The metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro is known as a historical, cultural and economic centre of Brazil, with a total population of 13 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.
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This article is about Rio de Janeiro For a samba school see GRES Academicos do Grande Rio This article uses bare URLs which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot Please consider converting them to full citations to ensure the article remains verifiable and maintains a consistent citation style Several templates and tools are available to assist in formatting such as reFill documentation and Citation bot documentation August 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message Greater Rio de Janeiro officially the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region Grande Rio officially Regiao 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 Satellite image of the metropolitan area with the capital from the center below Baixada Fluminense on the north west and Niteroi and Sao Goncalo east of the Guanabara BayCities of the Greater Rio de Janeiro in Red in the State of 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 13 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 Niteroi Sao Goncalo 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 Niteroi Bridge Red Line President Dutra freeway and the Niteroi Manilha freeway pt Most transportation methods are integrated with the capital inner transportation system of buses trains metro freeways and expressways Contents 1 Cities by Population 2018 2 Statistics 3 Municipalities 4 Notes and referencesCities by Population 2018 edit1 000 000 Rio de Janeiro 6 688 927 Sao Goncalo 1 077 687400 000 999 999 Duque de Caxias 914 383 Nova Iguacu 818 875 Niteroi 511 786 Belford Roxo 508 614 Sao Joao de Meriti 471 888100 000 399 999 Petropolis 305 687 Mage 243 657 Itaborai 238 695 Mesquita 175 620 Nilopolis 162 269 Marica 157 789 Queimados 149 265 Itaguai 125 913 Japeri 103 9600 100 000 Seropedica 86 743 Rio Bonito 59 814 Guapimirim 59 613 Cachoeiras de Macacu 58 560 Paracambi 51 815 Tangua 33 870Statistics editPopulation 13 005 430 2018 est 1 2 Most populous city Rio de Janeiro 6 688 927 2018 est 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 Niteroi 0 837 2010 est Municipalities editThe 22 municipalities of the area are 4 Municipality Area km Population 2000 Census Population 2010 Census 5 Population 2018 est Population density 2018 km Belford Roxo 77 815 434 474 469 261 508 614 6 536 19Cachoeiras de Macacu 953 801 48 543 54 273 58 560 61 40Duque de Caxias 467 620 775 456 855 046 914 383 1 955 40Guapimirim 360 766 37 952 51 487 59 613 165 24Itaborai 430 374 187 479 218 090 238 695 554 62Itaguai 274 433 82 003 109 091 125 913 458 81Japeri 81 869 83 278 95 391 103 960 1 269 83Mage 388 496 205 830 228 150 243 657 627 18Marica 362 571 76 737 12 761 157 789 435 19Mesquita 41 477 no data 168 403 175 620 4 234 15Nilopolis 19 393 153 712 157 483 162 269 8 367 40Niteroi 133 916 459 451 487 327 511 786 3 821 69Nova Iguacu 519 159 920 599 797 212 818 875 1 577 31Paracambi 179 772 40 475 47 124 51 815 288 23Petropolis 791 144 286 537 295 917 305 687 386 39Queimados 75 695 121 993 137 938 149 265 1 971 93Rio Bonito 465 455 49 691 55 551 59 814 128 51Rio de Janeiro 1 199 828 5 857 904 6 323 037 6 688 927 5 574 90Sao Goncalo 247 709 891 119 1 013 901 1 077 687 4 350 62Sao Joao de Meriti 35 216 449 476 459 356 471 888 13 399 82Seropedica 283 766 65 260 78 183 86 743 305 68Tangua 145 503 26 057 30 731 33 870 232 78Metropolitan Rio Janeiro 6 744 634 10 670 040 12 603 936 13 005 430 1 725 82Notes and references edit IBGE Portal do IBGE IBGE https cidades ibge gov br Fundacao CEPERJ Centro Estadual de Estatisticas Pesquisas e Formacao de Servidores Publicos do Rio de Janeiro Archived from the original on June 15 2018 Retrieved February 11 2017 https cidades ibge gov br http www ibge gov br home estatistica populacao censo2010 tabelas pdf total populacao rio de janeiro pdf IBGE Census 2010 22 54 10 S 43 12 28 W 22 9028 S 43 2078 W 22 9028 43 2078 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Greater Rio de Janeiro amp 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