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San Paolo ( is a city in the Southeast Region of Brazil. Listed by the GaWC as an alpha global city, the municipality of San Paolo is the most populous city proper in Brazil, the Americas, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere, as well as the world's 4th largest city proper by population. Additionally, San Paolo is the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world. The city is the capital of the surrounding state of San Paolo, the most populous and wealthiest state in Brazil. It exerts strong international influences in commerce, finance, arts and entertainment. The city's name honors the Apostle, Saint Paul of Tarsus. The city's metropolitan area, the Greater San Paolo, ranks as the most populous in Brazil and the 12th most populous on Earth. The process of conurbation between the metropolitan areas around the Greater San Paolo (Campinas, Santos, Jundiaí, Sorocaba and San José dos Campos) created the San Paolo Macrometropolis, a megalopolis with more than 30 million inhabitants, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world
