The mesoregion Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte is one of the twelve
mesoregions of the
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
ian state of
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais () is a state in Southeastern Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by gross domestic product (GDP), and the fourth largest by area in the country. The state's capital and largest city, Belo Horizonte (literally ...
. It is composed of 105 municipalities,
distributed across 8
microregions.
It is the most populous and densely populated of all the mesoregions of Minas Gerais.
The largest city by population is
Belo Horizonte.
The mesoregion encompasses all the
Belo Horizonte metropolitan region (which has only 34 cities), and both should not be confused. The former is a geographical division created by the
Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics for statistical purposes, while the latter is the definition of a
metropolitan area.
References
Mesoregions of Minas Gerais
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