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;
