page_title: Minas Gerais
section_title: Highways
hierarchical_section_title: Minas Gerais / Infrastructure / Highways
caption_attribution_description: Português: Trecho da rodovia fernão dias no entroncamento com a BR-491 em Pouso Alegre.
context_page_description: Minas Gerais is a state in Southeastern Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by gross domestic product, and the fourth largest by area in the country. The state's capital and largest city, Belo Horizonte, is a major urban and finance center in Latin America, and the sixth largest municipality in Brazil, after the cities of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Brasilia and Fortaleza, but its metropolitan area is the third largest in Brazil with just over 5,800,000 inhabitants, after those of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Nine Brazilian presidents were born in Minas Gerais, the most of any state. The state, which has 10.1% of the Brazilian population, is responsible for only 8.7% of the Brazilian GDP.
  With an area of 586,528 square kilometres —larger than Metropolitan France—it is the fourth most extensive state in Brazil. The main producer of coffee and milk in the country, Minas Gerais is known for its heritage of architecture and colonial art in historical cities such as São João del Rei, Congonhas, Ouro Preto, Diamantina, Tiradentes and Mariana.
context_section_description: Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state that harbors the highest mileage of highways. The state highway network is 269,545 kilometers, of which only 11,396 on federal roads and 21,472 on state highways and state coincide, corresponding to all other municipal roads. Because of its central position, the state is crossed by the most important national highways, like BR-116 (Rio-Bahia), BR-040 (Rio-Brasília) and others. Many of the most important Brazilian routes cross the state and, for this reason, it counts the greater proportion of car accidents per capita.
  BR-122,
  BR-040,
  BR-135,
  BR-146,
  BR-251,
  BR-259,
  BR-265,
  BR-265,
  BR-265,
  BR-265,
  BR-267,
  BR-352,
  BR-354,
  BR-356,
  BR-356,
  BR-364,
  BR-367,
  BR-367,
  BR-367,
  BR-381,
  BR-381,
  BR-383,
  BR-383,
  BR-393,
  BR-459,
  BR-462,
  BR-464,
  BR-491.
caption: Fernão Dias highway
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