Editing Sorocaba (section)

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{{Infobox settlement
| name               = Sorocaba
| official_name      = Municipality of Sorocaba
| settlement_type    = [[Municipalities of Brazil|Municipality]]
| image_skyline      = {{multiple image|total_width=300px|perrow=2/2/2/1|border=infobox
| image1                = Prefeituradesorocaba.jpg
| image2                = Rio Sorocaba (cropped).jpg
| image3                = Usina Cultural Ettore Marangoni.jpg
| image4                = Ciclovia às margens do rio Sorocaba.jpg
| image5                = Estação da EFS (Estrada de Ferro Sorocabana) - panoramio.jpg
| image6                = Conjunto Hospitalar de Sorocaba.jpg
| image7                = Praça do villagio shopping-Sorocaba-SP - panoramio (10).jpg
}}
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| image_flag         = BandeiraSorocaba.svg
| image_shield       = BrasaoSorocaba.svg
| nickname           = 
| motto              = {{lang|la|Pro una libera Patria pugnavi}} <small>([[Latin]])<br />"I fought for a free Fatherland"</small>
| image_map          = SaoPaulo Municip Sorocaba.svg
| map_caption        = Location in São Paulo
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| coordinates        = {{coord|23|30|6|S|47|27|29|W|region:BR_type:city|display=inline,title}}
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| subdivision_type   = Country
| subdivision_name   = {{flag|Brazil}}
| subdivision_type1  = Region
| subdivision_type2  = State
| subdivision_type3  = Metropolitan Region
| subdivision_name1  = [[Southeast Brazil]]
| subdivision_name2  = {{flag|São Paulo}}
| subdivision_name3  = [[Metropolitan Region of Sorocaba|Sorocaba]]
| established_title  = Founded
| established_date   = 1654
| founder            = Baltazar Fernandes
| named_for          = [[Sorocaba River]]
| seat_type          = 
| seat               = 
| government_footnotes = 
| government_type    = [[Mayor–council government|Mayor–Council]]
| leader_party       = [[Republicans (Brazil)|Republicanos]]
| leader_title       = [[List of mayors of Sorocaba|Mayor]]
| leader_name        = [[Rodrigo Manga|Rodrigo Maganhato]]
| leader_title1      = 
| leader_name1       = 
| area_total_km2     = 450
| elevation_m        = 601
| population_footnotes = <ref>[https://www.ibge.gov.br/cidades-e-estados/sp/sorocaba.html IBGE 2022]</ref>
| population_total   = 723682
| population_as_of   = 2022
| population_density_km2 = auto
| population_metro   = 2000000
| population_demonym = {{lang|pt|sorocabano}}
| population_note    = 
| timezone1          = 
| utc_offset1        = 
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| postal_code_type   = 
| postal_code        = 
| area_code          = +55 15
| area_code_type     = [[List of dialling codes in Brazil|Area code]]
| blank_name         = '''[[Human Development Index|HDI]]''' (2010)
| blank_info         = 0.798  – <span style="color:#090">high</span><ref>{{Cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://www.pnud.org.br/arquivos/ranking-idhm-2010.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233352/http://www.pnud.org.br/arquivos/ranking-idhm-2010.pdf |archive-date=July 8, 2014 |access-date=August 1, 2013 |publisher=[[United Nations Development Programme]] (UNDP)
}}</ref>
| website            = {{URL|sorocaba.sp.gov.br}}
| footnote           = 
}}

'''Sorocaba''' ({{IPA|pt|soɾoˈkabɐ}}) is a [[Municipalities of Brazil|municipality]] in the [[Interior of São Paulo|interior]] of the [[States of Brazil|state]] of [[São Paulo (state)|São Paulo]], [[Brazil]]. With over 723,000 inhabitants, it is the seventh-largest city in the state and the second-largest outside the [[Greater São Paulo]] region, ranking behind only [[Campinas]]. It forms its own [[Metropolitan Region of Sorocaba]], comprising 27 municipalities with a total population of 2 million inhabitants, the 15th most populous in Brazil.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.legislacao.sp.gov.br/legislacao/dg280202.nsf/69aaa17c14b8cb5483256cfb0050146e/399ae95c2cf6d39583257cd30043511f?OpenDocument |title=Governo do Estado de São Paulo, Lei Complementar nº 1.241, de 8 de maio de 2014 |access-date=2015-09-29 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018195931/http://www.legislacao.sp.gov.br/legislacao/dg280202.nsf/69aaa17c14b8cb5483256cfb0050146e/399ae95c2cf6d39583257cd30043511f?OpenDocument |archive-date=18 October 2014 }}</ref><ref name="ibge">{{cite web|url=http://cidades.ibge.gov.br/brasil/sp/sorocaba/panorama |title=IBGE &#124; Cidades &#124; São Paulo &#124; Sorocaba &#124; Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística |publisher=cod.ibge.gov.br|access-date=2015-11-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Há 10 anos, Lei Complementar da Alesp criou a Região Metropolitana de Sorocaba |url=https://www.al.sp.gov.br/noticia/?id=474767 |access-date=2024-07-03 |website=www.al.sp.gov.br |language=pt-br}}</ref>

With a surface area of 450,38&nbsp;km² (or about 170 [[square miles|sq mi]]), Sorocaba is integrated with [[Greater São Paulo]] and the Metropolitan Regions of [[Campinas metropolitan area|Campinas]], [[Jundiaí]], [[Paraíba Valley and North Coast metropolitan area|Paraíba Valley and North Coast]] and [[Baixada Santista]], forming the [[São Paulo macrometropolis]], which is home to over 30 million people, about three quarters of the state's population and the first such urban agglomeration in the [[Southern Hemisphere]].<ref name="Estadão">{{cite web|url=http://www.estadao.com.br/megacidades/sp_mancha.shtm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121205013544/http://www.estadao.com.br/megacidades/sp_mancha.shtm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-05 |title=A primeira macrometrópole do hemisfério sul |author=Diego Zanchetta |date=3 August 2008 |publisher=[[O Estado de S. Paulo]] }}</ref>

The city is highly industrialized, with its industrial production reaching over 120 countries and a GDP of over [[Brazilian real|R$]] 32 billion, the 19th-largest in Brazil, surpassing state capitals such as [[São Luís, Maranhão|São Luís]], [[Belém]], [[Vitória, Espírito Santo|Vitória]], [[Natal, Brazil|Natal]], and [[Florianópolis]].<ref name="IBGE_PIB">{{cite web |url=http://www.jornalcruzeiro.com.br/materia/757742/sorocaba-sobe-para-o-19-maior-pib-do-brasil-aponta-ibge|title=Sorocaba sobe para o 19º maior PIB do Brasil|publisher=IBGE }}</ref> Over 22,000 companies operate in the city, 2,000 of which are industries.<ref name="sorocaba.sp.gov.br">{{Cite web |url=http://www.sorocaba.sp.gov.br/pagina/238/conheca-sorocaba.html |title=Dados econômicos Prefeitura de Sorocaba  |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819184305/http://www.sorocaba.sp.gov.br/pagina/238/conheca-sorocaba.html|archivedate=2013-08-19}}</ref>