Greater S & # 227; o Paulo has a population of 19m. As Larry Rohter, the veteran New York Times correspondent, points out in his book Brazil on the Rise, in 1870 its population was 31,000. 《纽约时报》资深记者拉里•罗特(LarryRohter)在他的《巴西:一个国家的崛起》(BrazilontheRise)一书中指出,1870年,大圣保罗的人口还只有3.1万。