São Paulo is the capital and largest city of the state of São Paulo. The largest city in Brazil, it is also the most populous city in the Americas. The city exerts international influence in commerce, finance, culture, gastronomy, arts, fashion, technology, entertainment and media, having been listed by UNESCO's Creative Cities Network as a "City of Film" and the title of "World Capital of Gastronomy", and by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as an alpha global city. It is the largest urban area by population outside Asia and the most populous Portuguese-speaking city in the world. The city is named after Paul the Apostle and people from the capital city are known as paulistanos.
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Photo location: São Paulo Museum of Art.
City overview adapted from Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0. Checked 2026-10-25. Photo: JCGbr · CC BY-SA 4.0.
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