rio de janeiro has 161 official neighborhoods and about 30 unofficial neighborhoods, divided into 7 sub-prefectures, 34 administrative areas, and 5 planning areas - in this section, we grouped rio de janeiro beaches roughly according to the 5 planning areas as shown by rio de janeiro's prefecture on the map on this page.

in our work, the beaches in the south zone correspond to the pink area on the map (ap2), the beaches in the west zone correspond to the purple area on the map (ap5), the beaches in the south-west zone correspond to the green area on the map (ap4), the beaches in the north zone and governador island correspond to the light pink area on the map (ap3), and the beaches in paquetá island correspond to the blue areas on the map (ap1).