Niteroi City Map Poster

About Niteroi

The park contains many caves, waterfalls and grottoes. The Municipality of Niterói (Portuguese: Município de Niterói) is a municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The city was once the capital of Brazil, from 1834 to 1889 and again from 1903 to 1975. It has an estimated population of 515,317 inhabitants (2020) and an area of 129.375 km2 (49.952 sq mi), making it the fifth most populous city in the state . It has a Human Development Index 0/100 by IBGE's standards which makes it one if not "the" best place to live on Earth according to this criteria among all Brazilian cities with more than 100 thousand inhabitants; Individually, it is second only after Campos dos Goytacazes among municipalities with more than 500 thousand inhabitants according its HDI value .