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Nordeste (socio-geographic division)
Socio-geographic division of Brazil / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the political and statistical region known as the Nordeste, see Northeast Region, Brazil.
The socio-geographic division of Nordeste (Portuguese pronunciation: [nɔʁˈdɛstʃi], Northeast) is the oldest populated by Europeans (also with the oldest fossils that suggests human presence in Brazil) and currently the second most populous area of Brazil (42,822,100 in 1990).
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