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Rio de Janeiro

City · Brazil

About this place

Rio de Janeiro is a major coastal city in Brazil. 4PLANET ATLAS represents Rio de Janeiro as a stable geographic object at Natural Earth reference coordinate -22.923077, -43.226967. The coordinate is used to open the intended map context; it is not an administrative boundary, ecological boundary or claim about conditions across the whole place.

Parent geography: Brazil.

Verified geographic hierarchy: Rio de Janeiro → Brazil → South America.

Source identity: Natural Earth NE_ID 1159151619 · ISO BR · Wikidata Q8678 · GeoNames 3451190.

Open Rio de Janeiro in ATLAS. The handoff carries the same place slug and reference coordinate so the geographic entry point and interactive map resolve to the same object.

Living Planet Intelligence

Geographic identity is published independently from ecological interpretation. Living Systems, Species, Pressures, Missions, Evidence and Solutions are connected here only when the shared 4PLANET evidence model supports the relationship. Until then, those relationships remain unknown rather than being inferred from the place name.

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Source and provenance

Geographic source: Natural Earth 1:50m Populated Places v5.1.2. Source feature 1159151619 · upstream file 3fad8f0038ba. Natural Earth data is public domain; terms of use. Source reference checked 2026-10-07.

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