Greater São Paulo

The Greater São Paulo (Portuguese: Grande São Paulo) is a nanspecific term for ane o the multiple definitions the muckle metropolitan aurie locatit in the São Paulo state in Brazil.

Various definitions o Greater São Paulo.

  RMSP, legally defined "core" metropolitan area/region

Extended Urban Area:

  Ootlyin metropolitan auries o Baixada Santista (sooth coast), Campinas (north), São José dos Campos (east)

  Microregion o Jundiai

  Microregion o Sorocaba

  lesser developed auries sometimes includit in extendit metropolitan region: Microregion Bragança Paulista(pt), Microregion Piracicaba(pt) an ceeties o Limeira, Rio Claro, an Araras.

Definitions

Metropolitan Aurie

A legally defined specific term, Região Metropolitana São Paulo (RMSP), ane definition for Metropolitan São Paulo, consists o 39 municipalities, includin the caipital, São Paulo.

The RMSP o São Paulo is kent as a financial an economic centre o Brazil, wi a total population o 19,683,975 indwallers (2010 Naitional Census). The mucklest municipalities are São Paulo, wi a population o 11,253,503, Guarulhos wi a population o 1,221,979 fowk, plus several municipalities wi mair nor 100,000 inhabitants, such as São Bernardo do Campo (765,463 inh.) an Santo André (676,407 inh.) in the ABC Region. The ABC Region (frae Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo an São Caetano do Sul) in the sooth o Grande São Paulo is an important location for industrial corporations, such as Volkswagen an Ford. It represents the "core" ceeties o the greater region.

Extendit Metropolitan Aurie

The extendit metropolitan aurie o São Paulo (Complexo Metropolitano Estendido de São Paulo) is an agglomeration of 3 contiguous metropolitan auries that hae grown intae ane anither an 3 microregions, dominatit bi São Paulo, it consists o the contiguous entities:

Legally Defined Destrict	Population (2009 IBGE estimate)[1]	Aurie (km²)	Density (per km²)
Microregion o Sorocaba(pt)	1,308,111	4,202	311
Microregion o Jundiai(pt)	607,712	802.5	757
Baixada Santista or Santos(RMBS, pt)	1,668,428	2,422	689
Metro Region Campinas(pt)	2,770,862	3,645.6	760
Microregion São José dos Campos(pt)	1,395,905	4,046	345
Metropolitan Region São Paulo(RMSP, pt)	19,889,559	7,943.8	2,503
CME São Paulo (Extendit Metropolitan Complex o São Paulo)	27,640,577	23,061.9	1,198

RMSP Statistics

• Territorial aurie: 8,051 km²
• Urban aurie: 2,139 km²
• Population: 19,677,506^[2]
• Latitude: 23 533S
• Langitude: 46 617W

