Rio de Janeiro - Wikipedia
Rio de Janeiro (/ ˈ r iː oʊ d i ʒ ə ˈ n ɛər oʊ,-d eɪ-,-d ə-/; Portuguese: [ˈʁi.u d(ʒi) ʒɐˈne(j)ɾu] ();), or simply Rio, is anchor to the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area and the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas.Rio de Janeiro is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's third-most populous state, after São ...