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Sorocaba () is a municipality in the interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. With over 723,000 inhabitants, it is the seventh-largest city in the state and the second-largest outside the Greater São Paulo region, ranking behind only Campinas. It forms its own Metropolitan Region of Sorocaba, comprising 27 municipalities with a total population of 2 million inhabitants, the 15th most populous in Brazil.

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Sorocaba is a city in the interior of São Paulo state, Brazil, with over 723,000 residents, making it the seventh-largest city in the state and the second-largest outside the Greater São Paulo area. It serves as the center of its own Metropolitan Region of Sorocaba, which includes 27 municipalities and 2 million people, ranking as Brazil's 15th most populous metropolitan area.

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Sorocaba
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Municipality of Sorocaba
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Municipality
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(Latin)"I fought for a free Fatherland"
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Southeast Brazil
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Sorocaba
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Founded
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1654
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Baltazar Fernandes

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Demonym
sorocabano
Population
379006
Area
450.38
Elevation
601
Official website
www.sorocaba.sp.gov.br
Image
Rio Sorocaba (cropped).jpg
Dialing code
15
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Human Development Index
0.798
Commons category
Sorocaba
postal code
18000-00
inception
1654-00-00
electorate
498720
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Sorocaba () is a municipality in the interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. With over 723,000 inhabitants, it is the seventh-largest city in the state and the second-largest outside the Greater São Paulo region, ranking behind only Campinas. It forms its own Metropolitan Region of Sorocaba, comprising 27 municipalities with a total population of 2 million inhabitants, the 15th most populous in Brazil.

With a surface area of 450,38 km² (or about 170 sq mi), Sorocaba is integrated with Greater São Paulo and the Metropolitan Regions of Campinas, Jundiaí, Paraíba Valley and North Coast and Baixada Santista, forming the São Paulo macrometropolis, which is home to over 30 million people, about three quarters of the state's population and the first such urban agglomeration in the Southern Hemisphere.

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