 The term "Grande BH" ("Greater Belo Horizonte") denotes any of various definitions for the metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte.The legally defined "Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte" consists of 34 municipalities in total, and a population of around five million inhabitants (, according to IBGE).The intense process of urbanization that is taking place in the metropolitan region has made some of the political boundaries between municipalities in the region obsolete.