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Vitória, officially Portuguese Município de Vitória, is the capital of the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo (ES). It is located 530 kilometres northeast of Rio de Janeiro on the nearly 97-square-kilometre island of Ilha de Vitória on the Baía de Vitória bay, where several rivers flow into the Atlantic Ocean. The city was founded by Portuguese on 8 September 1551 and had 327,801 inhabitants at the 2010 census and an estimated 365,855 inhabitants as of 1 July 2020, called Capixabas. The metropolitan area of Vitória, with the immediate neighbouring municipalities of Cariacica, Serra and Vila Velha, has a population of over two million (2020).
The city lies an average of 12 meters above sea level. The climate is tropically humid, with average monthly temperatures of 24 °C in winter and 30.4 °C in summer.
Vitória is the seat of a Catholic archbishop, a federal university (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, or UFES) and an honorary German and Austrian consulate.
In 1998, the United Nations rated Vitória as the city with the fourth best quality of life in Brazil, despite the fact that its immediate surroundings have a high crime rate that cannot be contained. Greater Vitória's murder rate, for example, is higher than São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro (murders per 100,000 inhabitants). In the first half of 2003, 59 public buses were robbed in Greater Vitória alone.
The Atlantic archipelago of Trindade and Martim Vaz, located far off the coast, is part of the city of Vitória.
Vitória is connected to the BR-101, one of the most important federal highways in Brazil, which follows a large part of the country's Atlantic coast from north to south.