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Rio Grande do Norte

state in the Northeast Region of Brazil
AdministrativeArea federative_unit_of_brazil Q43255

Facts

35 properties

Identity

Instance of
federative unit of Brazil
Inception
1891
Official website
www.rn.gov.br
Official name
Rio Grande do Norte

Location

Country
Brazil[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ -5.740°, -36.550°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Brazil[2]
Shares border with
Paraíba, Ceará[6][7]

Population and size

Area
+53306.8
Elevation above sea level
+142
Population
+3507003, +3302729
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Codes

Located in time zone
UTC−03:00, America/Sao_Paulo
More facts +23
Part of
Northeast Region
Short name
RN, RN
Anthem
Hino do Rio Grande do Norte[8]
Capital
Natal[5]
Coat of arms
Brasão do Rio Grande do Norte
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Acari, Afonso Bezerra, Alexandria, Alto do Rodrigues, Angicos, Antônio Martins, Apodi, Areia Branca, Arês, Campo Grande, Assu, Baraúna, Barcelona, Baía Formosa, Bento Fernandes, Bodó, Bom Jesus, Brejinho, Caicó, Caiçara do Norte, Caiçara do Rio do Vento, Campo Redondo, Canguaretama, Caraúbas, Carnaubais, Carnaúba dos Dantas, Ceará-Mirim, Cerro Corá, Coronel Ezequiel, Coronel João Pessoa, Cruzeta, Currais Novos, Doutor Severiano, Encanto, Rio Grande do Norte, Equador, Rio Grande do Norte, Espírito Santo, Rio Grande do Norte, Extremoz, Felipe Guerra, Fernando Pedroza, Florânia, Francisco Dantas Municipality, Frutuoso Gomes, Galinhos, Goianinha, Governador Dix-Sept Rosado, Grossos, Guamaré, Ielmo Marinho, Ipanguaçu, Ipueira, Itajá, Itaú, Jandaíra, Janduís, Boa Saúde, Japi, Jardim de Angicos, Jardim de Piranhas, Jardim do Seridó, Jaçanã, Rio Grande do Norte, José da Penha, João Câmara, João Dias, Jucurutu, Jundiá, Rio Grande do Norte, Lagoa Nova, Lagoa Salgada, Lagoa d'Anta, Lagoa de Pedras, Lagoa de Velhos, Lajes, Lajes Pintadas, Lucrécia, Luís Gomes, Macau, Macaíba, Major Sales, Marcelino Vieira, Martins, Maxaranguape, Messias Targino, Montanhas, Monte Alegre, Monte das Gameleiras, Mossoró, Nova Cruz, Nísia Floresta, Olho-d'Água do Borges, Ouro Branco, Paraná, Parazinho, Paraú, Parelhas, Parnamirim, Passa e Fica, Passagem, Patu, Pau dos Ferros, Pedra Grande, Pedra Preta, Pedro Avelino, Pedro Velho, Pendências, Pilões, Rio Grande do Norte, Portalegre, Porto do Mangue, Poço Branco, Pureza, Rio Grande do Norte, Rafael Fernandes, Rafael Godeiro, Riacho da Cruz, Riacho de Santana, Riachuelo, Rio do Fogo, Rodolfo Fernandes, Ruy Barbosa, Santa Cruz, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Norte, Santana do Matos, Santana do Seridó, Santo Antônio, Senador Elói de Souza, Senador Georgino Avelino, Serra Caiada, Serra Negra do Norte, Serra de São Bento, Serra do Mel, Serrinha, Serrinha dos Pintos, Severiano Melo, São Bento do Norte, São Bento do Trairi, São Fernando, São Francisco do Oeste, São Gonçalo do Amarante, São José de Mipibu, São José do Campestre, São José do Seridó, São João do Sabugi, São Miguel, São Miguel do Gostoso, São Paulo do Potengi, São Pedro, São Rafael, Rio Grande do Norte, São Tomé, São Vicente, Sítio Novo, Taboleiro Grande, Taipu, Rio Grande do Norte, Tangará, Rio Grande do Norte, Tenente Ananias, Tenente Laurentino Cruz, Tibau, Tibau do Sul, Timbaúba dos Batistas, Touros, Triunfo Potiguar, Umarizal, Upanema, Venha-Ver, Vera Cruz, Rio Grande do Norte, Vila Flor, Viçosa, Rio Grande do Norte, Várzea, Rio Grande do Norte, Água Nova, Natal[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]
