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City profile · Brazil · South America

Contagem

Minas Gerais · Brazil
City population
627,123
#33
in Brazil
#3
in Minas Gerais
#890
worldwide
BrasíliaContagem
-19.932, -44.054 · 618 km from Brasília
City population
627,123
Within the city boundary, not a metro area
Rank in Brazil
#33
of 2,250 cities of 15,000+
World rank
#890
of 31,365 cities listed
Share of Brazil
0.3%
of the national population

About Contagem

Ranked #890 globally by city population, this municipality holds 627,123 residents and ranks third in Minas Gerais. It sits 12 km from Belo Horizonte, a city of 2.7 million, and is surrounded by other substantial urban centres: Betim (384,000 residents, 16 km away) and Ribeirão das Neves (346,971 residents, 19 km away) lie nearby. The city accounts for 0.3% of Brazil's national population.

This summary is AI-generated from the figures on this page. The figures themselves come from the sources cited beside each value.

Position in Brazil
#33of 2,250
LargestSmallest
Position in Minas Gerais
#3of 239
LargestSmallest

Key Facts

Country
Brazil
Region
Minas Gerais
Rank in region
#3of 239
Distance to capital
618 km
to Brasília
Elevation
945 m
Approximate — modelled, not surveyed
Time zone
America/Sao_Paulo
Coordinates
-19.932, -44.054
Record updated
2012-08-03
Entry edited, not measured

City population, GeoNames. GeoNames publishes no year for its population figures, so “record updated” is when the entry was last edited — not the date the population was measured. Elevation is modelled from a digital elevation model rather than surveyed, so it is approximate.

Nearby Cities

All 2,250 in Brazil

Closest listed cities by great-circle distance from the city centre.

10KMIbirité180K people12KMBelo Horizonte2.72M people15KMSarzedo37K people16KMBetim384K people19KMRibeirão das Neves347K people

Compared with the World's Largest Cities

City-proper population against the fifteen largest cities in the dataset.

  1. Shanghai24.9M
  2. Beijing19M
  3. Shenzhen17.5M
  4. Guangzhou16.1M
  5. Kinshasa16M
  6. Istanbul15.7M
  7. Lagos15.4M
  8. Ho Chi Minh City14M
  9. Chengdu13.6M
  10. Lahore13M
  11. Mumbai12.7M
  12. São Paulo12.4M
  13. Mexico City12.3M
  14. Karachi11.6M
  15. Tianjin11.1M
  16. Contagem627K
City-proper figures only. Administrative boundaries differ between countries, so these are not directly comparable to metropolitan-area estimates.
Contagem compared with the fifteen largest cities
NameCity population
Shanghai24.9M
Beijing19M
Shenzhen17.5M
Guangzhou16.1M
Kinshasa16M
Istanbul15.7M
Lagos15.4M
Ho Chi Minh City14M
Chengdu13.6M
Lahore13M
Mumbai12.7M
São Paulo12.4M
Mexico City12.3M
Karachi11.6M
Tianjin11.1M
Contagem627K

Contagem Population FAQ

What is the population of Contagem?

Contagem has a city population of 627,123. That is the population within the city's own boundary, not its wider metropolitan area. City population, GeoNames.

Where is Contagem?

Contagem is in Minas Gerais, Brazil, 618 km from the capital, Brasília. Its coordinates are -19.932, -44.054.

How big is Contagem compared with other cities in Brazil?

It is the 33rd largest of the 2,250 cities of 15,000 or more listed in Brazil, holding 0.3% of the national population.

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