1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Brazil
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Contagem—627,123, 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 Contagem is GeoNames ID 3465624. Its recorded administrative path is Contagem → Minas Gerais → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Contagem 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 2012-08-03; 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, Contagem ranks 889 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 33; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 144. Its 627,123 population value is 0.83 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 0.77 times the 816,326 regional median. Contagem sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Brazil entries. Contagem's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Contagem's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Belo Horizonte at 12.168 km with 2,721,564 recorded people; Juiz de Fora at 216.474 km with 540,756 recorded people; Nova Iguaçu at 320.534 km with 843,046 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 308.366 km. Compared with Belo Horizonte, Contagem's recorded population is 0.23 times as large. Against Contagem, Belo Horizonte follows Belo Horizonte → Minas Gerais → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Contagem's. Against Contagem, 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 populated place. Its recorded population is below Contagem's. Against Contagem, 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 populated place. Its recorded population is above Contagem's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 176 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Contagem'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 3465624, the coordinate pair 19.9317 / 44.0536, country rank 33 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3470127 at 12.168 km bind Contagem to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Contagem's reference point is 19.9317° south and 44.0536° 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. Contagem's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Contagem's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Contagem's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Contagem, 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
Contagem's closest other entries in this atlas are Belo Horizonte (12.168 km), Juiz de Fora (216.474 km), Nova Iguaçu (320.534 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2012-08-03; 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.