João Pessoa, a port city in northeastern Brazil, is the state of Paraíba's capital and largest city, with an estimated population of 833,932. It is located on the right bank of the Paraíba do Norte river.
Image: João Pessoa Paraíba Brasil(2)
Image: Complexo da Igreja São Francisco
Image: Cacio Murilo Praia De Tambau João Pessoa PB
Image: Centro Histórico de João Pessoa PB
Paraíba is a state of Brazil. It is located in the Brazilian Northeast, and it is bordered by Rio Grande do Norte to the north, Ceará to the west, Pernambuco to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Paraíba is the third most densely populated state of the Northeast; João Pessoa, the sea-bordered state capital, and Campina Grande, in the interior, rank among the fifteen-largest municipalities in the Northeast of Brazil. The state is home to 1.9% of the Brazilian population and produces 0.9% of the Brazilian GDP.
Coat of arms of the Captaincy of Paraíba
Frederiksstad, modern-day João Pessoa, in 1638, by Frans Post
João Pessoa Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, governor of Paraíba from 1928 to 1930, the year of his assassination
João Pessoa's mausoleum