Crossword clues for brasilia
brasilia
- Portuguese-speaking capital
- Capital of Pele's land
- World capital within the Distrito Federal
- World capital laid out in the late 1950s
- World capital designated a Unesco World Heritage Site due to its modernist architecture
- South American capital city
- It replaced Rio de Janeiro as a national capital in 1960
- Capital of South America's largest country
- 2016 Olympics football city
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brasilia \Brasilia\ prop. n. the capital city of Brazil, built on the central plateau.
Syn: Brazilian capital.
Wikipedia
Brasília is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District. The city is atop the Brazilian highlands in the country's center-western region. It was founded on April 21, 1960, to serve as the new national capital. Brasília and its metro (encompassing the Federal District) had a population of 2,556,149 in 2011, making it Brazil's 4th most populous city. Among major Latin American cities, Brasília has the highest GDP per capita at .
Brasília was planned and developed by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer in 1956 to move the capital from Rio de Janeiro to a more central location. The landscape architect was Roberto Burle Marx. The city's design divides it into numbered blocks as well as sectors for specified activities, such as the Hotel Sector, the Banking Sector and the Embassy Sector. Brasília was chosen as a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to its modernist architecture and uniquely artistic urban planning.
The centers of all three branches of the federal government of Brazil are in Brasília, including the Congress, President, and Supreme Court. The city also hosts 124 foreign embassies. Brasília International Airport connects the capital to all major Brazilian cities and many international destinations, and is the third busiest airport in Brazil.
The city has a unique status in Brazil, as it is an administrative division rather than a legal municipality like other cities in Brazil, similar to Washington, D.C. in the United States and Canberra in Australia. The name 'Brasília' is commonly used as a synonym for the Federal District through synecdoche; However, the Federal District is composed of 31 administrative regions, only one of which is Brasília proper, with a population of 214,529 in a 2012 survey; Demographic publications generally do not make this distinction and list the population of Brasília as synonymous with the population of the Federal District, considering the whole as a single city (as Washington, DC), as it was legally before the creation of administrative regions in 1964. For municipal purposes in Brazil, the Federal District is treated as a city-state, single municipality (Brasília), most easily seen in vehicle plates. The city was one of the main host cities of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Brasília also hosted the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup.
Brasília is the capital of Brazil.
Brasilia may also refer to:80
- 293 Brasilia, Main belt asteroid
- Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, twin-turboprop commuter airliner, produced by Embraer of Brazil
- Volkswagen Brasilia, compact car made in Brazil
- Wésley Brasilia (born 1981), Brazilian footballer
- Cristiano Pereira de Souza (born 1977, also known as Brasília), Brazilian footballer
- Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet (Brasília), racing circuit formerly called Autódromo de Brasília, and still commonly referred to by its previous name
Usage examples of "brasilia".
Janet turned the camera to get a good look at Brasilia hovering just beyond the cable pod.
She kept an eye on Brasilia, waiting, then sighed as the bandit Shuttle began to inch past.
Her camera showed Willy Ley and Brasilia and the cable pod dwindling aft.
But he put up with the heat and the sopping clothes and-the mosquitoes because he was paid to be close to the space facility, where once a month he rode the Shuttle Brasilia into orbit.
A quick burst of attitude jets brought Brasilia and Anansi even again.
THE DESCENT OF ANANSI 195 Brasilia and Willy Ley seem to be headed for a summit meeting.
But Brasilia, 256Larry Niven and Steven Barnes closer now, was blazing at her tail.
The ion drive tug had matched orbits with Brasilia thirty hours after Anansi 272Larry Niven and Steven Barnes made her gaudy landing at Tokyo X.
He seemed joyfully mad when he entered Brasilia, just because of the chance to stretch his legs.
They had cruised inward, pushing Brasilia, to the approximate center of mass of the cable.
Two thousand lived at several smaller temporary outposts scattered at various sites around the planet, mostly in Brasilia, the continental plate on which Tierra Natal was centered.
They and smaller posts scattered up and down Brasilia from the northern icecap to the southern icecap, and from Goliath in the west to Glacier Mountain toward the east, were all nanofacted in the same fashion as Tierra Natal.
Tierra Natal and the grassy plains around it, mapping and exploiting the Amazonia aquifer and getting a toehold on the Brasilia ecosystem.
Also a telegram in similar language to our Brasilia representative, so that we will be informed if Tarzan stops over at the Capital or, though most unlikely, shifts to another route at that point.
Flight Number One from Rio, Brasilia, and Goiania, arriving eight-fifty, on time.