Roraima

Roraima is the northernmost state of Brazil, a remote region of savanna and rainforest bordering Venezuela and Guyana. Its capital is Boa Vista, a planned city laid out in a radial design. Home to dramatic tabletop mountains and Indigenous lands, it is Brazil's least populous state.

Roraima combines Amazon rainforest with open savanna and striking tabletop mountains, including Mount Roraima at the triple border, the inspiration for fictional lost worlds. The Branco River flows through it. The climate is tropical.

The state has a significant Indigenous population, including the Yanomami and Macuxi peoples, whose lands cover much of its territory. Its culture blends Indigenous, frontier and migrant influences, with Boa Vista as its modern hub.

Long inhabited by Indigenous peoples, the area was a remote frontier that became a federal territory and then a state in 1988. It has faced challenges over Indigenous land rights, mining and, more recently, migration from Venezuela.