Greater Rio de Janeiro

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Satellite image of the metropolitan area, with the capital from the center below, Baixada Fluminense on the north-west and Niterói and São Gonçalo east of the Guanabara Bay
Cities of the Greater Rio de Janeiro in Red, in the state of Rio de Janeiro.

Greater Rio de Janeiro, officially the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region (Grande Rio, officially Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro, in Portuguese) is a large metropolitan area located in Rio de Janeiro state in Brazil, the second largest in Brazil and third largest in South America. It consists of 22 municipalities, including the state capital, Rio de Janeiro.

The metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro is known as a historical, cultural and economic centre of Brazil, with a total population of 12 million inhabitants. The region was first officially defined on July 1, 1974, less than 1 year before the fusion of Guanabara into Rio de Janeiro. Several municipalities show a high level of conurbation, with Rio de Janeiro–Baixada Fluminense and Niterói–São Gonçalo being the most clear examples. It was changed several times to include or remove different cities in different moments of the history, in the years 1993, 2001, 2002, 2009, 2013 and 2018.

The water supply plans of the region are coordinated, and transportation in the area is heavily interconnected with urban intermunicipal buses to all municipalities in the area, trains over the capital to some Baixada Fluminense municipalities, ferry boats to some of the Guanabara Bay municipalities and major inter-city freeways such as the Rio–Niterói Bridge, Red Line, President Dutra freeway and the Niterói-Manilha freeway (pt). Most transportation methods are integrated with the capital inner-transportation system of buses, trains, metro, freeways and expressways.

Cities by population (2022)

1,000,000+

400,000 – 999,999

100,000 – 399,999

0 - 100,000

Statistics

  • Population: 12,022,050 (2022)[1][2]
  • Nominal GDP: R$413.93 Billion[3]
    • Largest GDP City: Rio de Janeiro City: R$282.5 billion (2013 est.)
  • Nominal GDP per capita: R$33,856.54 (2013 est.)
  • HDI: 0,771 (2010 est.)
    • Highest HDI City: Niterói: 0,837 (2010 est.)

Municipalities

The 22 municipalities of the area are:[4]

Municipality Area (km²) Population (2000 Census) Population (2010 Census)[5] Population (2022 Census)[6] Population density 2022 (/km²)
Belford Roxo 79.791 434,474 469,261 483,087 6,054.40
Cachoeiras de Macacu 955.806 48,543 54,273 56,943 59.58
Duque de Caxias 464.573 775,456 855,046 808,152 1,739.56
Guapimirim 356.566 37,952 51,487 51,696 144.98
Itaboraí 430.375 187,479 218,090 224,267 521.10
Itaguaí 273.414 82,003 109,091 116,841 427.34
Japeri 82.454 83,278 95,391 96,289 1,167.79
Magé 385.700 205,830 228,150 228,127 591.46
Maricá 362.571 76,737 12,761 197,300 544.17
Mesquita 41.490 no data 168,403 167,128 4,028.15
Nilópolis 19.157 153,712 157,483 146,774 7,661.64
Niterói 129.375 459,451 487,327 481,758 3,723.73
Nova Iguaçu 520.807 920,599 797,212 785,822 1,508.85
Paracambi 179.374 40,475 47,124 41,375 230.66
Petrópolis 795.798 286,537 295,917 278,881 350.44
Queimados 75.701 121,993 137,938 140,523 1,856.29
Rio Bonito 462.156 49,691 55,551 56,276 121.77
Rio de Janeiro 1,221.000 5,857,904 6,323,037 6,211,423 5,087.16
São Gonçalo 249.143 891,119 1,013,901 896,744 3,599.31
São João de Meriti 34.838 449,476 459,356 440,962 12,657.50
Seropédica 283.794 65,260 78,183 80,596 283.99
Tanguá 145.503 26,057 30,731 31,086 213.65
Metropolitan Rio Janeiro 7,549.386 10,670,040 12,603,936 12,022,050 1,592.45

Notes and references

  1. ^ "IBGE | Portal do IBGE | IBGE".
  2. ^ https://cidades.ibge.gov.br/
  3. ^ "Fundação CEPERJ - Centro Estadual de Estatísticas Pesquisas e Formação de Servidores Públicos do Rio de Janeiro". Archived from the original on June 15, 2018. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
  4. ^ https://cidades.ibge.gov.br/
  5. ^ http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/populacao/censo2010/tabelas_pdf/total_populacao_rio_de_janeiro.pdf IBGE Census 2010
  6. ^ Censo do IBGE 2022: consulte a população atualizada por cidade

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