Machine translation of the Portuguese Wikipedia article (November 2026 version).
Marília is a Brazilian municipality in the state of São Paulo, in the Center-West Paulista region. It is located 443 kilometers from the state capital by road, 529 kilometers by rail and 376 kilometers in a straight line. It lies at latitude -22° 12' 50" S and longitude -49º 56' 45" W, at an altitude of 679 meters. It has an area of 1,170.054 square kilometers, of which 23,040 are urban area. Its name comes from the work "Marília de Dirceu", by Tomás Antônio Gonzaga.
The municipality consists of the seat and the districts of Amadeu Amaral, Avencas, Dirceu, Lácio, Padre Nóbrega and Rosália.
In 2016, the Federation of Industries of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Firjan) ranked the city as the 23rd best in the country to live in; in 2017 Marília was among the 15 most peaceful cities in Brazil in a study by Ipea, using an index that considers municipalities with populations over 100 thousand inhabitants; it also appeared in the same year in a study produced by Urban Systems as the 50th among the one hundred most connected and smart cities in Brazil.
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