Greater São Paulo

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A simulated-colour satellite image of the Greater São Paulo metropolitan area (centre), and the coastal towns of Santos and São Vicente (below).

The Greater São Paulo (Grande São Paulo, in Portuguese) is a large metropolitan area located in the São Paulo state in Brazil. It consists of 39 municipalities, including the capital, São Paulo.

The metropolitan area of São Paulo is known as the financial, economic and cultural centre of Brazil, with a total population of 19.8 million inhabitants. The largest municipalities are Guarulhos with a population of more than 1 million people, plus several municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, such as São Bernardo do Campo (703,000 inh.) and Santo André (649,000 inh.) in the ABC Region. The ABC Region in the south of Grande Sao Paulo is an important location for industrial corporations, such as Volkswagen and Ford.

1 Statistics
2 Municipalities
3 Transport
4 External links

[edit] Statistics

Territorial area: 8,051 km²
Urban area: 2,139 km²
Population: 19.821.796 ^Source
Latitude: 23 533S
Longitude: 46 617W

(Source: IBGE - 2005 Estimate)

[edit] Municipalities

The 39 municipalities of the area are:

For more details about São Caetano do Sul, Santo André and São Bernardo do Campo see ABC Region.

[edit] Transport

Being the most industrialized region of the country as well as the most populated, the transportation plays an important role. The main higways of the area are: