Rio de Janeiro and sao Paulo

FIG. I-Hinterlands of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo-Santos and approximate outlines of the settlement areas of other coastal nuclei. Scale of the map approximately I: 60,000,000. Very few of the world's great are located in the low latitudes. Outside of Calcutta and Bombay, Rio de Janeiro is the only other tropical city that has definitely surpassed the million mark, although Sao Paulo in I928 was not far behind. That two such cities should have developed so close together in underpopulated Brazil is a fact that calls for interpretation. This paper presents a geographic description of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo and some of the con

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