1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Brazil
Compare this sourced profile of Nova Iguaçu, 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 Nova Iguaçu—843,046, 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 Nova Iguaçu is GeoNames ID 3456160. Its recorded administrative path is Nova Iguacu → Rio de Janeiro → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Nova Iguaçu 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, Nova Iguaçu ranks 664 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 21; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 94. Its 843,046 population value is 1.11 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 1.03 times the 816,326 regional median. Nova Iguaçu sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Brazil population cohort. Nova Iguaçu'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.
Nova Iguaçu's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Belford Roxo at 5.327 km with 518,384 recorded people; Duque de Caxias at 14.594 km with 866,347 recorded people; Rio de Janeiro at 32.053 km with 6,747,815 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 26.726 km. Compared with Belford Roxo, Nova Iguaçu's recorded population is 1.63 times as large. Against Nova Iguaçu, Belford Roxo follows Belford Roxo → 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 below Nova Iguaçu's. Against Nova Iguaçu, 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 Nova Iguaçu's. Against Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro follows 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Nova Iguaçu's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 57 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Nova Iguaçu's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth 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 3456160, the coordinate pair 22.7592 / 43.4511, country rank 21 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3470142 at 5.327 km bind Nova Iguaçu to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Nova Iguaçu's reference point is 22.7592° south and 43.4511° 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. Nova Iguaçu's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Nova Iguaçu's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Nova Iguaçu's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Nova Iguaçu, 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
Nova Iguaçu's closest other entries in this atlas are Belford Roxo (5.327 km), Duque de Caxias (14.594 km), Rio de Janeiro (32.053 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.