How Did Each BRAZILIAN State Get Its Name?

▶ In this video I talk about the etymology of Brazilian State Names. Brazil is a federal republic, and its territory is organized into 26 states and one federal district: Brazilia. Throughout the video I go through each of these states: Acre, Alagoas, Amazonas, Amapá, Bahia, Ceará, Distrito Federal, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Maranhão, Minas Gerais ,Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Pará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rondônia, Roraima, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Sergipe, São Paulo, and Tocantins. Learning how most of the states (16 out of the 26) are named after a river or large body of water; usually coming from a term of the native Tupi Language, although other native idioms are also sometimes at the origin. Some are interpretations and translations/adaptations of these terms into Portuguese, while others are entirely of Portuguese origin, namely those that reference Christian Saints. By summarizing this topic I believe we are able to get a good understanding of the origin and meaning of each of Brazil's states.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
01:10 Acre
02:10 Alagoas
02:46 Amapá
03:21 Amazonas
04:01 Bahia
04:33 Ceará
04:52 Espírito Santo
05:14 Goiás
05:46 Maranhão
06:04 Mato Grosso
06:22 Mato Grosso do Sul
06:30 Minas Gerais
07:02 Pará
07:17 Paraíba
07:41 Paraná
08:06 Pernambuco
08:55 Piauí
09:25 Rio de Janeiro
09:54 Rio Grande do Norte
10:17 Rio Grande do Sul
10:36 Rondônia
10:59 Roraima
11:32 Santa Catarina
11:51 São Paulo
12:01 Sergipe
12:27 Tocantins
12:45 Summary
13:07 Patreon Credits

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[General.Knowledge]

*Which country should be next for this series?*

[JesseKuiper]

In France, many departments are named after rivers.

[LeonardoMenezes]

We have different words to describe river in Portuguese too. "Rio, Riacho, Ribeiro, Regato, Arroio, Córrego, ..."

[grandmasteryoda]

Obrigado por falar sobre nosso país, tuga.

[clark]

The Pernambuco's flag is pretty nice.

[montteiroc]

Muito obrigado pelo maravilhoso vídeo sobre meu país. Um complemento, os tupis são uma família linguística, logo temos línguas tupis, por isso tantos nomes diferentes para "rio". Não sabia q vc era português até ouvir esse vídeo, amo seu canal

[daichi]

Muito bom e informativo, mano. Parabéns pelo trabalho

[LuizOSonicfan]

Portugal and Tupis really liked rives back in

[costaronai]

About Rio, it's not unanimous. There is another theory that makes more sense. It was called originally a Ria, a coastal inlet (for which Baía de Guanabara actually is). Later the name changed to Rio, for the fact it's a more common and known concept.

[raaaalf]

hey, cool video :) another fun fact about brazil and rivers is that around 60% of brazils energy output comes from hydropower

[miojosopa]

Oh no he summoned every Brazilian in the internet
But still, we Brazilians always will recieve this kind of content warm hearted, very nice all the curiosities

[leonardoleo]

Ele nem tenta esconder o sotaque português. Bom vídeo!

He doesn't even try to hide his portuguese accent. Good video!

[iampsico]

Great video, your pronounciations are good btw! Cheers :D

[Mhark]

Portugal should become the next Brazilian state.😂

[arturmonteiro]

12:43 - It's to do with the shape of the river at the confluence between the Araguaia Rivers & Tocantins rivers (at the tripoint border between Tocantins, Maranhão and Pará) which looks like a toucan.

[guilhermepoggiodeoliveirar]

Que video sensacional! Parabéns pelo conteúdo. Ganhou mais um inscrito!

[Expedicionario_]

Video feito pros gringos, quando abre os comentários so palavras em inglês quando você ler o nome da pessoal você descobre da onde ela é

[pasquaA]

as a Brazilian... This is my favourite youtube video so far.

[FABRICIO_]

I'am Brazilian, from Sergipe state 👋🏼🇧🇷

[tiagoprado]

Personally when talking with English speakers I prefer to translate Mato Grosso as Thick Bush because it sounds 1000× funnier.