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2 unusual facts about Greater Rio de Janeiro


Greater Rio de Janeiro

Paquetá Island (NOTE: The Paquetá Island, or Ilha de Paquetá in Portuguese, is not a municipality like the others, but an island in Guanabara Bay, part of the metropolitan area): 4,500

Portuguese language

# Carioca  — Not a dialect, but sociolects of the fluminense variant spoken in an area roughly corresponding to Greater Rio de Janeiro.


Vegetarianism by country

Since the 1990s, and especially since the 2000s, several vegetarian and vegan restaurants appeared in the metropolitan regions of São Paulo, Porto Alegre, Curitiba and Rio de Janeiro.


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