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São Paulo's population has grown rapidly. By 1960 it had surpassed that of Rio de Janeiro, making it Brazil's most populous city. By this time, the urbanized area of São Paulo had extended beyond the boundaries of the municipality proper into neighboring municipalities, making it a metropolitan area with a population of 4.6 million.
São Paulo (/ ˌ s aʊ ˈ p aʊ l oʊ /, Portuguese: [sɐ̃w ˈpawlu] ⓘ) is one of the 26 states of the Federative Republic of Brazil and is named after Saint Paul of Tarsus.It is located in the Southeast Region and is bordered by the states of Minas Gerais to the north and northeast, Paraná to the south, Rio de Janeiro to the east and Mato Grosso do Sul to the west, in addition to the ...
A legally defined specific term, Região Metropolitana de São Paulo (RMSP), one definition for Metropolitan São Paulo, consists of 39 municipalities, including the state capital, São Paulo. [2] The RMSP of São Paulo is known as a financial and economic centre of Brazil, with a total population of 20,743,587 inhabitants (2022 census [3]).
Sao Luís Brazil: 331,983 km 2 ... São Paulo Brazil: 248,219 km 2 ... Population density Map
Population (May 2023) [21] Density 2022 GDP (R$ millions, 2022) [22] HDI ... São Paulo: São Paulo: São Vicente (south) ... Map of Brazil, showing states and their ...
São Paulo state is the most developed in the country, it has a population density as high as western Europe, and a HDI comparable to eastern Europe. Rio de Janeiro is the leader in petroleum production (with almost 3/4 of national production) . Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo are located in the richest mining region in Brazil.
Population density (people per km 2) by country This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density , sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile . The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1 .
Population distribution in Brazil. 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.