_State_ _Capital_ _Area Sq. _Population_ Kilometers_ Alagôas Maceió 58,500 785,000 Amazonas Manáos 1,895,000 390,000 Bahia São Salvador 427,000 2,500,000 Ceará Fortaleza 104,250 1,000,000 Federal District Rio de Janeiro 1,116 1,200,000 (São Sebastião) Espirito Santo Victoria 45,000 400,000 Goyaz Goyaz 747,000 300,000 Maranhão São Luiz 460,000 500,000 Matto Grosso Cuyabá 1,379,000 245,000 Minas Geraes Bello Horizonte 575,000 4,500,000 Pará Belem 1,150,000 660,000 Parahyba Parahyba 75,000 600,000 Paraná Curityba 250,000 500,000 Pernambuco Recife 128,400 2,100,000 Piauhy Therezina 301,800 425,000 Rio de Janeiro Nictheroy 69,000 1,300,000 Rio Grande do Norte Natal 57,500 410,000 Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre 236,500 1,500,000 Santa Catharina Florianopolis 43,535 450,000 São Paulo São Paulo 290,876 3,000,000 Sergipe Aracajú 39,090 450,000 Acre Territory 191,000 100,000 The Territory of Acre was legally acquired from Bolivia by the Government of Brazil in 1903 but had been populated and the rubber reserves worked by Brazilian _seringueiros_ for at least ten years previously. Their entry into Bolivian lands was the cause of much friction until the final settlement by the payment by Brazil of £2,000,000 for this rich area. [Illustration: [Agriculture Map]] BRAZILIAN TERMS _Alagôano_: native of Alagôas. Native of Amazonas State, _amazonense_. Native of Bahia, _bahiano_; of Ceará, _cearense_; of Espirito Santo, _espirito-saniense_; of Goyaz, _goyano_; of Maranhão, _maranhense_; of Matto Grosso, _matto-grossense_; of Minas Geraes, _mineiro_; of Pará, _paraense_; of Paraná, _paranaense_; of Piauhy, _piauhyense_; of Parahyba, _parahybano_; of Pernambuco, _pernambucano_; of São Paulo, _paulista_; of Santa Catharina, _catharinense_; of Rio Grande do Norte and Rio Grande do Sul, _riograndense do norte_, or _riograndense do sul_; of Sergipe, _sergipano_. A native of the north is a _nortista_; of the south, a _sulista_; of Brazil, in general, _brasileiro_.