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Divide to know: the regional divisions of Brazil

January 09, 2018 02h00 PM | Last Updated: February 26, 2019 12h49 PM

Citing the names of the five Brazilian Major Regions and pointing them on a map may be an easy task for most people, but does someone know to explain what defines each one of them? Who knows whether Brazil was always divided like this? 
The maps published in this story of the Retratos Magazine no. 6 show that Brazil has always been divided into regions that grouped geographically close states, yet these groups were not always the same. 

Map produced by the IBGE in 1940



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