1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Brazil
Compare this sourced profile of Campos dos Goytacazes, 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 Campos dos Goytacazes—483,540, 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 Campos dos Goytacazes is GeoNames ID 3467693. Its recorded administrative path is Campos Dos Goytacazes → Rio de Janeiro → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Campos dos Goytacazes 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 2026-07-13; 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, Campos dos Goytacazes ranks 1,185 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 46; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 195. Its 483,540 population value is 0.64 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 0.59 times the 816,326 regional median. Campos dos Goytacazes sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Brazil entries. Campos dos Goytacazes'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.
Campos dos Goytacazes's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Juiz de Fora at 208.598 km with 540,756 recorded people; Serra at 209.461 km with 520,653 recorded people; Niterói at 221.551 km with 515,317 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 12.953 km. Compared with Juiz de Fora, Campos dos Goytacazes's recorded population is 0.89 times as large. Against Campos dos Goytacazes, Juiz de Fora follows Juiz de Fora → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Campos dos Goytacazes's. Against Campos dos Goytacazes, Serra follows Serra → Espirito Santo → Brazil in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Campos dos Goytacazes's. Against Campos dos Goytacazes, Niterói follows Niteroi → Rio de Janeiro → 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 second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Campos dos Goytacazes's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,018 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Campos dos Goytacazes's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. 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 3467693, the coordinate pair 21.7523 / 41.3304, country rank 46 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3459505 at 208.598 km bind Campos dos Goytacazes to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Campos dos Goytacazes's reference point is 21.7523° south and 41.3304° west. The IANA identifier America/Sao_Paulo is shared by 30 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Campos dos Goytacazes's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Campos dos Goytacazes's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Campos dos Goytacazes's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Campos dos Goytacazes, 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
Campos dos Goytacazes's closest other entries in this atlas are Juiz de Fora (208.598 km), Serra (209.461 km), Niterói (221.551 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-07-13; 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.