Metropolitan area in Brazil

Greater Rio de Janeiro

Greater Rio de Janeiro, officially the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region is a large metropolitan area located in Rio de Janeiro state in Brazil, the second largest in Brazil and third largest in South America.

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Every way there

São Paulo → Greater Rio de Janeiro
357 km · quickest by air, 4h 27m · R$330–510
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Belo Horizonte → Greater Rio de Janeiro
341 km · quickest by air, 4h 59m · R$340–520
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Campinas → Greater Rio de Janeiro
Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Greater Rio de Janeiro, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Greater Rio de Janeiro has

YScheduled flightsRio de Janeiro (SDU), 5 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
YFerriesPraça XV, 3 km, Marinha do Brasil; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Botafogo, 6 km.

-22.903°, -43.208°

It consists of 22 municipalities, including the state capital, Rio de Janeiro.

How locals move

Getting around Greater Rio de Janeiro the local way

Get aroundTwo lines operating TransOeste and TransCarioca, Planned: TransOlimpica Teleférico A is a cable car service.

From Wikivoyage: Rio de Janeiro/Zona Norte, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Arne Müseler (CC BY-SA 3.0 de), Wikimedia Commons.