Santa Catarina | |
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Coordinates: 27°50′S 48°25′W / 27.833°S 48.417°W | |
Country | Brazil |
Capital | Florianópolis |
Government | |
• Governor | Raimundo Colombo |
• Vice Governor | Eduardo Pinho Moreira |
Area | |
• Total | 95,346.181 km2 (36,813.366 sq mi) |
• Rank | 20th |
Population (2010 census)[1] | |
• Total | 6,249,682 |
• Rank | 11th |
• Density | 66/km2 (170/sq mi) |
• Rank | 9th |
Demonym | Catarinense or Barriga-Verde (Green Belly) |
GDP | |
• Year | 2006 estimate |
• Total | R$ 93,173,000,000 (7th) |
• Per capita | R$ 20,369 (4th) |
HDI | |
• Year | 2005 |
• Category | 0.840 – high (2nd) |
Time zone | UTC−03:00 (BRT) |
Postal code | 87000-000 to 89990-000 |
ISO 3166 code | BR-SC |
Website | Official website |
Santa Catarina is a state in Southern Brazil. It has with one of the highest standards of living in the country. Its capital is Florianópolis, which partly lies on the Santa Catarina Island.
Santa Catarina shares borders with the states of Rio Grande do Sul to the south and Paraná to the north. It is bordered on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the west it borders the province of Misiones, Argentina.
Santa Catarina is the most European state of Brazil. Most of the people that live there are descendants of Portuguese, German and Italian immigrants.