Niterói
Niterói is the former capital of Rio de Janeiro state, in southeastern Brazil. Nicknamed "The Smile City", "NKT" and "Nikiti", it is just a short ferry ride from downtown Rio across Guanabara Bay.Photo: DiMonteiro, Public domain.
Photo: Phx de, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: City with 482,000 residents
- Description: municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Neighbors: Maricá and São Gonçalo
Notable Places in the Area
Niterói Contemporary Art Museum
Photo: Phx de, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Niterói Contemporary Art Museum is situated in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is one of the city’s main landmarks.
Metropolitan Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Niterói
Photo: Mircezar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Metropolitan Cathedral of St. John the Baptist Also Niterói Cathedral It is a Catholic cathedral built in late colonial style in the city of Niterói, in the state of Rio de Janeiro in the south of Brazil.
Localities in the Area
Ilha da Conceição
Ilha da Conceição is an island and one of the 48 administrative districts in which the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil is divided.Gragoatá
Photo: Mircezar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gragoatá is one of the 48 administrative districts in the city Niterói, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
Cubango
Photo: Marlon.ney, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cubango is a neighborhood located in the northwest of the city Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Niterói
- Categories: municipality of Brazil, big city and locality
- Location: Rio de Janeiro, Southeast, Brazil, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-22.8884° or 22° 53' 18" southLongitude
-43.1147° or 43° 6' 53" westPopulation
482,000Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)United Nations Location Code
BR NTROpen Location Code
589R4V6P+J4OpenStreetMap ID
node 173453728OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3456283Wikidata ID
Q178725Niterói Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Niterói
- Albanian: Niteroi
- Arabic: Niterói
- Arabic: نيتيروي
- Armenian: Նիտերոյ
- Asturian: Niterói
- Basque: Niterói
- Belarusian: Нітэрой
- Bengali: নিতেরিও
- Bishnupriya: নিটেরোই
- Breton: Niterói
- Bulgarian: Нитерой
- Catalan: Niterói
- Cebuano: Niterói
- Chinese: Niterói
- Chinese: 尼泰罗伊
- Chinese: 尼泰羅伊
- Chuvash: Нитерой
- Croatian: Niteroi
- Croatian: Niterói
- Czech: Niterói
- Danish: Niteroi
- Danish: Niterói
- Dutch: Niteroi
- Dutch: Niterói
- Egyptian Arabic: نيتيروى
- English: Niteroi
- Esperanto: Niteroi
- Esperanto: Niterojo
- Esperanto: Niterói
- Estonian: Nictheroy
- Estonian: Niteroi
- Estonian: Niterói
- Estonian: Vila Real da Praia Grande
- Estonian: Vila de São Lourenço dos Índios
- Finnish: Niteroi
- Finnish: Niterói
- French: Niteroi
- French: Niteròi
- French: Niterói
- Galician: Niterói
- Georgian: ნიტეროი
- German: Município de Niterói
- German: Nictheroy
- German: Niteroi
- German: Niterói
- German: Vila Real da Praia Grande
- Greek: Νιτερόι
- Guarani: Yetero'y
- Gujarati: નિટેરોઈ
- Hebrew: ניטרוי
- Hindi: नीतेरोई
- Hungarian: Niterói
- Ido: Niterói
- Indonesian: Niterói
- Irish: Niterói
- Italian: Niteroi
- Italian: Niterói
- Japanese: ニテロイ
- Kannada: ನಿಟೈರೋ
- Kazakh: Nïteroý
- Kazakh: Нитерой
- Kazakh: نىيتەروي
- Korean: 니테로이
- Latvian: Niteroja
- Lithuanian: Niterojus
- Macedonian: Нитерој
- Malagasy: Niterói
- Malay: Niteroi
- Marathi: निटेरोई
- Min Nan Chinese: Niterói
- Norwegian: Niterói
- Norwegian Bokmål: Niteroi
- Norwegian Bokmål: Niterói
- Occitan (post 1500): Niterói
- Ossetian: Нитерой
- Persian: نیتروی
- Polish: Niteroi
- Polish: Niterói
- Portuguese: Marrecas
- Portuguese: Nictheroy
- Portuguese: Niteroi
- Portuguese: Niterói
- Portuguese: Vila Real da Praia Grande
- Portuguese: Werneck
- Romanian: Niteroi
- Romanian: Niterói
- Romansh: Niterói
- Russian: Нитерой
- Scots: Niterói
- Serbian: Niteroi
- Serbian: Niteroj
- Serbian: Niterói
- Serbian: Нитерој
- Serbo-Croatian: Niterói
- Silesian: Niterói
- Sinhala: නයිටරෝයි
- Slovak: Niterói
- Slovenian: Niterói
- Spanish: Nictheroy
- Spanish: Niteroi
- Spanish: Niterói
- Spanish: São Lourenço dos Índios
- Swedish: Niterói
- Tagalog: Niteroi
- Tagalog: Niterói
- Tamil: நிடேரோய்
- Tatar: Нитерой
- Telugu: నీతే రోయి
- Thai: นิเทอรอย
- Turkish: Niteroi
- Turkish: Niterói
- Ukrainian: Нітерой
- Urdu: نیتیروی
- Venetian: Niterói
- Vietnamese: Niterói
- Volapük: Niterói
- Waray (Philippines): Niterói
- Welsh: Niterói
- Wu Chinese: 尼泰罗伊
- Nictheroi
- Villa Real da Praia Grande
Other Places Named Niterói
In the Area
- São LourençoSuburb
- CentroSuburb
- NITLOGLocality
- Morro da ChácaraNeighbourhood
- Morro da ChácaraNeighbourhood
- FátimaSuburb
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