caracarai (2012 estimate: 19,019 inhabitants), which replaced the location Alto Alegre in the ranking.

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