Campos dos Goytacazes

Machine translation of the Portuguese Wikipedia article (November 2026 version).

Campos dos Goytacazes is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in the Southeast Region of the country. It is located in the North Fluminense region of the state. According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), its estimated population is 483,551 inhabitants; it is the fifth most populous city in the state of Rio de Janeiro and the largest city in the interior of Rio de Janeiro state, with the forty-second largest population of any city in Brazil according to the 2022 demographic census. It is also the municipality with the largest territorial extension in the state, covering an area of 4,032.5 square kilometers. Important public and private universities are located in the municipality. According to the IBGE, Campos dos Goytacazes had the seventh largest GDP in Brazil in 2013 and remains the second largest in the state of Rio de Janeiro to this day; it was the non-capital city with the largest GDP in the country that year.

Off its coast lies the largest oil platform in Brazil, the P-51, in the Campos Basin.

Because it is the hub city of the North Fluminense region, Campos functions as a commuter town for the workers of the Porto do Açu, the largest port-industrial enterprise in Latin America.

Campos dos Goytacazes has the second-largest urban area in the state, with 222 square kilometers, behind only the state capital, Rio de Janeiro, and it ranks seventeenth among the largest urban areas in Brazil.

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