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Greater São Paulo

Greater São Paulo

The Greater São Paulo (Portuguese: Grande São Paulo) is a nonspecific term for one of the multiple definitions the large metropolitan area located in the São Paulo state in Brazil.

Definitions

Metropolitan Area

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.[1]

The RMSP of São Paulo is known as a financial and economic centre of Brazil, with a total population of 23,455,256 inhabitants (2017 estimate). The largest municipalities are São Paulo, with a population of 12,138,175, Guarulhos with a population of 1,337,087 people, plus several municipalities with more than 500,000 inhabitants, such as São Bernardo do Campo (822,242 inh.) and Santo André (712,749 inh.) in the ABC Region. The ABC Region (from Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo and São Caetano do Sul) in the south of Grande São Paulo is an important location for industrial corporations, such as Volkswagen and Ford. It represents the "core" cities of the greater region.

Extended Metropolitan Area

The extended metropolitan area of São Paulo (Complexo Metropolitano Estendido de São Paulo) is an agglomeration of five contiguous metropolitan areas that have grown into one another and three microregions, dominated by São Paulo. It has more than 33 million inhabitants, which is 75% of the population of the entire state of São Paulo, and consists of the contiguous entities:

Legally Defined DistrictPopulation (2016 IBGE estimate)[2]Seat cityPopulation (2016 IBGE estimate)[3]
Metropolitan Region of São Paulo23,455,256São Paulo12,138,175
Metropolitan Region of Campinas3,631,528Campinas1,173,370
Metropolitan Region of Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte2,575,879São José dos Campos888,792
Metropolitan Region of Sorocaba2,108,425Sorocaba652,481
Metropolitan Region of Baixada Santista1,913,033Santos434,359
Piracicaba Urban Agglomeration1,552,691Piracicaba394,419
Jundiaí Urban Agglomeration780,927Jundiaí405,740
Bragança Paulista region510,299Bragança Paulista162,435
CME São Paulo (Extended Metropolitan Complex of São Paulo)+36,315,721

RMSP statistics

  • Territorial area: 7,947 km2[4]

  • Urban area: 2,139 km2

  • Population: 23,455,256[5]

  • GDP: R$ 628 billion[4]

  • Latitude: 23 533S

  • Longitude: 46 617W

Municipalities in RMSP

1,000,000+

500,000–999,999

  • São Bernardo do Campo (822,242)

  • Santo André (712,749)

  • Osasco (696,382)

200,000–499,999

  • Mauá (457,696)

  • Mogi das Cruzes (429,321)

  • Diadema (415,180)

  • Carapicuíba (394,256)

  • Itaquaquecetuba (356,774)

  • Suzano (288,056)

  • Taboão da Serra (275,948)

  • Barueri (264,935)

  • Embu das Artes (264,448)

  • Cotia (233,696)

  • Itapevi (226,488)

100,000–199,999

  • Ferraz de Vasconcelos (176,000)

  • Itapecerica da Serra (159,000)

  • Francisco Morato (155,000)

  • São Caetano do Sul (151,000)

  • Franco da Rocha (129,000)

  • Poá (112,481)

  • Ribeirão Pires (112,020)

  • Santana de Parnaíba (111,000)

  • Jandira (110,000)

Under 100,000

  • Caieiras (87,000)

  • Arujá (79,000)

  • Mairiporã (77,000)

  • Cajamar (63,000)

  • Embu-Guaçu (62,000)

  • Santa Isabel (47,000)

  • Vargem Grande Paulista (44,000)

  • Rio Grande da Serra (41,000)

  • Biritiba-Mirim (29,000)

  • Juquitiba (29,000)

  • Guararema (27,000)

  • São Lourenço da Serra (18,000)

  • Salesópolis (16,000)

  • Pirapora do Bom Jesus (15,000)

Transport

Being the most industrialized region of the country as well as the most populated, the transportation plays an important role. The main highways (rodovias) of the area are:

  • Rodovia Anhangüera

  • Rodovia dos Imigrantes

  • Rodovia Anchieta

  • Rodovia dos Bandeirantes

  • Rodovia Presidente Dutra

  • Rodovia Ayrton Senna

  • Rodovia Castelo Branco

  • Rodovia Fernão Dias

  • Rodovia Raposo Tavares

  • Rodovia Régis Bittencourt

  • Rodoanel Mário Covas

The São Paulo Metro and the Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos provide rail-based transit within the metropolitan area.

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