Interesting Facts
Vehicles: 4,887,283 (March/2007); Mobile phones: 11.3 million (April/2007); Telephones: 4.2 million (April/2007); Towns: 853 (2007).
Minas Gerais (MG) cities area phone codes (called DDD in Brazil) are from 31 to 38.
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