Sorriso
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Sorriso is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso in the Central-West Region of Brazil. The name of the city means literally "smile", but it actually came from the Italian immigrants who only cultivated rice in the region: "only rice" = "só riso". The words ended up merging themselves to form the name of the city.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Sorriso is referenced by 175 other articles, and connects out to Brazil, time zone and mayor.
The entry is geolocated on the map in BR, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under the topic Municipalities in Mato Grosso.
Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Sorriso, Mato Grosso
- Settlement.nickname
- Capital Nacional do Agronegócio (The National Capital of Agribusiness)
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_flag
- Bandeira_de_Sorriso_(Mato_Grosso).jpg
- Settlement.flag_size
- 100px
- Settlement.image_map
- MatoGrosso Municip Sorriso.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Sorriso in Mato Grosso
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Brazil
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Brazil
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Center-West
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Mato Grosso
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Mesoregion
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Norte Mato-Grossense
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Brazil
- Demonym
- sorrisiense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Mato Grosso
- Population
- 16107
- Area
- 9345.755
- Elevation
- 365
- Shares border with
- Nova Ubiratã
- Official website
- www.sorriso.mt.gov.br
- Image
- Imagem de Sorriso - MT.jpg
- Dialing code
- 66
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- Commons category
- Sorriso
- postal code
- 78890-000
- Human Development Index
- 0.744
- inception
- 1986-05-13
- electorate
- 57936
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Arrest of drug lord Luiz Carlos da Rocha aka. "White Head"
- See also
- References
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sorriso” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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