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 Serra—520,653, 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 Serra is GeoNames ID 3447779. Its recorded administrative path is Serra → Espirito Santo → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Serra 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 2025-05-24; 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, Serra ranks 1,089 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 41; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 178. Its 520,653 population value is 0.69 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 0.64 times the 816,326 regional median. Serra sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Brazil entries. Serra's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Serra's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Campos dos Goytacazes at 209.461 km with 483,540 recorded people; Juiz de Fora at 364.539 km with 540,756 recorded people; Belo Horizonte at 379.931 km with 2,721,564 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 170.47 km. Compared with Campos dos Goytacazes, Serra's recorded population is 1.08 times as large. Against Serra, Campos dos Goytacazes follows Campos Dos Goytacazes → Rio de Janeiro → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Serra's. Against Serra, Juiz de Fora follows Juiz de Fora → Minas Gerais → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Serra's. Against Serra, Belo Horizonte follows Belo Horizonte → Minas Gerais → 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 Serra's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,019 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Serra's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half 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 3447779, the coordinate pair 20.1286 / 40.3078, country rank 41 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3467693 at 209.461 km bind Serra to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Serra's reference point is 20.1286° south and 40.3078° 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. Serra's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Serra's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Serra's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Serra, 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
Serra's closest other entries in this atlas are Campos dos Goytacazes (209.461 km), Juiz de Fora (364.539 km), Belo Horizonte (379.931 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-05-24; 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.