Sao Paulo is a major Brazilian city and economic hub. As a proper noun, it refers to the metropolitan area and state’s capital, commonly Anglicized as “Sow- POW-loh” or more accurately in Portuguese as “sow POO-ah-loo,” with stress on the second syllable. In usage, it denotes a geographic place name, often paired with qualifiers like “state of” or “city of.”
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