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Ceará
Ceará (, ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. It is the List of Brazilian states by population, eighth-largest Brazilian State by ...
(CE) is a state
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located in the Northeast Region of Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...
. According to the 2022 census conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
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(IBGE), Ceará has a population of 8,794,957 inhabitants over , which makes it the 8th largest state by population and the 17th largest by area, out of 26 states. Ceará is divided into 184 municipalities
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
, which are grouped into 33 microregions, which are grouped into 7 mesoregions. DTB_BRASIL_MUNICIPIO.xls within zip file.
The territory of modern Ceará was inhabited by Tupi and Jê peoples for millennia. Portuguese colonization began in 1603 with Pero Coelho de Sousa's failed settlement who established Fort São Tiago, followed by Martim Soares Moreno's establishment of Fort São Sebastião (1612). The Dutch occupied the region from 1637 to 1654, building Fort Schoonenborch. After Portuguese reconquest, cattle ranching and cotton cultivation spurred growth, though recurrent droughts—notably the Brazilian drought of 1877–1878—triggered mass migrations. Ceará became the first Brazilian province to abolish slavery in 1884, led by figures like Francisco "Dragão do Mar" Nascimento.
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See also
*Geography of Brazil
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* List of cities in Brazil
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A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
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