São João de Meriti

São João de Meriti is a municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The 2022 census figures compiled by City Population count 440,962 inhabitants in the municipality, against 458,673 at the 2010 census and 449,476 at the 2000 census. GeoNames places São João de Meriti at latitude -22.80389 and longitude -43.37222, about 14 metres above sea level by its digital elevation model, and assigns it to a time zone that is UTC-3 in the IANA time zone database. GeoNames lists it as a populated place. São João de Meriti is not the capital of Rio de Janeiro, which is Rio de Janeiro. The atlas places it in the South America subregion and treats it as a city for browsing purposes. GeoNames carries a population figure of 466,536 for it.