The national capital of Brazil is Brasilia
The capital of Brazil's federal district and the country's largest city is Brasilia. In the Central-West of Brazil, the city is situated high in the mountains. To serve as the new national capital, President Juscelino Kubitschek founded it on April 21, 1960. Brazil's third-most populous city, according to estimates, is Brasilia. It has the greatest GDP per person among major Latin American cities.
Roberto Burle Marx was the architect for the landscape. The layout of the city separates it into numbered blocks and sectors for different types of businesses, like the hotel sector, banking sector, and embassy sector.
Because of its distinctively aesthetic urban planning and modernist architecture, Brasilia was included as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. In October 2017, UNESCO designated it as a "City of Design," and since then, it has been a member of the Creative Cities Network.
Geographical location of the capital of Brazil (Brasilia)
The city is located in the center-western part of Brazil, high on the Brazilian Highlands, at an elevation of 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) or more. To improve the amount of water available and preserve the humidity in the area, Paranoá Lake, a sizable artificial lake, was constructed.
It hosts wakeboarders and windsurfers and has a marina. Vila Amaury, a historic settlement submerged in the lake, is one of the primary attractions and offers diving opportunities. The original Brasilia construction workers used to reside here.
The city serves as the focal point for the three federal government branches of Brazil:
legislative, executive, and judicial. There are 124 foreign embassies in Brasilia. The third busiest airport in Brazil, the city's international airport connects it to all other significant Brazilian cities as well as several foreign locations.
In addition to hosting some of the football games during the 2016 Summer Olympics, it was one of the major host cities for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup.
The city enjoys a special position in Brazil
The city has a special position in Brazil since, unlike other Brazilian cities, it is an administrative division rather than a legal municipality. The Federal District, commonly known as Plano Piloto, is simply one of 33 administrative regions that make up the Federal District, despite the fact that Brazil is sometimes used as a synonym for the latter. IBGE regards the remaining portions of the Federal District as constituting Brasilia's metropolitan region.