Expanded Metropolitan Complex of São Paulo

Satellite imagery of the Expanded Metropolitan Complex at night.
Various definitions of Greater São Paulo.
  RMSP, legally defined "core" metropolitan area/region
Extended Urban Area:
  Outlying metropolitan areas of Baixada Santista (south coast), Campinas (north), São José dos Campos (east)
  Microregion of Jundiai
  Microregion of Sorocaba
  lesser developed areas sometimes included in extended metropolitan region: Microregion Bragança Paulista(pt), Microregion Piracicaba(pt) and cities of Limeira, Rio Claro, and Araras.

Expanded Metropolitan Complex[1] (also known as Megacity of Brazilian Southeast[2]) is a Brazilian megalopolis (or metropolitan complex) that emerged through the existing process of conurbation between the São Paulo's metropolitan areas located around the Greater São Paulo, with more than 20 million inhabitants, is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world.[2][3][4][5]

Beyond the Greater São Paulo, the megalopolis encompasses the metropolitan areas of Campinas, Santos, Sorocaba and the Paraíba Valley, and other nearby cities, which include urban agglomerations in the conurbation process, as Jundiaí and Piracicaba. The total population of these areas added to the state capital exceeds 31.5 million inhabitants, or about 75% of the population of the entire state of São Paulo.[4]

The metropolitan complex is the only urban cluster (of agglomerations) of its kind in the South America and covers an area of approximately 49,928 square kilometers, connecting 72 municipalities that together are home to 12% of the national population and retains much of the industrial and economic output of the country.[4] It is the 2nd largest urban cluster in the entire Southern Hemisphere, after Western Java urban cluster surrounding Jakarta.

Cities

Legally Defined District Population (2009 IBGE estimate)[6] Area (km²) Density (per km²)
Microregion of Sorocaba(pt) 1,324,176 4,202 311
Microregion of Jundiai(pt) 781,000 802.5 757
Baixada Santista or Santos(RMBS, pt) 1,937,982 2,422 689
Metro Region Campinas(pt) 3,159,806 3,645.6 760
Microregion São José dos Campos(pt) 1,395,905 4,046 345
Metropolitan Region São Paulo(RMSP, pt) 21,110,808 7,943.8 2,503
CME São Paulo (Extended Metropolitan Complex of São Paulo) 29,709,677 23,061.9 1,198

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ "Os eixos de desenvolvimento e a estruturação urbano-industrial do estado de São Paulo, Brasil". www.ub.es. Retrieved 2010-07-04.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Eugenio Fernandes Queiroga (May 2005). "A Megalópole do Sudeste Brasileiro: a formação de uma nova entidade urbana para além das noções de macro-metrópole e de complexo metropolitano expandido". Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Planejamento Urbano e Regional. Retrieved April 2014.
  3. ↑ "World Gazetteer – Welt: Ballungsräume". Retrieved 2008-08-10.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Diego Zanchetta (2008-08-03). "A primeira macrometrópole do hemisfério sul". O Estado de S. Paulo. Retrieved 2008-08-12.
  5. ↑ Secretaria de Planamento de São Paulo, ed. (2007). "CAPÍTULO II DESENVOLVIMENTO REGIONAL E METROPOLITANO" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-04-04.
  6. ↑

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