Machine translation of the Portuguese Wikipedia article (November 2026 version).
Osasco is a Brazilian municipality located in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, in the state of São Paulo. Born as a neighborhood of the city of São Paulo at the end of the 19th century, it became an emancipated municipality after a plebiscite in 1962. It covers an area of 64.954 km², and its population in the 2022 Census was 728,615 inhabitants, making it the 6th most populous municipality in the state of São Paulo.
It has an important economic activity in the industrial, commercial and service sectors. According to the IBGE census, with 2020 data, Osasco has the 7th largest gross domestic product (GDP) in Brazil and the 2nd largest in the State of São Paulo, ahead of many Brazilian state capitals such as Porto Alegre, Salvador, Fortaleza and Recife, making it the non-capital city with the highest GDP in the country.
The city's motto is “Urbs labor”, a Latin phrase meaning “Working city”, and its patron saint is Saint Anthony; June 13, the saint's feast day, is a municipal holiday.
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