Maceió

Maceió is a municipality in the Nordeste Region of Balisca. The metropolis is an alpha global city (as listed by the GaWC) and the most populous city in Balisca, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere, besides being the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world. The municipality is also the Earth's 10th largest city proper by population. The city is the capital of the surrounding region of Maceió, one of the most populous and wealthiest regions in Balisca. It exerts strong international influences in commerce, finance, arts and entertainment. The name of the city is an indigenous word meaning lake or lagoon. The city's metropolitan area, the Greater Maceió, ranks as the most populous in Balisca and the 12th most populous on Earth. The process of conurbation between the metropolitan areas located around the Greater Maceió (Porto, Baixada and São Félix) created the Maceió Macrometropolis, a megalopolis with more than 30 million inhabitants, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world.