<Tr> <Th> State Party </Th> <Td> Brazil </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Latin America and Europe </Td> </Tr> <P> Rio de Janeiro (/ ˈriːoʊ di ʒəˈnɛəroʊ, - deɪ ʒə -, - də dʒ ə - /; Portuguese pronunciation: (ˈʁi. ud (ʒi) ʒɐˈnejɾu); River of January), or simply Rio, is the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas . The metropolis is anchor to the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area, the second-most populous metropolitan area in Brazil and sixth-most populous in the Americas . Rio de Janeiro the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's third-most populous state . Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named "Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea", by UNESCO on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape . </P> <P> Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire . Later, in 1763, it became the capital of the State of Brazil, a state of the Portuguese Empire . In 1808, when the Portuguese Royal Court transferred itself from Portugal to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the chosen seat of the court of Queen Maria I of Portugal, who subsequently, in 1815, under the leadership of her son, the Prince Regent, and future King João VI of Portugal, raised Brazil to the dignity of a kingdom, within the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and Algarves . Rio stayed the capital of the pluricontinental Lusitanian monarchy until 1822, when the War of Brazilian Independence began . This is one of the few instances in history that the capital of a colonising country officially shifted to a city in one of its colonies . Rio de Janeiro subsequently served as the capital of the independent monarchy, the Empire of Brazil, until 1889, and then the capital of a republican Brazil until 1960 when the capital was transferred to Brasília . </P>

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