| Provinces of Brazil | |
| Category: | Province |
| Territory: | Empire of Brazil |
| Current Number: | 20 provinces and 1 neutral municipality |
| Number Date: | 1889 |
| Population Range: | 57,610 (Amazonas) – 2,039,735 (Minas Gerais) (as of 1872) |
The provinces of Brazil were the primary subdivisions of the country during the period of the Empire of Brazil (1822 – 1889).[1]
On February 28, 1821, the provinces were established in the Kingdom of Brazil (then part of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves), superseding the captaincies that were in place at the time.
| Name | Entity since | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1817 | Capitania de Alagoas split from the Capitania de Pernambuco | ||
| 1501 | |||
| 1822 | |||
| 1821 | Banda Oriental (present-day Uruguay) annexed by the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves and incorporated into the Kingdom of Brazil under the name of Província Cisplatina.) | ||
| 1534 | |||
| 1744 | Capitania Geral de Goiás split from Capitania Geral de São Paulo | ||
| 1775 | |||
| 1535 | |||
| 1748 | |||
| 1720 | |||
| 1574 | |||
| 1718 | Split from the Estado do Maranhão as the Capitania do Piauí | ||
| 1534 | |||
| 1565 | |||
| 1530 | created as the Capitania do Rio Grande | ||
| 1738 | Capitania de Santa Catarina split from the Capitania de São Paulo | ||
| 1720 | Capitania de São Paulo split from the Capitania de São Paulo e Minas de Ouro | ||
| 1760 | |||
| 1590 |
The captaincies of Brazil are renamed provinces.
The present-day Uruguay is occupied by the Portuguese Army and incorporated in Brazil as its Cisplatine Province.
Independence of Brazil, with the provinces becoming provinces of the Empire of Brazil.
The last Brazilian provinces that remained loyal to the Portuguese Government in Lisbon adhere to the Empire of Brazil.
Cisplatina Province became the independent state of Uruguay.
The city of Rio de Janeiro, the imperial capital, was removed from the province of Rio de Janeiro, and was included in the Neutral Municipality. At the same time, the capital of the province of Rio de Janeiro was transferred to Niterói.
Grão-Pará split into Amazonas and Pará.
In 1889 the Empire of Brazil became the Republic of the United States of Brazil and the provinces became states. The Neutral Municipality that included the city of Rio de Janeiro l became the Federal District.