The Intermediate and Immediate geographic regions (Portuguese: Regiões geográficas Intermediárias e Imediatas) in Brazil constitute the country's regional geographic division, according to the composition prepared by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
The immediate geographic regions are groupings of municipalities whose main reference is the urban network and have a local urban center as a base, through the IBGE analysis. For its elaboration, the connection of nearby cities through dependency relationships and displacement of the population in search of goods, provision of services and work were taken into consideration. Intermediate regions for their part, are groupings of immediate regions that are articulated through the influence of a metropolis, regional capital or representative urban center.
They were instituted in 2017 for updating the Brazilian regional division and correspond to an overview of old Meso and Microregions, respectively, which were in force from 1989.
List of regions
, there were 5,570 municipalities, divided among 133 Intermediate regions and 510 Immediate regions:
State Intermediate Immediate Municipalities Central-West Brazil 14 52 466 Goiás 6 22 246 Mato Grosso 5 18 141 Mato Grosso do Sul 3 12 79 Northeast Brazil 42 154 1794 Alagoas 2 11 102 Bahia 10 34 417 Ceará 6 18 184 Maranhão 5 22 217 Paraíba 4 15 223 Pernambuco 4 18 185 Piauí 6 19 224 Rio Grande do Norte 3 11 167 Sergipe 2 6 75 North Brazil 22 62 450 Acre 2 5 22 Amapá 2 4 16 Amazonas 4 11 62 Pará 7 21 144 Rondônia 2 6 52 Roraima 2 4 15 Tocantins 3 11 139 Southeast Brazil 33 145 1668 Espírito Santo 4 8 78 Minas Gerais 13 70 853 Rio de Janeiro 5 14 92 São Paulo 11 53 645 South Brazil 21 96 1191 Paraná 6 29 399 Rio Grande do Sul 8 43 497 Santa Catarina 7 24 295Federal District111 Total 133 510 5570
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