1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Brazil
Compare this sourced profile of Juiz de Fora, 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 Juiz de Fora—540,756, 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 Juiz de Fora is GeoNames ID 3459505. Its recorded administrative path is Juiz de Fora → Minas Gerais → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Juiz de Fora 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, Juiz de Fora ranks 1,039 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 38; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 169. Its 540,756 population value is 0.71 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 0.66 times the 816,326 regional median. Juiz de Fora sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Brazil entries. Juiz de Fora'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.
Juiz de Fora's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Nova Iguaçu at 111.124 km with 843,046 recorded people; Belford Roxo at 111.31 km with 518,384 recorded people; Duque de Caxias at 113.643 km with 866,347 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 2.519 km. Compared with Nova Iguaçu, Juiz de Fora's recorded population is 0.64 times as large. Against Juiz de Fora, Nova Iguaçu follows Nova Iguacu → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Juiz de Fora's. Against Juiz de Fora, Belford Roxo follows Belford Roxo → 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 below Juiz de Fora's. Against Juiz de Fora, Duque de Caxias follows Duque De Caxias → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Juiz de Fora's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 741 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Juiz de Fora'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 3459505, the coordinate pair 21.7642 / 43.3503, country rank 38 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3456160 at 111.124 km bind Juiz de Fora to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Juiz de Fora's reference point is 21.7642° south and 43.3503° 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. Juiz de Fora's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Juiz de Fora's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Juiz de Fora's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Juiz de Fora, 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
Juiz de Fora's closest other entries in this atlas are Nova Iguaçu (111.124 km), Belford Roxo (111.31 km), Duque de Caxias (113.643 km).
04Verify before you book
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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.