South America
- The Rio de Janeiro—São Paulo Megalopolis: which includes a parts of Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo states, that spreads throughout much of the Southeast Region of the country, a conurbation which brings together more than 450 cities - defined primarily by metropolitan areas of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo and the whole catchment area around and between them (separated by about 300 km) is by far the most urbanized and industrialized country and Latin America; Projects to include the urban area of Belo Horizonte, in Minas Gerais, the third largest in the country (and the largest in the state of Minas Gerais, the second most populous in Brazil), and thus the entire area of influence established by linking it with the existing Rio-São Paulo megalopolis, now being studied. If approved, the megalopolis population crowd would jump from 45 million today to more than 60 million (2011 est.); Official population 2011 Census: 45,678,990;
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“In the far South the sun of autumn is passing
Like Walt Whitman walking along a ruddy shore.
He is singing and chanting the things that are part of him,
The worlds that were and will be, death and day.
Nothing is final, he chants. No man shall see the end.
His beard is of fire and his staff is a leaping flame.”
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Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance,
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But nearness to death no nearer to God.”
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