Mesquita
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Key facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- Southeast
- State
- Rio de Janeiro
- Founded
- September 25, 1999
- Mayor
- Jorge Lúcio Ferreira Miranda ( PSDB )
- Total
- 39.062 km (15.082 sq mi)
- Land
- 41.490 km (16.019 sq mi)
- Estimate 2025
- 178,830
- Density
- 4,028.1/km (10,433/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC-3
- Website
- www.mesquita.rj.gov.br
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Demonym
- mesquitense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Rio de Janeiro
- Population
- 190056
- Area
- 39.062
- Elevation
- 431
- Shares border with
- São João de Meriti
- Official website
- www.mesquita.rj.gov.br
- Image
- Vista do centro de Mesquita.JPG
- Dialing code
- 21
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- Commons category
- Mesquita (Rio de Janeiro)
- electorate
- 134466
- Human Development Index
- 0.737
- postal code
- 26550-001 a 26599-999
- inception
- 1999-09-25
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Encyclopedic overview
22°46′55″S 43°25′44″W / 22.78194°S 43.42889°W / -22.78194; -43.42889
Mesquita (Portuguese for 'mosque'; pronounced [mesˈkitɐ]) is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Its population was 167,127 (2022 Census) and its area is 42 km (16 sq mi).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mesquita” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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