Ibirité

Ibirité is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, in the metropolitan mesoregion of Belo Horizonte and directly beside the state capital. Its 2022 census population was 170,537, up from 158,224 in 2010 and 133,044 in 2000. It began in 1880 as a village called Pantano de Vargas in the parish of Sabará, and the Russian educator Helena Antipoff later made it the seat of her work, which remains a major reference for the city. It was renamed Ibiritê in 1923, a name read as iron land, and became a municipality on 30 December 1962. Its neighbours are Belo Horizonte, Betim, Brumadinho, Contagem and Sarzedo, and because most residents work in nearby cities it is sometimes called a dormitory city.