Demonym
potiguar
Described by source
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Economy of topic
economy of Rio Grande do Norte
Electorate
+2480006
Executive body
cabinet of the governor of the state of Rio Grande do Norte
Flag
flag of Rio Grande do Norte
Geography of topic
geography of Rio Grande do Norte
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: Brazil/Rio Grande do Norte
Head of government
Fátima Bezerra[4]
History of topic
history of Rio Grande do Norte
Human Development Index
0.75 (0.57–0.75, n=29)
Legislative body
Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande do Norte
Literacy rate
+95.1
Named after
Potengi River[9]
Office held by head of government
governor of Rio Grande do Norte
P14541
1shtES
Replaces
Rio Grande do Norte Province, Fernando de Noronha Territory
🏷️ Also known as
en Rio Grande do Norte en Rio Grande do Norte State en RN en Rio Grande do Norte state ar ريو غراندي دو نورتي de RN el Ρίο Γκράντε ντο Νόρτε es Rio grande do norte es Río Grande do Norte es Río Grande del Norte es Estado de Rio Grande del Norte es Estado de Río Grande del Norte es Estado de Rio Grande do Norte es Estado de Río Grande do Norte es Potiguar es Rio Grande del Norte fa ریوگرانده دو نورتی fa ریوگراندهٔ دو نورتی he ריו גראנדה דו נורטה he ריו גראנדי דו נורטי
🔖 Identifiers · 41
VIAF cluster ID
123143494
Library of Congress authority ID
n79069716
GND ID
4117033-7
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Dunas de Genipabu 3.jpg ↗
BBC Things ID
852601ad-a5b9-44b8-80a6-7efa20223cfc
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
12182044c
Biblissima authority ID
Bérénice Bejo
Curlie ID
Regional/South_America/Brazil/States/Rio_Grande_do_Norte/
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
534868
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Rio-Grande-do-Norte
FAST ID
1205593
FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)
BR22
Show all 41 identifiers +29
Freebase ID
/m/01hdrc
GACS ID
31297
GNS Unique Feature ID
-666685
GeoNames ID
3390290
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
7006257
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
rio-grande-do-norte
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0055755
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Rio_Grande_do_Norte
HASC
BR.RN
INaturalist place ID
8116
ISO 3166-2 code
BR-RN
IdRef ID
030398258
Instagram location ID
304566341
Lex ID
Rio_Grande_do_Norte
Mindat locality ID
446
MusicBrainz area ID
0c07f518-0ef5-4844-a920-a8daf76c09e3
Namuwiki ID
히우그란지두노르치주
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007564236305171
OBO Gazetteer ID
00005605
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3967946
OpenStreetMap relation ID
301079
Our Campaigns container ID
35997
PACTOLS thesaurus ID
pcrtnlBKWH7Pks
Topic's main category
Category:Rio Grande do Norte
Who's on First ID
85681999
WikiKids ID
Rio_Grande_do_Norte
World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions ID
BZE-RN
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PCjqHdQ7x9GTHMjTHxjmFBq
Yale LUX ID
place/34ee1fea-f759-4961-8676-7200cc1b1cf0

