Salvador

Salvador (in full, S?o Salvador da Ba?a de Todos os Santos, meaning "Holy Savior of the Bay of All Saints") is a city on the northeast coast of Brazil and the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia. The city was for a long time also known as Bahia, and appears under that name (or as Salvador da Bahia) on many maps and books from before the mid 20th century, including in Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719).

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Salvador is located on a peninsula on the Atlantic Ocean coast, next to the Ba?a de Todos os Santos. It is a major export port and the heart of the Rec?ncavo Baiano metropolitan region, the region surrounding Todos os Santos bay. Its population was 2.54 million people in 2002, making it today the third largest city in Brazil, a position long held by Belo Horizonte (now demoted to fourth largest).

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