Question

What is the northeast part of Brazil known as?

Answer 1

Northeast Region Região Nordeste

Country Brazil

Largest cities Recife (by metro pop.) Salvador (by city proper) Fortaleza (by pop. density)

States Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Maranhão, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte and Sergipe

extra

Brazil is officially divided into five regions: North, Northeast, Center-West, Southeast and South. This article gives an overview of each of them, presenting their main aspects. Brazil is the largest country in South America and the fifth-largest in the world, with an area of 8,515,767 km² .

Answer 2

The Northeast Region of Brazil (Portuguese: Região Nordeste do Brasil) is one of the five official and political regions of the countryaccording to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. For the socio-geographic area see Nordeste (socio-geographic division). Of Brazil's twenty-six states, it comprises nine: Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia, along with the Fernando de Noronhaarchipelago (formerly a separate territory, now part of Pernambuco).