Goiânia metropolitan area

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Goiânia metropolitan area
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Expansion of the metropolitan region of Goianira in the state of Goiás / Brazil
Basic data
State : BrazilBrazil Brazil (BRA)
Administrative structure : Midwest
State : GoiásGoiás Goiás (GO)
Number of municipalities: 20th
Area : 7,401.332  km²
Residents : 2,173,141
Population density : 283.8 inhabitants / km²

The metropolitan region of Goiânia , officially Portuguese Região Metropolitana de Goiânia , also known as Grande Goiânia , is a metropolitan area around the capital Goiânia of the Brazilian state of Goiás .

It is the first metropolitan region in the Brazilian Midwest and, since March 2011, has comprised twenty communities with 2,173,141 million inhabitants and a population density of around 300 inhabitants per square kilometer. It is the twelfth largest metropolitan region in Brazil. As of July 1, 2018, the population was estimated at 2,518,775.

Emergence

Due to the amendment to the state law from the end of 1999, the newly defined metropolitan region of Goiânia originally comprised eleven municipalities, along with Goiânia the nine directly adjacent municipalities:

  1. Santo Antônio de Goiás
  2. Neropolis
  3. Goianápolis
  4. Senador Canedo
  5. Aparecida de Goiânia
  6. Aragoiânia
  7. Abadia de Goiás
  8. Trindade
  9. Goianira

as well as the municipality of Hidrolândia bordering it in the south .

(For integrated development planning of the metropolitan area port. : Região Desenvolvimento Integrado de Goiás - RDIG ) further nine municipalities were in March 2010, after several interim changes on the legislative level, affiliated:

  1. Bela Vista de Goiás
  2. Bonfinópolis
  3. Brazabrantes
  4. Caldazinha
  5. Caturaí
  6. Guapó
  7. Inhumas
  8. Nova Veneza
  9. Terezópolis de Goiás

The economically strong city ​​of Anápolis with a further 335,032 inhabitants is not part of the Goiânia metropolitan region .

With an annual growth rate of 2.5% (2000–2007), i. H. Over 50,000 inhabitants / year, the metropolitan region of Goiânia, together with Brasília and Salvador, is one of the fastest growing regions in Brazil.

Population development in the metropolitan area

year population
2000 1,635,000
2010 2,049,000
2017 2,494,000

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b First results of the 2010 census in Goiás (PDF; 30 kB), carried out by IBGE .
  2. ↑ a b Amendment to State Law No. 27 of December 30, 1999
  3. ↑ Região Metropolitana de Goiânia (PDF; 1.2 MB), Observatório das Metrópoles, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; (Brazilian Portuguese)
  4. ^ Map of the Goiânia metropolitan area from 1999 , Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  5. ↑ State Law No. 27, amendment to Art. 1 ° of March 25, 2010
  6. ^ Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia: População Brasileira cresce mais nas Metrópoles ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (Brazilian Portuguese); Retrieved October 20, 2011
  7. ↑ World Urbanization Prospects - Population Division - United Nations. Retrieved July 23, 2018 .