Contagem is a city in the center of the state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil. It is located only 21 kilometers from the capital, Belo Horizonte and forms part of a metropolitan area with a population of 4.8 million.
The city belongs to the mesoregion Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte and to the microregion of Belo Horizonte and has a territorial extension of 195.2 km² and borders the municipalities of Ribeirão das Neves, Esmeraldas, Betim, Ibirité and Belo Horizonte. The elevation of the city hall is 939 meters.
According to estimates from 2008 the municipal population was 617,741 making it the third most populous city in the state of Minas Gerais, after Belo Horizonte, after Uberlandia.
The population is very young with 86% of the population being less than 50 years old. |
