Introducing Rio de Janeiro 2

How and why has Rio de Janeiro grown?

Rio de Janeiro is the second largest city in Brazil (the larges is Sao Paulo. In 2014 Rio had a population of 6.5 million people in the city itself and 12.5 million in the surrounding area (the population of Greater London is about 8 million)

Rio has grown rapidly in the last 50 years to become a major industiral, administrative…