Brazil Municipalities & IBGE Codes (Municípios)

Get every Brazilian municipality with its official 7-digit IBGE code, state, region and the IBGE regional divisions, straight from the official IBGE localities API.

Use it to standardize addresses, join datasets that use IBGE codes (DATASUS, Receita Federal, TSE, PNCP), turn messy city names into codes, or give an AI agent a reliable lookup of Brazilian places.

Three modes

Mode	What it does	Example input
list	All municipalities of some states (or the whole country), sorted by name	{"mode": "list", "states": ["SC"]}
search	Finds municipalities by name. Accents, case, hyphens and small typos are tolerated	{"mode": "search", "names": ["sao jose dos campos", "brazilia"]}
resolve	Turns IBGE codes into full records. Accepts 7 digits or 6 digits (without check digit, as in DATASUS)	{"mode": "resolve", "codes": ["3550308", "530010"]}

The default input lists the municipalities of the Federal District (DF) and finishes in seconds.

What you get per municipality

• ibgeCode (7 digits) and ibgeCode6 (6 digits, without check digit)
• name, state (UF), stateName, stateIbgeCode
• region (Norte, Nordeste, Centro-Oeste, Sudeste, Sul)
• mesoregion and microregion (older IBGE division) with codes
• intermediateRegion and immediateRegion (IBGE 2017 division) with codes
• In search mode, query and matchScore (1 = exact name, ignoring accents and case)

Some municipalities created recently have no meso/microregion in IBGE; these fields come as null.

Input

Field	Description
mode	list, search or resolve.
states	Two-letter state codes, e.g. ["SP", "MG"]. List mode: only these states; empty = whole country. Search mode: matches in these states come first, and the whole country is searched only when there is none. Resolve mode: ignored (codes are unique).
names	Search mode: names to look for.
maxResultsPerName	Search mode: best matches per name (default 3).
codes	Resolve mode: IBGE codes.
maxItems	Stop after this many results (default 10,000).

Names or codes without a match are returned as a row with an error field and are not charged.

Output example

{
  "query": "sao jose dos campos",
  "matchScore": 1,
  "ibgeCode": "3549904",
  "ibgeCode6": "354990",
  "name": "São José dos Campos",
  "state": "SP",
  "stateName": "São Paulo",
  "region": "Sudeste",
  "mesoregion": "Vale do Paraíba Paulista",
  "microregion": "São José dos Campos",
  "intermediateRegion": "São José dos Campos",
  "immediateRegion": "São José dos Campos"
}

How much does it cost?

You pay only for municipalities returned. Names or codes not found are free.

This Actor does one thing: municipalities and IBGE codes. Company data is in Brazil CNPJ Lookup and public contracts in Brazil Public Contracts (PNCP), from the same publisher.

$0.001 per municipality (locality event, pay per event). Charged once per municipality returned. Names and codes not found are free.

• apify-actor-start: $0.00005 (Charged once when a run starts (Apify synthetic event).)

You get	Free tier	Bronze tier (10% off)	Gold tier (30% off)
100 municipalitys	$0.10	$0.09	$0.07
1,000 municipalitys	$1.00	$0.90	$0.70
10,000 municipalitys	$10.00	$9.00	$7.00

Discounts follow your Apify subscription tier: Bronze 10%, Silver 20%, Gold and above 30%. No subscription to this Actor and no charge for platform usage: you pay only for results. The Apify Free plan includes $5 of monthly credit, enough for about 5,000 municipalitys at the list price. You can cap the cost of any run with Maximum cost per run; the Actor stops when it is reached.

Data source and limits

Official public API of IBGE (servicodados.ibge.gov.br/api/v1/localidades). The Actor ships a snapshot of that API (all 5,571 municipalities), refreshed by the publisher, so runs are fast and do not depend on the IBGE servers. New municipalities are rare (the newest, Boa Esperança do Norte in Mato Grosso, is already included); the snapshot date is in the run log.

More questions

Why 5,571 and not 5,570 municipalities?

The IBGE list includes Boa Esperança do Norte (MT), the newest municipality, and also Brasília (DF) and the state district of Fernando de Noronha (PE), which have IBGE municipality codes although they are not municipalities in the strict legal sense. They are returned like any other record so your joins with IBGE-coded data do not lose rows.

How do I get the code of a city whose name repeats in several states?

232 names exist in more than one state (there are 5 municipalities called Bom Jesus). In search mode, add the state in states (for example ["PI"]) and that state's municipality is returned. If the state has no match, the Actor searches the whole country instead of returning nothing, so check the state field. Without a state, each name returns its best matches up to Results per name (default 3, maximum 50).

What does matchScore mean?

1 = same name ignoring accents, case and punctuation; 0.9 = the official name starts with your text (sao paulo → São Paulo de Olivença); 0.85 = every word you typed starts a word of the name (sao jose campos); below that, similarity by spelling distance, which tolerates typos (brazilia → Brasília). Matches below 0.75 are discarded, and a name with no match returns a free row with error.

Does it accept the 6-digit codes used by DATASUS?

Yes. Resolve mode accepts the 7-digit IBGE code (3550308) or the 6-digit code without the check digit (355030) used by DATASUS/SUS systems, and returns both in ibgeCode and ibgeCode6.

Meso/microregions or intermediate/immediate regions: which should I use?

