Paulistania (region)

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Paulistania

Corresponding territories of Paulistania
Language	Portuguese and Paulist (completely extinct in the 20th century, influencing the caipira and southern dialects of the Portuguese language)
Location	South America -Southeast of Brazil -South of Brazil -Central-West of Brazil
Parts	Goiás Mato Grosso Minas Gerais Mato Grosso do Sul Paraná São Paulo
Largest cities	São Paulo (SP) Curitiba (PR) Goiânia (GO) Campo Grande (MS) Uberlândia (MG) Cuiabá (MT)

Paulistania (Portuguese: Paulistânia; lit, "land of the Paulistas") was a proposal by Joaquim Ribeiro, in his work Folklore dos Bandeirantes, from 1946, to describe what he would call "the living space of the old paulists".^[1] It was made up of the states of São Paulo, parts of Paraná, parts of the Triângulo Mineiro, the south of Minas Gerais and Goiás, the states of Mato Grosso do Sul and parts of Mato Grosso, a field of influence and exploration by the bandeirantes.