1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Brazil
Compare this sourced profile of Florianópolis, 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 Florianópolis—508,826, 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 Florianópolis is GeoNames ID 3463237. Its recorded administrative path is Florianopolis → Santa Catarina → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Florianópolis 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, Florianópolis ranks 1,124 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 45; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 186. Its 508,826 population value is 0.67 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 0.62 times the 816,326 regional median. Florianópolis sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Brazil entries. Florianópolis'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.
Florianópolis's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Joinville at 146.662 km with 664,500 recorded people; Curitiba at 251.694 km with 1,948,626 recorded people; Caxias do Sul at 311.017 km with 479,599 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 164.355 km. Compared with Joinville, Florianópolis's recorded population is 0.77 times as large. Against Florianópolis, Joinville follows Joinville → Santa Catarina → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Florianópolis's. Against Florianópolis, Curitiba follows Curitiba → Parana → 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 the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Florianópolis's. Against Florianópolis, Caxias do Sul follows Caxias Do Sul → Rio Grande do Sul → 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 Florianópolis's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 866 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Florianópolis'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 3463237, the coordinate pair 27.5967 / 48.5492, country rank 45 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3459712 at 146.662 km bind Florianópolis to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Florianópolis's reference point is 27.5967° south and 48.5492° 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. Florianópolis's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Florianópolis's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Florianópolis's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Florianópolis, 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
Florianópolis's closest other entries in this atlas are Joinville (146.662 km), Curitiba (251.694 km), Caxias do Sul (311.017 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.