List of metropolitan areas in Brazil
This is a list of the metropolitan areas (Regiäo Metropolitana) in Brazil. It contains the 26 metropolitan regions with more than one million inhabitants, according to the 2015 and 2016 estimates published by IBGE, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.
| Rank | Metropolitan area | State | Population (2016)[1] |
Population (2015)[2] |
Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | São Paulo |  São Paulo |
21,242,939 | 21,090,791 | +0.7% |
| 2 | Rio de Janeiro |  Rio de Janeiro |
12,330,186 | 12,280,703 | +0.4% |
| 3 | Belo Horizonte |  Minas Gerais |
5,873,841 | 5,829,921 | +0.8% |
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4,284,676 | 4,201,737 | +2.0% |
| 5 | Porto Alegre |  Rio Grande do Sul |
4,276,475 | 4,258,926 | +0.4% |
| 6 | Fortaleza |  Ceará |
4,019,213 | 3,985,295 | +0.9% |
| 7 | Salvador |  Bahia |
3,984,583 | 3,953,288 | +0.8% |
| 8 | Recife |  Pernambuco |
3,940,456 | 3,914,317 | +0.7% |
| 9 | Curitiba |  Paraná |
3,537,894 | 3,502,790 | +1.0% |
| 10 | Campinas | São Paulo |
3,131,528 | 3,094,181 | +1.2% |
| 11 | Manaus |  Amazonas |
2,568,817 | 2,523,901 | +1.8% |
| 12 | Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte | São Paulo |
2,475,879 | 2,453,387 | +0.9% |
| 13 | Goiânia |  Goiás |
2,458,504 | 2,421,831 | +1.5% |
| 14 | Belém |  Pará |
2,422,481 | 2,402,437 | +0.8% |
| 15 | Vitória |  Espírito Santo |
1,935,483 | 1,910,101 | +1.3% |
| 16 | Sorocaba | São Paulo |
1,908,425 | 1,888,074 | +1.1% |
| 17 | Baixada Santista | São Paulo |
1,813,033 | 1,797,500 | +0.9% |
| 18 | São Luís |  Maranhão |
1,605,305 | 1,538,130 | +4.4% |
| 19 | Natal |  Rio Grande do Norte |
1,537,211 | 1,504,821 | +2.2% |
| 20 | Piracicaba | São Paulo |
1,452,691 | 1,412,721 | +2.8% |
| 21 | Norte/Nordeste Catarinense |  Santa Catarina |
1,363,854 | 1,344,091 | +1.5% |
| 22 | Maceió |  Alagoas |
1,314,254 | 1,304,190 | +0.8% |
| 23 | João Pessoa |  Paraíba |
1,268,360 | 1,253,930 | +1.2% |
| 24 | Teresina |  Piauí / Maranhão |
1,199,941 | 1,194,911 | +0.4% |
| 25 | Florianópolis | Santa Catarina |
1,152,115 | 1,131,981 | +1.8% |
| 26 | Londrina | Paraná |
1,085,479 | 1,076,437 | +0.8% |
See also
References
- ↑ "IBGE divulga as estimativas populacionais dos municípios em 2016" (in Portuguese). IBGE. 28 August 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
- ↑ "IBGE divulga as estimativas populacionais dos municípios em 2015" (in Portuguese). IBGE. 30 August 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
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