Microregion (Brazil)

For Soviet and Central European urban housing schemes, see Microdistrict.

A microregion (Portuguese: Microrregião) is a legally defined area in Brazil consisting of a group of municipalities. Microregions are grouped together into mesoregions. In principle, Brazilian law provides for member municipalities to cooperate on matters of common interest, but in practice, these divisions are primarily used for statistical purposes by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.

List of microregions

As of 2014, there are 5569 municipalities, divided over 557 microregions and 136 mesoregions:

State	Mesoregions	Microregions	Municipalities
Acre	2	5	22
Alagoas	3	13	102
Amapá	2	4	16
Amazonas	4	13	62
Bahia	7	32	417
Ceará	7	33	184
Espírito Santo	4	13	78
Goiás	5	18	246
Maranhão	5	21	217
Mato Grosso	5	22	141
Mato Grosso do Sul	4	11	79
Minas Gerais	12	66	853
Pará	6	22	144
Paraíba	4	23	223
Paraná	10	39	399
Pernambuco	5	19	185
Piauí	4	15	224
Rio de Janeiro	6	18	92
Rio Grande do Norte	4	19	167
Rio Grande do Sul	7	35	497
Rondônia	2	8	52
Roraima	2	4	15
Santa Catarina	6	20	295
São Paulo	15	63	645
Sergipe	3	13	75
Tocantins	2	8	139
total	136	557	5569