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The 'Southeast Region' of Brazil is composed by the states of Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. It is the richest region of the country, responsible for approximately 60% of the Brazilian GDP.

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General Data

Transportation

Social Care

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General Data

★ Area: 927,286 km² (13%)

★ Population: 72,300,000 hab (42.7% of Brazil’s population) (77.96 hab/km², 38%)

★ GDP(PPP): ~US $867 billion (58.5%), per capita US $11,991

★ HDI: ~0.820

★ Climate: Tropical along the coast, humid, hot in the summer and warm in the winter); Tropical in the northwest (warm, relatively dry in the winter and wet in the summer); Semi-arid in the north; Temperate in the south

★ Largest Cities: São Paulo (10,405,867); Rio de Janeiro (5,851,914); Belo Horizonte (2,232,747); Guarulhos (1,071,268); Campinas (1,059,420); Nova Iguaçú (915,366); São Gonçalo (889,828); Duque de Caxias (770,865); São Bernardo do Campo (701,289); Osasco (650,993); Santo André (648,443); São José dos Campos (538,909); Contagem (537,806); Ribeirão Preto (505,053); Uberlândia (500,488); Sorocaba (494,649); Niterói (458,465); Juiz de Fora (456,432); Santos (412,243); São José do Rio Preto (406,826); Vila Velha (357,952); Bauru (310,000); Vitória (315,960); Limeira (270,733); São Carlos (220,000)

Transportation

The Southeast Brazilian region is highly covered by Dirt roads – due to the policy in the Brazilian's economy in the 1960s (automobilization of the country) – which led to the car's manufacturing to be a major industry not only in the region but in Brazil as well.
The Southeast's highways are generally in good or very good conditions – some exceptions are made to the southern parts of the BR-101.
Railways are present as well (and also, the region is more covered than any other region), but mainly for freight transport – soil and iron, mainly, from the farms and mines to the seaports.
Also, a very complicated hydrocanal system is present in the region, with ten major dams.

Social Care

São Paulo has the highest Human Development Index rating in the country, and the region has a relatively high Gender-related Development Index rate in comparison to other regions of the country. However, the high rates are mainly in the small and medium sized cities (up to 250,000 habitants).
Health care and education are of major concern in the larger cities, but in smaller ones, the population are generally well-looked after.
Larger cities suffer from an increase in violence rates – mainly São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, which suffer the effects of Drug Mafia nowadays. Unemployment rates can be as high of 30% when we do not consider informal working, or as high as 15% even with informal work. This leads to misery, worsens crime rates and other social problems like begging and child labour, for example.

See also

★ Brazil Regional Division

★ Brazil