1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Brazil
Compare this sourced profile of São Paulo, 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 São Paulo—12,400,232, 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 São Paulo is GeoNames ID 3448439. Its recorded administrative path is Sao Paulo → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. São Paulo 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 2026-04-13; 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 Paulo ranks 12 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 1; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 1. Its 12,400,232 population value is 16.35 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 15.19 times the 816,326 regional median. São Paulo falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Brazil population cohort. São Paulo's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
São Paulo's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Guarulhos at 14.092 km with 1,345,364 recorded people; Osasco at 15.945 km with 728,615 recorded people; Santo André at 16.333 km with 662,373 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 2.241 km. Compared with Guarulhos, São Paulo's recorded population is 9.22 times as large. Against São Paulo, 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below São Paulo's. Against São Paulo, Osasco follows Osasco → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below São Paulo's. Against São Paulo, Santo André follows Santo Andre → Sao Paulo → 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 first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below São Paulo's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 201 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. São Paulo's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter 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 3448439, the coordinate pair 23.5475 / 46.6361, country rank 1 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3461786 at 14.092 km bind São Paulo to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
São Paulo's reference point is 23.5475° south and 46.6361° west. The IANA identifier America/Sao_Paulo is shared by 30 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. São Paulo's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. São Paulo's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. São Paulo's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for São Paulo, 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
São Paulo's closest other entries in this atlas are Guarulhos (14.092 km), Osasco (15.945 km), Santo André (16.333 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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