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 São José dos Campos—727,078, 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 São José dos Campos is GeoNames ID 3448636. Its recorded administrative path is Sao Jose Dos Campos → Sao Paulo → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. São José dos Campos 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, São José dos Campos ranks 760 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 27; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 113. Its 727,078 population value is 0.96 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 0.89 times the 816,326 regional median. São José dos Campos sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Brazil entries. São José dos Campos'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.
São José dos Campos's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Guarulhos at 73.137 km with 1,345,364 recorded people; Santo André at 85.552 km with 662,373 recorded people; São Paulo at 86.736 km with 12,400,232 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 13.599 km. Compared with Guarulhos, São José dos Campos's recorded population is 0.54 times as large. Against São José dos Campos, Guarulhos follows Guarulhos → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above São José dos Campos's. Against São José dos Campos, 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below São José dos Campos's. Against São José dos Campos, 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 second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above São José dos Campos's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 574 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. São José dos Campos's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 3448636, the coordinate pair 23.1794 / 45.8869, country rank 27 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3461786 at 73.137 km bind São José dos Campos to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
São José dos Campos's reference point is 23.1794° south and 45.8869° 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. São José dos Campos's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. São José dos Campos's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. São José dos Campos's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records São José dos Campos at 600 metres above sea level, a single reference value rather than a description of slopes across the city. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
São José dos Campos's closest other entries in this atlas are Guarulhos (73.137 km), Santo André (85.552 km), São Paulo (86.736 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.