Maringá

Machine translation of the Portuguese Wikipedia article (November 2026 version).

Maringá is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Paraná. It is the third most populous city in the state, with an estimated population of 429,660 inhabitants in 2025, according to official data. It shows high rates of quality of life, urban planning and environmental sustainability, with outstanding performance in areas such as education, basic sanitation, urban mobility and public safety.

Officially founded on May 10, 1947, Maringá is a planned city developed as part of a colonization project in northern Paraná, led by the Companhia de Terras Norte do Paraná, later renamed Companhia Melhoramentos Norte do Paraná. The name of the municipality refers to the song “Maringá”, composed by Joubert de Carvalho, and its inhabitants are called maringaenses. The city is known as the “City of Song”, a title made official by Municipal Law no. 5,945/2002, in allusion to its historical relationship with music and local culture.

Designed by the urban planner Jorge de Macedo Vieira, an adherent of the Garden City concept proposed by Ebenezer Howard, Maringá has an organic road layout, with tree-lined streets, wide avenues, large median strips and integration with green areas. The municipality has one of the highest per capita green area indices in the country, averaging 26 m² per inhabitant, and it has been recognized by FAO-UN and the Arbor Day Foundation with the title Tree City of the World (“Cidade Árvore do Mundo”), alongside cities such as New York, Toronto and Paris.

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