São Paulo is a cosmopolitan, melting pot city, home to the largest Arab, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese diasporas, with examples including ethnic neighborhoods of Bixiga, Bom Retiro, and Liberdade.

São Paulo's LGBTQ Pride parade rivals the New York City Pride march as the largest LGBTQ pride parade in the world. The city holds events like the São Paulo Jazz Festival, São Paulo Art Biennial, the Brazilian Grand Prix, São Paulo Fashion Week, the ATP Brasil Open, the Brasil Game Show and the Comic Con Experience. It is home to monuments, parks and museums such as the Latin American Memorial, the Ibirapuera Park, Museum of Ipiranga, São Paulo Museum of Art, and the Museum of the Portuguese Language. The city has cultural, economic and political influence nationally and internationally. The metropolis is also home to several of the tallest skyscrapers in Brazil, including the Mirante do Vale, Edifício Itália, Banespa, North Tower and many others. The city has the 11th largest GDP in the world, representing alone 10.7% of all Brazilian GDP and 36% of the production of goods and services in the state of São Paulo, being home to 63% of established multinationals in Brazil, and has been responsible for 28% of the national scientific production in 2005, as measured by the number of science papers published in journals. Paulista Avenue is the economic core of São Paulo. Having the largest economy by GDP in Latin America and the Southern Hemisphere, the city is home to the São Paulo Stock Exchange. The process of conurbation between the metropolitan areas around the Greater São Paulo ( Campinas, Santos, Jundiaí, Sorocaba and São José dos Campos) created the São Paulo Macrometropolis, a megalopolis with more than 30 million inhabitants, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. The city's metropolitan area, the Greater São Paulo, ranks as the most populous in Brazil and the 12th most populous on Earth.

The city's name honors the Apostle, Saint Paul of Tarsus. It exerts strong international influences in commerce, finance, arts and entertainment. The city serves the capital of the surrounding state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest state in Brazil. Additionally, São Paulo is the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world. Listed by the GaWC as an alpha global city, the municipality of São Paulo is the most populous city proper in Brazil, the Americas, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere, as well as the world's 4th largest city proper by population. São Paulo ( / ˌ s aʊ ˈ p aʊ l oʊ/, Portuguese: ( listen) Portuguese for ' Saint Paul') is a city in the Southeast Region of Brazil. São Paulo–Guarulhos International AirportĬompanhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos

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