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Nova Iguaçu

municipality of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil
Organization municipality_of_brazil Q188897

Facts

18 properties
Instance of
municipality of Brazil, big city[4]
Inception
January 15, 1833[18]
Country
Brazil[3]
Official website
www.novaiguacu.rj.gov.br[19]
Coordinate location
🗺️ -22.759°, -43.451°
Area
+521.249[40]
Demonym
iguaçuano[36]
Electorate
+598094[37]
Elevation above sea level
+25, +54[38][39]
Human Development Index
+0.713[20]
Legislative body
municipal chamber of Nova Iguaçu[14]
Local dialing code
21[17]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Rio de Janeiro[2]
Office held by head of government
Mayor of Nova Iguaçu[35]
Patron saint
Anthony of Padua[16]
Population
1.3M (727k–1.3M, n=21)[21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]
Postal code
26023-000[15]
Shares border with
Miguel Pereira, Duque de Caxias, Belford Roxo, Itaguaí, Japeri, Mesquita, Queimados, Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
🏷️ Also known as
en Nova Iguaçu ar نوفا إيغواسو da Nova Iguacu el Νόβα Ιγκουάτσου es Nova Iguacu es Nueva Iguazu es Nueva Iguazú fa نووا ایگواسو fi Maxambamba fi Nova Iguacu fr Nova Iguacu he נובה איגואסו hi नोवा इगुआसु ja ノヴァ・イグアス ja ノバイグアス ko 노바 이구아수 ko 노바이과수 ko 노바이구아수 nl Nova iguacu nl Nova lguacu
🔖 Identifiers · 25
VIAF cluster ID
141958575
Library of Congress authority ID
n85119835
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Novaiguacu fotonova.jpg ↗
Brazilian Electoral Unit ID
58696
Brazilian municipality code
3303500
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Nova-Iguacu
Facebook location ID
105534776146145
FactGrid item ID
Burnevillers
Freebase ID
/m/05s42r
GeoNames ID
6319198
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
nova-iguacu
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0046485
Show all 25 identifiers +13
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2665520
INaturalist place ID
23716
MusicBrainz area ID
20910280-b9d1-4a49-99bf-bd55dc0228ee
National Library of Brazil ID
000067294
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007562197105171
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3948497
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2709115
Quora topic ID
Nova-Iguaçú-Brazil
Topic's main category
Category:Nova Iguaçu
UN/LOCODE
BRNIU
Who's on First ID
101953095
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJmtBxH7G3cPg3yQWdFkDq
Yale LUX ID
place/36aa06a1-dc70-4f6c-b804-782c95a8a202

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🔗 Connections
People born here 20
Zinho, Emerson Sheik, Vanderlei Luxemburgo, Fábio de Jesus, Carlos Adriano de Jesus Soares, Eric de Oliveira, Schwenck, Deivid de Souza +12 more
Shares border with 9
Rio de Janeiro, Duque de Caxias, Belford Roxo, Itaguaí, Japeri, Queimados, Mesquita, Miguel Pereira +1 more
← Shares border with 7
Rio de Janeiro, Duque de Caxias, Japeri, Queimados, Mesquita, Miguel Pereira, Seropédica
People who died here 4
Carlos Adriano de Jesus Soares, Alfredo Sirkis, Luís Alberto da Silva Lemos, Norival
Contained subdivisions 2
Aeroclub, Nova Iguacu Airport, Universidade Iguaçu
Instance of 2
municipality of Brazil, big city
← Headquarters location 2
Roman Catholic Diocese of Nova Iguaçu, Nova Iguaçu Futebol Clube
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Nova Iguaçu
Country 1
Brazil
FactGrid item ID 1
Burnevillers
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Rio de Janeiro
Located in time zone 1
UTC−03:00
Patron saint 1
Anthony of Padua
Residents 1
Lucio Luiz
Topic's main category 1
Category:Nova Iguaçu
← Category combines topics 1
Category:People from Nova Iguaçu
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Nova Iguaçu
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Rio de Janeiro
← Location of formation 1
Trazendo a Arca
← Place served by transport hub 1
Aeroclub, Nova Iguacu Airport
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Summary

Nova Iguaçu is a municipality of Brazil[1].

Related Entities

Anthony of Padua Brazil Emerson Sheik Universidade Iguaçu Vanderlei Luxemburgo Zinho

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  36. [37] ↑ . Open Data Portal of TSE. wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16d ago · ExAstra · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1833-01-15T00:00:00Z
    Instance of → municipality of Brazil, big city
    Office held by head of government → Mayor of Nova Iguaçu
    Patron saint → Anthony of Padua
    + 27 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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