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Salvador is a major port
city and capital of Bahia state in Brazil. It is situated at the southern
tip of a peninsula that separates Baia de Todos os Santos from the
Atlantic Ocean in north east Brazil and has a population approaching
2 million. Its main industries include food and tobacco processing,
textile, ceramics, and automobile manufacturing, chemical production,
metallurgy, wood and leather working, and shipbuilding and repair. Imports
consist chiefly of manufactured goods, while exports include cocoa,
tobacco, sugar, sisal, hides, castor beans, diamonds, aluminium, iron ore,
hardwoods, and petroleum from the nearby Candeias oil field. |
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