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 AREA AND POPULATION

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Area and Population.

Following are the census returns of 1900 and the preliminary returns of the census held in September, 1920 (capitals* of States in brackets) : —

Population

Art*:

States

«q. mile*

1900

1930

Per *q. mile

22,577

am)

(Centos)

1930

Alagdas (M . •.

649,273

990,278

43 8

Amazonas (Manao3).

731,363

249,756

499,448

6

Bahia (San Salvador)

164,601

2,117,956

3,372,901

20 4

Ceara ( Fortaleza)

40,241

849,127

1.436,309

35 6

Espirito Santo (Victoria)

17,308

209,783

479,188

21-9

Goyaz (Goyaz).

288,462

25'

528,879

1-8

Maranhao (St Luiz).

ir:

499,308

853,050

4

Matto Grosso (Cuyaba)

532,210

118,025

274,138

5

Minas Geraes (Bello Hod

zonte).

221,894

3,594,471

5,78,-

26 5

Para (Belera)

443,789

445,356

-.290

Parahyba (Parahyba)

28,844

490,784

272

Parana (Curytiba).

93,269

327,136

674,113

Pernambuco (Recife)

49,880

1,178,150

1.975,441

39 8

Piauhy (Therezina).

116,494

334,328

548,250

47

Rio de Janeiro (Nictheroy

26,627

926,035

1,501,969

56-4

Rio Grande do Nort<

!

(Naul).

22,189

274,317

552,071

25 3

Rio Grande do Sul (PoiK

»

Alegre).

91,310

1,149,070

2,138,831

23 4

Santa Catharina (Florian

opolis).

20,785

320,289

633,462

30-4

Sao Paulo (S. Paulo)

112

2,282,279

4,823,100

42

Sergipe (Aracaju)

15,089

356,264

535,094

354

Federal District

431

691.565

1,157,873

2,686 5

Acre Territory.

58,672

—

104,430

Total

3.275,510

17,318,556

30,645,296

9 3

In 1900 the population consisted of 8,831.002 males and 8,487,554 females. Some 600,000 Indians are to be found in the Amazon area.

The Acre Territory has an area of 58.672 sq. miles. For this territory Brazil paid to Bolivia 2,000. 000/. in 1902. In 1909 the Territory petitioned to be received into the Brazilian Union as a State.

In 1913 the population of Rio de Janeiro was estimated at 975,818 ; (1,157,873 census 1920); Sao Paulo, 450,000 (504,300 in 1919); Bahia, 348,130; Pernambuco, 216,484; Belem, 275.167; Porto Alegre, 150,343; Manaos, 80,931; Nictherov, 56,726; Fortaleza, 70,000; Maceio, 68,000; Sao Luiz, 57,709 ; Parahyba, 32,000.

The site for the Federal Capital has been selected in the State of Goyaz, on a table-land between Pyrenopolis, Santa Luzia, and Formosa.

The number of immigrants between 1820 and 1919 was 3,576,275. The number of immigrants intn Brazil from 1908 to 1919 was 1,015. v which 386,696 were Portuguese; 212,732 Spaniards; 165,709 Italians;