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This map is anachronical. By 1889, the region in Amazonas bordering Colombia known as the Cabeça do Cachorro (dog head) was not part of Brazil. The treaty which passed it onto Brazilian sovereignty was only signed in 1907. Also, the regional division of Brazil was not invented up to 1913 (see this Geography article), and it originally did not have a "Southeast" region, but an Eastern region encompassing Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Bahia and Sergipe. At the same time, São Paulo was part of the South. The current regional division dates from 1970 -- nearly one century after what this map tries to portrait. --Pedro Aguiar (talk) 00:05, 3 April 2012 (UTC)