Greater Rio de Janeiro

The Greater Rio de Janeiro (Grande Rio, offeecially Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro, in Portuguese) is a lairge metropolitan aurie locatit in Rio de Janeiro state in Brazil, the seicont lairgest in Brazil an third lairgest in Sooth Americae.  It consists o 16 municipalities, includin the caipital, Rio de Janeiro.

The metropolitan aurie o Rio de Janeiro is kent as a historical, cultural an economic centre o Brazil, wi a total population o 11.5 million inhabitants. The region wis first offeecially defined on 1 Julie 1974 efter the fusion o the Guanabara State wi Rio de Janeiro State. Several municipalities show a heich level o conurbation, wi Rio de Janeiro-Duque de Caxias an Niterói-São Gonçalo being the maist clear examples.

The watter supply plans o the region are coordinatit, an transportation in the aurie is hivily interconnectit wi urban intermunicipal buses tae aw municipalities in the aurie, trains ower the caipital an some Baixada Fluminense municipalities, ferry boats tae some o the Guanabara Bay municipalities an major inter-ceety freeways such as Ponte Rio-Niterói, Linha Vermelha, Rodovia Presidente Dutra an Rodovia Niterói-Manilha. Maist transportation methods are integratit wi the caipital inner transportation seestem o buses, trains, subweys, freeweys an expressweys.

 Ceeties bi Population (2008) 

+ 1,000,000
 Rio de Janeiro: 6,323,037 
 São Gonçalo: 1,001,290

400,000 - 999,999
 Duque de Caxias: 855,997
 Nova Iguaçu: 796,290
 Niterói: 487,397
 Belford Roxo: 469,998
 São João de Meriti: 460,402

100,000 - 399,999
 Magé: 228,150
 Itaboraí: 218,090
 Mesquita: 168,409
 Nilópolis: 157,788
 Queimados: 138,082
 Japeri: 100,308

-100,000
 Seropédica 78,183
 Guapimirim: 51,487
 Paquetá Island (NOTE: The Paquetá Island, or Ilha de Paquetá in portuguese, is not a municipality like the others, but a island in Guanabara Bay, part of the metropolitan area): 4,500

Statistics

 Population: 12,257,459 (2011 est.)http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/populacao/censo2010/populacao_por_municipio.shtm
 Most populous city: Rio de Janeiro City: 6,323,037 (2010 est.)
 Nominal GDP: R$232 billion / US$145 billion (2008 est.)http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/economia/pibmunicipios/2004_2008/
 Largest GDP City: Rio de Janeiro City: R$154 billion / US$96,2 billion (2008 est.)http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/economia/pibmunicipios/2004_2008/
 Nominal GDP per capita: R$18.230,39 / US$ 11.393,75 (2008 est.) 
 HDI: 0,816 (2008 est.)
 Highest HDI City: Niterói: 0,886 (2008 est.)

Municipalities

The 16 municipalities of the area are:

Administrative divisionArea (km²)Population 2000 CensusPopulation (2010 Census)http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/populacao/censo2010/tabelas_pdf/total_populacao_rio_de_janeiro.pdf IBGE Census 2010Population density 2010 (/km²) Belford Roxo79434,474469,2615940 Duque de Caxias464.5775,456855,0461840 Guapimirim36137,95251,487143 Itaboraí424.2187,479218,090514 Japeri82.983,27895,3911151 Magé386.6205,830228,150590 Mesquita34.8 0168,4034839 Nilópolis19.4153,712157,4838118 Niterói129.3459,451487,3273769 Nova Iguaçu523.8920,599795,2121518 Queimados77121,993137,9381791 Rio de Janeiro12605,857,9046,323,0375018 São Gonçalo249.1891,119999,9014014 São João de Meriti34.8449,476459,35613200 Seropédica28465,26078,183275 Tanguá14726,05730,731209 Metropolitan Rio Janeiro4,557.410,670,04011,554,9962535

 Notes an references 

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Category:Populatit places in Rio de Janeiro (state)