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Natal is a Brazilian municipality, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, in the northeast region of the country. With an area of ​​approximately 167 km², it is the second Brazilian capital with the smallest territorial area, away from 2 227 kilometers from Brasilia, the federal capital. Founded at Christmas 1599, on the banks of the Potengi River, which separates the northern zone of the others, the city was occupied by Dutch between 1633 and 1654, when it was called Nova Amsterdam. Its growth was slow in the first three centuries of existence. Only from the twentieth century, Natal underwent an intense process of modernization and, from World War II, its population grew at a faster pace, especially in the 1970s and 1980s. Its location near the “South American corner” caught the attention of the United States War Department, which considered Natal as “one of the four most strategic points in the world.” With the beginning of operations of the first rocket base in South America, at the Launch Center of the Barrier of Inferno, in Parnamirim, Natal became the “Space Capital of Brazil”. The construction of the coastal road, a highway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Dune Park that connects the beaches of sand and Ponta Negra, caused a major increase in local tourism. With just over 750 thousand inhabitants (2022), Natal is the most populous municipality of its state, the eighth of the Northeast and the 24th of Brazil. Its metropolitan region, formed by thirteen municipalities of Rio Grande do Norte, has more than 1.5 million inhabitants, forming the fourth largest urban agglomeration of the Northeast and the tenth ninth of Brazil. (Tagstotranslate) Natal Rio Grande do Norte

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