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 Guarulhos—1,345,364, 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: settlement in Brazil.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Guarulhos is GeoNames ID 3461786. Its recorded administrative path is Guarulhos → Sao Paulo → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Guarulhos 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, Guarulhos ranks 373 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 13; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 53. Its 1,345,364 population value is 1.77 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 1.65 times the 816,326 regional median. Guarulhos sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Brazil population cohort. Guarulhos's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Guarulhos's three nearest other atlas coordinates are São Paulo at 14.092 km with 12,400,232 recorded people; Santo André at 22.368 km with 662,373 recorded people; São Bernardo do Campo at 25.9 km with 840,499 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 11.808 km. Compared with São Paulo, Guarulhos's recorded population is 0.11 times as large. Against Guarulhos, São Paulo follows Sao Paulo → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Guarulhos's. Against Guarulhos, Santo André follows Santo Andre → Sao Paulo → 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 populated place class. Its recorded population is below Guarulhos's. Against Guarulhos, São Bernardo do Campo follows Sao Bernardo Do Campo → Sao Paulo → 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 populated place class. Its recorded population is below Guarulhos's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 201 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Guarulhos'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 3461786, the coordinate pair 23.4628 / 46.5333, country rank 13 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3448439 at 14.092 km bind Guarulhos to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Guarulhos's reference point is 23.4628° south and 46.5333° 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. Guarulhos's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Guarulhos's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Guarulhos's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Guarulhos, 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
Guarulhos's closest other entries in this atlas are São Paulo (14.092 km), Santo André (22.368 km), São Bernardo do Campo (25.9 km).
04Verify before you book
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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.