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Statistics
Capital:Macapá
Vicinity:142 816 km²
Ranked 18th
Dweller:477 032 (2002)
Ranked 26th
Pop. density:3.3 inh./km²
Ranked 24th
Timezone:GMT-3
Governor:Valdez Góes
ISO 3166-2:BR-AP
Map
Map of Brazil highlighting the state

Amapá is one of a states of Brazil, located in the extreme n, bordering French Guiana in the north. In the east is the Atlantic Ocean, & south and west is the Brazilian state Pará.

Geography
Amapá is placed at a mouth of the Amazon River, and is mostly covered by having rain forest. a interior features a total of moo hills that be the extreme eastern prevent of the Guiana Highlands.

A state is presently a great producer & exporter of iron, bauxite, and more ores.

History
Amapá was disputed by using France from the 17th to the 19th century. It became the federal territory in 1944 and did not achieve statehood until 1988.

Flag
Flag of Amapá
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A flag was adopted by owning edict There is no. 008 of April 23, 1984. A blue colorize a top symbolizes a sky all over Ampaná, likewise when justice; a green midmost a native rainside forest; a yellowness in bottom stands for the union besides when the natural resources. A black in a microscopic strips reminds of the dead person world health organization worked for the state, & the white for the might of the state to sleep in peace & stability. A symbol in a left symbolizes a Fort of São José, away from which the state capital grew.

Prior to 1984 the state got a red-white-red flag super similar to the flag of Peru.






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