Map of metropolitan areas and urban agglomerations in Brazil as of 2012. Municipalities in red refer to metropolitan capitals and the ones in yellow refer to expansion or conurbation area.

This is a list of the metropolitan areas in Brazil, containing the legally defined metropolitan areas with more than one million inhabitants in Brazil, according to estimates published by IBGE.

Definitions

In Brazil, the terms metropolitan area (Portuguese: região metropolitana) and urban agglomeration (aglomeração urbana) have specific meanings. They are defined by federal and state legislation as collections of municipalities focused on "integrating the organization, planning and execution of public functions of common interest".[1] An integrated development area (região integrada de desenvolvimento) is one of the two above structures that crosses state (or Federal District) boundaries.

Because these regions are formed by consent of municipalities, their composition can change over time due to municipal reorganization. These regions may not coincide exactly with boundaries of statistical Immediate Geographic Areas[2] (formerly microregions) defined by IBGE, or with the broader definition of built-up urban area.[3]

List

Metropolitan area[4] Region State Population estimate (2019)[5] Population (2017)[6] Population (2016)[7] Change (2016-7) Type
São Paulo Southeast São Paulo21,734,68221,391,624 21,242,939 +0.7%metropolitan area
Rio de Janeiro  Rio de Janeiro12,763,45912,377,505 12,330,186 +0.4%metropolitan area
Belo Horizonte  Minas Gerais5,961,8955,915,536 5,873,841 +0.7%metropolitan area
Brasília Central-West Distrito Federal,

 Goiás,

 Minas Gerais

 4,627,7714,366,901 4,284,676 +1.9%integrated development area
Porto Alegre South Rio Grande do Sul4,340,7334,293,050 4,276,475 +0.4%metropolitan area
Fortaleza Northeast Ceará4,106,2454,051,744 4,019,213 +0.8%metropolitan area
Recife  Pernambuco4,079,5753,965,699 3,940,456 +0.6%metropolitan area
Salvador  Bahia3,929,2094,015,205 3,984,583 +0.8%metropolitan area
Curitiba South Paraná3,654,9603,572,326 3,537,894 +1.0%metropolitan area
Campinas Southeast São Paulo3,264,9153,168,019 3,131,528 +1.2%metropolitan area
Manaus North Amazonas2,676,9362,612,747 2,568,817 +1.7%metropolitan area
Goiânia Central-West Goiás2,560,6252,493,792 2,458,504 +1.4%metropolitan area
Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte Southeast São Paulo2,552,6102,497,857 2,475,879 +0.9%metropolitan area
Belém North Pará2,510,2742,441,761 2,422,481 +0.8%metropolitan area
Sorocaba Southeast São Paulo2,143,7892,088,381 1,908,425 +9.4%metropolitan area
Vitória  Espírito Santo1,979,3371,960,213 1,935,483 +1.3%metropolitan area
Baixada Santista  São Paulo1,865,3971,828,212 1,813,033 +0.8%metropolitan area
Ribeirão Preto  São Paulo1,720,4691,678,910 1,662,645 +1.0%metropolitan area
São Luís Northeast Maranhão1,633,1171,619,377 1,605,305 +0.9%metropolitan area
Natal  Rio Grande do Norte1,604,0671,596,104 1,537,211 +3.8%metropolitan area
Piracicaba Southeast São Paulo1,495,2201,464,993 1,452,691 +0.8%urban agglomeration
Norte e Nordeste Catarinense South Santa Catarina1,419,5181,383,456 1,363,854 +1.4%metropolitan area
Maceió Northeast Alagoas1,310,5201,352,241 1,314,254 +2.9%metropolitan area
João Pessoa  Paraíba1,278,4011,282,227 1,268,360 +1.1%metropolitan area
Teresina  Piauí,

 Maranhão

 1,223,9021,204,397 1,199,941 +0.4%integrated development area
Florianópolis South Santa Catarina1,209,8181,172,076 1,152,115 +1.7%metropolitan area
Londrina  Paraná1,111,5771,094,347 1,085,479 +0.8%metropolitan area
Vale do Rio Cuiabá Central-West Mato Grosso1,041,3071,005,690 998,174 +0.8%metropolitan area

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Metropolitan Areas, Urban Agglomerations and Integrated Development Areas | IBGE". www.ibge.gov.br. Archived from the original on 2021-04-02. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  2. ↑ "Regional Divisions of Brazil | IBGE". www.ibge.gov.br. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  3. ↑ "Population Arrangements and Urban Concentrations in Brazil | 2015 | IBGE". www.ibge.gov.br. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  4. ↑ "Brazil: Metropolitan Areas". citypopulation.de. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
  5. ↑ "Estimativas 2019 população Regiões Metropolitanas". Agencia de Noticias - IBGE (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  6. ↑ "Tabela 4: POPULAÇÃO DAS REGIÕES METROPOLITANAS, REGIÕES INTEGRADAS DE DESENVOLVIMENTO E AGLOMERAÇÕES URBANAS COM MAIS DE UM MILHÃO DE HABITANTES" (in Portuguese). IBGE. 31 August 2017. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
  7. ↑ "IBGE divulga as estimativas populacionais dos municípios em 2016" (in Portuguese). IBGE. 30 August 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
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