Editing Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro (section)

==Neighbourhood==
According to the [[Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics|IBGE]], 160,000 people live in Copacabana and 44,000 or 27.5% of them are 60 years old or older.<ref>[http://spl.camara.rj.gov.br/spl/spl_docdownjsessionid=D87126B13F258E820EA8A71A891194B3?id=8449]{{dead link|date=May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://veja.abril.com.br/vejarj/070606/comportamento.html |title=Veja Rio on-line |access-date=October 6, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071031005847/http://veja.abril.com.br/vejarj/070606/comportamento.html |archive-date=October 31, 2007 }}</ref> Copacabana covers an area of 5.220&nbsp;km{{sup|2}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Copacabana (Municipal Subdistrict, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location |url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/brazil/rio/_/33045570510__copacabana/ |access-date=2022-06-26 |website=www.citypopulation.de}}</ref> which gives the borough a [[population density]] of 20,400 people per km{{sup|2}}. Residential buildings eleven to thirteen stories high built next to each other dominate the borough. Houses and two-story buildings are rare.

When Rio was the capital of Brazil, Copacabana was considered one of the best neighborhoods in the country.