List of metropolitan areas in Brazil
This is a list of the metropolitan areas in Brazil. It contains the metropolitan regions (Portuguese: Regiões Metropolitanas), integrated development areas (Regiões Integradas de Desenvolvimento) and urban agglomerations (Aglomerações Urbanas) with more than one million inhabitants in Brazil according to the 2017 estimates published by IBGE.

List of metropolitan areas in Brazil

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Table Section Text: This is a list of the metropolitan areas in Brazil. It contains the metropolitan regions (Portuguese: Regiões Metropolitanas), integrated development areas (Regiões Integradas de Desenvolvimento) and urban agglomerations (Aglomerações Urbanas) with more than one million inhabitants in Brazil according to the 2017 estimates published by IBGE.

Rank	Metropolitan area	State	Population (2017)	Population (2016)	Change

1	São Paulo	São Paulo	21,391,624	21,242,939	+0.7%

2	Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro	12,377,505	12,330,186	+0.4%

3	Belo Horizonte	Minas Gerais	5,915,536	5,873,841	+0.7%

4	Distrito Federal e Entorno (Brasilia)	Distrito Federal / Goiás / Minas Gerais	4,366,901	4,284,676	+1.9%

5	Porto Alegre	Rio Grande do Sul	4,293,050	4,276,475	+0.4%

6	Fortaleza	Ceará	4,051,744	4,019,213	+0.8%

7	Salvador	Bahia	4,015,205	3,984,583	+0.8%

8	Recife	Pernambuco	3,965,699	3,940,456	+0.6%

9	Curitiba	Paraná	3,572,326	3,537,894	+1.0%

10	Campinas	São Paulo	3,168,019	3,131,528	+1.2%

11	Manaus	Amazonas	2,612,747	2,568,817	+1.7%

12	Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte (São José dos Campos)	São Paulo	2,497,857	2,475,879	+0.9%

13	Goiânia	Goiás	2,493,792	2,458,504	+1.4%

14	Belém	Pará	2,441,761	2,422,481	+0.8%

15	Sorocaba	São Paulo	2,088,381	1,908,425	+9.4%

16	Vitória	Espírito Santo	1,960,213	1,935,483	+1.3%

17	Baixada Santista (Santos)	São Paulo	1,828,212	1,813,033	+0.8%

18	Ribeirão Preto	São Paulo	1,678,910	1,662,645	+1.0%

19	São Luís	Maranhão	1,619,377	1,605,305	+0.9%

20	Natal	Rio Grande do Norte	1,596,104	1,537,211	+3.8%

21	Piracicaba	São Paulo	1,464,993	1,452,691	+0.8%

22	Norte/Nordeste Catarinense (Joinville)	Santa Catarina	1,383,456	1,363,854	+1.4%

23	Maceió	Alagoas	1,352,241	1,314,254	+2.9%

24	João Pessoa	Paraíba	1,282,227	1,268,360	+1.1%

25	Teresina	Piauí / Maranhão	1,204,397	1,199,941	+0.4%

26	Florianópolis	Santa Catarina	1,172,076	1,152,115	+1.7%

27	Londrina	Paraná	1,094,347	1,085,479	+0.8%

28	Vale do Rio Cuiabá (Cuiabá)	Mato Grosso	1,005,690	998,174	+0.8%

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The metropolitan area of Manaus is the 11th most populous in Brazil, with an estimated population of 2.6 million inhabitants.

final_sentence: The metropolitan area of Manaus is the 11th most populous in Brazil, with an estimated population of 2.6 million inhabitants.