Microregions of Brazil

For other uses, see Microregion.

A microregion (Portuguese: Microrregião) was a legally defined area in Brazil consisting of a group of municipalities. They were abolished in 2017 and replaced by Intermediate and Immediate Geographic Regions.^[1] Microregions were grouped together into mesoregions. In theory, Brazilian law provided for member municipalities to cooperate on matters of common interest, but in practice, the divisions were used primarily for statistical purposes by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.^{[citation needed]}

List of microregions

In 2014, there were 5,570 municipalities, divided among 558 microregions and 137 mesoregions:^[2]

State	Mesoregions	Microregions	Municipalities
Central-West Brazil	15	52	466
Federal District	1	1	1
Goiás	5	18	246
Mato Grosso	5	22	141
Mato Grosso do Sul	4	11	79
Northeast Brazil	42	188	1794
Alagoas	3	13	102
Bahia	7	32	417
Ceará	7	33	184
Maranhão	5	21	217
Paraíba	4	23	223
Pernambuco	5	19	185
Piauí	4	15	224
Rio Grande do Norte	4	19	167
Sergipe	3	13	75
North Brazil	20	64	450
Acre	2	5	22
Amapá	2	4	16
Amazonas	4	13	62
Pará	6	22	144
Rondônia	2	8	52
Roraima	2	4	15
Tocantins	2	8	139
Southeast Brazil	37	160	1668
Espírito Santo	4	13	78
Minas Gerais	12	66	853
Rio de Janeiro	6	18	92
São Paulo	15	63	645
South Brazil	23	94	1191
Paraná	10	39	399
Rio Grande do Sul	7	35	497
Santa Catarina	6	20	295
Total	136	557	5569