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Guarulhos

Guarulhos is a city in , located in the metropolitan area of the city of . Despite being a city with 1.2 million people, second largest in the state, Guarulhos is mostly known for its , the most important of South America and the main gateway to São Paulo.
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  • Type: City with 1,290,000 residents
  • Description: second largest municipality in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, part of the Greater São Paulo Metropolitan Area
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Locomotive Dona Joaninha and Monteiro Lobato Municipal Public Library.

Locomotive
Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dona Joaninha or Estrada de Ferro Sorocabana 6 is a steam locomotive that is now on static display in Guarulhos, , . Constructed in 1940, it was used to move sugar cane across Brazil until the 1960s.

Library
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Park
Photo: CORRETOR-CARVALHO, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cangaíba and Ermelino Matarazzo.

Suburb
is one of 96 districts in the city of , .

Suburb
is one of 96 districts in the city of , .

Suburb
is a district of the city of , . It constitutes with Tremembé the subprefecture , marking the northern boundaries of the city.

Guarulhos

Latitude
-23.4676° or 23° 28′ 3″ south
Longitude
-46.5278° or 46° 31′ 40″ west
Population
1,290,000
Elevation
774 metres (2,539 feet)
Abbreviation
“GRU”
IATA airport code
QCV
United Nations Location Codes
BR QCV and BR SPG
Open location code
588MGFJC+XV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1930818353
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3461786
Wiki­data ID
Q184409
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Guarulhos” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Guarulhos”
  • Arabic: “غوارولوس”
  • Armenian: “Գուարուլյուս”
  • Arpitan: “Guarulhos”
  • Asturian: “Guarulhos”
  • Basque: “Guarulhos”
  • Belarusian: “Гуарульюс”
  • Bengali: “গোয়ারুলহোস”
  • Bishnupriya: “গুৱারুলহোস”
  • Bulgarian: “Гуарульос”
  • Bulgarian: “Гуарулюс”
  • Catalan: “Guarulhos”
  • Cebuano: “Guarulhos”
  • Chechen: “Гуарульюс”
  • Chinese: “Guarulhos”
  • Chinese: “瓜魯柳斯”
  • Chinese: “瓜魯由斯”
  • Chinese: “瓜鲁柳斯”
  • Chinese: “瓜鲁由斯”
  • Czech: “Guarulhos”
  • Danish: “Guarulhos”
  • Dutch: “Guarulhos”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جوارولوس”
  • Esperanto: “Guarulhos”
  • Finnish: “Guarulhos”
  • French: “Guarulhos”
  • Galician: “Guarulhos”
  • Georgian: “გუარულიოსი”
  • Georgian: “გუარულიუსი”
  • German: “Guarulhos”
  • Greek: “Γκουαρός”
  • Greek: “Γκουαρούλχος”
  • Guarani: “Guarulhos”
  • Gujarati: “ગુઆરુલહોસ”
  • Hebrew: “גוארולוס”
  • Hebrew: “גווארוליאוס”
  • Hebrew: “גווארוליוס”
  • Hindi: “गुआरूल्होस”
  • Hungarian: “Guarulhos”
  • Ido: “Guarulhos”
  • Indonesian: “Guarulhos”
  • Irish: “Guarulhos”
  • Italian: “Guarulhos”
  • Japanese: “Guarulhos”
  • Japanese: “グアルーリョス”
  • Kannada: “ಗುರುಲ್ಹೋಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Gwarwlʹyus”
  • Kazakh: “Гуарульюс”
  • Kazakh: “گۋارۋليۋس”
  • Korean: “과룰류스”
  • Korean: “구아룰류스”
  • Korean: “상파울루”
  • Latin: “Guarulhos”
  • Latin: “Guarulia”
  • Latvian: “Gvaruļusa”
  • Latvian: “Gvarūļusa”
  • Lithuanian: “Guarulhos”
  • Lithuanian: “Guaruljosas”
  • Lithuanian: “Gvaruljosas”
  • Malagasy: “Guarulhos”
  • Malay: “Guarulhos”
  • Marathi: “गुआरूलहॉस”
  • Mazanderani: “کورولوس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Guarulhos”
  • Mongolian: “Гуарульюс”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guarulhos”
  • Norwegian: “Guarulhos”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guarulhos”
  • Ossetian: “Гуарульюс”
  • Persian: “کورولوس”
  • Polish: “Guarulhos”
  • Portuguese: “Guarulhos”
  • Quechua: “Guarulhos”
  • Quechua: “Guarulos”
  • Romanian: “Guarulhos”
  • Russian: “Гуарульос”
  • Russian: “Гуарульюс”
  • Scots: “Guarulhos”
  • Serbian: “Guarulhos”
  • Serbian: “Gvaruljos”
  • Serbian: “Гваруљос”
  • Serbian: “Гуаруљос”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Guarulhos”
  • Sinhala: “ගුවාරුල්හොස්”
  • Slovak: “Guarulhos”
  • Slovenian: “Guarulhos”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قورولوس”
  • Spanish: “Guarulhos”
  • Spanish: “Guarullos”
  • Spanish: “Nossa Senhora da Conceição dos Guarulhos”
  • Swedish: “Guarulhos”
  • Tamil: “குவாருள்ஹோஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Гварульюс”
  • Telugu: “గ్వారూల్హోస్”
  • Thai: “กวารุลยุส”
  • Turkish: “Guarulhos”
  • Ukrainian: “Гуарульюс”
  • Urdu: “جوارولحوس”
  • Urdu: “گوارولوس”
  • Venetian: “Guarulhos”
  • Vietnamese: “Guarulhos”
  • Volapük: “Guarulhos”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guarulhos”
  • Wu Chinese: “瓜鲁柳斯”
  • “Guarulhos”

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