IBGE replaced the meso and microregions with the intermediate and immediate geographic regions in 2017 and no longer creates the old ones, so municipalities created later (Boa Esperança do Norte) have mesoregion and microregion as null. For new analyses use intermediateRegion and immediateRegion, which cover every municipality; keep the old ones only to match legacy data.

How current is the data?

The Actor reads a snapshot of the official IBGE localities API stored with the code, because the IBGE servers do not answer requests from Apify's cloud. The snapshot date is printed in the run log, and the publisher refreshes it from a machine in Brazil. Municipalities are created very rarely, so a recent snapshot is equivalent to the live API.

Can I list the whole country in one run?

Yes: list mode with states empty returns all municipalities sorted by name (the input form starts with DF filled in, so remove it, or send "states": [] through the API), and the default maxItems (10,000) already covers them. Since the data is local, a full run finishes in seconds.

Use it via API

Run it from any language and get the results as JSON. Replace <YOUR_API_TOKEN> with your Apify API token.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/br_data_hub~br-ibge-localities/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"mode": "list", "states": ["DF"], "maxResultsPerName": 3, "maxItems": 10000}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("br_data_hub/br-ibge-localities").call(run_input={'mode': 'list', 'states': ['DF'], 'maxResultsPerName': 3, 'maxItems': 10000})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

You can also schedule runs, send results to webhooks, or connect the Actor to Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets and other integrations.

Use it with AI agents (MCP)

This Actor is ready for AI agents: typed input and output schemas, pay-per-event pricing, limited permissions and short runs.

• Apify MCP server: add https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=br_data_hub/br-ibge-localities to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client, and the agent can call this Actor as a tool.
• Agent frameworks: call it from LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI or the OpenAI Agents SDK through the Apify integrations, or with the API call above.
• Results come as structured JSON with stable field names, documented in the Output tab.

FAQ

Where does the data come from?

Official public API of IBGE (servicodados.ibge.gov.br/api/v1/localidades). The Actor ships a snapshot of that API (all 5,571 municipalities), refreshed by the publisher, so runs are fast and do not depend on the IBGE servers. New municipalities are rare (the newest, Boa Esperança do Norte in Mato Grosso, is already included); the snapshot date is in the run log.

How much does it cost?

$0.001 per municipality. Discounts follow your Apify subscription tier: Bronze 10%, Silver 20%, Gold and above 30%. See How much does it cost? above for examples.

Do I pay for errors or empty results?

No. Charged once per municipality returned. Names and codes not found are free.

Can I run it on a schedule or connect it to other tools?

Yes. Use Apify schedules to run it daily or weekly, webhooks to get notified, and integrations such as Make, Zapier, n8n and Google Sheets. Everything also works through the API.

Can AI agents use it?

Yes. It works as a tool in the Apify MCP server and in agent frameworks, and AI agents can pay per event. See Use it with AI agents (MCP).

Is it legal to use this data?

The Actor reads only public, official sources and keeps personal data masked as the source publishes it. You are responsible for how you use the data, including LGPD compliance.

I found a bug or need a feature. What should I do?

Open an issue in the Issues tab. We answer within 14 days, usually much sooner.

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Usar em português

Municípios brasileiros e códigos IBGE. Para cada município: código IBGE de 7 dígitos e de 6 dígitos (formato do DATASUS), nome oficial, UF, nome e código da UF, região, região intermediária e imediata (divisão atual do IBGE) e mesorregião e microrregião (divisão antiga, quando existir). Os dados são da API oficial de Localidades do IBGE, numa cópia guardada no Actor e datada no log, porque os servidores do IBGE não respondem à nuvem da Apify.

Para que serve: padronizar endereços e cadastros, trocar nomes de cidade escritos de qualquer jeito pelo código IBGE, cruzar bases que usam o código (DATASUS, Receita Federal, TSE, PNCP) e dar a agentes de IA uma consulta confiável de municípios.

Como usar em 3 passos:

1. Clique em Try for free e escolha o modo: List municipalities (listar por UF), Search by name (buscar por nome) ou Resolve IBGE codes (resolver códigos).
2. Preencha as UFs, os nomes ou os códigos. Na listagem, só as UFs informadas entram (apague o DF que vem preenchido para listar o país inteiro). Na busca, acentos, maiúsculas, hífens e pequenos erros de digitação são tolerados, e a UF dá preferência aos municípios dela para separar cidades com o mesmo nome; se não houver nenhum na UF, a busca vale para o país todo. Na resolução de códigos, a UF é ignorada.
3. Clique em Start e baixe na aba Output (JSON, CSV, Excel) ou leia pela API.

Exemplos de entrada:

{ "mode": "search", "names": ["sao jose dos campos", "brazilia", "bom jesus"], "states": [], "maxResultsPerName": 3 }

{ "mode": "resolve", "codes": ["3550308", "530010"] }

Campos principais: ibgeCode, ibgeCode6, name, state, stateName, stateIbgeCode, region, regionCode, intermediateRegion e immediateRegion (com códigos), mesoregion e microregion (com códigos); na busca, também query e matchScore (1 = nome idêntico).

O que é grátis: nome ou código sem correspondência sai como uma linha com error e não é cobrado. Você paga só pelos municípios entregues.

Quanto custa: $0.001 por resultado (locality); 1.000 resultados saem por $1.00. Desconto pelo nível da assinatura Apify: Bronze 10%, Silver 20%, Gold ou acima 30%. Erros e consultas sem resultado não são cobrados. Use também pela API ou por agentes de IA no servidor MCP da Apify (https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=br_data_hub/br-ibge-localities).