Manaus is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Amazonas, the seventh-largest city in Brazil, with an estimated 2024 population of about 2.28 million spread across the Amazon rainforest. Built on the wealth of the late nineteenth-century rubber boom, symbolized by its ornate Amazon Theatre opera house, Manaus today functions as the main gateway to the Brazilian Amazon and a free-trade manufacturing zone deep in the rainforest, accessible mainly by river and air.
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1. Wikipedia: Manaus
Wikimedia FoundationLead section, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manaus
It is the seventh-largest city in Brazil, with an estimated 2024 population of 2,279,686 distributed over a land area of about 11,401 km2 (4,402 sq mi).
Lead section (estimate year), en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manaus
It is the seventh-largest city in Brazil, with an estimated 2024 population of 2,279,686 distributed over a land area of about 11,401 km2 (4,402 sq mi).
Lead section (area figure), en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manaus
It is the seventh-largest city in Brazil, with an estimated 2024 population of 2,279,686 distributed over a land area of about 11,401 km2 (4,402 sq mi).
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The city was founded in 1669 as the Fort of São José do Rio Negro.
- In Group: Cities of South America (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source 2. Manaus (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude -3.118889, longitude -60.021667
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 92 m
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