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Volta Redonda
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Key facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- Southeast
- State
- Rio de Janeiro
- Founded
- July 17, 1954
- Mayor
- Antônio Francisco Neto ( Progressistas ) (2025–2029)
- Total
- 182.483 km (70.457 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 390 m (1,280 ft)
- Estimate 2025
- 279,971
- Density
- 1,433.36/km (3,712.37/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC-3 ( UTC-3 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Official name
- Volta Redonda
- Demonym
- volta-redondense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Rio de Janeiro
- Population
- 220305
- Area
- 182
- Elevation
- 390
- Shares border with
- Piraí
- Official website
- www.voltaredonda.rj.gov.br
- Image
- PrefeituraDeVoltaRedonda.jpg
- Dialing code
- 24
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- Commons category
- Volta Redonda
- postal code
- 27290-000
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Volta Redonda
- topic's main category
- Category:Volta Redonda
- owner of
- Estádio Raulino de Oliveira
- Human Development Index
- 0.771
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Volta Redonda
- inception
- 1954-01-01
- native label
- Volta Redonda
- electorate
- 223807
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Encyclopedic overview
22°31′22″S 44°06′14″W / 22.52278°S 44.10389°W / -22.52278; -44.10389
Volta Redonda ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈvɔwtɐ ʁeˈdõdɐ]) is a municipality in the Rio de Janeiro state of Brazil with an area of 182.81 km, located from 350m to 707m above the sea level (22°31'23" S, 44°06'15" W) and with a population of 261,563 inhabitants (2022 census). The area around the city has nearly 700,000 km. Its name (which is Portuguese for Round Turn) is due to the round shape of a curve in the Paraíba do Sul river around which the city was built.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Volta Redonda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.