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Rio de Janeiro True or False?
Can you guess whether these statements about Rio de Janeiro are true or false?
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Last updated: October 18, 2021
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| First submitted | October 18, 2021 |
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1.
Rio is the capital of Brazil
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False
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Brasilia is
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Rio is the largest city in Brazil
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Sao Paulo is
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Rio is the oldest city in Brazil
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False
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Salvador is
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Rio annually hosts the world's largest Carnival
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False
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More than one in five people in Rio live in favelas, or slums
True
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False
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6.
Rio is further north than Cape Town
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False
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Rio is the only city in the southern hemisphere to have hosted the Summer Olympics
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Sydney and Melbourne also have
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Rio sits at the mouth of the January River, from which it derives its name
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Portuguese explorers mistook Guanabara Bay for the mouth of a river; the January River does not exist
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A majority of residents of Rio are black
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According to the 2010 census, 51.2% of people in Rio are white
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By ridership, Rio has the largest public bus network in the world
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11.
Rio's temperature in winter sometimes dips below freezing overnight
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Rio's lowest recorded temperature is 10.1 degrees Celcius (50.2 Farenheit)
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Jorge Luis Borges, Lionel Messi and Pope Francis were all born in Rio
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They are all Argentines
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Rio was once the capital of the Portuguese Empire
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The royal court evacuated Lisbon for Rio in 1808 due to the Napoleonic threat and remained there until 1821
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro began his political career in Rio
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He was elected to the city council in 1988
15.
Christ the Redeemer is the tallest statue of Jesus Christ in the world
True
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There are taller statues of Jesus in Poland, Vietnam, Indonesia and Mexico
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