List of metropolitan areas in Brazil

This is a list of the metropolitan areas in Brazil, containing the legally defined metropolitan areas with more than one million inhabitants in Brazil, according to estimates published by IBGE.

Map of metropolitan areas and urban agglomerations in Brazil as of 2012. Municipalities in red refer to metropolitan capitals and the ones in yellow refer to expansion or conurbation area.

Definitions

In Brazil, the terms metropolitan area (Portuguese: região metropolitana) and urban agglomeration (aglomeração urbana) have specific meanings. They are defined by federal and state legislation as collections of municipalities focused on "integrating the organization, planning and execution of public functions of common interest". An integrated development area (região integrada de desenvolvimento) is one of the two above structures that crosses state (or Federal District) boundaries.

Because these regions are formed by consent of municipalities, their composition can change over time due to municipal reorganization. These regions may not coincide exactly with boundaries of statistical Immediate Geographic Areas (formerly microregions) defined by IBGE, or with the broader definition of built-up urban area.

List

Metropolitan area	Region	State	Population estimate (2019)	Population (2017)	Population (2016)	Change (2016-7)	Type
São Paulo	Southeast	São Paulo	21,734,682	21,391,624	21,242,939	+0.7%	metropolitan area
Rio de Janeiro		Rio de Janeiro	12,763,459	12,377,505	12,330,186	+0.4%	metropolitan area
Belo Horizonte		Minas Gerais	5,961,895	5,915,536	5,873,841	+0.7%	metropolitan area
Brasília	Central-West	Distrito Federal, Goiás, Minas Gerais	4,627,771	4,366,901	4,284,676	+1.9%	integrated development area
Porto Alegre	South	Rio Grande do Sul	4,340,733	4,293,050	4,276,475	+0.4%	metropolitan area
Fortaleza	Northeast	Ceará	4,106,245	4,051,744	4,019,213	+0.8%	metropolitan area
Recife		Pernambuco	4,079,575	3,965,699	3,940,456	+0.6%	metropolitan area
Salvador		Bahia	3,929,209	4,015,205	3,984,583	+0.8%	metropolitan area
Curitiba	South	Paraná	3,654,960	3,572,326	3,537,894	+1.0%	metropolitan area
Campinas	Southeast	São Paulo	3,264,915	3,168,019	3,131,528	+1.2%	metropolitan area
Manaus	North	Amazonas	2,676,936	2,612,747	2,568,817	+1.7%	metropolitan area
Goiânia	Central-West	Goiás	2,560,625	2,493,792	2,458,504	+1.4%	metropolitan area
Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte	Southeast	São Paulo	2,552,610	2,497,857	2,475,879	+0.9%	metropolitan area
Belém	North	Pará	2,510,274	2,441,761	2,422,481	+0.8%	metropolitan area
Sorocaba	Southeast	São Paulo	2,143,789	2,088,381	1,908,425	+9.4%	metropolitan area
Vitória		Espírito Santo	1,979,337	1,960,213	1,935,483	+1.3%	metropolitan area
Baixada Santista		São Paulo	1,865,397	1,828,212	1,813,033	+0.8%	metropolitan area
Ribeirão Preto		São Paulo	1,720,469	1,678,910	1,662,645	+1.0%	metropolitan area
São Luís	Northeast	Maranhão	1,633,117	1,619,377	1,605,305	+0.9%	metropolitan area
Natal		Rio Grande do Norte	1,604,067	1,596,104	1,537,211	+3.8%	metropolitan area
Piracicaba	Southeast	São Paulo	1,495,220	1,464,993	1,452,691	+0.8%	urban agglomeration
Norte e Nordeste Catarinense	South	Santa Catarina	1,419,518	1,383,456	1,363,854	+1.4%	metropolitan area
Maceió	Northeast	Alagoas	1,310,520	1,352,241	1,314,254	+2.9%	metropolitan area
João Pessoa		Paraíba	1,278,401	1,282,227	1,268,360	+1.1%	metropolitan area
Teresina		Piauí, Maranhão	1,223,902	1,204,397	1,199,941	+0.4%	integrated development area
Florianópolis	South	Santa Catarina	1,209,818	1,172,076	1,152,115	+1.7%	metropolitan area
Londrina		Paraná	1,111,577	1,094,347	1,085,479	+0.8%	metropolitan area
Vale do Rio Cuiabá	Central-West	Mato Grosso	1,041,307	1,005,690	998,174	+0.8%	metropolitan area

See also

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