São Paulo
Largest city of Brazil, and capital of the State of São Paulo
Also known as City of São Paulo · Saint Paul · St. Paul · Sao Paulo
- Located in
- Population
- 11.5M(2022)
1
Sources- 1.“Tabela 9605 - População residente, por cor ou raça, nos Censos Demográficos”sidra.ibge.gov.br/tabela/9605Retrieved 2024-11-30
- , 11.9M(July 1, 2025)
1
Sources- 1.ftp.ibge.gov.br/Estimativas_de_Populacao/Estimativas_2025/estimativa_dou_2025.odsRetrieved 2025-08-29
- , 11.9M(July 1, 2024)
1
Sources- 1.ftp.ibge.gov.br/Estimativas_de_Populacao/Estimativas_2024/estimativa_dou_2024.odsRetrieved 2025-08-29
- +35 more
- 11.5M(2022)
- Area
- 1,523 km²
- Elevation
- 760 m
- Head of government
- Ricardo Nunes(since 2021)
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- , Bruno Covas(2018–2021)
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- , João Doria(2017–2018)
- +49 more
- Ricardo Nunes(since 2021)
- Founded
- January 25, 1554
- Postal code
- 01000-000
Overview
Over time
Dated values recorded in Wikidata, each with its own source
All data
331 statements · 37% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
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Sources- 1.“Sao Paulo, Brazil & Miami Dade County, Florida”sister-cities.org/interactive-map/relationship/Sao%20Paulo%2C%20Brazil/Miami%20Dade%20County%2C%20Florida
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- Shares border with
- Cajamar
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- Santo André
1
- Juquitiba
1
- Embu-Guaçu
1
- Itapecerica da Serra
1
- Embu das Artes
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- Taboão da Serra
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- Cotia
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- Cajamar
- Native label
- São Paulo pronunciation audio: Pt-br São Paulo.ogg
- Official name
- São Paulo
- Time of earliest written record
- January 25, 1554
- Highest point
- Pico do Jaraguá elevation: 1,135 m
- Demonym
- paulistano
- San-Paŭlano
- Paulistaine applies to part: feminine singular
- Paulistain applies to part: masculine singular
- paulistani applies to part: masculine plural
- Sãopaulčan applies to part: masculine singular
- Sãopaulčanka applies to part: feminine singular
- Social media followers
- 253,208(April 22, 2020) x (twitter) numeric user id: 2515983236
- Anthem
- Anthem of the Municipality of São Paulo has characteristic: unofficial · laws applied: Q19552822
- Electorate
- 9,141,350(March 2022)
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- 9,141,350(March 2022)
- IPA transcription
- sɐ̃w̃ ˈpawlu language: Brazilian Portuguese
- Hashtag
- São_Paulo language: Brazilian Portuguese
On other databases
93 identifiers linking São Paulo across the web's reference databases
- ArchINFORM location ID97
- Armeniapedia ID4462
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlinesan-paulas-1
- BabelNet ID00069212n
- BBC News topic IDc2rnyqk5v8jt
- BBC Things ID91dfae31-dac6-4c48-8287-411182142c03
- BHCL UUID2f355215-e889-4958-a550-c6cd56a1e9c9
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID11865486s
- Biblissima authority IDQ28479
- Brazilian Electoral Unit ID71072
- Brazilian municipality code3550308
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDsao-paulo
- Canadiana Name Authority IDncf10604665
- CANTIC ID981061143868806706
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Sao-Paulo-Brazil
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDsao-paulo
- Facebook location ID112047398814697
- Facebook usernamePrefSP
- FactGrid item IDQ80894
- FAST ID1205761
- Freebase ID/m/022pfm
- GeoNames ID6324358
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID7017121
- Giant Bomb Wiki IDLocations/Sao_Paulo
- GND ID4051667-2
- GNS Unique Feature ID14683712
- Google Arts & Culture entity IDm022pfm
- Google Maps Customer ID11216578848956308398
- Google News topics IDCAAqIggKIhxDQkFTRHdvSkwyMHZNREl5Y0dadEVnSnFZU2dBUAE
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDsao-paulo-0
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0060871
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDSão_Paulo_-_by
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)3533467
- Grove Art Online IDT075945
- Gynopedia IDSão Paulo
- Harper's tagsao-paulo
- HASCBR.SP.SP
- IdRef ID02640026X
- IMDb keywordsao-paulo-brazil
- INaturalist place ID25311
- Interlingual Index IDi83365
- ISNI000000012108298X
- J9U entity ID987007547810305171
- Japan Search name IDサンパウロ
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID (Russian)13688
- Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID4051667-2
- Klexikon article IDSão_Paulo
- Lex IDSão_Paulo
- Libraries Australia ID36750999
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn79077404
- Libris-URI42gjjrpn1cklhfp
- Museum-digital place ID15770
- MusicBrainz area ID33e0f86c-d709-448d-a484-d55778913af1
- National Historical Museums of Sweden IDgeo/3f32d3d2-1377-4c37-a84e-50b829f6f96a
- National Library of Brazil ID000079820
- National Library of Greece ID279264
- National Library of Ireland IDvtls001139220
- National Library of Latvia ID000287053
- National Library of Lithuania IDLNB:s5z;=CC
- National Library of Portugal ID798395
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN IDXX452424
- Naver Encyclopedia ID (pre-August 2026)2059108
- NDL Authority ID00628541
- NE.se IDsao-paulo
- NL CR AUT IDge137429
- NUKAT IDn2014062207
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning944645
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3972260
- OpenStreetMap relation ID298285
- Provenio UUID28668765-925c-43e6-97fa-fa5fd78549af
- Quora topic IDSão-Paulo
- RKD thesaurus ID6326
- SBN place IDBRIL000169
- ScienceDirect topic IDengineering/sao-paulo
- SELIBR ID164750
- Slovak National Library (VIAF) IDvtls007335296
- SNARC IDQ1933
- SNK ID222470
- Subredditsaopaulo
- Treccani's Dizionario di Storia IDsan-paolo
- U.S. National Archives Identifier10046177
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID12642
- UN/LOCODEBRSAO
- VIAF cluster ID126223335
- Vikidia article IDen:São_Paulo
- Wellcome Collection concept IDu79h5q5x
- Who's on First ID101965533
- WikiKids IDSão_Paulo
- World Historical Gazetteer place ID12345967
- WorldCat Entities IDE39PBJq74rTGKG9VQj7Ff3wHmd
