Vitória da Conquista

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

Vitória da Conquista is a Brazilian municipality in the interior and southwest of the state of Bahia. According to the 2026 estimate of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), its population was 398,970 inhabitants, making it the third largest municipality in the state, behind only Salvador and Feira de Santana, and the 15th largest in the Northeast. It is one of the thirty cities that make up the Vitória da Conquista Immediate Region, which in turn is one of the five immediate regions that make up the Vitória da Conquista Intermediate Region. It is also one of the 24 municipalities that make up the Sudoeste Baiano Identity Territory proposed by the Superintendency of Economic and Social Studies of Bahia.

Known commonly as Conquista, the city has one of the largest and fastest-growing GDPs in the interior of the Northeast; it has the fifth largest GDP in Bahia, with more than R$12 billion in 2023. It is considered the second best city in the Northeast to live in, according to the parameters of the Municipal Management Challenges Index (IDGM) of 2021.

It is among the coldest cities in Northeast Brazil, having recorded temperatures below 5 °C in winter and 13.4 °C in the middle of summer, and for this reason it is nicknamed, together with Piatã, the “Swiss of Bahia”. Both share the title of coldest city in Bahia.

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