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List of cities in Brazil by population

List of cities in Brazil by population

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Brazil has a high level of urbanization with 87.8%[1] of the population residing in urban and metropolitan areas. The criteria used by the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics)[2] in determining whether households are urban or rural, however, are based on political divisions, not on the developed environment.

Population distribution in Brazil.

Nowadays, the country has 5,570 cities, with 5,568 municipalities plus the capital (Brasília) and the Island of Fernando de Noronha.[3]

With two exceptions, the state capitals are all the largest cities in their respective states: Florianópolis, the capital of Santa Catarina is its second-largest city after Joinville, while Vitória is only the fourth-largest city in Espírito Santo, although it is located in that state's largest metropolitan area.

Most populous cities in Brazil

São Paulo
Rio de Janeiro
Brasília
Fortaleza
Salvador
Belo Horizonte
Manaus
Curitiba
Recife
Goiânia
Porto Alegre
Belém
Campinas
Maceió
Campo Grande
João Pessoa
Natal
Cuiabá
Florianópolis
Vitória

This is a list of the most populous cities based on the population of the municipality where the city is located, rather than its metropolitan area. As IBGE considers the entire Federal District synonymous to Brasília, the population of the Federal District is shown for Brasília.

2010 IBGE Census counts as of 1 August 2010.[4] 2022 IBGE Census[5]
State capitals are in bold and states' largest cities are in italics.
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Brazil's population, as recorded by the 2010 census, was of 190,755,799 inhabitants[6] (22.40 inhabitants per square kilometer), with 84.36% of the population defined as urban. The population is heavily concentrated in the Southeast (80.4 million) and Northeast (53.1 million).

Distribution

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Largest metropolitan areas

Main article: List of metropolitan areas in Brazil

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Urban population as % of total". The World Bank. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  2. [2]
    "IBGE" [Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics]. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
  3. [3]
    "Territorial units of the municipality level" (in Portuguese). Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  4. [4]
    "IBGE Censo 2010". 2010. Archived from the original on 9 January 2011. Retrieved 28 August 2017. 2010 Brazilian Census Population
  5. [5]
    "2022 IBGE Census First Results". 2023. Retrieved 28 June 2023. Population results of 2022 IBGE Census
  6. [6]
    "2010 Census first final results: Brazil has a population of 190,755,799 residents". IBGE.gov.br.
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