Source identity and administrative path
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.
Population position inside fixed cohorts
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.
Nearest-reference pattern
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.
Coordinate, time-zone and class cohorts
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.
Full field record
Fixed GeoNames snapshot · not live travel data- Record keys
- Nova IguaçuGeoNames 3456160Q22038549
- Name scope
- Nova Iguaçu1 atlas row share this source labelqualifier not required
- Administrative chain
- Nova IguacuRio de JaneiroBrazil
- Coordinate signature
- 22.7592° S43.4511° W
- Population snapshot
- 843,046atlas rank 664 of 1,206
- Country comparison
- Brazil rank 21 of 48median 758,563ratio 1.11×
- Regional comparison
- the Americas rank 94 of 198median 816,326ratio 1.03×
- Time-zone cohort
- America/Sao_Paulo30 of 1,206 atlas rows
- Place-class cohort
- PPLA2 second-order administrative seat341 of 1,206 rows
- Elevation field
- Nova Iguaçumissing in GeoNames
- Nearest reference
- Belford Roxo5.327 kmpopulation 518,384atlas rank 1,097
- Second reference
- Duque de Caxias14.594 kmpopulation 866,347atlas rank 643
- Third reference
- Rio de Janeiro32.053 kmpopulation 6,747,815atlas rank 45
- Neighbour geometry
- Nova Iguaçunearest-distance rank 57 of 1,206three-reference spread 26.726 km
- Source dates
- Nova Iguaçu row updated 2026-07-13atlas dataset checked 2026-08-04