São Paulo (State)

São Paulo (State)

Area: 247,900sq.km/95,700sq.mi.

Population: 29,657,000

Capital: São Paulo

Situation and Characteristics

The state of São Paulo, on the south coast of Brazil, is separated from Minas Gerais, to the north, by the Rio Grande, from Mato Grosso do Sul, on the west, by the Rio Paraná and from Paraná, on the south, by the Rio Paranapanema; with Rio de Janeiro, to the east, it has a common boundary of some 100km/60mi. A major source of revenue is agriculture (cotton, sugar-cane, tobacco, fruit, vegetables and grain); and in areas where the soil has been exhausted by intensive arable farming stock-rearing takes over. São Paulo also has some 50% of all Brazilian industrial firms, the most