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State:	Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
Meso-Region:	Northeastern Rio de Janeiro Nordeste Fluminense
Micro-Region:	Santo Antônio de Pádua (seat)
Founded:	July 26, 1883
Location Location (geography) The terms location and place in geography are used to identify a point or an area on the Earth's surface or elsewhere. The term 'location' generally implies a higher degree of can certainty than "place" which often has an ambiguous boundary relying more on human/social attributes of place identity... :	21.539/21° 32' 20" S lat. 42.178/42° 10' 48" W long.
Postal code:	28470-xxx
Name of inhabitants:	Paduano
Distance from the state capital:	265 km north
Politics
Mayor Mayor In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city.... :

Santo Antônio de Pádua (first part, Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

 meaning "Saint Anthony") is a municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 located in the northeastern part of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro (state)

Rio de Janeiro is one of the 27 states of Brazil.Rio de Janeiro has the second largest economy of Brazil behind only São Paulo state.The state of Rio de Janeiro is located within the Brazilian geopolitical region classified as the Southeast...

. Its population was 42,078 (2005) and its area is 612 km².

Districts

• Santo Antônio de Pádua (seat)
• Baltazar
• Campelo
• Ibitiguaçu
• Marangatu
• Monte Alegre
• Paraoquena
• Santa Cruz

Neighboring municipalities

• Miracema
  Miracema
  Miracema is a city and a municipality located in the Rio de Janeiro state's northwestern region, bordering Minas Gerais state, and with a population of 27,064 inhabitants living in an area of 302.5 km²...
  
  
• São José de Ubá
  São José de Ubá
  São José de Ubá is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Its population was 6,689 and its area is 251 km²....
  
  
• Cambuci
  Cambuci
  Cambuci is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Its population was 14,439 and its area is 562 km². Its population as of 2009 is 18,256 by newest recalation. It is very popular among tourists....
  
  
• Aperibé
  Aperibé
  Aperibé is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Its population was 9,087 and its area is 89 km²....
  
  
• Itaocara
  Itaocara
  Itaocara is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Its population is 23,047 and its area is 428 km²....
  
  
• Pirapetinga
  Pirapetinga
  Pirapetinga is a town and municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in the Southeast region of Brazil.Its estimated population in 2007 was 10,687 inhabitants .-Geography:...
  
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Coat of arms

The coat of arms of Santo Antônio de Pádua features eight stars representing eight of its districts on a navy blue field of the shield with a tree on the right and a fountain in the middle. The municipality's name is centered in the shield and it runs diagonally from bottom left to top right. The shield is bordered with four orange rectangles on each side. The crown is on the top of the coat of arms.