Brasília ( , ) is the capital city of Brazil and the Federal District. Located in the Brazilian Highlands in the country's Central-West region, it was founded by President Juscelino Kubitschek on 21 April 1960, to replace Rio de Janeiro as the national capital. Brasília is Brazil's third-most populous city after São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, with a population of 2.8 million. Among major Latin American cities, it has the highest GDP per capita.
Brasília is the capital city of Brazil, founded in 1960 by President Juscelino Kubitschek to replace Rio de Janeiro as the seat of national government. As Brazil's third-largest city by population and the wealthiest major city in Latin America by GDP per capita, it represents an important economic and political center in the country's Central-West region.
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Of these, Abuja and Washington, D.C. were also cities specifically planned as the seat of government of their respective countries. Brasília Declarations Brasília is associated with several significant declarations in the international political and social field, including: The Brasília Declaration of the IBSA Dialogue Forum (2003), signed by the foreign ministers of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) regarding representation at the United Nations Security Council Brasília Declaration on the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons in the Americas (2010) Brasília Declaration on Child Labour (2013), issued by the Third Global Conference on Child Labour – hosted in Brasília by the Brazilian Government Brasília Declaration of Judges on Water Justice (2018), adopted in 2018 during the Conference of Judges and Prosecutors on Water Justice at the 8th World Water Forum, described as "a landmark in [the] development of water justice jurisprudence" The 15th Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas, meeting in Brasília in 2022, issued a Declaration condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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