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🔗 Connections
← Taxon range 830
Ananas comosus, Cashew, Passiflora edulis, Abrus precatorius, Cyperus rotundus, Eichhornia crassipes, Pistia stratiotes, Canna indica +822 more
Contained subdivisions 194
Natal, Rocas Atoll, Mossoró, Parnamirim, Ceará-Mirim, Assu, Extremoz, Nísia Floresta +186 more
Contains the administrative territorial entity 166
Natal, Mossoró, Parnamirim, Ceará-Mirim, Assu, Extremoz, Nísia Floresta, Caicó +158 more
← Main subject 74
Template:Country data Rio Grande do Norte, Law No. 10311 of November 22, 2001, Law No. 10540 of October 1, 2002, Law No. 11155 of July 29, 2005, Law No. 1175 of August 10, 1950, Law No. 12076 of October 29, 2009, Law No. 12191 of January 13, 2010, Law No. 121 of October 22, 1947 +66 more
← Category combines topics 13
Category:Geography of Rio Grande do Norte, Category:Sport in Rio Grande do Norte, Category:Football clubs in Rio Grande do Norte, Category:People from Rio Grande do Norte, Category:Births in Rio Grande do Norte, Category:Football venues in Rio Grande do Norte, Category:Rio Grande do Norte politicians, Category:Airports in Rio Grande do Norte +5 more
People born here 5
Felipe Alves de Lima, Gledson, Lindalva Justo de Oliveira, Marina Elali, Otacilio Jales
Described by source 3
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Shares border with 2
Ceará, Paraíba
← Shares border with 2
Ceará, Paraíba
Belongs to 1
Northeast Region
Capital 1
Natal
Category for people born here 1
Category:Births in Rio Grande do Norte
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Rio Grande do Norte
Country 1
Brazil
Flag 1
flag of Rio Grande do Norte
Has these parts 1
Pipa Beach
Head of government 1
Fátima Bezerra
Instance of 1
federative unit of Brazil
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Brazil
Located in this place 1
2019 Northeastern Brazil oil spill
Located in time zone 1
UTC−03:00
Named after 1
Potengi River
Part of 1
Northeast Region
People who died here 1
Josino Levino Ferreira
Residents 1
Natalia Bonavides
Topic's main category 1
Category:Rio Grande do Norte
← Applies to jurisdiction 1
flag of Rio Grande do Norte
← Capital of 1
Natal
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Rio Grande do Norte
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Brazil
← Operating area 1
Civil Defense of the State of Rio Grande do Norte
← Parent organization or unit 1
Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária do Rio Grande do Norte
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Summary

Rio Grande do Norte is a federative unit of Brazil[1].

🛰️ Living Edge · news-derived, source-cited

high ≥ 0.90 · emerging ≥ 0.65 · low below — calibrated against hand-rated truth (single-source .44 · two-source .62 · production-typical .70), so a band is a measurement, not a promise. High is rare by design: it needs both a supported assertion and an evidence sentence. A confirmed or contradicted chip is a Wikidata cross-check; no chip means Wikidata has no value for that property — the ordinary case here, and it says nothing either way. A confirm-only note marks a property whose check can never disagree (Wikidata's border and capital data is not exhaustive), so silence there is a limit of the check, not of the claim.

served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold

Located in the administrative territorial entity Brazil emerging0.76confirmed2 independent sources

evidence “Brazil, Rio Grande do Norte, Catholic Church Records, 1788-1967 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2177294);” geneamusings.com · read source

Related Entities

Brazil Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária do Rio Grande do Norte Law No. 3094 of January 30, 1957 Law No. 3388 of May 21, 1958 Law No. 3398 of June 7, 1958 Law No. 3422 of July 10, 1958 Law No. 3524 of January 3, 1959 Law No. 3692 of December 15, 1959 Law No. 3727 of February 14, 1960 Law No. 3849 of December 18, 1960 Law No. 3969 of October 6, 1961 Law No. 436 of October 15, 1948 Law No. 6405 of December 15, 1976 Law No. 6995 of May 31, 1982

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority ID → Bérénice Bejo
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  2. 16w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1shtES
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