Paraná (state) (bra)

Paraná (state)

Paraná (state) ranks 6,123rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Yuan dynasty, Maryhill, and Burano. Memorable people born in Paraná (state) include André Luís Neitzke, José Reginaldo Vital, and Henik Luiz de Andrade. Paraná (state) has been the birth place of many soccer players. Paraná (state) is located in Brazil.

Paraná is one of the 26 states of Brazil, in the south of the country. It is bordered in the north by São Paulo state, in the east by the Atlantic Ocean, in the south by Santa Catarina state and the province of Misiones, Argentina, and in the west by Mato Grosso do Sul and Paraguay, with the Paraná River as its western boundary. It is subdivided into 399 municipalities, and its capital is the city of Curitiba. Other major cities are Londrina, Maringá, Ponta Grossa, Cascavel, São José dos Pinhais and Foz do Iguaçu. The state is home to 5.4% of the Brazilian population and generates 6.2% of the Brazilian GDP. Read more on Wikipedia