The beaches of Barra da Tijuca are also popular with the residents from other parts of the city. Per capita GDP is US$11,786.Benefiting from the federal capital position it had for a long period (1763–1960), the city became a dynamic administrative, financial, commercial and cultural center. In the late 19th century, there were sessions held of the first Brazilian film and since then, several production cycles have spread out, eventually placing Rio at the forefront of experimental and national cinema. The The city of Rio de Janeiro is served by the following airports for use:

Rio is home to many colleges and universities. The tradition of Carnaval parades was probably influenced by the French or German courts and the custom was brought by the Portuguese or Brazilian Imperial families who had Bourbon and Austrian ancestors. With regard to industrial pollution, highly toxic wastes, with high concentrations of heavy metals – mainly There are, on the other hand, signs of decontamination in the lagoon made through a Along the coast, the breeze, blowing onshore and offshore, moderates the temperature. The city's centre of gravity began to shift south and west to the so-called Plans for moving the nation's capital city from Rio de Janeiro to the centre of Brazil had been occasionally discussed, and when Rio de Janeiro is on the far western part of a strip of Brazil's Atlantic coast (between a strait east to The population of the city of Rio de Janeiro, occupying an area of 1,182.3 square kilometres (456.5 sq mi),The city has parks and ecological reserves such as the Tijuca National Park, the world's first urban forest and Due to the high concentration of industries in the metropolitan region, the city has faced serious problems of environmental pollution.

It includes The urban planning of the area, completed in the late 1960s, mixes zones of single-family houses with residential skyscrapers. The average distance people usually ride in a single trip with public transit is 12.3 km, while 37% travel for over 12 km in a single direction.The three lines serve the city seven days a week. In 2008 Rio de Janeiro’s GDP was Although the city of Rio makes up only about one third of the population of the state of Rio de Janeiro, as of 2017 it generates three quarters of the state’s GDP.The population of Catalonia is 7,522,596 (source: Idescat). The Catalonian parliament declared independence from Spain on 27 October 2017. Carnaval is known as a historic root of Rio is the first Brazilian and South American city to host the Summer Olympics. The "pardos" for example thought of themselves as ⅓ European, ⅓ African and ⅓ Amerindian before the tests, and yet their ancestry on average reached 80% European.Rio de Janeiro is the second largest city in Brazil (after The Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area, according to 2009 research from There are significant disparities between the rich and the poor in Rio de Janeiro, and different socioeconomic groups are largely segregated into different neighborhoods.There have been a number of government initiatives to counter this problem, from the removal of the population from favelas to Rio has more people living in slums than any other city in Brazil, according to the 2010 Census.Rio also has a large proportion of state-sanctioned violence, with about 20% of all killings committed by state security.Greater Rio de Janeiro, as perceived by the IBGE, has a GDP of US$187 billion, constituting the second largest hub of national wealth. During the winter, cold fronts and dawn/morning sea breezes bring mild temperatures; cold fronts, the Between 1961 and 1990, at the INMET (Brazilian National Institute of Meteorology) conventional station in the neighborhood of The city is commonly divided into the historic center (Centro); the tourist-friendly wealthier South Zone (Zona Sul); the residential less wealthy North Zone (Zona Norte); peripheries in the West Zone (Zona Oeste), among them Centro or Downtown is the historic core of the city, as well as its The neighbourhood of Copacabana beach hosts one of the world's most spectacular New Year's Eve parties ("Reveillon"), as more than two million revelers crowd onto the sands to watch the To the north of Leme, and at the entrance to Guanabara Bay, is the district of Besides Maracanã, the North Zone of Rio also has other tourist and historical attractions, such "Nossa Senhora da Penha de França Church", the Santa Cruz and Campo Grande Region have exhibited economic growth, mainly in the This is an elite area of the West Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro.