Machine translation of the Portuguese Wikipedia article (November 2026 version).
Taboão da Serra is a Brazilian municipality in the state of São Paulo, located in the Southwest Zone of the São Paulo Metropolitan Region, in accordance with State Law No. 1,139 of 16 June 2011 and, consequently, with the Integrated Urban Development Plan of the São Paulo Metropolitan Region (PDUI).
With no significant geographic boundaries with the city of São Paulo, Taboão da Serra is indistinguishable from the São Paulo districts it borders, such as Vila Sônia and Campo Limpo; in other words, it is a city conurbated with the state capital, a phenomenon increasingly common in recent decades in the cities of the São Paulo Metropolitan Region.
In area, Taboão da Serra is the 9th smallest municipality in Brazil and the 5th smallest in the state of São Paulo. It has the highest population density in the country, at 13,416 people per km², and is known as the “anthill of the Americas”, due to the large number of residents living in a small territorial area.
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