1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Brazil
Compare this sourced profile of Sorocaba, 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 Sorocaba—762,172, 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 Sorocaba is GeoNames ID 3447399. Its recorded administrative path is Sorocaba → Sao Paulo → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Sorocaba 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, Sorocaba ranks 724 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 24; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 106. Its 762,172 population value is 1.00 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 0.93 times the 816,326 regional median. Sorocaba sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Brazil population cohort. Sorocaba'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.
Sorocaba's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Osasco at 68.031 km with 728,615 recorded people; Campinas at 77.729 km with 1,031,554 recorded people; São Paulo at 83.955 km with 12,400,232 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 15.924 km. Compared with Osasco, Sorocaba's recorded population is 1.05 times as large. Against Sorocaba, Osasco follows Osasco → 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 second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Sorocaba's. Against Sorocaba, Campinas follows Campinas → 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 second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Sorocaba's. Against Sorocaba, São Paulo follows 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Sorocaba's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 544 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Sorocaba'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 3447399, the coordinate pair 23.5017 / 47.4581, country rank 24 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3455775 at 68.031 km bind Sorocaba to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Sorocaba's reference point is 23.5017° south and 47.4581° 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. Sorocaba's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Sorocaba's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Sorocaba's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Sorocaba, 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
Sorocaba's closest other entries in this atlas are Osasco (68.031 km), Campinas (77.729 km), São Paulo (83.955 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.