Greater Goiânia

The metropolitan region of Goiânia - official name: Grande Goiânia [G 1] - is a metropolitan area around the capital of the Brazilian state of Goiás Goiânia.

She is the first metropolitan area in the Brazilian Midwest, and since March 2011 comprises twenty municipalities with some 2.1 million inhabitants with a population density of almost 300 inhabitants per square kilometer. Within Brazil, it is the tenth- largest metropolitan area in the world and she holds the rank 210

Formation

By state law supplement by the end of 1999, the newly defined metropolitan area of ​​Goiânia originally comprised eleven municipalities [G 1 ] [U 1], together with the nine Goiânia directly adjacent municipalities:

And in the south adjoining municipality Hidrolândia.

For an integrated development planning of the metropolitan area ( Portuguese: Região de Desenvolvimento Integrado Goiás - RDIG ) further nine municipalities were in March 2010, after several intermediate changes in legislation, attached: [ G 2]

Not the metropolitan region of Goiânia counts the directly adjacent to the northeast, economically strong city Anápolis with another 335 032 inhabitants. With an annual growth rate of 2.5 % (2000-2007 ), ie more than 50,000 inhabitants / year, includes the Goiânia metropolitan region together with Brasília and Salvador among the fastest growing regions in Brazil. [V 1]