Osasco (bra)

Osasco

Osasco ranks 1,253rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Wakayama Prefecture, Mexico, and Tatoi Palace. Memorable people born in Osasco include Edu Manga, Ederson, and Rodrygo. Osasco has been the birth place of many soccer players. Osasco is located in Brazil.

Osasco is a municipality in São Paulo State, Brazil, located in the Greater São Paulo area and ranking 5th in population among São Paulo municipalities. According to the IBGE 2015, Osasco currently has the 9th highest gross domestic product in Brazil, and the 2nd largest in the State of São Paulo. The population is 699,944 in an area of 64.95 km2. It is among the world's more dense cities, similar in density to Tokyo and New York City. It's considered the major urban centre of the Western portion of the Greater São Paulo. It used to be a district of São Paulo City until February 19, 1962, when Osasco became a municipality of its own. The city motto is "Urbs labor", a Latin phrase that means "City work". Read more on Wikipedia