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While Costa Rica centralizes in San Jose, Brazil disperses across dozens of cities.
Latinometrics
August 21, 2025 • Reading Time: 2 minutes
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Latin America has tons of beautiful cities renowned the world over. Buenos Aires with its architecture. Rio de Janeiro with its beachside mountains. Havana with its colonial city center.
One city you won’t often hear called beautiful? Brasilia, the modernist capital of Brazil, which was founded in 1960 and is known for its planned layout and sprawling highways.
Brasilia is actually Brazil’s third-most populous city, yet it contains less than 3M of the country’s 215M citizens. By this standard, Brazil is the least capital-concentrated country in all of Latin America, ahead even of Bolivia—which has two capitals!
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