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|+ style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold;" | South region of Brazil
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! States
| PR - SC - RS
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! colspan="2" style="background-color: #87cefa; text-align: center;" | Geographical characteristics
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! Area
| 576,409.7 km²
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! Population
| 26,973,511 ''(2005)''
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! Density
| 43.54/km²
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! colspan="2" style="background-color: #87cefa; text-align: center;" | Indicators
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! HDI
| 0.875 ''(2000)''
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! GDP
| $ 289,252,892,000 ''2003''
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! GDP per capita
| $ 10,723.6 ''2003''
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The 'southern region of Brazil' is one of the five administrative regions of Brazil. It includes the states of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul and covers 576,300.8 km ². The South Region is the smallest. It is a great tourist, economic, and cultural pole. It has a relatively high standard of living, with the highest HDI of Brazil, 0.875 (2000), and the second highest per capita income of the country, $10,723.60, behind only the Southeast Region. The region also has a 98.7 % literacy rate.
The region borders Uruguay, Argentina, and Paraguay as well as the Center-West Region, the Southeast Region and the Atlantic Ocean.

Contents

Cities

Population and ethnic diversity

Coast

Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul

Paraná

See also

Cities

''List of largest cities:''

★ Curitiba (1,757,904)

★ Porto Alegre (1,360,033)

★ Joinville (497,004)

★ Londrina (446,822)

★ Florianópolis (406,781)

★ Caxias do Sul (360,223)

★ Pelotas (323,034)

★ Canoas (305,711)

★ Maringá (288,465)

★ Ponta Grossa (281,000)

★ Blumenau (277,500)

★ Cascavel (273,000)

★ Foz do Iguaçu (269,585)

★ Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul (243,396)

★ Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul (238,000)

Population and ethnic diversity

The region is highly urbanized (87%) and many cities are famous for their urban planning, like Curitiba, Londrina, and Maringá. 85% of Southern Brazil's population is made up of whites, due to strong European immigration in the past.

Coast

The population of Southern Brazil's coast is mainly of Portuguese descent, tracing their roots back to the middle XVIII century, when waves of Portuguese colonists, from the Azores islands, settled in the region.

Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul

In the states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, most of the population is of Italian, German and Portuguese descent, tracing mostly their roots back to the late 19th century, when immigrants from Germany and Italy populated the region.

Paraná

The state of Paraná also received strong German, Italian and Portuguese immigration. But a distinctive characteristics of the European immigration to this state is the large influx of people from Eastern Europe, mainly from Poland, but also from Russia and Ukraine. In fact, this state hosts the largest number of inhabitants with Eastern European descent among all Brazilian states.
Paraná also have received immigration from East Asia, particularly from Japan, and from Middle East (Syria and Lebanon). The Japanese population of Paraná is the second (to São Paulo) largest in Brazil.

See also

★ South Brazil Tourist Guide