1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Brazil
Compare this sourced profile of Belo Horizonte, 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 Belo Horizonte—2,721,564, 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: human settlement in Brazil.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Belo Horizonte is GeoNames ID 3470127. Its recorded administrative path is Belo Horizonte → Minas Gerais → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Belo Horizonte 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 2026-04-13; 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, Belo Horizonte ranks 138 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 3; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 15. Its 2,721,564 population value is 3.59 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 3.33 times the 816,326 regional median. Belo Horizonte falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Brazil population cohort. Belo Horizonte's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Belo Horizonte's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Contagem at 12.168 km with 627,123 recorded people; Juiz de Fora at 213.868 km with 540,756 recorded people; Nova Iguaçu at 319.607 km with 843,046 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 307.439 km. Compared with Contagem, Belo Horizonte's recorded population is 4.34 times as large. Against Belo Horizonte, Contagem follows Contagem → Minas Gerais → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Belo Horizonte's. Against Belo Horizonte, Juiz de Fora follows Juiz de Fora → Minas Gerais → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Belo Horizonte's. Against Belo Horizonte, Nova Iguaçu follows Nova Iguacu → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Belo Horizonte's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 176 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Belo Horizonte's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter 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 3470127, the coordinate pair 19.9208 / 43.9378, country rank 3 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3465624 at 12.168 km bind Belo Horizonte to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Belo Horizonte's reference point is 19.9208° south and 43.9378° west. The IANA identifier America/Sao_Paulo is shared by 30 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Belo Horizonte's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Belo Horizonte's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Belo Horizonte's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Belo Horizonte at 888 metres above sea level, a single reference value rather than a description of slopes across the city. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Belo Horizonte's closest other entries in this atlas are Contagem (12.168 km), Juiz de Fora (213.868 km), Nova Iguaçu (319.607 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; 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.