Wikipedia:List of largest cities in Brazil

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This is a list of the largest cities in Brazil. Brazil has a relatively high reported level of urbanization, with 8 out of every 10 Brazilians living in cities. The criteria used by the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) in determining whether households are urban or rural, however, is based on political divisions, not on the built environment.

A town is any seat of a district (the lowest political division); a city is the seat of a municipality. Nowadays, the country has more than 5,564 municipalities.^[1] About 81.3% of Brazilians live in an urban area.^[2]

State capitals are also each the largest city in its state, the exceptions being Vitória in Espírito Santo, and Florianópolis, the capital of Santa Catarina; there are also non-capital metropolitan areas in São Paulo (Campinas, Santos, Paraíba Valley), Minas Gerais (Vale do Aço), Rio Grande do Sul (Sinos Valley), and Santa Catarina (Joinville & Itajaí Valley). Most of the non-capital large cities in Brazil are in the states of São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina and Paraná.

Few of the principal Brazilian cities are planned cities; the most famous of these is Brasília, which represents the Modernist school of architecture and urbanism.

Contents 1 Top 100 most populous cities 2 Largest metropolitan areas 3 References 4 See also

Top 100 most populous cities

This list of the 100 most populous cities is based on the population of the município where the city is located, rather than its metropolitan area.

Unless stated, the estimates for cities 1-40 are from IBGE 2008;^[3] those for cities 41 onwards are from IBGE 2006.

State capitals are in bold

Rank	City	State	Population
1	São Paulo	São Paulo	10,990,249
2	Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro	6,161,047
3	Salvador	Bahia	2,948,733
4	Brasília	Template:Country data Distrito Federal	2,557,158
5	Fortaleza	Ceará	2,473,614
6	Belo Horizonte	Minas Gerais	2,434,642
7	Curitiba	Paraná	1,828,092
8	Manaus	Amazonas	1,709,010
9	Recife	Pernambuco	1,549,980
10	Porto Alegre	Rio Grande do Sul	1,430,220
11	Belém	Pará	1,424,124
12	Guarulhos	São Paulo	1,279,202
13	Goiânia	Goiás	1,265,394
14	Campinas	São Paulo	1,056,664
15	São Luís	Maranhão	986,826
16	São Gonçalo	Rio de Janeiro	982,832
17	Maceió	Alagoas	924,143
18	Duque de Caxias	Rio de Janeiro	864,392
19	Nova Iguaçu	Rio de Janeiro	855,500
20	São Bernardo do Campo	São Paulo	801,580
21	Natal	Rio Grande do Norte	798,065
22	Teresina	Piauí	793,915
23	Campo Grande	Mato Grosso do Sul	747,189
24	Osasco	São Paulo	713,066
25	João Pessoa	Paraíba	693,082
26	Jaboatão dos Guararapes	Pernambuco	678,346
27	Santo André	São Paulo	671,696
28	Uberlândia	Minas Gerais	622,441
29	Contagem	Minas Gerais	617,749
30	São José dos Campos	São Paulo	609,229
31	Feira de Santana	Bahia	584,497
32	Sorocaba	São Paulo	576,312
33	Ribeirão Preto	São Paulo	558,136
34	Cuiabá	Mato Grosso	544,737
35	Aracaju	Sergipe	536,785
36	Juiz de Fora	Minas Gerais	520,612
37	Londrina	Paraná	505,184
38	Belford Roxo	Rio de Janeiro	495,694
39	Ananindeua	Pará	495,480
40	Aparecida de Goiânia	Goiás	494,919
41	Joinville	Santa Catarina	492,101
42	Niterói	Rio de Janeiro	477,912
43	São João de Meriti	Rio de Janeiro	468,309
44	Campos dos Goitacazes	Rio de Janeiro	431,839
45	Betim	Minas Gerais	429,507
46	Santos	São Paulo	417,518
47	São José do Rio Preto	São Paulo	414,272
48	Mauá	São Paulo	412,753
49	Vila Velha	Espírito Santo	407,579
50	Caxias do Sul	Rio Grande do Sul	405,858
51	Florianópolis	Santa Catarina	402,346
52	Serra	Espírito Santo	397,226
53	Olinda	Pernambuco	394,850
54	Diadema	São Paulo	394,266
55	Carapicuíba	São Paulo	388,532
56	Campina Grande	Paraíba	381,422
57	Porto Velho	Rondônia	379,186
58	Mogi das Cruzes	São Paulo	371,372
59	Piracicaba	São Paulo	365,440
60	Cariacica	Espírito Santo	362,277
61	Macapá	Amapá	359,020
62	Montes Claros	Minas Gerais	358,271
63	Bauru	São Paulo	355,675
63	Itaquaquecetuba	São Paulo	351,493
65	Jundiaí	São Paulo	347,738
66	Pelotas	Rio Grande do Sul	343,167
67	Ribeirão das Neves	Minas Gerais	340,033
68	Maringá	Paraná	331,412
69	Anápolis	Goiás	331,329
70	Canoas	Rio Grande do Sul	329,903
71	São Vicente	São Paulo	328,522
72	Franca	São Paulo	327,176
73	Caucaia	Ceará	326,811
74	Foz do Iguaçu	Paraná	319,189
75	Vitória	Espírito Santo	317,817
76	Paulista	Pernambuco	314,302
77	Vitória da Conquista	Bahia	313,898
78	Petrópolis	Rio de Janeiro	312,766
79	Ponta Grossa	Paraná	311,106
80	Guarujá	São Paulo	304,274
81	Rio Branco	Acre	301,398
82	Blumenau	Santa Catarina	296,151
83	Caruaru	Pernambuco	294,558
84	Uberaba	Minas Gerais	292,377
85	Cascavel	Paraná	291,747
86	Petrolina	Pernambuco	285,339
87	Suzano	São Paulo	279,394
88	Limeira	São Paulo	278,776
89	Santarém	Pará	275,571
90	Barueri	São Paulo	274,201
91	São José dos Pinhais	Paraná	272,530
92	Taubaté	São Paulo	270,918
93	Santa Maria	Rio Grande do Sul	266,822
94	Gravataí	Rio Grande do Sul	266,230
95	Governador Valadares	Minas Gerais	261,981
96	Boa Vista	Roraima	260,930
97	Volta Redonda	Rio de Janeiro	259,811
98	Viamão	Rio Grande do Sul	257,844
99	Novo Hamburgo	Rio Grande do Sul	255,945
100	Juazeiro do Norte	Ceará	246,515