Municipalities in RMSP

N°	Municipality (Município)	Aurie (km2)	1991 census	Density (Inhab/km2)[3]	2000 census	Density (Inhab/km2)	Estimate 2008[4][5]	Density (Inhab/km2)	GDP (2005)[6]
1	Arujá	97	37,622	388	59,185	610	79,000	814	934,992,000
2	Barueri	64	130,799	2,044	208,281	3,254	265,000	4,140	22,430,475,000
3	Biritiba-Mirim	317	17,833	56	24,653	78	29,000	91	164,634,000
4	Caieiras	96	39,069	407	71,221	742	87,000	906	1,040,734,000
5	Cajamar	128	33,736	264	50,761	397	63,000	492	1,915,590,000
6	Carapicuíba	35	283,661	8,105	344,596	9,846	389,000	11,114	1,915,285,000
7	Cotia	324	107,453	332	148,987	460	179,000	552	3,472,181,000
8	Diadema	31	305,287	9,848	357,064	11,518	394,000	12,709	7,344,570,000
9	Embu	70	155,990	2,228	207,663	2,967	245,000	3,500	1,834,260,000
10	Embu-Guaçu	155	36,277	234	56,916	367	62,000	400	366,844,000
11	Ferraz de Vasconcelos	30	96,166	3,206	142,377	4,746	176,000	5,866	793,081,000
12	Francisco Morato	49	83,885	1,712	133,738	2,729	155,000	3,163	512,822,000
13	Franco da Rocha	134	85,535	638	108,122	807	129,000	962	1,186,777,000
14	Guararema	271	17,961	66	21,904	81	27,000	99	364,164,000
15	Guarulhos	318	787,866	2,478	1,072,717	3,373	1,279,000	4,022	21,615,314,000
16	Itapevi	91	107,976	1,187	162,433	1,785	202,000	2,219	1,809,328,000
17	Itapecerica da Serra	151	85,640	567	129,685	859	159,000	1,052	1,925,151,000
18	Itaquaquecetuba	82	164,957	2,012	272,942	3,329	351,000	4,280	1,733,662,000
19	Jandira	18	62,697	3,483	91,807	5,100	110,000	6,111	1,091,263,000
20	Juquitiba	522	19,969	38	26,459	51	29,000	55	176,268,000
21	Mairiporã	321	39,937	124	60,111	187	77,000	239	606,428,000
22	Mauá	62	294,998	4,758	363,392	5,861	413,000	6,661	4,861,255,000
23	Mogi das Cruzes	714	58,374	82	65,574	92	371,000	519	4,425,513,000
24	Osasco	65	568,225	8,742	652,593	10,040	713,000	10,969	18,310,452,000
25	Pirapora do Bom Jesus	108	7,956	74	12,395	115	15,000	138	110,396,000
26	Poá	17	76,302	4,488	95,801	5,635	111,000	6,529	1,459,161,000
27	Ribeirão Pires	99	85,085	859	104,508	1,056	111,000	1,121	1,141,011,000
28	Rio Grande da Serra	37	29,901	808	37,091	1,002	41,000	1,108	239,390,000
29	Salesópolis	426	11,359	27	14,357	34	16,000	37	137,580,000
30	Santa Isabel	361	37,975	105	43,740	121	47,000	130	359,216,000
31	Santana de Parnaíba	184	37,762	205	74,828	407	111,000	603	2,245,994,000
32	Santo André	175	616,991	3,526	649,331	3,710	672,000	3,840	11,426,975,000
33	São Bernardo do Campo	406	566,893	1,396	703,177	1,732	802,000	1,975	19,446,018,000
34	São Caetano do Sul	15	149,519	9,968	140,159	9,344	151,000	10,066	8,003,490,000
35	São Lourenço da Serra	187	7,506	40	12,199	65	18,000	96	120,750,000
36	São Paulo	1,523	9,646,185	6,334	10,434,252	6,851	10,990,000	7,216	263,177,148,000
37	Suzano	206	158,839	771	228,690	1,110	279,000	1,354	4,289,553,000
38	Taboão da Serra	20	160,084	8,004	197,644	9,882	225,000	11,250	3,089,793,000
39	Vargem Grande Paulista	34	15,870	467	32,683	961	44,000	1,294	421,724,000
-	Total	7,943	15,230,140	1,917	17,614,036	2,218	19,616,000	2,469	416,499,242,000

1,000,000+

• São Paulo (11,038,000)
• Guarulhos (1,279,000)

500,000-999,999

• São Bernardo do Campo (802,000)
• Osasco (713,000)
• Santo André (672,000)

200,000-499,999

• Mauá (413,000)
• Diadema (394,000)
• Carapicuíba (389,000)
• Mogi das Cruzes (371,000)
• Itaquaquecetuba (351,000)
• Suzano (279,000)
• Barueri (265,000)
• Embu (245,000)
• Taboão da Serra (225,000)
• Itapevi (202,000)

100,000-199,999

• Cotia (179,000)
• Ferraz de Vasconcelos (176,000)
• Itapecerica da Serra (159,000)
• Francisco Morato (155,000)
• São Caetano do Sul (151,000)
• Franco da Rocha (129,000)
• Poá (112,481)
• Ribeirão Pires (112,020)
• Santana de Parnaíba (111,000)
• Jandira (110,000)

Unner 100,000

• Caieiras (87,000)
• Arujá (79,000)
• Mairiporã (77,000)
• Cajamar (63,000)
• Embu-Guaçu (62,000)
• Santa Isabel (47,000)
• Vargem Grande Paulista (44,000)
• Rio Grande da Serra (41,000)
• Biritiba-Mirim (29,000)
• Juquitiba (29,000)
• Guararema (27,000)
• São Lourenço da Serra (18,000)
• Salesópolis (16,000)
• Pirapora do Bom Jesus (15,000)

Transport

Being the maist industrialisit region o the kintra as well as the maist populatit, the transportation plays an important role. The main heichgates (rodovias) o the aurie are:

• Rodovia Anhangüera
• Rodovia dos Imigrantes
• Rodovia Anchieta
• Rodovia dos Bandeirantes
• Rodovia Presidente Dutra
• Rodovia Ayrton Senna
• Rodovia Castelo Branco
• Rodovia Fernão Dias
• Rodovia Raposo Tavares
• Rodovia Régis Bittencourt
• Rodoanel Mário Covas