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Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte
(;
Beautiful Horizon
) is the
sixth largest city
in
Brazil
, the
thirteenth largest city
in
South America
and the
sixteenth largest city
in the
Americas
. The metropolis is anchor to the
Belo Horizonte metropolitan area
, ranked as the
third most populous metropolitan area
in Brazil, the
nineteenth most populous
in the
Americas
and the
forty-second largest
in the world. Belo Horizonte is the capital of
the state
of
Minas Gerais
, Brazil's
second most populous state
. It is the first planned modern city in Brazil.
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