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Rio de Janeiro

city of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil
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Summary

Rio de Janeiro is a municipality of Brazil[1]. It ranks in the top 0.021% of municipality of brazil entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (69,459 views/month, #1 of 4,882).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Rio de Janeiro[3]
  • Country: Brazil[4]
  • Head of government: Eduardo Paes[5]
  • Continent: South America[6]
  • Instance of: big city[7], megacity[8], federal capital[9], former national capital[10]
  • Shares border with: Duque de Caxias[11], Nilópolis[12], São João de Meriti[13], Itaguaí[14], Mesquita[15], Nova Iguaçu[16], Seropédica[17]
  • Anthem: Cidade Maravilhosa[18], Junte-se a Nós[19]
  • Contains the administrative territorial entity: Copacabana[20], South Zone of Rio de Janeiro[21]
  • Flag: flag of Rio de Janeiro[22]
  • Twinned administrative body: Adelaide[23], Ahmedabad[24], Amsterdam[25], Athens[26], Atlanta[27], Barcelona[28], Batangas City[29], Batumi[30], Baku[31], Beijing[32], Beirut[33], Bucharest[34], Buenos Aires[35], Busan[36]

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Brands and Namesakes

Things named for Rio de Janeiro include it/Galeão – Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport[37], an international airport[38], in Brazil[39]; Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino[40], a hotel[41], in United States[42], founded in 1990[43]; and Rio Group[44], a geopolitical group[45], founded in 1986[46], headquartered in Paraguay[47].

Why It Matters

Rio de Janeiro has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[48] It is known by 65 alternative names across languages and contexts.[49]

Entities named for it include it/Galeão – Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport[37], an international airport[38], in Brazil[39]; Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino[40], a hotel[41], in United States[42], founded in 1990[43]; and Rio Group[44], a geopolitical group[45], founded in 1986[46], headquartered in Paraguay[47].

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] ↑ . OpenStreetMap. wikidata.org.
  9. [12] ↑ . OpenStreetMap. wikidata.org.
  10. [13] ↑ . OpenStreetMap. wikidata.org.
  11. [14] ↑ . OpenStreetMap. wikidata.org.
  12. [15] ↑ . OpenStreetMap. wikidata.org.
  13. [16] ↑ . OpenStreetMap. wikidata.org.
  14. [17] ↑ . OpenStreetMap. wikidata.org.
  15. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . mail.camara.rj.gov.br. mail.camara.rj.gov.br. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . mail.camara.rj.gov.br. mail.camara.rj.gov.br. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . mail.camara.rj.gov.br. mail.camara.rj.gov.br. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . mail.camara.rj.gov.br. mail.camara.rj.gov.br. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [38] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [41] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [42] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [43] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [45] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [46] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [47] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [48] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [49] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 16h ago · ExAstra · 2026-10-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of brazil id → 000079813
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ National library of brazil id: 000079813"
  2. 22d ago · Treisijs · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Cities, WikiProject Core cities, WikiProject Brazil +3
    Wikipedia languages → ['ab', 'ace', 'ady', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'ang', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'as', '
    Sitelink count → 303
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Maintained by wikiproject: WikiProject Cities"
  3. 9w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/46950|batch #46950]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  4. 12w ago · J 1982 · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Locations/Rio_de_Janeiro
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14470: Locations/Rio_de_Janeiro"
  5. 12w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Snk id → 249267
    Biblissima authority id → Max Brod
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q28480, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  6. 15w ago · Printstream · 2026-07-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14586 → 79036
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14586: 79036, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782930762135"
  7. 16w ago · Pruna.ar · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Capital of → Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Fourth Brazilian Republic +10
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Capital of: Viceroyalty of Brazil"
  8. 16w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Gaycities id → rio
    Harper's tag → rio-de-janeiro, rio-de-janeiro-brazil
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Gaycities id: rio, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/226429084|Rio de Janeiro (#226429084)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7294|GayCities city]] #mi"
  9. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1565-03-11T00:00:00Z
    Category for films shot at this location → Category:Films shot in Rio de Janeiro (city)
    Category of associated people → Category:People from Rio de Janeiro (city)
    Svkkl authority id → 0361680-Rio-de-Janeiro-Brazilie
    + 52 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0361680-Rio-de-Janeiro-Brazilie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
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