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 Santo André—662,373, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Santo André is GeoNames ID 3449701. Its recorded administrative path is Santo Andre → Sao Paulo → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Santo André 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 2019-09-19; 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, Santo André ranks 836 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 31; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 128. Its 662,373 population value is 0.87 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 0.81 times the 816,326 regional median. Santo André sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Brazil entries. Santo André'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.
Santo André's three nearest other atlas coordinates are São Bernardo do Campo at 4.302 km with 840,499 recorded people; São Paulo at 16.333 km with 12,400,232 recorded people; Guarulhos at 22.368 km with 1,345,364 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 18.066 km. Compared with São Bernardo do Campo, Santo André's recorded population is 0.79 times as large. Against Santo André, 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 above Santo André's. Against Santo André, São Paulo follows Sao Paulo → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Santo André's. Against Santo André, Guarulhos follows Guarulhos → Sao Paulo → Brazil in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher 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 above Santo André's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 34 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Santo André'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 3449701, the coordinate pair 23.6639 / 46.5383, country rank 31 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3449344 at 4.302 km bind Santo André to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Santo André's reference point is 23.6639° south and 46.5383° 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. Santo André's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Santo André's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Santo André's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Santo André, 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
Santo André's closest other entries in this atlas are São Bernardo do Campo (4.302 km), São Paulo (16.333 km), Guarulhos (22.368 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2019-09-19; 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.