proper noun/sa.o po.lo/
São Paulo (a state of the Southeast Region, Brazil); São Paulo (a municipality, the state capital of São Paulo, Brazil)
“Et pourtant São Paulo ne m'a jamais paru laide : c'était une ville sauvage comme le sont toutes les villes américaines, à l'exception peut-être de Washington, D.C., [...]” — — And yet I never thought that São Paulo was ugly: it was a‘wild’ town, as are all American towns, with the possible exception of Washington, D.C., …
Borrowed from Portuguese, named after Saint Paul.