1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Brazil
Compare this sourced profile of Belford Roxo, Brazil before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Belford Roxo—518,384, America/Sao_Paulo, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: main city of Belford Roxo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Belford Roxo is GeoNames ID 3470142. Its recorded administrative path is Belford Roxo → Rio de Janeiro → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Belford Roxo occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-07-14; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Belford Roxo ranks 1,097 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 42; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 180. Its 518,384 population value is 0.68 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 0.64 times the 816,326 regional median. Belford Roxo sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Brazil entries. Belford Roxo's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Belford Roxo's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Nova Iguaçu at 5.327 km with 843,046 recorded people; Duque de Caxias at 9.308 km with 866,347 recorded people; Rio de Janeiro at 27.307 km with 6,747,815 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 21.98 km. Compared with Nova Iguaçu, Belford Roxo's recorded population is 0.61 times as large. Against Belford Roxo, Nova Iguaçu follows Nova Iguacu → Rio de Janeiro → Brazil in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Belford Roxo's. Against Belford Roxo, Duque de Caxias follows Duque De Caxias → Rio de Janeiro → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Belford Roxo's. Against Belford Roxo, Rio de Janeiro follows Rio de Janeiro → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Belford Roxo's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 57 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Belford Roxo's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth of the atlas. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3470142, the coordinate pair 22.7642 / 43.3994, country rank 42 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3456160 at 5.327 km bind Belford Roxo to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Belford Roxo's reference point is 22.7642° south and 43.3994° west. The IANA identifier America/Sao_Paulo is shared by 30 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Belford Roxo's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Belford Roxo's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Belford Roxo's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Belford Roxo, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Belford Roxo's closest other entries in this atlas are Nova Iguaçu (5.327 km), Duque de Caxias (9.308 km), Rio de Janeiro (27.307 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-07-14; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.