São Paulo is a municipality in the southeast region of Brazil. The metropolis is an alpha global city (as listed by the GaWC) and is the most populous city in Brazil and the Americas, as well as in the Southern Hemisphere.

Minas Gerais is a state in the north of Southeastern Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by gross domestic product (GDP), and the fourth largest by area in the country.

Paraná is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the south of the country, bordered on the north by São Paulo state, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Santa Catarina state and the province of Misiones, Argentina, and on the west by Mato Grosso do Sul and the departments of Alto Paraná and Canindeyú in Paraguay, with the Paraná River as its western boundary line.