What are people from Rio de Janeiro called?

Question

Seriously...
I'm not asking a joke.

Answer 1

Quem nasce no estado do Rio de Janeiro é chamado de "carioca".

Funny... who don't live here (in Brazil) always do these kind of joke. Names like these are normal from here. There are another states capitals very curious: "Porto Alegre"RS, "Belo Horizonte"MG, "Salvador"BA e cities "13 de maio" etc...

Answer 2

With its bright sandy beaches, leaping mountains and picturesque harbour, it's no surprise that Rio de Janeiro is recognized as the "cidade maravilhosa", or marvellous town and with hotelbye you can get the possibility and visit this unique city. Rio de Janeiro is facing the South Atlantic coast and could be the second-largest city in Brazil. This town is gifted with one of the very most wonderful natural controls for a city in the world. The impressive landscape is one of the reasons that visitors decided Rio de Janeiro. All through carnival season, a festival that everybody else seen, the streets fill with music and ornately costumed performers getting tourists from throughout the globe.

Answer 3

If from Rio de janeiro city, they are called "carioca". It's the guarani word for "white house", because the houses built by the Portuguese settlers were white.

If from the State of Rio de Janeiro, a person is called "fluminense". "Rio de Janeiro" means "January River", because when the Guanabara Bay, where Rio stands, was discovered, the navigators thought it was a river head, and it occurred in the month of January. Anyway, in Latin, river is "Flumis", so "Fluminense" are the people from the river, or from Rio.

Answer 4

The people from the city of Rio de Janeiro are called cariocas. The people from the state of Rio de Janeiro are called fluminense.

Answer 5

Carioca is a person born in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The word comes from the indigenous dialect of Tupi-Guarani, and means white men's home ( home=oca, white man=cari ).

It is said that the first Europeans' (white men) dwellings in that area were placed along a limpid brook, which soon got the name Carioca (River) as well. Later, its waters would be (wrongfully) praised as bearing healing properties, in such an exaggerated way that it caused locals to be ironically nicknamed cariocas by people in other regions.

Answer 6

Brazilian

Answer 7

Carioca(s)

but since no one but brazilians know the term, I'd use "people from Rio" in regular conversations.

Answer 8

Brazilians

Answer 9

Cariocas

Answer 10

Brazilians