Metropolitan area in Brazil
As of 2018, there are 74 metropolitan areas in Brazil that are determined by federal or state law and are spread across all major regions and states. The creation of a metropolitan region does not only have purely statistical purposes, its main purpose is a management system for public tasks of the common interests of the covered communities (here in Portuguese municípios ). These metropolitan areas have no legal personality, nor can the citizens elect representatives to the metropolitan administrations.
While metropolitan regions are each located in a federal state, there are also 12 RIDEs or Região integrada de desenvolvimento econômico (German: integration region for economic development) created by special federal legislation for cross-state metropolitan areas .
development
In 2000 there were 25 metropolitan regions, the 2010 census of the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) recorded 36 metropolitan regions, and since the last official census the number has increased by a further 32 metropolitan regions. Estimates of the population are presented annually.
In 2016, the Sobral metropolitan region was added as the third RM in Ceará.
Metropolitan regions 2016
Metropolitan areas according to the 2010 census
List of the 36 metropolitan regions and the three RIDEs (Regiões Integradas de Desenvolvimento Econômico), sorted by population according to the results of the 2010 census. Three of the metropolitan regions are interstate.
Web links
- IBGE : Sinopse do Censo Demográfico 2010. Regiões Metropolitanas. Format: Microsoft Excel document, zip files via the IBGE's FTP server
Individual evidence
- ↑ Informações Básicas the Regiões Metropolitanas Brasileiras. METRODATA, Observatório de Políticas Urbanas e Gestão Municipal, 2000, accessed on May 25, 2017 (Portuguese).
- ^ Sistema IBGE de Recuperação Automática - SIDRA. In: gov.br. sidra.ibge.gov.br, accessed on October 27, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese, database query: Unidades Territoriais do Nível Região Metropolitana).