Largest metropolitan areas

Currently, as of 2004^[update], IBGE officially recognizes 15 major RMs (Região Metropolitana; Metropolitan Region in English), where approximately 32% of the Brazilian population (55 million people out of 180 million) live. These RMs are responsible for approximately half of the Brazilian GDP and more than 70% of the Brazilian annual industrial production.

IBGE estimatives of 2006 ^[3]

Rank	Metropolitan Area	State	Population
1	São Paulo	São Paulo	19,616,060
2	Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro	11,812,482
3	Belo Horizonte	Minas Gerais	5,397,438
4	Porto Alegre	Rio Grande do Sul	3,959,807
5	Salvador	Bahia	3,767,902
6	Recife	Pernambuco	3,731,719
7	Fortaleza	Ceará	3,517,275
8	Brasília	Template:Country data Distrito Federal,  Minas Gerais and  Goiás	3,451,549
9	Curitiba	Paraná	3,172,357
10	Campinas	São Paulo	2,633,523
11	Belém	Pará	2,078,405
12	Goiânia	Goiás	2,007,868
13	Manaus	Amazonas	2,006,870
14	Vitória	Espírito Santo	1,624,837
15	Santos	São Paulo	1,606,863
16	Natal	Rio Grande do Norte	1,255,409
17	São Luís	Maranhão	1,211,270
18	Maceió	Alagoas	1,111,678
19	Teresina	Piauí and  Maranhão	1,092,721
20	João Pessoa	Paraíba	1,077,944
21	Joinville	Santa Catarina	1,024,212 1
22	Florianópolis	Santa Catarina	841,552 2
23	Cuiabá	Mato Grosso	815,392
24	Petrolina and Juazeiro	Pernambuco and  Bahia	812,515
25	Aracaju	Sergipe	759,998
26	Londrina	Paraná	759,533
27	Maringá	Paraná	570,094
28	Itajaí	Santa Catarina	465,225 2
29	Blumenau	Santa Catarina	449,726 1
30	Vale do Aço	Minas Gerais	449,340
31	Macapá	Amapá	454,753
32	Criciúma	Santa Catarina	354,066 1
33	Tubarão	Santa Catarina	128,545 2

¹ Data of 2005.
² Data of 2006.

References

See also

• List of cities in Brazil
• List of largest cities in Brazil by state
• Largest metropolitan areas in the Americas
• Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics

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