Back قائمة أكبر المدن في البرازيل Arabic Braziliya şəhərləri AZ Бразилияның ҡалалары BA Städt in Brasilien BAR Списък на стоте най-населени общини в Бразилия Bulgarian ব্রাজিলর পৌরসভাহানি BPY Listenn kumunioù Brazil renket hervez ar Stadoù BR Spisak gradova u Brazilu po broju stanovnika BS Seznam měst v Brazílii Czech Liste der Gemeinden in Brasilien German

List of cities in Brazil by population

A map of Brazil, with purple circles denoting areas of high population in the year 2000. A large majority of the circles line Brazil's eastern coast.
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.

Nowadays, the country has 5,570 cities, with 5,568 municipalities plus the capital (Brasília) and the Island of Fernando de Noronha.[3]

With two exceptions, the state capitals are all the largest cities in their respective states: Florianópolis, the capital of Santa Catarina is its second-largest city after Joinville, while Vitória is only the fourth-largest city in Espírito Santo, although it is located in that state's largest metropolitan area.

  1. ^ "Urban population as % of total". The World Bank. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  2. ^ "IBGE" [Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics]. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Territorial units of the municipality level" (in Portuguese). Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. Retrieved 17 May 2015.